The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-17

Baltimore, Feb. 6.-Yestsrday judy,
Dobbin granted q divorce to Mellon
Mitchell from Carrie B. Mitchell an(
forbidding the latter to marry agair
during the lifetime of the former.
Both nave moved in good SOCIETY in
the West End. On the night ofAug
s, Mitchell received . note from MIR.
Frank j. Forsyth, III Georgia street.
requesting him to call at once, which
he did, arriving about midnight. Mr..
Forsyth in q mysterious invited
Mitchell up stairs. saying that his
daughter wished to see him. Mitchell
went up and was astonishsd at seeing
Miss Forsyth in bed. she appeared in
great distress and was deadly pale.
Mitchell after a pause advance and took
the hand of the young lady, asking
her if she was ill, and expressing his
regrets. Before he relieved any res
ponse he heard the click of the lock.
and turning found that Mr.. Forsyth
had locked him in and stood in front
of the door with a drawn pistol e1-
claimed: You have taken advantage
of my daughter and you must either
marry her or die on the spot" The
astonished visitor protested that he
was guiltless of the offence charged but
Mr.. Forsyth cooking his pistol said
f%uriously that the marriage should at
once take place or Mitchell should die.
The Rev. Thomas D~ougherty, a
Methodist clergyman, was sent for. He
strongly objected to marrying the cou
pie, Mr.. Forsyth hourished his pistol
and said that license or no license, the
man who wronged his daughter should
be married to Ter. MIR. Dougherty was
at last prevailed upon to pronounced the
couple man and wife. Mr.. Forsyth
then retired from the room, leaving
Mitchell behind. The latter promptly
made his escape. and over aking Mr..
Dougherty Informed him hat Fer
syth's accusations were entirely false.
In the hearing before a Commission
err, testimony was introduced to the eff
feet that the condition of the girl was
misrepresented, so as to induce the
clergyman to marry them, and as a part
of a scheme to force Mitchell into the
marriage IL order to crafty Miss For
syth, who was in love with him. Mr.
Dougherty, in his testimony, stated that
he was sent for on the night of the
marriage to come and see his daughter,
who was dying. He was shown into an
upper bedroom, where the girl was in
bed. Under pressure of threats he had
performed the ceremony.
In the answer filed by Miss Forsyth
she denied that her father employed any
violence toward Mitchell, stated that
the latter did not hesitate a moment
when asked to marry her; hat she be-
acquainted with him in July,
1877, and they became engaged to each
other to and interchanged promises of
marriage In the month of August, 1877.
and that the engagement cotinued in
full force up to the time ofthe marriage.
After the marriage he was very kind
to her, came to see her every day, and
in all respects recognized and treated her
as his lawfully welded wife until last
Aug. 80. when her marriage was an
nounced in a Baltimore newspaper. He
hen ceased to visit her, having been
sent, as she was informed, ont of the
;ity for several months by his mother.
The families Of both are respectable
md quite wealthy. The decision of the
court condemning the girl to cclibacy
Mitchell's lifetime was a great
,low to the family, and they will prob
bly, take the case to the Court of APP
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