Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-11-19
The New York Hotel Scandal. Mrs. Wood
mau in a Private Lunatic Asxyium.

1 Some time since we published an account of
! Grim. con. case which ,rred nj the New York
Hotel The ciicumsta fthe case were these:
A New Orleans ecntl emu. by the name of Wood
man, received dispatch from friend that he lad
better go to New York and look after his wife, as
she Was then conducting herself in a manner not
strictly in accordance with the views of the moral
portion OF the community. He forthwith started,
travelling night and day, and he reached the city in
day time. He proce .dcd to- the hotel in question,
and there discovered her in bed with the destroyer of
his honor. The paramount ofthe lady rushed out OF
the room almost in state of nudity, pursued by
the Infatuated husband, who fired at him several
times with revolver but without success. The
pursued individual ran down several pairs of stairs
and took refuge in a closet. Woodman being pre-
vented frsm pursuing the object of his vengeance,
returned to the room, from whence he and his wife
left, supposed at the time, fur New Orleans.
A short time after the occurrence of this almost
tragica affair, the Courier des Etafs mis- published
a version the case, which startled the gossiping
community, on account of its entire originality OF
the plot as described Ii Was to the effect that the
lady the unfortunate victim of circumstances,
and the very quintesence of yillainy. 1t seems,
according to this statement, that Mrs. WoodTaan
spent last wear in Paris, where she went in coInpa-
NY OF friends tour of pleasure. While there
she nude the acquaintance OF a gentleman who sue
ceeded by series of ssllful attentions in ingratia
ting hiTnselfinto her confidence and friendship
He borrowed various sums of money from her, a.
mounting in all to over 81 600. At about the time
she was leaving for her home in America, he open
cd a correspondence with her on the subject of the
deb. he owed her, and succeeded in skillfilly en-
trapping her into writing a letter, which would APP
pear in the eyes of the world an ndiscrcet for
Lady to write to gentleman. Armed with this let
he caIIcon the lady, and by threats of accusing
her ofan intimacy with him, AMI thus blasting her
character. and apparently proving his charge BY
that unlucky letter. succeeded in Tightening her
TO acceed to his internal wishes; she hoping thereby
TO induce him to spare herreputation. This made
matters worse. The villain followed her to her
home in New Orleans, and made her give him hush
money at various times; and finally followed his
victim to New York, where he exercised his power
over her timid nature to compel her to succumb TO
his will in whatever way he dictated. Things con-
timed in this way until the husband made his APP
pearance as stated above.
In the New York Tribune Of SATURDAY. is an ac-
count of IN application m ide TO the Supreme Court
for the release from n private Insane ASYLUM
Long Island. of Mrs. Woodman, who, ~ the appli
cation states sis deprived unawlully ofher liberty
Ii would seem. from this new phase in. this ex-
traordinary affair that her In band did not take her
home to New OIcans, as first reported. bnt had con
signed her to AN Insane Asylum. This looks as
though there might be some truth in the story of
the Courier des Eats Unis, and that the lady had
finally become insane. resulting from her unparal-
! lelcd persecution. ! he petition was opposed by
the counsel for the defendant, DIR. Allen Mcdonald,
proprietor of the Asylum, on the ground that the
lady not in condition to be exposed in Court,
&c. ~ ra
The Court rescrv cd II decision in the case TIL
last Sunday whether it will grant the petition Tor
writ of hahcas corpus.
The case is involved in much mystery, and the
application for 4 writ of Iabcas corpus may result in
an expose of the whole affair. Hf