The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-14


his schooboy DAYS would he not on going home 70
ms dinner tell his wife that he had met an old
no imposition was intended to be practised upon
him. And so 1t was very likely that Bowen was
mistaken when he said that he knew this Joseph
After the recess the learned gentleman referred
10 an expression OF Thomas Carlyle, TO the effect
that Ito SIT as q tacit bucket and be pumped into
Was In the long run, agreeable to no person"
Counsel went on to say that the history OF Betsy
Bowen was q remarkable one. She was born, as
they had the best authority saying in the year
fo7S; Madame Jumers application for passport
Other testimony showed that that was The year
In which she was born. With what sort OF
a. dd her training begin ., She WAS
paupers Was she surrounded with Influences
Sna Ss In Ssns " % @ e
Betsy Bowen lived with her mother, who was an
Her children were sent to the workh0use in 1885.
Here was young girl Of the most remarkable
such scenes and removed to the workhouse. Her
mother contracted second marriage, and was SUBJ
ing whipped at the CARTS tail. Here was young
woman of youth, beauty and corrupt associations
SALON. woman Of strong ond of
This was his tcounsers) reason for assuming that
she was the one that fell. There was not
| had ever accompanied her parents to North Caro-
| lima II q. w. Bowen was born OF her IN 1874 was
1t not natural to suppose that she would transfer
herself to wider field in New York; The human
| heart was made up OF various and conflicting pas
sions ana emotions They had had charity ball in
New York Tor the poor waits and strays Of human
society and were they to be told that the passions
not @ so g as
that Madame Jumel did desert her child. What else
had this poor girl but her beauty and her vicious as
socatOns9 The next they knew of this woman was
that she was found IN New York under false
name. She was found there under the name of
case that this woman was ever married until she
married stephen Jumel; but the evidence pointed
the projection of a sea captain named
Brown-that is, that she had formed an Illicit
Until Madame Jumel was married to Mr.. Jumel
she had exhibited a desire for cOncealment and
a name to which she had really no honest claim
She was not married as Mrs. Brown or as the
Md d ass s e Go
she burned her shoes behind her and came to New
York, conquering and to conquer. until she made
| a conquest of Mr., Jumel-gOOd easy soul that he
WAS Captain Fountains evidence went to show
that he knew Betsy Bowen, or Brown, the woman
who afterwards married Mr.. Jumel, and that he
used to see her down there in Whitehall street
sitting at window, gayly dressed They offered
the mistress OF Brown, the sea captain and also
the mistress of Mr.. Jumel before she was mar.
red to him. A conclusion was not to be drawn
that she was vrtuous because the Court ruled that
they could not prove she was not. Mr.. O'Conor had
the residence OF the merchant princes of New
York. He tMr. Hoar) supposed that ut some future
jury 4e places Of the gentle
that Filth avenue was most respectable place and
that certain Madame Reste lived there, and that
Mr. Tweed, of whom they had heard so much, and
whose trial had occupied about half as long as this,
resided there also, as distinguished, excellent
respect would DO SANDER. by some means or other
this woman married Jumel in 1904, and lie did not
never visited by the virtuous women of New York.
| Then they came to another stage in the strange
mel she married Aaron Burr who had the blood Of
Alexander Hamilton on his hands and his soul, and
who n haa IN American "a history as the only
ever suspected Of treason to his country. 1t was
SAID OF hurr that She me, never spared man n his
tive she married Burr, OF whom 1t mad been said
by his ooigrapner that he died poor. pennies and
she obtained q divorce from Burr, VINO was
probably looking after Madame Jumcl's fortune.
And 1t had also 6een said that she had applied Tor
a pension on the ground of Burr's Revolutionary
services. Going to France, she put on her cards,
one OF which had been produced. Madame Burr,
States" All this showed Madame Jumels love of
ostentation and display, and would give the jury
very curious thing to- Aote how negiti-
children Sao IN this family
her early training was 1t not reasonable to assume
that she had determined to put behind her all
defendant that there was no mention by Madame
Julnel OF this son; but need he remind the jury Of
mentioned in their fathers wills, because, follow.
ing the rule of nature they married from love and
pleasing to their parents. Mr.. Chase had sat down
before tins estate and invested it on all sizes, and
when Mr.. Chase handed to Mr. Jumel copy Of the
paper announcing his marriage with the adopted
daughter OF Mr.. and Madame Jume, Mr.. Jumel
pinched his cheek, as much as to say, ~
was no evidence to show that Madame Jumel
had adopted Mr.. Chase, there was plenty OF evil
attached himself to her. When Madame Jumel
died Chase took possession of her property, books
and afidavits as he thought would serve his pur.
poses poses: There was not poor applewoman or
her little brood who, IN the sight of God was not
far more worthy OF consideration than this woman
Madame Jumel, with her laces her pOmps and her
negro servants George W. Bowen was entitled in |
his early youth, TO all the and affection OF
mothers love; but he was abandoned In his youth.
w. Bowen. He should be put in as an exhibit and
marked with some number 1t was In evidence
Ballou in Providence and that his name.
as all the witnesses for the plaintiff stated, was
always known to be George Washington Bowen.
There was no account Of Betsy Bowen except
what the plantiir gave. They were following a |
case OF circumstantia evidence on matter occur
ring eighty years ago. and they were to see the
to some other. Mrs. Catharine Williams had de.
posed that she used to see Betsy Bowen going |
round In Providence in company with painted wo. |
men. Now what would they say outside the court |
room in reference that fact II it was SAID that
Betsy Bowen had gone of to New YORK and mar.
RED q rich Frenchman, what would be the impress. |
sion IN regard to it one witness said he had not
Gently; but the plaintiff offered to prove it, but |
that o1er was ruled out, and the inference was not
TO be taken against the plaintiff that he could not |
prove 1t because, on the objection Of the |
deiendant the offer was ruled out. The |
they did not account for the existence OF Mr.
Bowen at any otner place than Providence and |
the plalntln had accounted for 1t. Bowen was |
found at Major Ballous, and no one knew him at |
any other place, and no one knew HIM in relation
to any other mother but Betsy Bowen. Bowen was
porn IN Ballous house, and no number OF false wit
nesses could reason him out OF his existence there.
They went back to the origin Of this case-nearly
three quarters OF century ago. 1t was well said
on the other side that nothing could change the
character Of truth. Who first set the report
gong mat G. w. Bowen was the son
or Madame Jumelp Mr.. Devine stated that
ne could not swear expressly whether he had
TWO conversations with Mr.. Bowen or not; but
asked him II he was the ilegitimate son OF Madame
!umel. Where did Mr.. Devine get that iniorma-
tonY Mr.. Devine got that Information in Provi.