A CLERGYMAN ARRESTED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1037, 30 November 1882, Page 1

A CLERGYMAN ARRESTED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

The New York Times says a sensation was caused at Wornlesdovf, by the appearance of the Sheriff of Berks County with a capias from the Court at Reading- for the arr M of the Her Alexander S. Keiser, pastor of the Pottsville German Reformed Church, to answer the charge of breach of promise to marry Miss Elizabeth K, Miller, of Tipton, a village of Berks County. Mr Keiser was in Zion Church attending a meeting ot Lebanon classes when the Sheriff appeared with his writ. The Rev Mr Humbert, of Bowers Station, in whose family the plaintiff resided a number of years, and where defendant first made lier acquaintance when he, was a theological stud-mt, stated that she was very industrious and economical, and during the courtship gave Keiser all her savings towards paying his expenses in pursuing his literary and theological studies, ami that he promised to marry her as soon as he should be ordained and settled as a minister of the Gospel. It appears that while he was a student at the

seminary at Collcgeville, Montgomery County, he formed the acquaintance of another young lady, whom he married after his ordination, and they went tohousekeeping in Pottsvillc, where he was elected to the pastorate of a congregation. He is a fhsuulsome-lookmg man, about thirty years of age, with dark hair and moustache. Miss Miller is an intelligent and beautiful woman, twenty-four years of age. She says in her affidavit, filed in the Court House that about seven years ago, when she was seventeen y r ears old, and living in the family of the Rev Davit! Humbert, at Bowers, Berk County, she formed the acquaintance of the Rev Mr Keiser, that he became a suitor for her affections, and that his visits were frequent and characterised by the warmest demonstrations of affection during the entire period of from the first acquaintance to the fall of Ho was pursuing his studies preparatory for ordination as a minister of the Gospel of the German Reformed Church, and when at school or elsewhere kept up a constant correspondence with the plaintiff, his letters numbering upward of 400. They were of the most endearing character and filled with ardent professions of his undying affection to the plaintiff ; that his personal visits to the plaintiff during this period were frequent, and his conduct towards her on such occassions was marked with a display of affection so apparently real that he succeeded in completely gaining her confidence and winning her affection ; that when she heard of his marriage she went to Pottsville, to inquire into the truth of the matter. She called at his residence, and was told by him that it was true, but that he attempted no explanation of his conduct. It is said that he gives as a reason for not marrying Miss Miller that she was not true to him, This she and her friends deny.