THE PRETTY BLONDE AND THE EPISCOPALIAN MINISTER.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5142, 10 July 1885, Page 2

THE PRETTY BLONDE AND THE EPISCOPALIAN MINISTER.

A San Francisco Post's correspondent sends the following information to his paper :—•" Ashtabula, Ohio, May 9th.— Bev.Levi Boyer, an Episcopalian minister, was some time since placed in charge of the Washbarne Mission, Ashtabula harbor. Himself and wife, together with one child, located here. He became popular with his parishioners and was eminently successful iv building up the mission. The appearance, a few weeks since of a blue-eyed, golden-brown-haired and welWformed woman, who sailed under the name of Stewart, and secured frequent interviews with Boyer, set the tongues of the gossips to running. The mysterious relations of the minister and the fair stranger made the name of the former such a common subject of scandal that Bishop Bedell, of the diocese, investigated, and Boyer was silenced on Sunday last. Boyer offered but little explanation before his corigrega* tion, but says the unfortunate affair grows out of nothing but platonic attentions paid the woman during a trip south a few years since for his health. The woman asserts that Boyer made her his wife, and that she has the documents to prove that she has a claim of priority upon him over bis present wife. The latter, who is broken hearted, left the rectory, and with her child returned to the home of her family. The Stewart woman says she loves Boyer, and would stick to him if he was without both friends and position. She has gone from here, and Boyer left for parts unknown on Wednesday.