Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-08
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A Corresponding of the Boston Journal
gives the following account of the recent
3 elopement of a citizen of New London,
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99q The name of the eloping husband is Capt.
) SamuelI M. Carr. He is about 45 years old,
3 and belongs to one OF the most respectable
J families in New London. For many years
!, he was atarmer. When the war broke out
he entered the military service, and for a
2 short time was Captain in the Eleventh
I Regiment. where his record was of a doubt
: tpl character, Returning home he kept
the New London Hotel about year, and
then concluded to emigrate, as he affirmed,
: toiCalitornia. The divorced woman with
whom he eloped from New York was a
Mrs. Burpee, who is about % years of age
and of rather prepossessing appearance.
She was married young to New London
farmer, who was not pleased with her con-
duct, and who got divorcefrom her about
two years ago. Mrs. Burpee was en-
ployed by Mr.. Carr in the hotel to do
some light duties and to assist in talliDg g
an. intimacy sprang up between her and
the proprietor of the house, which culmi-
mated III one of the most hPartless elope-
Z ments on record. Up to within two or
= three years, Mr.. Carr had been regarded as
one of the solid and reliable men of the
with Mrs. Burpee was not universally look
ed upon in acriminal light. Only when he
! neglected and abused his own faithful wife,
did the New London public believe him a
thoroughly guilty man. When he left New
! London with his wife and three interesting
children, Mrs. BuFpee rode in his team to
I. the Potter Place. On the afternoon of that
4 day, Mr.. Carr and family took the train for
j, New, York. In the meantime, Mrs. Burpee
1, took the morning train for Grafton, where
she stopped and took the return ,:ars, actu-
ally travelling to New York on the same
:, train and boat with Carr and his family,
and. on reaching the city, going unObsery-
ed to the same hotel. Carr sent his wife
back alone to Boston, to look after imagin-
ary lost baggage. and then went to Mrs.
Burpees room, and took immediate meas
ures for his hasty departure. He took a
vessel for South America, which has to touch
at Panama, travelling under the name of
Samuel M. Carter. lie bought ticket for
himself, wife aud three children, and bag
gage, for which he paid $500 in gold. The
q price paid for his baggage is pretty sure
evidence that he had sailed tor South
America. A telegram has been sent to
= Panama, directing his arrest as soon as the
steamer touches that port. His wife jour-
,. neyed alone to Boston and back to New
Z York, aud then sOrrowtully returned to the
: protection of her friends in New Hamp-
{ shire. Arriving at HOpkinton, where she
had relatives, she found her entire worldly
possessions to consist of $I.G0 and one suit
= OF clothes. Her guilty husband took not
only her children, to whom she was fOndly
: attached, but the greater portion of her
clothing AMI keepsakes, together with his
own property, amounting, as was supposed,
to six or eight thousand dollars. As would
have been expected, the intelligence creafed
great excitement in New London, where
the injured woman had long lived, and
where she is universally esteemed. Imme-
diately after her return, prominent men
rendered their services to aid in the arrest
of her husband, while the ladies of New
London went at once TO work to raise
money for her present comfort and sup
port. Several hundred dollars were sub
.seribed by citizens to defray the expenses
OF the detective officers i'll New York, who
have the matter in charge. But the crown
ing proof of the interest which the public
take in the unfortunate affair is the fact
that in the town meeting at New London,
yesterday, il was voted TO raise $1,000 to
aid in the arrest, return, and prosecution
of Samuel M. Carr His detection at Pam
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