Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-01
LIFE nEw yong.


/ efedsi By one Of s less mela loboly character.
R2naEes ia high lie, OF the elOpemsst of John
! Desn, servant mg1, with bis masters daughter,
ardthe suit between the parties for the possession
II the trusnt girl has been ell the rage ia New
York journalism ftr some weeks past Tee last
r ibuae devotes four Of its heavy columns to the
6ns disposition Of this interesting case, by the
dtc'son of the Court, upon the writ Of habeas
corpus, sued out BY Dean for the possession of bis
wife, then in the custody Of her father, John G.
| Boxer.
Mr.. Bgker it seems is one Of the New York
Aristocrscy, having accumlla.ed large fortune IS
a Wholesale dealer in mean whiskey and other
| LIQUORS. Dean, bis present son-in-law, was his
coschmAn, wore livey, and drove the fashionable
young lady with her fashionable young beauxs
around to the parties and other fashionable gather
| ings in supper tendon" The lady, poor creature
/ contracted passion for her serqant boy which
none Of her beauxs could ever succeed in awaken
/ ing in her bosom TIE family detecting this sin
gusr state Of feeling dismissed the Aforesaid car
rsgs driver from their sable and kitchen, and put
his livery upon another This but increased the
fever of tbs parties wlici resulted as detailed 10
the following affidavit of the officiating minister
read as evidelce in the recent trial:
CTty and County Of NsV York, S.: /, E Twin
| F. Hatfield of No l0j West ThTty-fOurth street,
| New York Minister of the Gospel being sworn,
do make oath and say That on Tuesday, the "a
| dsY of February last, man calling himself In
Dean, q stranger to me- came to my house aud sta
ted he wished to be msrried the following Sltur
I dav between 10 and IL o'clock 10 the forenoon.
| and wanted 10 knyw OF me VIE hjr would be
then At home, to which | replied il the affirmative
The said Dean came about 10 o'clock on Saturday
morning, and stated that he was under the neces
sisy of pJstponing the marriage until the following
| Tuesday, between 10 sud II O'Clock. 1 then
made the usual Inquiries of him as to tina nsmes,
nativity and residence Of the parties all of which
he appears to have given correctly except the age
| and number of the house OF the femsle which he
| 50 he could not remember or did not know. On
Tuesday renamed at nome from l0I till l
| o'clock, but they came not.
In the afternoon ss l was Informed BY one Of
| my family, man called and stated that the young
woman was living IN gentleman family, and
| that owing to the STORM on Monday she eouli not
get the work done on Tuesday IN time and that
they would come on Wednesday morning
Ny informant saw the same man the next day
in company with said person, calling himself Dean
the same who stood up with him. He gave me his
| name as James W. Lynch.
From the representations thus made 1 was led
to belieVs that the female was at service German
servant girl. and had not the thought of anything
else; 50 much 80 that my wife said, as they are
only servants aud the waking is bad, they had
better be married in tie front bassment-the din
| ing room.
They came on "Wednesday about l2k o'clock
| On going down from my study to marry them, |
fouEd the said person calling himself John Dean
and young woman represented to be Miss Boxer,
sitting on the sofa vita two persons who gave me
their names az James w. Lynch aud Mary Hesg
| ney. Ny wife, eide { daughter and little son were
| in the room; asked Miss Boxer where she was
born and where she lived. The answer was given
| IS think, through the said Dean Hivng ma lie
all the needful inquiries and believing the case to
| be perfectly clear, was about to perform the Ger
| em0ny. wien the sad Dean came to me and asked
if they could be alone, IS the young VI nan was
| rather shy, or words TO that effect. Ny family,
tLe1 as a matter Of course, left the room ard the y
| were married in the usual form. She was sttlrsd
! in what seemed to me the ordinary dress of 6 SER
want girl s1d paid bat little attention to Der es-
| lures and RppearsuCe save to see that SIZE seemed
to be in poor health pa e, and apparently agitsted
| went up to my study wrote the usual certificate,
| and brought it down. Wh5n | went into he roc N
| l observed that the young womsns hand was held
| by Dean. He psid me fee, aad they lett Tue
! impression lett on my mind was tina. the girl WIS
l.tle defCient-n0t az intelligent IS the young
man himself.
knew nothing ct al of the relirion of the
! parties, and had } conversation with D5sn about
| his having lugh. to be married by q Catholic
| priest o, declining to 70 to one.
EDWIN F. HATFIELD.
! Sworn at the City of New York, this 23i day
| OF March, 1857.
The coschmau's bri'e exceedingly anxious to
soften the cures Of al cut eyed father, return
| ed immt d ai,ly to b,T parental h1me where she
was detained, and suit Immediately ms itutel By
the father fr her divorce, alleging that III strange
| passion Of love had made her mad, ard farther
more that b. and bis a / daughter ere of the
Protes sn. faith, wh.s the pet itoner admits that
be is OF the Catholic religion; and that this appear
| er is advised tha. by The Catholic regulations q
member of that G. u-ch is forbIdd N to marry in
/ Lent sid also that where q Catholic Is married,
or the marriage cerenonyis per formed by or be-
fore rOtestsnt clergyman, and there has been
no coIEummst on by oO-bsbitalion, that it is not
considered marriage BY the Cstho il ehrrib.
The Judge in del ,erny is opinion said
feel itdre to the partes in this case to say, and
| due o the pL bic to whom an responsible for the
administration Of my duties, to say that, by the ar
rsrgement and consent of these defendants and the
counsel for Mr. Boxer, have bad several interviews
] with this lady myself, as it was my duty, occupy
ing the position I do, to see if there was any re-
stTaint OF her liberty. feel it my duty to her rel
atiyes to say that she has uniformly ststeI to me
! that she has never been restrarej; and feel il
| also incumbent upon me to siy in that connection
that she aid to ne that this marriage was one of
her own free CHOICE and free will ana that toe de-
PENDANT has used no means which an honorable lOV
er would not use under any circumstances; and
feel it my further duty to say that in the inter
course Of my life have met with but few ladies
with 50 much intelligence, so much delicacY OF
feeling of propriety and demeauor, and vi so
deep sense of the do les she owed to her parents,
and the duties she owed to her own free chosen
husband: and it is that oouf c. between those du
ties which has given her the pain and anxiety and
the agitation which has been alluded to; and it has
been an effort on her part, so far have been able
to discover, to reconcile the Effsction love and du.
tv which she has felt she owed TO her parents, to
that other and higher duty which she does owe and
which she feels she owes to the man she has ohos
en- as partner for life. /. was for the purpose o.
informing mss self to what disposition should be
made of the case, if she were restrained of her
liberty that these interviews were had. Il was
fer the purpose Of informing myself also from my
own personal observation as to the correctness of
the all cation as to her uusoundness of mind and
whether this marriage had been contracted By !
reason Of any force used upon her, or any fraud !
practced upon her and not relying as ought not !
to do in q case of such moment as this upO1 the |
impressions which should be made upon my own !
mind | called 70 my aid, with the consent Of the |
eOuDsel of both parties, land feel il nv duty to