New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-15


sIITc,D AB.sDs>x,Sr.-Ao exari.rsiseu ~ the
case cf Msn, X ,',~.m, wife Of Alfrei ". Up.
esu o' tins city fer shsniouns,e;, ~ss yesterday hsI
before JGshco Welsh of the Cty Hal Pei. y Court.
lhs comPisint -sde about a u,.h azo. AMI NJ
/ iPbsn Wa arrested, sid gave bail u the of
500 10 sptesr api answer Both psri,.- being pres.
eut, Mr. Up7sm wss sxsmiuel, ari testte' 10 sub
stsrce. ss follows: She rssidei a. Ne. 90 ho.iw..,
aro was married TO Alfred w. Upham thea present.
on tie ai day of February 1857, by 40. Owers, and
lived with hlm sier mage about fourteen norshs;
81, Was shsn. ouej by NJ. Uphsm the l.s, week IN
April 1855. and was living in Nsw-Hsyen 81 the
time: be did not tell her where he was gong; aGi,r
tire abandonment she came u Nes-lotk, and soo,t
t~o weeks att her arrival IL, sho met Cpn<m on
Sixth a,elue, and sskrd him IL he would do any
thirg for her snppnrt he sered that he hsd on.
room a, No - NtstoSuth street occupied by himself
and sop, and II she would BE- n co,s'upant OF that
ru.n. be- would suppOr. her; his was t~rnty-two
ysaIs of age the nom snd circumstances were such
thst she oecEne the propos ton. aud he would sep.
port her ID other way. she had frequently asked
him To support ber but he has refused a. DO 80. and
has lot cote so since he In Der in Ne Haven; he
had told her that he earned $40 per day bo tx ADD
plc,urc seller fpf the hrn oi Case ca. OF ltItont.
Connecticut ai that he had plenty Of g,i Ia back;
She hsd seen lpb am with n uch as $50 N money,
AID sle believed he has always money enough.
Upon cross eNamicetion she said her daughter livsi
With her 10 Ncv v-Hsyep, acd she owrs The premises
in which they s lived previous to the abandonment;
che had lived ia New-lerk bskrc going - New
HeNer b0i the question wher she lived m thus Guy
OH ctsc To. she return,d 10 this ~ tom New.
Ha,.r May lc5S he then refused Ia get her cloth
irg &c; she him again ab1at month a',er he
desired her tu live a. the room with hinself snd SON,
aud he had lot provided Der in the meantime; she
was then living az Me- slo Bro .dway. and was sitting
in the parlor when L pham he desired her to
GO to a disrryuta GoUsS that hs could ge di-
yorce from her, tLis in June last, he sa,i he
could marry rich widow. ii h. wa, divorce worth
So Goo bat he mifLed her 20 pay the expenses ut
the divorce; she refused to comply with hrs ~nhrs,
bat sked him for al; h. reused nnless sac
would live with him before stated he never
asked her Ia go ckewhere Ia live with hun;
she DID not previous Ia tins interview meet tphsm
in Uuion Park but shc did meet hm there sometime
dunng the Sun,ner, but she believed her daughter
was present also be 0i not then urge her q 80 ana
hive with hm to the question whether Il leti.r pur-
porting to coue from SIR Upham was read 10 her, at
that interview. by her daughter she rephei thN she
did not reult mber: the did not know II she msde any
demHud of lpham al that interview; shs saw hun
again abon, two or three weeks after this occasion
plona; she met hm H. Sixth avenue, but he did not
spesk-ueher one spoke, the mex. interview Mas AT
her house about two weeks later st; lie came thero
to stnoy hcv; she was ILL., and asked BIN To ouy her
~ orsrge but whothei h. complied or not does not
al pear she asked him il ho had concluded to support
iei he said he had ret: she had never secreicd her
stt from him: letter was then shown witness, Pur-
| porting tn have been written t. her husband. by her
laughter which she could not identify without her
glasses she pays half of the rent 81 per week where
she rooms and h,r son, who occupies with her, pays
| the re,t her son and daughter lived with
| her there; she supports her daughter. but
trey have not hal plenty of food since
living this house she does plain sewing, AMI earns
eight or nine shhlrgs per week in that way she pays
about tso shilu 80 per Jay TO support herself ana
AID daul htr for food her husband mas furnished her
Nth nothng since bis abandonment OF her she has
small Lomse in New-lIayen from which she has about
| - per week beside what che caros; tnut property
ws left To her by her trst husband; she cannot ten
| how much il il worth it is uortgsged; one jesse
| Peek the guardian of her children she coud not
sew If sae would know Prcks writing, shouli she soe
il after pa, lux all la, unbranc.s, II brings ber about
a. Ier week see also has another house ana lot IN
! New. Haven ana no r. property than mentioned;
her son Francis Tucker 10 Il years oi he does not
paw her any board. -,
The further exalnnati,n was then atiouTned untii
Thursday mt 3o'clock. From the character and pre-
yious Iosoa 1T the parties IN this il II quite an
Interesting ,ne. Mr.. UPhem 10 u tall waite harei
old gentleman Of about SKY years oi age am very
DENT lie hos been como Ctod in former years WITH
the Custom House of this city. There IL great dis
crepancy ia the ages OF the husband and wlte Mrs.
! phan formerly Mrs. Tucker of Mot Haven) is
! about forty wears Of age, well educatoj anf very
| strighfy. Ste has also pretty daughter of about
sixteen years, at school, ana, Judging from one oi
her letters. she il what she seems 10 oe-a modest,
! aniabe and intellectual woman Mr.. pham has also
a sen about tSenty y.two years od. The deensecains
! q be able TO prove that Mrs tpham was n "schen-
no widow" aud thar -hc desired 10 have herself and
anily supported at the expense Of her alleged dein-
| queI husband, while she unwilling 10 live with
| hlm.