The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-03-13
And Leaves a Number of Mourners.

| Many of our readers will remember that
| about a year ago a physician established him.
self in Portland, taking as his residence, as de.
| scribed in his advertisement, sthe first house
above Judge Goddard's, on Free street" Tie
doctor was Short stout young Englishman,
of perhaps, thirty years of age, and almost i'm
mediately after his arrival stepped into quite a
| practice. He seemed to have great deal of
success-if his patients are to be credited
with chronic complaints that had baffied other
practitioners His address was pleasing and
he evidently had received good education.
His style of advertising, however, was such as
the profession discredits and consequently he
could not be said to belong to the faculty.
After while stories began to be circulated
to the effect that the doctor was dissipated and
that he did not treat his wife well, and these
stories were substantiated by an arrest brought
about by Mrs. Harrop for an assault upon her,
and Judge Knights filming the doctor IS and
costs, in the Municipal Court Since that
trial, from what we can gather, affairs have not
been very prosperous with the physician and
lately the doctor and wife have resided in a
house at the lower part of Free street Satur-
day it was announced that DR.. Harrop had
cleared out, leaving several to mourn his de-
parture. and PRESS reporter called on Mrs.
Harrop to learn the truth of the affair.
Mrs. Harrop is lady considerably younger,
apparently, than her husband; OF good figure,
pleasing face, and was evidently willing to
give such information as was required. She
said DR.. Harrop and herself came from Man
chester, England. The doctor had property OF
his own and had relatives and friends residing
in Montreal. and elsewhere in Canada. Every
thing went we'll until the doctor took to in
dulging too freely in intoxicating beverages.
Then he spent very little time at home, despite
all her urging. She told him that she did not
wish to stand in the way of his profession but
that when he went out nights with the state
ment that he had got to stay up with sick pa
tient she did not like to have him come home,
at o'clock in the morning. drunk 1t les
sened her faith in his yeracity.
Last week DR.. Harrop said he was going to
Lewiston to take an office. He engaged man
to go to that city, and make necessary arrange
ments. He boxed up books and instruments
and dispatched them to that city. Mrs. Har-
rop asked him what necessity there was for
sending forward SO many goods before he had
established himself, thinking this step was but
temporary one, and that he would be absent
but day or SO. The doctor replied that more
confidence was reposed in a doctor who APP
peared well-furnished with library and in
struments Soon after the doctor left she re-
ceiyed letter from him from Lewiston saying
he should not return, and the last of the week
another from Montreal informing her he was
gone for good and that she would probably be
happier without him. Thus she is alone in a
strange city, with her furniture all mortgaged
by the doctor before he left, with such instru-
ments as he abandoned also mortgaged, and
many little bills unpaid, including months
rent, provision bill of $25, a printers bill of
$780, and other liabilities amounting in all to
about $500. He even left only coal and wood
enough to make two or three fires, and all the
money in her possession she said was two dol
lars. She said several ladies had been very
kind to her who had heard of her misfortune,
but what she shall do she don't know. She is
of Scotch and American parentage, one of her
parents coming from Pennsylvania. She said
the doctor was in practice in Boston before he
came here, and the reason he came to Portland
was because he expected to find man in this
city who had borrowed quite sum of money
from him when he-the doctor-was well off,
and had never repaid it, She says the doctor
also secured set of Appleton's Cyclopedia
before he left here with the understanding that
he was to have commission for selling it, and
carried off with him lady's gold watch