The New York herald., 1869-11-12
ga DsM0NlaC INVENTION"

Revenge IS Syyeef-Thc Old Bishop Divorce
Case in New phase~-Danger Of Medtiing
with LaGies-West Broadway Dry Goods
Merchants nHd the Police in Trouble.
A lady OF ladylike manners and OF prepossessng
appearance, attifed In mourning, accompanied by
her counsel, applied to Judge Dowling few days
ago under circumstances that are briefly detailed N
the following partcaiais and alter the i8ets Wele
embodied In an aiidavit warrants wore issued by
Judge Dowllng for the apprehension Of the alleged
delinquents, one OF whom was brought before him
yesterday, at the Tombs Police Court. and com.
mitted. ss
Mrs. Eleanor Fletcher Bishop states In her AFFIDAVIT
that she resides at No. 2s Union square, and that she
is the wife ciNa,haniel O. Bishop; that she was mar
red at Grace church on the 7th of September, 1854
that she s the mother OF born of that marriage
on the 4th OF December, 1855 and that he is named
washington Irving Bishop, latter his profered god
father Washington Irving, historian;n she has
leEaiiy sought an absolute divorce from her
her husbasd, and the cause has been opened
IN IN the Superior toust OF New York, and that
Ss or SESsas. SEfss q sss ssS s55bis 5 iS aS @asS
nnd William sweet, dry goods merchants OF Js West
Broadway formerly OF ~ Nesey street, and police
oHcer Brophy on saturday, December !, 1868, con-
spred to procure her arrest, and charged that she
took property from their store OF the value OF ninety
dollars. Those goods, she saYs, she purchased on
the sth Of November, Ise0, and other goods AZ the
knew OF the purchases he lessee OF the store OF
r. u. Jones IL Go. AT the time, and that she was
known to h. Il. Jones Co. as his wife. Part OF
a s g0saa ss5ra WIS WS gSs g eEs y Scr to 's Gs
door OF tue store and she requested tat the remain
der of the goods should be sent tho next day TO
her sister, VIII resided 10 Brooklyn, with whom she
was on visit her homo being at that time In Stnl
ford Conn., and also requested that the bill for The
goods should be sent to her husband for payment,
aud which, she was afterwards informed, he refused
topay. - -. -, a ,, -
spired together for her malicious arrest tGat she
was arrested ln the presence OF her Intelligent son,
then ten years of age, and who was thus
the witness OF his mothers degradation and
dsnonorU ON tho I'd OF December she
was compelled TO walk through the public streets
prisoner IRON the police station, NO. loo Chambers
street. to the Tombs and on BEING taken before
Judge Dowling was honorably acquitted. Whlle
she was In custody tho defendants maze proposi-
tion TO her TO compound tho alleged felony, which
ehc scorpfuy and percmptorily rejected, they oier-
ing IL sac would get her sister to pay for the goods
or II she would give them 2 yaluapie -oampnu
ring she woro her finger, they Would not pr9se-
cute. She was informed ana peHeVes that ner
husband gave to the police oicer Brophy, ner min-
iature portrait for identification by statements wMch
were "malicions concealment OF the trntn auemQ.
MAC invention and felonous falslty py the ABOVE
conspirators.u ,, :, a..
hands or detective woodbridge, who apprehended,
yesterday Mr.. william H. sweet, who sald nc was SIX
ty-one years or age was dry goods leIcnant , IN
New Jersey and at 40 West broadway and tnas nc
was not guilty. Bail was liked at $1,000 70 ansWer
at General Sessions, which was aiyen, and MI SWees
| was liberated from custody