The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-20
nov 4 LIBEL SUI ENDED.
TIE stsrtiins Disclosures thss Separated =
Hushan and WIFI.

Troy. May 18.-The long pending libel
suit Of DIR. N. Hartman Camp against G. l.. Mac
Arthur, editor OF the Troy Budget was to-day
brought to a close in the Supreme Court. the
Jury having returned a verdict OF mo cause Of
action"
The suit was occasioned by the appearance In
the Budget Of July IL, 1875, OF an article asso-
ciating the plaintiff, DR.. Camp, with the crime Of
selling a county-house infant to the wife Of Jack
Goddard, a cornet player. The case was called
on Wednesday, and the irst witness was Col. G.
l.. Macarthur, who testified that the Information
contained In the article was received from MIR.
Brownell Superintendent OF the County Poor.
Witness had known DR.. Camp for twenty years.
and had had no misunderstanding with him, but
had no reason to doubt the truth Of Mr.. Brown
ellis statements In regard to him.
Jennie Richmond testified that she ped so
county house. and that about the last OF August,
1871, she went to the Institution, TOOK the child
away, and gave II to Mrs. Goddard.
Mrs. God ards testimony was, In effect that
she employed DIR. Camp to get her child from
the county house, and that the money, e35, was
sent to him by the hard Of jennie Richmond.
After witness had been sJbppnaed. DIR, Camp
tried to prevent her from testifyiDg by threaten
ing to eI pose her to her husband to whom she
had represented the child as his own. Camp
wrote to Goddard, although he had promised to
keep the affair secret, and witness had seen
This afternoon the court reassembled. The
Hon. Martin /. Townsend summed up for the
defence In remarkable speech that will add
greatly to his already splendid reputation. The
Hon. II. A. Parmenter summed up Tor the plain
till. claiming $4,000 damages Tor defamation OF
character but the evidence had beon 50 plain,
and defendants counsel had so clearly empha-
sized every point OF IT, that the plsintn, as was
seen before the Jury retired, had not tho ghost
Of a prospect Of success. Indeed, he was more
than defeated. A motion Tor anew trial on the
minutes was denied and the defendant was
granted an allowance OF 5000 for extra costs.
Col. MacArthur's motive In publishing the ar
ticle on which the libel suit was based was I'M
doubtedly righteous one and although there
were one or two inaccuracies In Il, there was no
malice. At the time Of the publication public
rumor was busy with DR.. Camps name Mac
| Arthur merely gave a connected form to the re-
| ports he had heard from Trustworthy sources,
| and called upon the authorities to make an in
vestigaton OF the case, al well to vindicdte the
| Innocent ~ TO secure the punishment OF the
guilty.
dtcation OF an honest journalist, but In the
| breaking ~ of the family OF one Of the wit
nesses. ia. err the various threads Of the tes-
| timony together. ana TINS Is the sad romance
that NAV he woven with them:
Mrs. Goddard was unhessed with children.
| Her husbands love for her was unbounded, but
she knew thar he would love her better could
she only present him with pledge. She began,
too, to fear that II she shout remain childless,
| his affection would die dW. go she sought 20
deceive MIN nv purchasing child during one OF
| hi, protractcd absences with a TT yelling snow.
| The husband WAS ONerj Eyed ON his return. and
| the wife. living In the sccurits of DIR. Camp s
| promise Of secresy. was supremely happy.
| Toward the Close ~ iass year, "hen the case
| was to have been tried. D.. Camp ascortained
| that Col. acArtnur had discovered the trick
| that had been PLAYED, nut ho could not hnd out
where the chilli was. ho presumption Was
int It had been given to the wife OF w. W.
| Patrick, whose sudden death and singular
burial created such sensation hese sume tiue
ago. Dr. Camp went to Mrs. Goddard ana
| threatened her. she appealed to lawyer. and
| at mis- suggestion furuisned Col Macarthur with
all the facts, and ON the stand substantially re-
| peated them TO the jury.
| Meanwhile DIR. Can.p wrote TO JACK GoddAr
telling nim of the deception practiced upon MIN
| by his wife. Tue angered and grtef-stricken
! husband wrote to mis- wife, enclosing CAMPS
letter aud told her that he could never live with
her AGAIN. she Il now In straitened circum-
stances and overwhelmed with grief and shame,
but ciings TO tue bIue with the love OF true
mother and refuses To part with II. There ID
some hope that through tue kind Offices OF
friends the unhappy pair may be brought to-
gether again, 80 the fault committed by the
wife was not criminal one, ami WIS Intended
rather to promote TIE happiness OF her hus-
| hand