Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-15
Eloped With His Mother-in-Law.

undivorced, at the same time, and
likewise, of men DESERVING their wives
to run away with some other fellows
wife, but 1t has remained for Cass
county to produce the man, or rather
the boy, who deserted his wife to
elope with his mother in law, who is
mother of nine children. Mothers. in
law are generally considered, at least
by the comic papers, as the most
dreadful and to be dreaded accessories
to marriage, and the one subject about
which all married men are silent, but
here comes Cass county youth who
throws all these libels in the teeth of
their originators and shows his faith
in mothers-in-law by clipping with
his.
1t will be mbered by the read
ers Of the Telegraph that about the
first of last December, John Gochan-
our, a well-known farmer living near
Highland church, north of Anita, was
in this city on the lookout for his son
Earl. who, he claimed, was coming
here tojoin Mrs. Taylor and ac-
company her to Colorado, where he
would marry her 16- year, old daught-
er. He found the woman and daught-
er, but the boy did not appear. The
woman bought two tickets for Fort
Collins, Colo, and she and the girl
departed. Mr.. Gochanour returned
home without his son.
A day or two afterwards the Anita
correspondent of this paper chronicled
the fact that the youth had escaped
the vigilant eyes of his parents and
had departed for the west on the trail
of his youthful love. He found her
and married her and what followed is
graphically told in the following,
taken from the Fort Collins, Colo,
Courier:
s. singular instance showing the
innate depravity of human nature oc-
CURED in this city on Tuesday, the
details of which as they are brought
out upon investigation, present an
astounding state of affairs. A young
man, but few months married, de-
serted his sixteen year old wife and
elopes with her mother.
AhS GulS
astonishing episode, as we learn them,
are as follows: A few months ago
Earl Gochanour married Cecil Taylor,
daughter of Mrs. Mary Taylor who
has been living Oh Frank Baxter's
ranch in Stratton Park. The bride
was pretty and only sixteen, and the
groom but nineteen years old. So far
as the neighbors are Informed, the
married life of this young pair was
peaceful and happy, not cloud OF
dicontent having arisen to cast shad-
ow on their bliss. But the neighbors
know nothing of the craftiness of the
mother Of the bride. She 1t was it
seems who introduced the serpent into
this happy home because ofan unholy
love for her son-in-law. When the
fires Of her unnatural affection for the
young man began to burn with I'M
quenchable fierceness, leading her to
desert two helpless children and run
away with the husband of her daught-
er is not known. but that they had a
beginning at some time is altogether
too apparent now for the peace of
mind OF the deserted wife.
Last Tuesday morning Mrs. Taylor
accompanied by her son-in-law and
his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Gochanour,
and her two small children, came to
town from their mountain home. A
few minutes before the tram left for
Greeley, Mrs. Taylor went into Mrs
Whitton's and bought hat, Gochan.
our being in waiting on the outside.
On coming out of the millinery store,
Mrs. Taylor and Gochanour slipped
away from the other members of their
party and appeared at the depot just
III time to board the train for Greeley,
and off they went without word to
anyone regarding their intentions.
Mrs. Gochanour, supposing her
husband and mother to be somewhere
about town, waited in the wagon
with her little sisters and watched
for their return until late in the after
noon. Finally some one acquainted
with the family told her that those
whom she sought had gone off on the
train together. When the truth of
this statement dawned upon Mrs.
Gochanour she became almost dis
tracted and walked the streets crying
and taking on like crazy person. At
last friend told her to telegraph to
Greeley and have the guilty pair ar
rested before they could get out Of
the state. This was do ne and Mrs.
Gochanour was soon afterward in
formed that her husband and mother
were in the custody of the Greeley
officials.
1t was rumored on the streets We'd
nesday forenoon that Mrs. Taylor had
about $500 in money with her when
she fled with her son-in-law and that
she had telephoned Mrs. Gochanour
from Greeley that Gochanour mad got
the money and skipped out. How
much truth there is in this, we are
unable to state at present" Atlantic
Telegraph.
VIM. Orr. Newark, o., says, 2We never feel
safe without One Minute Cough Cure in the
house 1t saved my little boys life when he
had pneumonia. We think ii is the best med