New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-11
The New York Elopsment Case.
From the PhIladelphia Press

An account of the recent elopement of New
York preacher with another mans wife has been
extensively copied from the Cincinnati press. As
the husband has reclaimed his wife and child and
with Them lately passed through this city, and as
the parties are extensively known, we have taken
particular pains to ascertain the facts of the
and history of the efopement. We are person
ally acquainted with the husband and wife, and
met the Reverend Lotharo in New York more than
once. The husband is promising young member
of the bar of New York, known somewhat in Belle
lettres, and most respectfully connected there, as
also is his wife. He was formerly (not notr as the
papers represent), onnected with the District At
! torney's office, under Hon. John McKeon, of New
York. They are both young and were married in
April, 1857. The result Of the union is bright,
intelligent little girl, now two years old a. a
About two years ago they were residing OF
Twentieth street, New York, opposite the General
Theological Seminary, where this Monro was then
student of theology. He there made the acquant-
ance Of the lady by seeing her at her window from
his own, and, by writing fattering and anonymous
letters to her from time to time, finally obtained
an introduction to her, and was soon formally in
troduced to the husband. Ha Ed
MonrO being man of some intellect, occupy
ing a respectable position in society, and looked
upon as man of morality, the husband deemed
the cultivation of hsacuuaintance quite desirable
| An intimacy began, and continued between them
| until this unfortunate affair. Monro enjoyed the
| husbands perfect confidence aud hospitality be.
ing at alitimes welcome as guest and friend even
to the extent of standing as sponsor to the infant
when it was baptized.
| About this time one of those occasional incidents
| in young married life, ncompatbity sprung up
between the young couple, and the wife, looking
upsn Monro as one capable of advising and con-
solng her in her domestic affection, made him her
| confdant How that confidence was used for his
own purposes the sequel has shown.
Monro graduated in June, 1853, and went to
Lake Providence, La, to teach school and act az
assistant in that parish; and it now appears that
| he invited a correspondence with the lady, which
| was maintained up to the time she left New York.
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as models of piety and morality. Several friends
of the husband had limited, while Monro was in
| town, that his intimacy was not proper, but the
husband, having the most implicit confidence in
his wife, Indignantly repealed any allusion to the
| subject.
About the LIST of last April, Monro came unex-
pectedy to New York and remained there two
days not visiting as is usual for the graduates of
the seminary, his old professors and friends, and
| then mysteriOusly disappeared, representing that
| he was Disguised with the South, and was going
somewhere North. On the 10th of May the lady
told her husband that as their child had been ILL
she thought she would so to the country with it
for few weeks, to which the husband cheerfulIy
| acquieseed. She took the O'Clock A. NJ. New
Haven train for NDrwolk, Ct, for which place her
husband purchased her ticket and checked her
trunk, as she said she could make up her mind on
| her way whether she would take branch road at
| Norwalk for Danbnry, where her brother lives, or
continue on to Boston.
1 This proposition the husband considered per-
fecty rational, and they parted in the most atfec-
| tionate manner. The l4th came, aud the husband
not hearing from his wife, though he had written
to her. Immediately telegraphed to Boston and
Danbury, and answers came back that his wife
| and baby had not been seen. This, in connection
with some trifing circumstances, which soon
amounted to stubborn facts, gave rise to horrible
| suspicious, among them that she had proceeded no
| further than Norwalk, and had returned by the
/ 3:25 P. NJ. train to New York, and taken the ?.
| M. train the same afternoon to Albany. 4 con-
sultaton was had and kilograms sent to all. parts
.,f fbao anAf Hall fny tn tbop
| in case the parties had sailed tor Europe.
| Nothing, however, was heard from them until
| the 23d, when telegram was received by the hus.
band, stating that the parties had been recognized
ON Sunday, the Goth May, at Cincinnati.
/ The husband Immediately telegraphedto friend
in that city connected with the press, and the
sage was placed by him in the hands of detective j..
| l.. Ruffin who soon decoyed the reverend seducer
| him to house on Fourth street, arrested and
locked him up The lady, with her child. was i'm
medately conducted, by the husbands friends, to
one of the principal hotels, where she was kept
uutil her husband arrived. The scene that ensued
between them can better be imagined than de-
seribed-the husband on his part almost frantic,
/ the heart broken and repentaat wife almost over
| whelined by grief.
The friends of the husband, anticipating a tragi-
cal conclusion to the affair took every precaution,
| and have succeeded in preventing it. The rever.
| end prisoner Monro, was kept in close conine-
ment and the husband WINS not permitted to see
| him until he was brought into Court, where q
charge was made against him by the detective and
the husbands friends, and he was iAnmediately
manded to prison in default Of giving $500 bail.
The husbands friends, in consideration of the
wife's lamentable condition, and for the little
i child's sake demanded that he shoud rescue her
from her terrible fate and take her back to New
York, and, probably from the best and most hui.
name impulses and motives, they were hurried
from Cincinnati the same night for New York,
What will be the termination Of this sad affair it is
difficult to predict. We trust for the best
The husband and wife have large circle Of
warm friends in New York, and their influence
and advice will, in all probability, produce SONS
wholesome result. That the wife has been basel,
betrayed by this clerical seoundrel, aud her weak
ness taken advantage of, there can be no doubt.
! There is nothing known of this man, except tina
he comes from England, and represents himsel
as the nephew Of Sir George Nugent. He laugh
school in Wales, and came to this country witbou
friends or means ; was located. at one time al Co
hoes, near Albany, and then at West Point q
school teacher. The seminary at which he gradlt
. ated has already rapudiated him; and We are ~
! formed that the Rev. Bishop Poster of the Nss
York Diocese. has taken the matter IN manu-, s YIN
when the evidence against Monro Is reoeisoo Hon
Cincinnati win Immediately take steps 70 eApe
him from the Church and che ministry.