Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-07
A PASTOR AND HIS WIFE.
He Declared In His Pulpit That
 He Was Not Married.
SHE AND HER FATHER SAY HE WAS.

Tn Consequence Of These Statements the
 Church People of Eastport Have Much
 Interesting Matter For Gosslp-Mrs. Fan
 cher Tells Her Story.
 NEW CANAAN, Conn.,, July T.-If~ there was surprise in Passport, l.. l., when the Rev. D. E. Day returned home without his bride few weeks ago, there was equal as tonishment in Pound Ridge, \. Y, when he went away without her. And the won der was increased in Pound Ridge when the villagers read that the minister had announced from his pulpit last Sunday that the marriage had not taken place.
 George N. Fancher declares his daughter was married to the minister on the ap- pointed day. She corroborates this state ment. She refused to accompany her hus- band to his Long Island hoEe, but de clined to give the reason for her conduct.
 Mir. Fancher is a prosperous farmer of Pound Ridge, a small village in Westches- ter county, N. Y. just over the state line from New Canaan. Hattie E. Fancher, his only daughter, is about 9 years old and prepossessing. The family is highly esteem ed and is connected with prominent citizens H. pastor of the Congregational church of Lockport, N. Y., is a cousin of the young woman. The Rev. Henry s. Hull of Ca uarsie, l., l., is her uncle.
 Story of tho Woman and Her Father. A reporter called at the Fancher home l and asked the young woman for an ex- planation of the statement the minister l had made to his congregation from his pulpit last Sunday when he said she had | refused to marry him because she had l heard he had wife, was engaged to an other woman and had been arrested on | charge of breach of promise of marriage. | q was married to MT. Day at noon on June %, said theTycung woman. "The | ceremony was performed by my uncle, the Rev. Mir. Hull of Cauarsie, l.. l., in the | presence of my father and mother and ! about a dozen relatives" This statement ! was made with great reluctance, and the young woman refused to say anything | more. She sent for Ter father, however and he added the following detuil: Day first appeared in Pound Ridge on
 his vacation five years ago, when he was a
 student of the Westminster Theological
 school in Maryland. While here he sup piled the pulpit of the little church in East | Woods, where l was superintendent of the Sunday school.
 | He returned to the theological school | the following September, finished his stud
 ies and last July came here, again and
 boarded tor several days in my house. He
 was appointed to the church in Eastport, | l. l., the following October. When he re- \ appeared here last December he asked to | marry my daughter and l gave my con \ sent. The wedding was to have taken place
 next October, but early last May he visited
 us and urged an immediate marriage. | "The reason he gave was that he was placed in an embarrassing position on ac- | count of a young woman in his boarding
 house. but a wife would free him from the
 peculiar trouble.
 After much persuasion it was finally
 decided that the ceremony should be per
 formed on June %, and the marriage did take place on that date. The next day my
 daughter told her mother she would not
 accompany her husband to his home, nor
 would she ever live with him. Idrove MT
 Day to the railway station in New Canaan
 and he went home alone"
 | Mir, Fancher could give no further expla.
 nation of his daughters conduct than to say it was not the result of stories she had
 heard about the minister.
 | He added that the Rev. Mir. Day returned
 to Pound Ridge last Thursday and wanted
 his wife and father-in-law to sign certain
 papers of separation, as he wished to wed 6
 young woman on Long Island who was
 anxious to marry him. This is the story as
 told by Mrs. Day and her father.