Show V A 11 bl bad E SPRING springville VILLE june oth etli 1874 editor deseret news you will confer a favor on the people of springville Spring ville by inserting the enclosed clipping in in your valuable paper it is s said aid that van auken has just left here for beaver yours C D EVANS A LEAP IN THE ltee LIFE of A VAGABOND the friends and old acquaintances of mrs aggie van abkin formerly miss aggie nichols will b be 1 I prati gratified nned fled to learn that she arrived arrive d home from the west last saturday and nd I 1 is now with her mother in this city when richardson escaped from the tile P prison rison pens 0 of f the tho south during the rebellion 1 0 telegraphed to mr greeley these emphatic words tout out of the jaws of death out odthe of the gates of heu beu inthe in the same sense may mrs van abkin now make a similar expression four bearg years ago miss nichols was residing in corunna coranna Cor Co unna a young lady respected and beloved by all in in an evil hour ilour she received the addresses of one james russell van auken and marriage followed those who well knew know the scoundrel regretted the union but hoped for the best two months after tb their air marriage van auen left ifor utah territory and after remaining there about two years desired his wife to follow and live with him under the most flattering promises of business prosperity ac furnished with money by her father jn in jaw law for nor that purpose she was induced to leave lier her parents and all her old friends arld and with a second class passenger ticket she went from home to meet one of the most consummate rascals that ever deceived an amiable loving and devoted wife from that time her life iloe has been one of the most cheerless that a forlorn heart S ever eve shrank under in june last the fellow at length totally deserted her leaving his wife with a child only three months old to get along as best she could at ophir some sixty or seventy miles southwest of salt lake city from that time until the of the present month she remained at Ophir and stockton near by earning a pre pro carious living by whatever she could find to do and her health would permit As cold weather approached she found that she could no longer battle with life in that rugged semi barbarous country and resolved to come home if means could be raised for her passage in the most piteous letters she appealed to her father in law residing in shiawassee Shiaw assee the grandfather grand father of her child for assistance but her appeals were disregarded her mother was unable to give the required assistance but sent her the only five dollars she had this state of things soon came to the ears of several ladies of corunna coranna Cor unna and the library society at once at their suggestion came to the rescue the money was immediately raised among our citizens and expressed to her on the of the present month but the mail on the same day brought the welcome news by letter that she was then on her way home having been kindly assisted to sufficient funds by her neighbors and friends at ophir we have given these details not to expose the grief of the young lady whom every body here regards with affection and the warmest respect but to expose in his proper light the villain who has been the author of all her wretchedness and who before his marriage had keen been been twice arrested for robbery and forgery but his abused wife is now happily among friends where she can free herself from the moral lep lop leper er through the medium of the courts and again enjoy the advantages of society and the comforts of life Shiaw shiawassee assee american oct 30 |