Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-06-21
SHOCKING AFFAIR OF SCANDAL.

| The New York correspondent of the Woodstock
"Tenth Legion, thus describes affair OF which we
| have observed no other account:
An intense excitement is at present raging "upper-
tendon" from awully tragca circumstance which
has recently taken place in the Fifth Avenue. 1t APP
pears that about two years and halt ago, gentleman
who at that time of our first merchant mon
archs. was compelled by unpleasant business trans
action between of his foreign connexions and HIM
self to temporarily relnqush the society OF young and
lovely wife, and to proceed voyage from this city
to St. Petersburg. This matrimonial separation was
rendered the poignant, by the fact the parties ad
only been united about six months, and were most ar.
IDENTIFY attached to each other The merchant however,
set out.
In the course of the voyage, the vessel touched at
London, where the merchant met dashing artist ocrat-
c friend, who had just completed pleasure tour
Europe, and was about returning to the metropolis of
the Western World. The merchant communicated
to his friend the object and probable duration othis visit
to St. Petersburg, and requested his homeward-bound
counryman to become the bearerof letter to his wife.
As this lady ofthe handsomest and most
pshed women in New York. the friend ofcourse, Joy
fully undertook the embassy to the court OF beauty
The merchant continued his voyage, and on arriving
at ST. Petersburg, he found that his affairs in that city
were so complicated as to require his presence in the
Russian capital for much longer time than he had an
ticpated. Meanwhile, his aristocratie friend arrived
in Gotham, presented the letter, and effected much
closer introduction to the merchants wife than her abb
| sent husband had originally intended
| Well, one day last week. after an absence OF two
years and five months the merchant landed this port
but imagine his astonshment when, upon Unexpectedly
presenting himself at his old residence in the Fifth Ave-
nue., he discovered, to his unutterable horror that
dmunitive stranger, of sir reeks DID, had recent
ly become member Of his household. From several
striking points of resemblance between the child, his
wife, and his aristocrac friend, the unfortunate hus
band experienced no difficulty in arriving very I'M
satisfactory conclusion respecting the utilization OF the
| little intruder.
| Frantic with rage, the merchant Immediately COM
menced the task OF rerbution and having learned the
whereabouts OF his wites seducer he rushed into his
presence and shot him down like dog. The maniac
husband then escaped, reached his own home dismiss
ssd the servants, stabbed his wife the heart threw
the new born babe Of the back window and finally
hung himself from beam in the ceiling of his own bed
room. where he was found few hours afterwards, per-
| tectly dead.
| Such extraordinary instance of wholesale murder
is unparalleled in the annals of New York crimes and
| the excitement produced among all classes OF society
is proportionately great; but in compliance with the
earnest request of the friends of the deceased the repor
tiers OF the city press, at present. withhold the names
all parties connected with the above dreadful occur
| renee.