The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-25
IN JOHN sAypERsoN,s ROMANCE
, p,r,n Truth, Yet How Could Fiet,e-
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7h he stranger.
AMI. rowspapers have printed the news OF
,aa,th Of old John Sanderson. the pioneer
wy. ee,tlcr OF tho British Columbian coast.
,omehov mono OF Thorn has referred to
eu strange life romance said William Mac
nnshIIn n long time resident CT Vnncouver's
.SsJ "I knew Sanderson well. and have
81 him tell the story more than once.
pp,soueh there was an incident In It OF which
80 ashamed, and he always referred to 1t
with regret ..,.,, A.. c,,..,, NJ,
.,ass When he ives between 81 and 40 he fell
!. love with young girl not yet ~. The girls
same was Margaret Findlay. she accepted
s.nderson's attentions and they became en-
sssed but a dashing young fellow. sailor.
samsd George Rothrock, came into the locality
.hore they lived, and won the girls heart away
,.n,n the podling farmer. Sanderson. 1t hap
.sno1 that tho latter knew that Rothrock had
:, ana time in his life been engaged in SNUG
sling smarting under the loss of his intended
srda sanderson laid Information Of Roth
s,ct,s crime before the authorities OF tho
,.,and. in some way, the young sailor re.
rSeyed warning that he had been betrayed, and
Ss ESCAPED from tho island Just In time.
'"He was extremely popular. and whom 1t
.sme out that john Sandersun was the person
had ON h I'm the sore
resolved to emigrate to the iaciiic coast, news
~ The discovery OF gold In California having
sssrth. Before going, however he married. out
81 pique. q woman who had always been the
especial avcrs on Of the tindlay girl. but %
ioss Of her young sailor lover. this marriage
Of her old loyer was far from having the effect
hiT sR was Early in Is5i Sanaerson and his
bride reached San Francisco after 2 voyage Of
w,ra
ssricultural lands on British territory further
northward along the coast. he and his wife
IN the fertile valley q few miles south Of Fort
nGy and BY the tine The god exstem sI
ses sad SroSe had splendid farm He stuck to
his farm through all the gold fever and BY
supplying mining camps and emiRrant trains
hLs wife died in lsSi: leaving hin several
years. adding to his wealth. and then 10 m ads
would like, her to come from his old island
home of the barren coast Of Scotland.
ssuitable person for wife; Margaret Flndlay
And still unmarried. She had never hoard OF
her lover Rothrock since he fled the islands
twenty years before. Sanderson,s sister went
ioP his se orer Marssre. Weary Of liz 81 toi,
vile II he so wished. Sanderson' Is sister sent
that word to her brother on the other side Of
the world and 1t pleased him. He replied to
that effect and sent money to pay Margaret
Findlay's passage to his homo on tho far Pa
Margaret arrived in San Francisco in the
fall Of 1872 While waiting there for the
steamer on which she was to proceed up the
coast she hoard her name called. Looking
up In surprise she saw and recognized, in
spite OF the changes OF twenty years, her
fugitive lover. George Rothrock. The old love
for him. never dead. burned anew on the in
slant and the meeting was mutually happy
n California and had accumulated considera-
yangements to return to Scotland. He wanted
Margaret to become his wife at once. but she
replied that her duty would not permit her to
dose. She had given her promise to John
6snderson. He was expecting her. She would
70 to him. II. after she had told him Of
her unexpected meeting with Rothrock
and tho revival of her love for him,
he was magnanimous enough to release her
from her promise to become his wife. she
would return and marry her lover. II Sander.
son insisted. however. on her keeping her
PROMISE che would trample her love under h er
feet and marry Sanderson. All her lover could
say would not move her. and she sailed on
Inc steamer. Eothrock promising. to wait a
:" In less than that time Margaret was back.
nous. Margaret married her lover. and theY
sailed back to the homo Of their childhood,
and no doubt are living there happily yet Old
John Sanderson never married again. and he
died ono Of the richet men on the British
Pacific coast"