The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-06-25


deal in the evening. One night an
employe of the company saw the
superintendent driving down dark
street ia this rig with fight haired,
light. .complcxioned girl very close
beside him. Suspicious were arous-
ed by this for the brunette, Mrs.
Loring, had frequently visited the
engine room with her husband.
The light-haired girl was Aurelia
Anderson, the daughter of a Swede
candy maker. who lived on Diver
sey street, not block from the
headquarters of the electric light
company.
My daughter was young and in
experienced then, and she believed
every word the rascal told her. said
Mrs. Anderson, the mother of Au-
rela, to reporter for The EvEN-
ING Posr who interviewed her to-
day. "She was working for Man
del Bros. when lie first met her.
He introduced himself in some way
and pretended to be very much in
love. She kept putting him off, but
he came in again and again, and
finally she invited him home with
her. We all liked him very much
he was so honest in appearance
and had such frank and open eyes.
/ remember that my husband and
/ talked it over and concluded that
young man with that kind of a
face was surely good and true. He
told the girl that his parents lived
in England and were very wealthy;
that he had never been married;
that he was in America merely to
keep out of the army, aud dozen
other such stories. In fact, she
believed everything he said, and all
was u lie from beginning to end. We
moved to Lake View, and his work
brought him up there, too. He call,
ed Frequently, and we could see
that the girl was very much in love.
One day she left home to go to Men
dota to visit sister of mine. A
day or so afterward the black eyed,
pretty woman called and told us that
Aurelia had lett the city with her
husband, and that they had gone
to get married. 1t came like a
thunderbolt. We have never been
happy a day since. She said Lor-
ing was her husband and had been
for three years. 81 believe" she
added, "that she was French and
that lie married her in England and
brought her to this country. We
telegraphed to Mendoza to intercept
them. Ny husband was in snch a
rage that he threatened te shoot
both his daughter and Loring.
They were married out there by a
country justice, Aug IL, 1888, and
came into the city a week later.
Ten days afterward he left the city.
Since that day we have never seen
either him or the black k-eyed
woman. We blame her because she
must have known that Loring was
paying attentions to Aurelia. /
thought at one time L would go
insane over it, and poor Aurelia's
happiness in life is all gone"
The Andersons moved from Lake
View after the daughters unfortu-
nate marriage, and they now occupy
the first fiat at 500 Wells street.
The father of the deceived girl is
now letter carrier.
Loring went from Lake View to
the South Side, but soon left the
city altogether After he had gone
some time the wife, Esther, woke
up to the fact that she, too, had
been deserted. Soon the dispatches
from New Orleans stated that the
people in a small Louisiana town
We're looking for man named
Charles J. Loring. The village had
ordered an electric light plant and
Loring acted as the agent, but sud-
denly about $4,000 that had been
collected from subscribers was also
missing a beautiful young lady, the
bell Of the village, could not be
found.
Loring fed to Europe and spent
money with a prodigal hand.
When England was reached his
money was gone.
Seeking to recuperate his fortune,
Loring naturally thought of mar
riage again. Florence Smith, the
daughter of an English farmer,
wishes that he had not. He rep
resented himself to her as a wealthy
Yankee travelling for pleasure, and
she readily consented to become