The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-13
The justin SCANDAL.
Criminal Charge Against Mrs. Virginia W.
Justh---A Sequel to the Old Divorce Suit.
A MIDwIFE's STORY,
A Painful Chapter of Domestic Life as
Told in Country Court Room.

assumed new phase. All the facts ana chcui"-
stances connected with the original cause oi ae'o"
are, perhaps, only too well known ID the c"o'.' -
which the parties were wont to move ana w "'oiA
before their unhappy litigation IL "ou'u oe u'e-
less now to recaptulate thcm rs they are only TOO
fresh in the public mind. MI. anu MIS-. Sus'n
separated about three years ago, Oh . niuluai w
aerstanding or, 1t might be rather saiu, nisuhuci-
standinp. However this may be, they had separ-
ated on certain conditions which each bound him.
scll ana herself to observe. The lady during this
time with the three children Of her marriage with
Mr.. Justh principally resided at Clear Lake
cottage oyster Bay, the property OF her
husband. For time nothing seemed to
Interfere with the mlnlment OF the conditions
mutually agreed upon between them. After long
sojourn In Europe Mr.. Justh returned to New York,
and soon after, from Information which ne
ceived, he commenced suit against his wife for
divorce This led to q crosssuit by the vile against
the husband, said suits being stll pending IN the
Supreme Court Of this city. The lady stil occupied
the cottage at oyster Bay, and still had the con-
troll OF the children 1t was while living here the
party implicated with heroine Colonel JOAN L.
Burleigh-s supposed to have made the acquaint-
ance OF Mrs. Justh This party was altogether
unknown to the husband; but It was eventually on
account OF his wife's intimacy with him that Justh
founded his charge OF adultery. The parties only
awaited the laws delay for the settlement OF their
Cr0ss-actons when fresh suspicion OF still fur
Their crminality on the part OF his wife with Bur-
leigh was aroused. and which, from subsequent in
curry and alleged facts grew strong as proof Of
Holy Writ in the breast OF Mr.. Justh. This resulted
In the present
CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST MRS. JUsTH.
In this the people of the State of New York are
the prosecutors and Mrs. Justh the defendant. the
charge being that she had submitted to an opera
tion dangerous to the life OF the child with which
she was at the time, alleged enceinte by the
aforesaid Burlcigh. Information this serious
charge came unexpectedly to Mr.. Justh, and
given unwttingly on the part OF his informant, the
party who has since become State evidence against
the lady, her whilom patient.
THE PROCEEDINGS
on this criminal charge were commenced on
Wednesday last at the Town Hall at Jamaica, Long
Island, the alleged offence having been committed
ut Oyster Bay, within the jurisdiction OF queens
county. great deal OF interest is manifested in
the proceedings, from the high station occupied in
wealthy banker, and his wife a lady not
only OF most attractive personal appearance and
ments, acquired and natural. In any OF the courts
Of our city, so often the horizons where the
cherished hopes and antcipations that first dawn
upon married lie receive an early eclipse, ana set.
never TO rise again, the proceedings in this
would attract hundreds used to such scenes and
eattated with the rccitals that depict the first step
that leads from happiness to misery, but still at
tracted by fresh scandals and their dcnoucmcnts;
but IN the Town Han at Jamaica, were It. not for
the omniscient press, the case might proceed and
close and only a very few, the village fathers and
the village urchins, would have n memory OF it or
hts consequences to the parties from the moment
OF Its disposition by the popular Judge Snedeker
most serious consequences to the principal actors
and the result Will be momentous to them as II
they were on trial In the chief criminal court OF
this city.
THE CHARGE AND THE TESTIMONY.
The People OF the State Of New York vs. vir-
the counsel Tor the people are District Attorney
B. w. Downing and Ira Shafer the latter -prnci-
pay representing william Justh. and John /.
iOwnshend appeared for the accused.
The first witness examined was
residing at rs Perry street. in this city. She test
aed That on the second Monday after the I'd OF
August last she met the :, accused at the
street; that Mrs. Grndle proposed to her that she
should accompany certain lady, whom the wit
identified as Mrs. Justh the accused to her
residence at Clear Lake Cottage, oyster Bay, L.
l. she (the witness) consented TO 90, and, after
repairing to her own house took the train with
Mrs. Justh for Syossett, from which she was driven
TO the residence oil the accused; the evening after
her arrival at the house she and Mrs. justin went
susth purchased some chorate OF lime
in anticipation OF a necessity which afterwards
sick and the witness told her to go to bed Mrs.
justin sat down on the stairs and after returning TO
her room was delivered of dead child, which the
witness next morning. at Mrs. Jusths request,
buried in the woods at the back OF the house in
the chlorate OF lime previously purchased; next
day the witness was formally discharged by Mrs.
Jnsth who gave her $50 and set OF canoes In lieu
OF S50-$lO0 In all-which the witness claimed as
her remuneration for two weeks services in the
country; this jewelry, the witness stated she gave
10 Mrs. Grinde, from whom it was afterwards re-
deemed, as the witness said by Mrs. Justh; on the
Attn OF March the witness saw an advertisement in
the papers which brought her to the business place
OF Mr.. justin, at No So Exchange place, and in the
Svto rvytn htsbf Chn thntp
the person who attended Mrs. Justh in her confine-
ment at Oyster Bay, in August Mr.. Justh. as wit
ment, and rejoned that II she 1.-THE witness) did
not reveal all she knew he would have her prose-
cuted this practically led to the present lnvest-
CATION.
Two witnesses, servants at the cottage in Oyster
Bay, testified to the fact that the previous witness
was, as they supposed, on a visit to Mrs Justh, as
friend. last August; that Mrs. justin was sick at
habit OF visiting Mrs. justin and remaining over
night At the cottage previously to that time.
MRS. GRINDLE's TESTIMONY.
Mrs. Grindle, a weknown midwife, was next
put upon the stand. She corroborated the testi-
mony OF Mis- Jones in all the material points,
except as to the identity OF the accused the lady
whom she Rad recommended TO Mrs. Jones. She
subsequently admitted tnst lady had called at
which had been lett with her by Mrs. Jones' and
which the latter stated that she had received
rom the lady who had been at Mrs. Grindles in
Mrs. Hayman, a midwife, also testified TO
conversation with Mrs. Grindle, in which the lat
ter admitted the jewery transaction with Mrs.
Jones, and hated at the danger consequent upon
a statement OF the case from her In open court;
Mrs. Crinde had told witness that If she Mrs.
Grndle) went on the stand she could get seven
years In the State Prison ana that the accused
could get one year.
Miss Sarah Jackson, q cousin OF the accused,
1dentined certain letters OF the latter produced in
Court The letter commencing, Darling John"
she failed TO identity.
John i. Leycraft, residing at New York. In the
employ OF justin Co., observation-disclosures Mrs
Justh; knows aer handwriting: was In the habit
OF paying money on her orders during her husbands
absence IN Europe; received one letter frcm her
Crosse xaminec.-Never saw her write: coud
not state that the letter In question was written
by her; saw letters IRON her with Mr.. justin; Justh
told him the letters were written by her
BY Mr. Shafer-Witness produced the letter. maid
her considerable amounts OF money ufon her or.
ders presented by her brother never had those