From the Lanark Banner, 15th

A few months since young man calling himself John White, came into Shannon Township and obtained some kind of employment, we are not informed what. He almost immediately attempted to win the favor of a certain young lady in this town, but she very plainly told him that she would have nothing to say to a stranger. He went away from Shannon Village, changed his name and shortly after returned to the south part of town, prepared for a fresh assault upon the affections of some fair one. By careful attention he soon won the favor of a certain young lady whose name we suppress and they were married.

A while after their marriage, they paid a visit to his mother, the old lady very kindly informed her son that he was working up a bad career, and as this was his fourth wife he had brought home, he must not bring home anymore. Of course this announcement commenced a hasty departure, and his young wife hastens back to her mother’s. White, who accompanied her, gently reminded her, that if she: “should tell of what she had heard at his mother’s he would kill her”. Immediately upon their return ,White borrowed a horse of her fathers and some money , we believe of her brother stating that he wished to go to Shannon , He failed to return and nothing was heard from him for some weeks except that he sold the horse,

Subsequent events prove that he went to Chicago, formed the acquaintance of a sister of the young lady to whom he had so recently married and left in Shannon Township, made a proposal of marriage, and the young lady like a dutiful daughter wrote to her parents referring the matter to them, By means of this letter of the considerate daughter to the parents, the villain was unearthed. Measures were promptly taken for his arrest and we learn that he is in custody.

Contributed by John Sharp from the Chicago Tribune 22 July 1868