Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-01-26
SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE
An Adenis of the Bar and the Wife of a
Prominent Merchant IMPLICATED.

Frequenters of Broadway may remember a
tall, graceful and handsome man, who for some
years past has daily sauntered along that
thoroughfare on his way to and from business.
The person In question is member of the bar,
somewhat celebrated in the management of
cTtm. con. and divorce cases, is a married man
and the head of an interesting family.
Heis, moreover, one towards whom the wan
dering affections Of truant wives seem to in
cline, if we may judge from the many scrapes
In which he has been caught, and in which
much misery has been occasioned to innocent
persons: But it is of later, and, if possible,
more disgraceful proceeding that we have to
speak. The legal gentleman has for years
been the intimate friend and confdant of a
prominent politician, formerly a merchant in
this city. He visited the house of his friend,
and was ever welcome to the hospitable board.
beautiful wife did the honors of the NOR
chants establishment, and it was to her that
the lawyer paid suit. Upon the friends re-
turn to the city from late political or busi-
ness tour, he first heard whispers of an init
macy that dishonored him. Almost unwilling
to doubt his wife, he was yet prevailed upon
to put detectives upon her track, that the truth
or falsity of the charges against her might be
proved. Their efforts resulted in discovery
that finally led to the exposure of the guilty
parties, and the merited punishment of the
gay lawyer. A day or two, the lady was seen
to enter one of the most notorious houses in the
city. The husband was notified, and in q few
minutes arrived. He accompanied the officers,
and at once proceeded to burst open the doors
of the apartments. The first room he entered
was occupied, but not by the persons he was
in search of. A like result followed in two
other instances. At last he forced his way
into the apartment in which his wife was con-
cealed and few upon the lawyer, and, although
a small man, succeeded in q few moments in
giving him a severe beating and then kick ed
him down stairs. The wife, meanwhile, tried
to rescue her paramour from the effects of
just punishment.
The next act of the drama was the sending
for the brothers of the woman by her husband
They came and saw their sister disgraced and
ruined. No words of excuse or palliatiOn W as
offered, and none expected; the scene, the
place, the circumstances, and more than all
the confession which she made to her brothers,
were enough to sink her forever. The husband
soon after went to tho lawyers home and
found that he was in the doctors hands. Tell
ing the true story of the beating he next re-
paired to a Wholesale lace house in Broadway,
where he called for one of the principal sales-
men there engaged, who, in consequence of
some admissions of the wife, underwent like
punishment to that awarded his fellow con-
spirator.
1t appears from the confession of the woman
that she had been intimate with the lawyer
for some time, and that she had placed herself
completely in his power. 1t is surmised that
he impaired this fact to some of his friends,
one of whom, the salesman above referred to,
probably used it to ingratiste or force himself
into her favor, and il was this knowledge that
led the husband to make the second assault.
Thus the matter stands at present. The
whole subject will, of course, be made public
in litigation.-N. 7. Post.