Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-12-16
BOUND THEM TO A TREE.
How an Injured Husband Treated
an Erring Couple.

Big John Gillen, well known farmer
residing on Mountain View road near
Hilton, w. Va, held up his wife to
the scorn of the public in a merciless
manner the other day. He Also inflicted
punishment on the man with whom
the woman is alleged to have been in
innate.
fiiIlen operates a small truck farm,
and does team work. He is cookbook
ing, and remarkably strong. He was
married three years ago to Sarah Stack
who lived with her widowed mother.
The girl was handsome and inclined to
be hayward, The couple had no chill
dren.
Frank Donaldson was supposed to be
the cause of the arrangement of huS-
band and wife.
Gillen finally decided to put watch
on his wife's doings He hired a detec-
tive who donned old clothes and APP
piled To Gillen's house for food during
the husbands absence. The woman
was about to start up TO the village,
but delayed long enough to give the
tramp a sandwich. She then went to
the village. where Donaldson was watt
ing. The detective gained point where
he could observe all that transpired.
The Young woman had flash of lfq-
our for her lover, also some cake. She
stroked his mustache, and he in turn
smoothed her tresses The evidence
alone gathered by the detective will be,
it is said, sufficient for Gillen to pro-
cure a divorce. The detective met Gill
len and told him of his discovery. He
advised Gillen tn make believe that he
was going to the market the next day,
and instead of going, to drive up the
road and to stable his horses and re-
turn to the spot designated.
The orders were obeyed to the letter.
The husband watched his wife and
Donaldson for over an hour and was
restrained from springing upon them
only by the detective.
Soon the couple succumbed to the
drugged liquor which Gillen had pre-
pared and fell asleep on the bench
where they had been sitting. The hus-
band and detective crept upon them
and bound them in standing positions
TO a tree short distance from the
road. In his rage Gillen stripped the
| captives of nearly every stitch of
clothing The bound couple recovered
to find themselves in a forlorn plight.
DonaIdson's moustache was shorn, AMI
his body bruised in dozen places
| from blows inflicted by Gillen.
| The miserable pair implored TO be re-
leased. but Gilen would not relent I'M
| til the pair were seen in their shame
| by fully score of people, to whom the
| circumstances were made known.
| Pulp and Pluck.
| This is an age of heroic Christianity.
| There is more pulp and pluck in the
average Christian professor when self
denial is required. The men and wom-
en- who not only rejoice in doing their
duty for Christ, but even rejoice in
overcoming uncomfortable obstacles
in the doing of it are quite too scarce.
The piety that is most needed Is a
pety that will stand pinch; piety
that would rather eat an honest crust
than fare sumptuously on fraud; a
piety that works up stream against
currents; piety that sets its face like
Clint in the straight, narrow road of
righteousness. We need more of the
Christianity that steadily sets its face
toward Christ's word and holy will
An ungodly world will look at such
Christly living as at 'the sun In it's
strength" God loves to look at those
who carry Jesus in their faces. OF
such is the kingdom of heaven.-Rev.
T. L. Cuyler.