Show recall enoch ardent arden tragedy owen sound onta ont A true life ilfe story exceeding in sordid tragedy that of Tenny sons enoch arden Is revealed in a petition sent to the nebraska state board of pardons on behalf of harry lafayette dales seventy formerly of carrie barrie and owen sound sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a horse trader more than a quarter of a century ago dales Is now pleading for liberty an on the ground that ills his wife and children hero here desire to see him again before his bis death if his plea Is granted dales will return to his former home its as did aldi enoch arden to find that his wife in the long interim has married another r furthermore urther more she declares that she was never neve r legally married to dales that ile he tricked her into a bigamous ceremony while he already had a wife living and later deserted her and their three small children the former mrs airs dales now nearly seventy years of age Is now sirs birs henry clr and she denies that she ties has petitioned for the release of the murderer or that hint she will consent to see him film if lie he Is liberated she insists in fact that the lie harry dales who tricked her into a supposed marriage ria geIs i Is dead so far os as she Is concerned ue disappeared and I 1 heard nothing of him for ten years she declares on those grounds alone I 1 would have been able to remarry even it we had been married legally in the first place and I 1 learned later that we mrs airs james Mother dales daughter ter who was five years old when he disappeared admits that she b lias as offered to td provide a home for her father if heis released from prison but de c lares dares that she had hoped to avoid 1 publicity in connection with the matter she does not condone her fathers misdeeds but she dines clings to the prayer forgive us our trespasses as we for or give thein that trespass against us handshe and she declares that a quarter of a century in prison may be sufficient atonement for many misdeeds to the file majority of owen sound rest dents harry 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 tits his wife was tried for or murder with him film in nebraska Ke braska aud sentenced to forty years years in prison she subsequently became insane and died in an asylum but she was not dales wife either |