The herald., 1895-07-25
ARAM1NTA BUNCOED BY JOHN
He "Did" Her Out of Her Rich
Broad Acres
YOUMANS VERSUS YOUMANS
For the Re-conveyance OF Land in San
Antonio Rancho
A Gay and Crafty Deceiver Enamors Dolor.
YOUMANS,, VERSUS YOUMANS
A Gay and Crafty Deceiver Enamors Dolor.
Gus Widow-No Longer Young-The
Tale Of Her Woe

There is war in the Youmans family;
Araminta has found her John to be false
and deceiving, and she will not die until
she has shown the renegade lover what a
woman fully aroused can 90.
Aramintd tells a dolorous tale. She
married John November II, 1894. The
story is his, reduced from poor Araminta's
own woeful narrative:
For many long years she, the widow
Aramnta Lawron, has owned nice little
home in the country, eleven broad acres
of the San Antonio rancho. known as the
"Bullis land.' 1t was worth $1,000, and
free from all encum brances. She was an
independent comfortable old lady; then
wicked John appeared. John was no
spring chicken. John gazed over the
Widow Lawtous demesne and then at the
widow. The widow says of herself that
she is very old woman of 66 years. and
is great sufferer from sciatic rheuma
tism, from which malady she has been
ailing for seventeen years gone by. She
says with becoming and unusual candor
that 'she is now and has been for several
years, broken in health, and very feeble.
childish, infrm and easily influenced,
and is and has been for some time, al
most without any will power Of her own,
incapacitaLed from attending to business
and unfit to manage
But nothing could stagger the remark
able John. the thirster after real estate.
| thoroughness, while with, as she now
says, deep design and deceit in his heart.
| She says that he pretended that he wa
enamored of her, and avowed 10 her that
she aroused all the fire and ardor of his
youth.
But the widow is frank and free now to
state that her charms did not captivate
the soulless John. She says he told her
with passion in his voice that he loved
her dearly. and that she was SO led to
trust and love him that he gained her
entire trust and confidence, so that she
coyly consented, October l. 1894. to wed
the gay deceiyer; and SO they became en-
| gagged.
During the courtship Youmans contin-
uaJly poured into her willing ears tales OF
wealth that almost cured her sciatica.
He said he was rich in mines in Colorado
that were worth $24.0O0 and that upon
the reconciliation of silver they would
| be worth hundreds OF thousands of dol.
lars. Then he was neir to great estate
IN Canada, and had boundless estate in
| the fair state of Mississippi.
| They were married. Well, through the
| Establishments of the willy husband she
was induced to convey to hlm deed to
the ranch. her maintenance in her old
age. And the base John, instead OF tax
ing a mere life interest, as he avowed to
her he would. and so read to her in the
conveyance she signed, took deed ir
fee simple and scooped up everything
She did not read the deed because she
had mislaid her glasses and could not. sc
the crafty John read the deed to her,
falsely and fraudulently. with her glasses
in his sleeve. and she signed it confid-
ingly and like a trustful wife.
The betrayed Araminta is at last in the
language of the day, ION to John
curves, and, ever thoughtful of her chill
dren, Joseph Lawton aged 35, Hattie Con-
dit aged 80 and Nettie Hargrave aged 81
years, and burning to retrieve her error
and regain her estate, she has brought
suit in the superior court to prevent
Jonn from disposing of or lncum bering
the land; and for a decree declaring the
deed void; and for other needful reliet
from the fellow she yet acknowledges al
her lIege lord, once the core OF her hear
and the inspiration of her soul.