New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-11
END or 4 FOOLISH STORY

THE GENESIS or SOCIAL sCANDAL-THE STORY OF
I'M THREE BLACK CROWS oU1DoNE.
TO the razor Of me Trt6 UHe.
SIR: An article entitled " A Ring that was
not Returned appeared our issu" OF Friday, FcOru
orv g. which was "a somewhat ma guincd version OF
story that has floating about for some time I'm Ger
tain circles IN this city II has already done much barn
10 an innocent person has spread TO such an extent
that feel called ipOn 10 deny % n your coiamnS am
The proper person do this the affair supposed TO
have taken place at house begin by denying every
abatement Of facts IN the abov-uamed article The po
lice have not been notified o loss: the ring was not
missed around the dinner table; 10 Was not worth
- 600; 10 Was not found ln gont!eman's OVeicoat
pocket and no suspicion has ever att ched 10 him.
T,eho,y how this story las grown from nothing viii
state what actually happened. party OF eight tot
whom an own cousin OF VINO has resided abroad
for some years was oneJ dued my house on Noyem
Der Is In the evening after my cousl ANA some others
had left the house. wife missed ring consisting OF
ten small stones five rubies aud i've diamonds Search
was made for and II not found The next day my
cousin brought t to my house. that bis servant
had found the ragged lining Of hi, coat sleeve with
one OF the ltilo rubics wanting. Ny wife supposcs
that either in shaking hands or m dancing The ring
which was peculiar shap', caught n this lining and
was drawn on While in the sleeve The small stone was
probably knocked out by blow dragged ont
by the material Of the lining The value of The stone to
buy may have bccu $50: TO sell. $50
No thought o; suspcctng my cousin crossed any
ones mind ana the matter entirely forgotten until
brought back to memory by the cruel story which
we heard for the time weeks since. and
which now has appeared III your pap leave YOU to
draw your own inierenccs from tAis statement simply
calling attention 10 fact which must be apparent 10
the circuat ors Of tins scandal Il their sharp
as their tongues, and that Is that my cousin did not
keep the ring which he could have done without any
suspicion attaching him, did he take diamond.
but only little ruby missing know you Will aid
me I'm this denial OF ,he story. aud help atone wrong
done. Ny cousin Is STAYING at my honsc-a fact
which hope Will convince the scanda-mOngcrs OF his
innocence. am, very respectfully, 49, -
FREDERIC w. sTEvENs.
No 2 Vest Ft)tysf r6ntst, kew- York i d. 10. 1880
r. S.-WOuldll not he good Idea To have an cxhib on
OF the ring nj 20 head the object being To rnre q
fund 10 send OF tac scanuacirculators West, and
10 reduce the Of the idle aud yagrant classes III
| this city
| 1.-The writer of the above is gentleman whose
| simple word is ample authority for any statement
anywhere. The story to which lac refers has been n
bit of Murray Hill gossip, and the PLAIN facts he
narra,es show how bald and uneXaggcratcd was the
story Of the three black crows compared with some
| Of the grOwths of current social scandal in Now
| York. There was another story of q diamond ring
| aloat about the same time. which did lead to a
police investigation and it is evident that both i'll
| the valuation placed on the stones, and in some
other respects, the two stories got sadly mingled III
the mouths OF the Gossps, before they reached The
! TRIBUNE and other newspapers.-LdI