The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-27
A MODERN PROPHETS SIN.
An AGED UNCLE ELOPTNG WITH ms
IOUTHEUL NIECE.
A Woman MA dc 10 believe that her Salvation
Depended upon Deserving her Husbnnd for
Another Mnn Koinnncc In Enrnesi.


Another Man Romance In Earnest.
Samuel T. Soper, Il wealthy farmer of
Farmingdae, Long Island, was taken to Ludlow
street Jail yesterday charged with elopement,
seduction, and criminal intimacy with his niece,
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Pcafsall Of this city. The lady's
husband, William II. Pcarsall, who lives In FIJI
teenth street, has sued In the Queens County
Supreme Court for damages in $4,000. Soper
Ia 81 years of age and his niece Is 70. Pearsall
married the niece, on the 18th Of August, 1869,
and, as he swcars, lived happily with her until
the 9TH Of last September, the time Of the elope-
ment Mrs. Pearsall visited her uncle, Soper, In
Farminedale on the 9TH of September, with tho
understanding that her husband was to join her
there on the following Tuesday. On that day
Pearsal ascertained that his wife and her uncle
had started on Saturday for the West. Mrs.
Soper, the aged wife OF the uncle, professed not
to know why or for how long the pair had gone
Pcarsal followed, and overlook them in the
house Of L. l.. Soper, In Wayne Centre, N. Y.
pearsa declares that he demanded his wife Of
her uncle, but the uncle refused to surrender
my wife for the past three days" The wife also
refused to return to her husband.
ISTERCEssfoH DEMANDED.
Pearsal says that he then asked Elvin Soper
not to permit such behavior In his house, End
the uncle promised to intercedc with his brother
to have him surrender the niece TO her husband.
lie SAID he hau prepared separate rooms Tor MS
brother and niece, being well aware that they
were not man md wife. tut they had, ncvcrtbe-
less, occupied the same room. Onthc next day,
according TO Elvin SOper's assertion, he tmplored
his brother to abandon his purpose, but the old
man was obdurate, and Elvln was obliged to ex-
pei him from the house. Thence the pair went
to the house Of another brother, Egbert Soper,
and, repeating their assertion that they we're
welded, remained until some time between tho
1<th and the 18th OF the month. Mr.. Pearsall
asserts that he did not follow them, but return
d IA n vel hat hp had
discovered, aud after bis wife and her uncle had
returned To Far'nin0dalc, his wifes brothers.
sister, and, after much resist nee from her, took
her to her aunt's home In New York. There
she remained a day or two, aud then returned
TO her uncles house, and has since remained
there.
THE HUSBAND THROWN OUT OF DOORS.
Once nee this her husband says he visited
the house IN Farmingdale, but Mr.. Sorer VIC.
lently threw HIM out OF the door. Mr.. Peersall
saws that Soper Is n maniac on the suhjec. of
religion. lie calls himself a Perfe ctionst, aud
| believes that he Is prophet or chosen child ~
| God, and - incapable Of committing sin. He
| has considerable intellect. and has amasscd a
| fortune. lie has incucated his pecular views
| upon the mind Of the niece. Snc Is said to have
been so impressed 10y her uncle's revolutions to
| her hat I'm July. when her only child died. she
| impored her husband to send for MIR. SOper,
that he might restore the boy TO life.
MIR. Pearsall says that his wife was made TO
! believe that size was Jeopardi2ing her soul by
! living with him, as he was guilty OF 1.-THE unpat-
dOnable ein. by an alliance with sorer, not
| was TO become, like MN, a prophet. by such
| arguments he persuaded her to clone with him.
! and upon their return u Farmingdale he nut his
! aged aud faithful wife from him 10y convincing
| be. that she. too, had committed the unpdtdon-
| able sin, which. Mr. pearsall explains, Is tho
SIN OF not believing the old mans nonsense
| The young niece and the old uncle having cleared
the way OF all obstacles, as the story goes, grew
| tmpudeut from success, ana varied their oven
| ings' entertainments bv Wishing the discarded
wife in her solitude at the deau Of night, exnOrt
| Ing her to seek forgiveness.
IL IA said that NTs. Pearsalis mother Is Willing
| TO swear tn her daughter confessed to her thal
| she had lived In adultery with her uncle. ana in
| sisted that she, too, had oecone a prophet
soPER's ARREST.
| Mr.. Soper unconscously assisted In his owl
! arrest Yesterday. The warrant was made ou
| for Queens county, but II " as afteTward ascer
tained that lie lived "a little beyond Farmingdale
In SUFFOLK county, ana for days the officers wer,
unable to ca,ch him In Queens county fester
day afternoon, accompanied 10y bus aged wife
he visited the city, 60 NJ To the ONCE Of Down
ing 4 Scarborough. In Broad way, VINO are tn,
late his story, but MIR. Scarborough Informed hin
that his partner was hired for the complainant
When the couple took their leave, Sir. stan
hrough sent 81 officer, and Super was arrested
] In the sherns tthce lie was told tnat hir Dut
was set at Ss,UOO. nut he refused to look fo
| bondsmeu, and said he would decline bal II 4
was offered. lie would stay In Trison twcntl
years before he would hire counsel, either, IA,
8 ID HIS wife was com plhcent. lhese thtugi
have to be suffered for Cnrist, she said and he
hush nd adue And in all Cbnsts suffering
he never empio!ed alaWyer."
! Soper dcuios all the accusations, saying tina
Mrs. Pears all WAS entrusted to hun by her hus
band, VINO had abused md ilI-trcuted her II,
asserts that nc has eighteen confessions writer
10y Pearsal which viii throw new light on tu,
case.