Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-08-10
,zrsIEnY OF a sLunDEn.
EA1cass Eisesai Nci1iBe Vita
Inc Wonan who aiurdercd

List Friliy-s Examiner has ~
arsisie saich in a great neesure
clsies W ths mystc-y Of the mnrier
OF Miles Fawcet. z. t:asIin on JANUARY
l. 1888, and nationally a:,oaa:s for
tie re.Dars tina: Pauc.:t n.sis 50
LuebargUr on that ereatIul day
uaol he said: sIkBox enough about
lat No nan - ssai he- - sha Feai-
tsnsia.y.- Tide article referred to is
Is fcli9ss:
after Josiah Potts ard his Eife
Elizabeth Potts xare hanged ia Eiso,
NeT.. O. the 21Sa ., last June. for tie
tai.is- OF 'siies Fawcsst, sons o,
fns dad mans frierds began 10 H.
as;sc into the relationship which they
suspected had existed bctrccn Mrs.
Pb:;5 and the dead man. An iucau-
t.ou5 remark dropped by Mrs Potts.
ia.iaatinS that 4 woman would ro.
XII 4 nan 10 whom she va married.
lei 20 m investigation OF the mar
riagc secorns CT Sacramento ard this
'c.s.-
An Examiner reportc. yestoyia?
aace-;ained that { l;.@pe xas ;ssuel
on the &:a Of STlE:h, 1881, Gu;ho5z-
H.; :he marriage OF Niles FA1ee!t,
assd lity.six, q resident OF Fresno,
aal Mrs. EliZabetl Ath.rtoa. =
w.iow, aged thir:yeEat, a resident
% oakland. The Recorders books
Caow ;Eat they wo-o carried the
s..ue Ia: by Justice OF Size Pcaco z
Dir.ie, the only witness being "Stizs'
/; zzic Thomas. Papers Icf. 10 Fuw-
cstt's house disclosed the fac. that
At.a.ae.s W.ckUT, Matthew's o; this
city hrl bzen engaged to attend to
legal Affairs toc the murdered man.
Fir. MItthewi was asked il he had
nay Information with regard to tie
mItt<.
Miles Fawcatt was one OF tn
cli,lS aai 1 hal considerable ac-
qllintlucc with hiI aE4:rs," replied
Dr.. 81 .t.hcws. at was not until he
hId b,en dead over a yea- ard after
the parsons convicted OF killing hin
had been haaggl that his identity
came 20 M lIaowiedgc. In 1857
Faw.et. asked n, 10 help him oIt @.
"a difficulty. He said he had paid
Ms. Lizzie Thomas, . marriage
b-l:Eor at GJ7tG Washington street,
sl05 - get him q wife; that be hal
married the woman supplied, but thai
from caut.cTiEgs in her sleep he was
convinced that everything was no;
right. Unemployed me 70 inyestiyate,
ana my inquiries resulted in my &c
porting 10 him that his bride already
had husband living at Cariiu, New.
nan.l josiah PJ.ta. Uads- his
direction I gaze notice OF 4 sui! -
COZ the money and wa cbou: -
t,gin p~rocso3inss 20 anrsIi tha mar
rage when .he u modified him
b. p7yinS back the sic5. They also
whseilcd him into stepping all legal
proceedings against Mrs. Pot.a.
AFTER living vita Mrs. Potts in this
city FOR q short time, Fawcets tool;
her 10 his homo near Fresno. She
sooa went back TO her husband at
CIElin. Fagcott vac madiy cnamo.ed
o; tho woman, and hia glowing words
o. commenda:ion wildly recalled Inc
]raptaroug praises showero1 by Mare
antony upon Cleopatra. lie was so
thoroughly i~nfatualo1 that hc sold
his property ncar Fresno and bought
q place close 70 the residence OF the
Po!ss family, 50 that he could bp near
his charmcr. What passed between
them after ho went 10 Nevada, Of
course nobody lsnowz, as both OF them
nra dead, but it is probable that his
dark hints that he woRid expose her
had reference to tho fact thc:, no was
ab!e to prove against her the crimo o.
bigumy. Maybe nc talked too freely
Of that subject on that fateful Now
Years night, and thus brought upon
h%ia'@clf the consequences OF his to.
mcrity."