Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-05-06
The Story OF Lizzie Saltsgiver.

With smile on her once pretty face and
on't-care-a-cent swagger, Mrs. Lizzle
Saltsgiver, the horse thief, answered TO the
call Of her name in the Quarter Sessions
Court of Venango Co., last Friday morn
ing, as she stood up before Judge Taylor
for sentence. The kindly words of the
Judge might as well have been spoken to
a stone wall. The young woman did not
betray the least emotion when the Judge
sentenced her to two years at hard labor III
the Western Penitentiary for stealing a
horse and buggy from n. B. Myers, oil
Franklin, on March &c.
Ever since her conviction Lizzie has not
bothered herself as to her probable fate,
but seemed to be utterly Indifferent. Al
though but 2S years of age, Mrs. Saltsgiyer
has crowded many more years OF wicked
experience into her young life. She Is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Bower
sock. of Sugarcreek township, very re-
spectacle people. Her brother is re-
spectacle citizen and has endeavored TO
convert his rash sister to better life, but
his good offices haye been in vain.
Seven wears ago Lizzie married a we'll
to-do. farmer named James Saltsgiver, but
their MARITAL happiness was OF very short
duration, and one day three years ago
Lizzie was missing, having deserted her
husband and young baby daughter. Go
ing to Oil City she entered upon fast lie.
She drifted to Franklin little over two
years ago. She married Henry kessler, a
professional base ball player. hessler de-
serted her, so she claims, and to drown
her sorrow and show Kessler that he was
not the only man in the world, she in
yeigled a young granger from Mercer
county into marrying her, and she dldn I
think it necessary to get divorce, and
husband No. didn't seem to know that he
was doing wrong in marrying her. After
her latest marriage husband No. got a
divorce from her on the grounds OF deser-
ton. and adultery. Her latest husband
didn't have a very strong hold on the al
fections of the festive Lizzie, and she has
lived in different parts OF the oil country
with different men, and claims to have
married man at Mcdonald and another
at Beaver Falls, but her temperament was
such that she couldn't t settle down to the
conventionalities of married life, and she
became professional horse thief through
pure love of adventure.
The woman has wandered all over the
oil country and been mixed up IN many
very questionable affairs, but has always
managed to escape the clutches OF the law
until last March. On the 10Th OF that
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and hired rig to drive out into Mercer
county to visit husband No. 3, promising
to return the same evening. Her visit was
prolonged several days and officers were
sent out after her. She had good start
but the officers came up with her at
Youngsville, Warren county, just IN time
to stop the sale of the rig to man named
Dunham, native of that village. She,
together with husband No. 3, were arrest
ed and returned to Franklin, she to answer
the charged of horse stealing, and her al
legged husband, Montagu, to answer as an
accessory after the fact. The Grand Jury
failed to find an Indictment against the
latter, while Lizzie was tried and The jury
convicted her without leaving the box.
At one time Lizzie Saltsgiver was very
pretty girl. Only once since her arrest
has She betrayed sorrow, and that was
when she parted from her aged mother and
little daughter in Jail. For an instant the
tears filled her eyes, but with an effort she
recovered her usual careless and inditfer-
ent manner, and started for the train as
though going off on picnic excursion.
Lizzie was one of the brightest of girls at
school, but her fondness for reading iashy
and sensational novels turned her head,
and now her sole ambition is to cut q
figure such rs the heroines found in such
literature are made of. Two years at hard
la Dor and solitary confinement may change
her mind.
Lizzie's companion on the journey to the
penitentiary was James Mosgrove,a a yCun G
burglar, sent down for five years for rob
bing several stores. He is another ardent
novel reader, and between him and Lizzie
has sprung up fellow feeling that amounts
almost to tender passion, and the fact
that they will he separated in the peni-
tentiary is the one dark cloud that has
shut them out from perfect happiness.