New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-27
THE COURTS.
ASKING THAT A MARRIAGE BE ANNULLED.
cuAnGrs IN THE SUIT OF CHARLES W. FORBES
nIVarp DECEIT ON THE PART OF HIS WIFE.
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| ASKING THAT A MARRIAGE BE ANNULLED.
cuARGys IN THE SUIT or CHARLES W. FORBES
ALLEGED DECEIT ON THE PART OF HIS WIFE,
Charles W. Forbes, lawyer, OF No. lIO
Broadway has brought suit fol the annuing OF tue
marriage between himself and Ellen Amanda Forbes.
The report OF p H. McDonough, the referee, when mas
Just completed presents story with some INTEREST,"
ing features -
The plaintiff in 1875 the principal examiner IN
the United States Patent Office at Washington In the
early part Of year no became acquainted nj tho
house of mis- aunt, Mrs l.. d. Shears NJ NO 80 lrVnE-
place, with the defendant under the name OF MIS-
Ellen A. Fields. She represented that she was the
widow of Richard Fields. who had died seven years
before I'm West Tweht that she had lost most ot inc
property he had left her, aud was about TO go 10
California for her health. Mr. Forbes dissuaded her
from this by a proposal OF marriage, which she nc
cepted. They were married at the FHth Avenue
Hotel, November 49, 1875, by tho Rev. d. MiIeS
Of Boston, They went to Washington, where Mrs
Forbes who is o strikIngly handsome woman was
cordially received In the most fashionable society ~
was not until ST. Mr. Forbes testifes after he had De-
gun the practice of law in NewYork, that he receiver
an intimation that he had been deceived by MS "ie III
regard to her former life. His suspicious once aroused
led lin 20 search the records Of the Board OF Health the
surropato's office and the Green1OOd Cemetery ONCE
but he found no trace OF alleged former husoahu
Richard Fields. On further Investigation MT foro's
alleges that he discovered that the defendahVs Ie"i
name when she married him was Ellen A. tOWleri tln1
Sic WAS an unmarried woman OF bad repute Wuo nau
been mistress OF several men, by one OF whom SHo
had a illeg1timate child. - .u,,,o,
When ho had made these discoveries ms CONQUER
toward her became changed that she begged 10 kO"
The reason He SAYS refused 10 tell her. ana the
next day October g. 1877 he secretly lett MS nome anu
me As never seen her since. IL has not been possible 10
serve tie oapers upon her In the suit and notice mas
been given publication. The trial, IN whlch
ant has not appeared personally or by counsel mas aus
closed of the particulars Of her former vas
horn in Albany, where she was pupl IN Mhntou 1l"
bes school. After her fathers removal 10 new ioIh
she was employed In the corset manufaclory OF Mal
Plnchon iu Analyst. George A OsgoOd, sOn-nldW o.
tbe late COmmOd IRE Vanderbilt, who was an upoIlabl
but reluctant witness testified tnat when ne nlsI pc
ma Intimate Wltu her told him thit her name was
Ellen A. Fowler but she afterward passed by ihe nae
ol Field, for the five years during when tnelr tacy
continued I'm s64 he bought the house No. l46 West
Tgelfl INST, which she Immediately occupied uuJ hn
refused to say whether she paid rent while sno 0ccuvu
H. N was s Jwn that she took the deed or the lWcIt
ST. house I'm her maiden name she gave moitRlgt, III
tine same name. but addressed as Mrs H. A. foids,
Thc referee finds the allegations of the plaintiff to DC
substantially