Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-19
a Mieaigaa Monument.


Late in July last the good people of the town
of Lyon, Oakland county, Mich, were much
excited by an application for divorce on the
part of the wife Of Samuel B. Dolph, Detroit
drover, on the ground of adultery. The wife
was the daughter of a wealthy farmer of their
county, Everett by name, and naturally they
have watched the successive stages of the con-
test with rapidly increasing interest. The De-
troit Tribune tells the story as follows:
"Dolpb, who had been enioined from remov-
ing anything from a farm that was the property
of his wife, attempted to take possession of the
place, elected the family living upon it, and
was arrested for riot. In the meantime the
family he had elected reinstated themselves, and
when he returned he found them well guarded
by armed men. Dolph was then arrested for
adultery, and he gave bail. Subsequently,
Dolph and his father visited the farm and found
people cutting the crops, and for interfering
with them he and his father were arrested for
assault and battery, but the younger Dolph was
acquitted. He then caused the crop cutters to
be arrested for assault and battery, and he also
commenced proceedings for trespass, but the
question of the title to the farm being inter
posed, the case went to the Oakland circuit and
has never come to trial,
Other suits were brought by the wife, the
elder and younger Dolph and by various par
ties, and by such legal gentlemen as Hon. j. j.
Woodman and Hon. A. G. Baldwin of Pontiac,
Sylvester Larned and Hon. Alfred Russell of
other to take part in the controversies. The suit
at law embraced injunctons, replevins, tres
pass, and pretty much everything else known to
the civil and criminal calendar, and the litiga-
tons bid fair to extend through several months,
and perhaps years Dolph is well known, and
has many influential and wealthy friends, and
the same may be said of his wife, and these
friends, ii appears, were strenuous in their
efforts to keep them separated.
Mrs. Dolph remained secluded at the resi-
dence of some Of her friends in this city, and a
policeman was employed TO watch Doph, fears
being entertained that he might attempt to alb
duct her Thus matters passed along for seve-
raj weeks, and few days since an arrangement
was effected by which Mrs. Dolph was to pay
her husband $4,000, and all the suits, except that
for the divorce, were to be discontinued. The
papers were drawn up and signed, and the par
ties separated Mrs. Doph avowing her deter
minaton never to live with him again. Dolph,
however, insisted that he loved his wife, and on
Wednesday last friend volunteered to effect
reconciliation between them. 1t is not neces-
sary TO state in detail all that occurred, but to
make long story short we may simply an
nounce that the plan worked like charm.
Mrs. Dolph consented TO elope with her hus-
band and Dolph to elOpe with his wife. She
returned to the place where she was stopping in
the upper part of the Fifth ward, packed her
trunk to be ready to move at a given time on
Thursday afternoon, and Dolph prepared him
self for journey, too. The friend referred to
took a carriage and obtained Mrs. Dolph, and
subsequently drove after Dolph. The carriage
was driven rapidly to Hamtramck, where it re-
manned until evening, and from thence the
reconciled party took passage on train that
carried them many miles away. Last night and
to-day kilograms have been sent in every direc-
ton, but no traces have been discovered of Mr..
and Mrs Dolph. They are out of reach of De-
trot and Pontiac lawyers, who have pocketed
fees to the amount of about $4,000, and they
have sworn to forget and forgive and hereafter
live happily"