Show recall enoch arden tragedy owen sound ont A true life story exceeding in sordid tragedy that of 0 Tenny sons enoch arden Is revealed in a petition sent to the nebraska state board of pardons on behalf 0 of f harry lafayette dales seventy formerly of carrie barrie and owen sound sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a horse trader more than A a quarter of a century ago dales Is now pleading for liberty on the ground that ills his wife and children en here desire to see him again before his death it if his plea cleais Is granted dales will return to ills former home is a did enoch Ar arden dento i to find that ills his wife in the long interim has married another furthermore she declares that she was never legally married to dales that lie he tricked tier her into a bigamous c emony while he already had a wife living and later deserted her land and their three small children the former mrs airs dales now nearly nearby seventy years of age Is now mrs henry lck and shi she denies that she has petitioned for the release of the murderer or that she will consent to see him if he Is liberated she insists in fact that the harry flurry dales who ft ho tricked cherinto her he into a supposed mar ariage Is 3 dead so far as she Is con berned ile he disappeared and I 1 heard noth ing of him for ten years ears she de cho clados cs on those grounds alone I 1 would have hao been able to remarry even een it if we ne had find been married legally in the fir first st place and I 1 learned later that we mrs james dales daughter who was five years old when lie he disappeared admits that site she I 1 lias aas offered to provide a home for her father if he Is released from prison but declares that she had hoped to avoid publicity in connection with the matter she does not condone her fathers father misdeeds but bat slie she clings to the prayer praye r forgive us our trespasses as we tor for give them that trespass against us and she declares thata that a quarter of a century in ill prison may be sufficient atonement for many misdeeds to the majority of owen sound arst dents harry flurry dales Is only a name but a few old residents of the city remember him as a likeable neer dowell do d owel well and a man of many loves A woman who passed as his wife was tried for murder with him in nebraska a and 11 d sentenced to forty years la in prison she subsequently become became insane and died in an asylum but she nag not dales wife either |