The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
LOVE STORY THAT POSSESSES
LOCAL INTEREST.
vEluT and PRAIRIE JOIN
Dom Pau!'s Nephew Does Not Neu.
Iect Himself While Pleading
for Others.

some OF InOSe VINO heard the gen.
tleman when he was in the CITY re.
Gently and who contributed to the
cause of the Boer widows and orphans
for whom he was asking contributions
will probably be interested in the
story which comes from Miles City
and Glendive concerning the Rever-
end Sargsson, o. Sergonson, as he
seems to be also called, who says he
is a nephew of the redoubtable Dom
Paul himself. The facts connected
with the romance are not calculated to
raise the man in the estimation of
the good people with whom he came
in contact, for he appears to have TAX
en- undue advantage of a young and
susceptible girl, a mere child, with
whom he became acquainted while at
Miles City. Although more than old
enough to be her father, he induced
her to marry him, only to have his
infantile wife spurn and leave him
before the last echoes of the words
that made them man and wife had
scarcely died out. Then, too, it is
said that he is an imposter and not
the man he has represented himself
to be. Instead of Sargsson, it is
claimed that his name in Sergeant
and that the only relationship he can
claim with the fromer president OF
the Transvaal republic is no closer
than that afforded by the common
brotherhood of man.
After leaving here the man appar
emily went to Miles City, where he
boarded with a Mrs. Adams. He said
his wife had died about six months
before and that because of his loneli-
ness he desired to be among congenial
companions, preferably women, as
such surroundings caused him in a
measure to forget his recent beraave-
ment. Although we'll over SO years
of age, his i%ngratiating ways and his
pathetic tales of suffering and sor-
row SO wrought On the feelings of
Edith Adams, the daughter of his
landlady, that the impulsiveness of
her 16 years caused her to turn a
willing ear to his p~rotestations Of love
and in an unguarded moment she con-
scented to become his wife.
Having collected all the money he
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went to Gledive, Mrs. Adams and
Edith accompanying him. There he
secured a license and the couple were
married by the Reverend Mr.. james,
who says he was laboring under the
impression that it was a sister of
Edith who was to be married. In
some manner the age of the groom
was given in the license as 80 years,
although the man declared he had
told the clerk of the court SO, and
that he had spoken in a voice loud
enough to make himself thoroughly
understood.
Sargsson said he was just then a
trifle short of cash but he promised
that soon he would have money to
give away, according to report, and to
tide matters over temporarily is said
to have offered to use half of what
v e money he could collect at Glen
dive. The three, Mr.. and Mrs. Sargs-
son and Mrs. Adams, now prepared
to take what comfort they could, but
trouble was coming of which they did
not dream.
At Miles City was George Turney,
a son-in-law of Mrs. Adams. He had
sought to dissuade the girl from her
foolish resolve, but as she seemed to
he determined to marry the Old man,
Turney finally withdrew his objec-
ton, especially as he thought that
possibly the marriage might prove
of benefit to Mrs. Adams and the
younger children, as the family
seems to have been in need of assist
ance. After the trio had gone Turney
began to think the matter over and
concluded that he had made a mis-
take in not being more strenuous in
his opposition to the wedding and
went down to Glendive, where he
broke in on the Afrikander and his
new and young wife with the force
of a tornado. The questions he put
to Mrs. Sargsson speedily convinced
him that she already rued her bar
gain and he ordered her husband to
leave her. This Dom Paul's nephew
refused absolutely to do and in turn
ordered Turney to leave the house,
Turney left, but soon returned with
the under sheriff and in the presence