The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-04

more than al TO rsnounse her right to sslfvindiea
tion. Her osiy motive in these extraordinary
sacrificing spirit Of woman, shs made them, thought
lees Of herself Her onay fear that Of offending her
honorable counsel whose directions she dsoesyed In
this set Ny motive In this stated to Col Forney
and Col swift the worthy friends Of Mr. Forrest was
to get Mrs FORFEIT out OF ths country This state
phia and showed his authority from Mrs forrest to
MT rests friends with whom he he'd several inter-
70 see
proposals made By Wikof to induce Mrs II rrset to
leave the country BY painting to her the destinations
to several notorious men 81 fashion in Paris and Lon
DON In whose association, he assured the writer OF
also stated to Colonies swift and Fornsy and to gen.
temen in this city that he believed Mrs. Forrest to be
awantosi and used worse epthet In regard TO her
outlines than care to repeat. In Mrs. Forrest
afndsvit alluded to above, she says =" But never
made through Henry wikon otherwise, directly or
the country, to rsnoance Mr. FORESTS name or to
leave my allowance to his generosity.
so1 Of Or WITH
about divorce after he commenced his aPplcs ton
to the Pennsylvania Legislsturs." You wiz ct once
perceive there Is direct question OF veracity between
the lady and wikon in this scheme Of inducing Mr..
Forrest to end his domestic difficulties In this
When Wikof has settled this discrepancy between
himself and Mrs Forrest, it viii be tune enough to
arraign the truth fslsehood Of my statement
Is to what Mrs Forrest told me In regard to witOs
able proposals to her She said to with sneer on
one occasion that Forests friend, Wikof both YER
bally and by note made such proposals. that she kept
the note rs rod over him for eighteen months. If
she did not tell this she told anything;
and II we'll accords with what distinguished lady
said to me (who knew Wikof welD aft er reading my
statement that could be In his society halt
dozen times without being annoy ed by his insulting
impertinences the mldest term in the vocabu.
larry that he was Just the idiot II little battered to
commit himself by scrbbling such q note. Wikof ad.
mitted TO me and others that he had no doubt she
had told this story but of course denied the truth
Of it. Wikof in his letter also says had the plea
Of meeting in Paris the Hon. Josiah Randall OF
Philadelphia and lately the council Of MI Forrest In
his suit for divorce Mr.. Randall stated to me that
when the evidence of the servant against Mrs Forrest
read to them in his Office prior to Its publication
Mr.. Forrest interrupted the reading at that part
which related TO me and said Gentlemen. feel 1t
due to say that Mr.. Wikof is the only person men
toned in the evidence against whom have no suspi
con - In reference to this have only to say that
Mr.. Randall denies, In the most positive terms, hav
ing made any such remark is attributed to him by
Mr. Wikof To conclude, as Mr. Wikof insinuntss
and evidently desires to cate the preston that
he acting the old friend of Mr. Forrest in his
attempt to withdraw Mrs. Forests difficulties from
public observation, will merely state that 1t Is well
known TO many of Mr. Forests friends that, at the
time Of Wikcfs activity in this matter he had been
utterly repudiated by Mr. Forrest who had repeated
ly refused even to see him. When 1T is remembered
that at that very time Wikof was on the most inti-
mate terms with Mrs Forrest 1t will be easy to decide
whose friend he was, and in whore interests he was
most deeply concerned Yours respectfully,
ANDREW STEVENS.