New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-07
NEW-YORk ELOPEMEKT.
THE REV. GEORGE NUGGET MONRO.
E-ro.n The ph;I9seInl;1 prs.


From The Philadelphia Prem
An account Of the recent elopement Of New-York
preacher with another mans wife has been extensively
copied from the Cincinnati press AZ the hu-band has
reclaimed bis wife and child and, with them, lately
passed through this city and as the parties exten
sivey known, we have taken particular pains to
certain the facts of the case and history Of the eope
nient We aye personally acquainted with the hms-
band snd wife, and met the reverend Lotharo in New
York more than once. The husband is promising
yourg member of TIE bar of Ne Work known some
what in Bclelsttrcs and most respectfully connected
there as also his wife, He was formerly mot n0r,
the papers represent connected with the District
Alton ey's Office, under the Hon. John McKeon OF
New-York. They both young. and were married
in April 1851. The result of the union is bright in
teeeDt little girl now two years old.
About two years ago, they we're residing on Twen-
tieh street, New-York, opposite the General theology
cal Seminary, where this Monro was thea student Of
theology. He there made the acquaintance Of TIE lady
by seeing her al her window from his ON add or
writing atterng and anonymous lo.ers 10 her from
tine to me finally obtsined Pm INTRODUCTION TO her,
ana was soci lter lorplaly Introduced TO the usband
Monro being a mar es some intellect, occupyino q
respectable position ip society and looked upon a.
man OF moiay,r.e husband deemed the cultivation of
lls arqua!n''e quite desirable. An intimacy began,
sau conuu' ed between them until this unfortunate
an1r. monro enjoyed the husbands perfect confidence
ana ." spiality, being at all times welcome guest
~ rend 10 the extent of standing sponsor to
'D'; infant when it was baptized.
About this time one of those occasional incidents in
Young FRIED life, incompability sprang ND between
he young couple, ard the wife looking upon Monro as
one capable of advising and consoling her in her do
mestc affection, made him her comfdant Ho " that
touhGSnce was used Tor his own purposes the sequel
| has shown.
| Monro graduated in June, 1859, and went to Lake
Providence La teach school and as an assistant
in that parish; and itnow appears that he invited
correspondence with the lady, which maintained
mp 70 TIE time she left New-York. Occasionally his
letters shown 20 the husband models OF piety
and morality. Several friends of the husband had
hmed, while Monro was in town, that his intimacy
not proper; but the husband having the most i'm
plc confd nee in his wife, Indignantly rcPellvd .ny
allrsiCn 10 the subject
About the first Of last April, Monro came unexpect-
! edy 10 NewYork and remained there t~o days, not
visiting is usual for the graduates of the seminary
is old professors ard friends, and then mysteriousy
disarrealed representing that he disgusted with
10th Of May the lady told her husband that their
child had been i'll she thought she would 60 to the
! country with it for a few weeks to which the hus-
band cheeriully acquiesced. She took the o'clock
a. New-aven train for Norwalk, Conn, for which
Place her husband purchased her ticket aud checked
Eer trunk she said she could make up her mind on
/ her way wh,iher she would take branch road at
| Norwalk for Danbury, where her brother lives or
continue to Boston.
This proposition the husband considered perfectly
rational and they then parted in the aectionata
amer The 18th came, and the husband, not hear
ing from lis wife, though he bad written TO her, inn
mediaely tcleerarhed to Boston and Danbury, and
answers came hack tia, his wife and baby had not
been SEEM This in connection with some trifing cir
cumstancte " hitch soon amounted to stubborn facts,
gave rise Ia boIrLle suspicious among them that she
bad rroceede no further than Norwalk, and bad
turned by the 3:.5 p. M train TO NewYork snd taken
the p m. train on the same afternoon to Albany.
consultation bad, and kilograms sent 10 all parts of
country, one TO Halifax, 70 stop the steamer, in
case the parties bad sailed for Europe
Noiling, however, was heard OF them until the 3d.
when Telegram was received by the husband stating
that tie parties bad been recognized Sunday, the
Goth May, at Cincinnati.
The lusl and Immediately elegrsphed to a friend in
that city connected with tie press and the message
was placed by him in the hands of Detective j. l..
kUfbn who soon decOyed the reverend seducer. by 3
letter to the posi Office and after tracking him TO
house on Fourth street. arrested ard locked him up.
The lady, with her child was Immediately conducted.
by e ubapds friends to of the principal hotels,
where she was kept until her hu,band arrived. Tie
u at epsued between them better be imagined
than cIbedthe husband, on bis part almost frantic,
the heartbroke and repentant wife almost over
whelmed by grief
TIE rieLds Of the husband, anticipating tragical
conclusion 10 the affair, took every precaution and
have succeeded in preventing II. The reverend prs
orer, Mopro WIS KEPT in close confinement ADD the
husband was not permitted 10 see him until he was
brought INTO Court, where charge made against
him Nv the detective and the husbands friends and he
Immediately remanded TO prison in default of CIV
ing $500 bail.
The husl ands friends, in consideration of the wifes
amentable condition, and for the little chds sake de-
manded that re should her from he terrible fate
and take ler back to NewYork and probably from the
best an most humane impulses and motives they
re hurried from Cincinnati the night for New
York What will be The termination of this sad affair
it il difficult TO predict. We trust for the best.
There is nothing known of this man, except that he
cones from England and represent himself as the
nephew of Sir George Nugcnt. He taught school in
Wales, and came to this country without friends OF
neaAs; WAS located at one time az Cohoes, near Al
bany and then at West Point. school teacher The
ninery at which he graduated has already repu-
d,eed HIM; and we are informed thai the Rev. Bshop
Potter of the NewYork Diocese has taken the matter
in hard, ard when the evidence against Monro is re-
eeived from Cincinnati will immediately take steps to
eAIel him from the Church and the Ministry.