The daily gazette., 1878-08-14
A Boston Scandal
Sensation i'm High Life Circles
at the Hub.

The Boston Post tells the following
story of Boston society -
Society circles at the Highlands are
greatly excited ever an occurrence of un-
usual character IN high life, which, al
though IL Is no news TO the friends of the
parties interested, has only now become
public property. During the winter
months the good people of the Roxbury
district devise various means of enjoy
ment, among which figures prominently,
Of course, balls aud parties. At these as
|semblies are to be found the elite of that
portion of the city, and the good fellow
ship which results is marked. Butin one
case-the one referred to above-the So
cial gatherings. have resulted in some
thing more than goodfellowship ; in fact
in the breaking up of one family, If not
two, and the possib BILE wrecking of two
hitherto fair regulations. The facts are
these -
At the pleasant residence No 90 Dale
street reside, or did reside until Wednes-
day, Mr.. and Mrs. John V. N. Stuts.
The husband is member of the firm of
Stults Il Co, dealers in plumbers mate
rials, Friend street, and the lady is O
daughter of the late Thomas Dunbar
from whom she and her children inherit
ed fortune estimated at nearly 81 ,OOO,-
900. The children number three. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Stults are in the neighbor-
hood of thirty years of age, and have,
until within year, lived happily togetb-
er. With kind husband, loving chill
dren, and almost unlimited wealth at her
disposal, 1t is passing strange that she
should have involved herself in an affair
such as that which Is now to be record
ed.
The commencement of her troubles
| dates from the evening when, at social
gathering, she became acquainte with
I II fl.h hrtl liatR n.
] ing ex-captain of the RoxburyC. ty 6 u lrd.
Mrs. Stults, tall, stately, "stylish" bru-
| nettee, had no sooner met the fascinating
Captain than she was charmed. The
| Captain although he had at home love-
ly wife and two children, seems to have
had no scruples against flirting with other
mems wives. The couple continued their
| familiarity till the end of the winter and
well into the summer, participating re-
| Gently in several steamboat excursions.
The intimacy was observed by all with
whom Captain Austin and Mrs. Stults
were associated in society, and the for
| mer was demonstrated with by his friends.
| Mr.. Stults refused to believe that his wife
| was unfaithful, and kept on in the even
tenor of his way, attending to business
and reposing what now seems to have
been undue confidence in his Spouse
1 But of late Mrs. Stults has absented her
self from home great deal, leaving her
| children and household to take care of
themselves. Her favorite time for these
excursions was from to 6p. M, and it
was only week ago that the object was
| discovered. Mr.. Stults, when at length
no became suspicious that all was not
right, employed private detective to
shadow the suspected parties. The de-
tective soon reported that Captain Aus
| tin and Mrs Stults had an apartment on
| Washington sire ct in the building next
to that occupied by Bigelow, Kennard q
Co., where they were accustomed to pass
their afternoon IN each others COM
pany.
On Wednesday afternoon the outraged
husband, accompanied by an officer, WIS.,
| ted this rendezvous and forced an en-
trance. His wife and Captain Austin
were there, but, no evidence of Grim nal
ity appearing, the officer refused to make
| an arrest without warrant. Mr.. Stults
| insisted on the Captains arrest, and the
| officer hurried off to obtain the necessal y
warrnnt. Then ensued a stormy scene.
The woman, throwing off all pretense,
boldly avowed her preference for and her
| determination to follow the Captain
wherever he might go. The husband
mathematical his wife's admirer, while
| she in turn hurled epithets OF scorn a I'd
defiance thick and fast upon him. Final
| ly the Captain hurriedly took his depar-
| ,uitJ pub HOb WlbnOub
| Stults to remain with her husband. This
| maguanimIty proved unavailing, how
| ever, and when the military man hasteu-
| ed down town to the Albany depot, the
woman was not far behind him. Tickets
We're bought for South Framing ham, but
| for some reas on the would-be elopers
changed their mInd-, and while Captain
Austin took the Cars for New York Mrs.
Stults remained in town. A call at her
late home yesterday, however, elicit d
the fact that she had left, and that her
clothes had been sent to New York.
| Mr.. Stulfs on Thursday filed petition
for a divorce, but by the advice of friends
will withdraw it, for the reasons that II
he alleges adultery he has at present no
| evidence to sustain the charge; and, sec
ond, that if desertion be the allegation,
his wife will at orce return to her home,
In order to prevent her property, or any
portion of it, passing out of her hanas.
| The families of the parties are mucn
shocked and scandaliZed at these dis
Closures, Mrs. Stults' mother and Mrs.
Austin particularly feeling the disgrace.
Mrs. Austin was, for some time, consid-
erately kept in Ignorance OF the cause OF
her husbands sudden departure, but the
slight suspicious which she had have ere
this been strenthened INTO bitter know
ledge. The Captain sent Ter word, after
he reached NtwYork, that he was away
on business and might be obliged to re-
main a week. The letter also contained
request for a valise full of clothing, and
the loving woman unsusplciously com
piled with the request. Mrs: Austins
farther was formely leading hat manu-
facturer in this city, but is now ueau'
aud his widow resides in Philadelphia'
Captain Austin is, as before s'ateu,