Show A TRUANT WIFE sw Returns After Many Tears of Suffeu frig and Bepeitancc C Three Death Notices Which End a History tf JHsliked Marriage Elopement Divorce and I EecoioillatioM The following which was taken from the New York Times is interesting inter-esting and romantic whether the account be true or false The part of the story which has reference to I this city is probably imaginary Dil igent inquiry among the sporting fraternity of the town among them several who were here during the period mentioned by the woman liner fails to find anyone who knew or ever heard of the man Mills or of his alleged partner in gaming houses Olney Nor do the police know of the men as they most certainly would under such circumstances as are alleged Honesdale Dec 9Among the death notices in a local paper of a southern county in this state on Friday last appeared the following TIN EROn the 5th inet of pneu mcmu A 8 TIHKB aged 41 yean TIN EROn the 5 h inst of scarlet fryer ETTA V only child of A o and Eliza G Tiner ag d 5 years TINEB Oo the 6 > h inst ELIZA G TINS wife of the late A S Tiner Sixteen years ago Amzi S Tiner was a welltodo miller In a Tillage in Southern Pennsylvania near the State line Uri Gates was a prosperous pros-perous merchant in the same village vil-lage He was a widower with one child a daughter named Eliza George Mill was a clerk in Gates store He was a handsome young Southerner and claimed to be a member of a family who had been ruined by the war Miss Gates fell in love with him and he professed to reciprocate the attachment Mr Gates however did not approve of intimacyand refused to consent to the marriage of his daughter with his clerk Miller Tiner had been a suitor for the girls hand for a year or more and the father favored his suit Miss Gates persisted in her refusal to accept his hand although she acknowledged that she was proud of his offer and held him in the highest regard Her father at last relented his parental authority and Tiner and Miss Gates were married mar-ried in 1867 On their wedding tour they stopped some days with relatives of the bridegroom in this city from whom these particulars are obtained They returned re-turned in October A few days afterward Mrs Tiner received a letter which she said informed her of the dangerous illness of a young schoolmate of hers in a neighboring town who was anxious to see her She said she would visit the schoolmate school-mate and left home ostensibly for that purpose The next morning Mr Gates went to his store at the usual hour He found it closed It had always been opened by his clerk at 8 oclock Inquirv was made at young Millss boardinghouse He had not been there since he ate his supper the night before No trace of him could be found in the village vil-lage It was not suspected for two days that disappearance was in anyway any-way connected with the absence of Mrs Tiner Then the husband became be-came suspicious He went to the town where his wife said she was going to visit ter sick schoolmate She had not been there A couple answering the description of Mills and Mrs Liner were traced as far as Wheeling West Va and there all trace of them was lost In 1870 old Mr Gates died leaving an estate valued at 20000 This be bequeathed to his bon inlaw His runaway daughter was not forgotten for-gotten in his will One provision in it directed the deserted husband to devote two years to searching for his unfaithful wife If she was found apart from George Mills in needy circumstances she was to be paid 700 in equal weekly instal ments hut must not be informed of its source If she was in the company of Mills the estate was not to be used in her aid no matter hr w destitute her circumstances circum-stances might be If she was not in the company of Mills and returned re-turned voluntarily and repentant to her native place before the end of one year after she was found she was t j be provided with a suitable home and paid 810 a week out of the estate otherwise ail payments to her were to cease and she was prohibited from making any claim upon the estate Mr Tiner searched for his wife in all parts of the country until 1872 without success Then he procured a divorce from her and married again His second wife died in 1875 leaving two children who were twins Old Mr Gates had named as executors of his estate his cousin M A Pool and his son inlaw Tiner In the summer of 1877 Mr Pool as one of the executors was given a letter at the village post office addressed in a womans hand and postmarked at Lichfield Minn The letter was opened It was from Gatess renaway daughter She begged to be permitted to return home to her father It recited a touching story of wretchedness and suffering and declared that while she was aware that she had committed com-mitted a great wrong she was not the guilty person they doubtless believed be-lieved hei to be The elopoment had been arranged the day before she went away She was to proceed pro-ceed at once to Indiana and procure pro-cure a divorce from her husband when she and Mills were to marry At Wheeling he besought her to give up that idea and go on with hm to St Louis This she refused to do and she went to Lafayette Ind He went south She procured a divorce through a lawyer named I Bowditch She had 8350 of which Mills had given her 8200 She joined him Central City Col wherethey were married by theUev Mr Whitehead White-head For a year they lived happily hap-pily Mills made a great deal of money by supplying stores to miners Then he fell into the habit of gambling He squandered his money and began treating his wife pith neglect and cruelty He lost his business and they moved to Utah There Mills got a position as clerk in a store At tar a few months he left that position and they went to Salt Lake City In partnership with a man named Olney Mills started a farobank and later a house of illtame These they conducted con-ducted a year but were finally compelled com-pelled to close them up Then Mills and Olney opened a small gambling establishment in another part of the city Mills was now lost to all sense of shame Claiming to have joined the Mormons he brought a woman he called his wife to their house and installed her in the place of the woman who had given up all for him A few days later he brought still another wife to his house Then the writer of the letter fled from his house This was in 1871 She succeeded in reaching Denver working her way as a servant in various places In Denver she obtained ob-tained a position as a diningroom girl in the City Hotel She remained re-mained there until July 1873 when she read in a San Francisco paper of the killing of George Mills by an other gambler during quarrel In the summer of 1873 she became waitingmaid to an English lady who was one of a party of tourists She was with the party until the Spring of 1874 when they returned to Denver From there she made her way East and at St Louis fell ill with fever which kept her confined con-fined for three months and consumed con-sumed all her savings This compelled com-pelled her to go into service again and she was engaged by a young Mr Van Atta of Morristown N J to accompany her to Minnesota where she was to join her husband Mrs Van Atta was an invalid and died near Itaska Lake in 1876 This left the truant wife and daughter again alone and in failing health She determined at last to make her way back home She eugaered an Indian halfbreed to guide her from the upper lakes to Brainerd Junction on the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river Her guide robbea her of a great portion of her savings and left her to make her own way for thirty miles For a year she supported herself bv sewing mak ing her way eastward as she could She went to Litchfield which was out of her course to oblige a lady who had been kind to her in illness and need and it was to this lady that she first told her story and through her advice that she did what she had long desired but could not summon courage to do write to her father and assure him of her repentance and ask his forgiveness for-giveness Executor Pool placed this letter I in Mr Tiners hands He went at I once to Litchfield and met nis late wife He found her in delicate health and insisted on her returning with him to her fathers home He was so impressed with her humility and sorrow that he told her he was willing again to make her Iis wife if she would consent She finally did and they were remarried in St Paul They returned to their village vil-lage home A child was born to them a year later Mrs Tiners health had been so broken during her ten years of suffering that she never recovered re-covered her former physIcal strength and wnen two weeks ago her child was stricken with scarlet fever and a few days later her husband hus-band was prostrated by pneumonia she was unable to bear up under the care and anxiety it caused her and she was forced to take to her bed I The death of her husband and child on the same day was too great a shock for her to bear and she died a few hours afterward |