The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-23
LOST LOVE.
A Scandal in Aristocratic larry
town.


The usually proper and aristocrat-
ic village of TarrytoWn is greatly
exercised over a scandal in which
DIR. John Fl. Furman and Mrs. Mary
E Strong, widow Of the author, Col.
James Strong, formerly of Troy. are
prominent figures. The scandal had
been for some time a delicious NOR
sci for gossips, has now found its
way into the courts, through two
suits instituted by the doctors wife,
Hortense II. Furman. One is
against Mrs. Strong, in which the
plaintiff claims $4,000 damages for
HWickedly, maliciously, and unlaW-
fully alternating the affections of
her husband, DR.. John III. Furman.
The other is against her husband,
for s'openly and contemptuousIy
living in adultery with Mrs.
Strong" demanding an absolute
! divorce.
Both parties have heretofore NOV
ed in the best society Of TarrytoWn,
and are regular attendants at DR..
Todd's Reformed church. DR.. Fur
man went to TarrytoWn ten
| years ago from Monmouth county,
New Jersey, taking with him his
wife, the present plaintiff, to whom
he had then been married fifteen
years. Tie doctor was not long in
securing recognition in the highest
social circles, and he built up a
practice estimated to be worth $10,-
600 a year. He lived in good style
and was apparently happy in his
domestic relations. During the
latter part of the year 1880, Col.
Strong, a gentleman of wealth and
high social and literary standing,
was taken i'll, and DR.. Furman was
sent for to attend him. After a.
brief illness the patient died. Be
fore the sod had begun to grow upon
his grave the idle tongues OF the
village began to wag about the fire.
quent and apparently unnecessary
visits Of the doctor to the grief
stricken widow. The subject was
at length hushed, but the doctors
visits did not discontinue. In due
course Of time Mrs. Furman became
appraised Of the scandal that was
afloat and taxed{her husband with
improper conduct, which accusation
he Indignantly denied. Still sus-
| picious of him, Mrs. Furman
watched his movements, and one
day, as is recited in the allegations
IN her suit, when he informed her
that urgent business required his
| presence at Spuyten Duyyil,
she followed him and saw
him enter Mrs. Strong's
elegant residence in North larry
town. There, she alleges, she be-
came convinced that her husband
was false, and when he returned to
his home that night there was a do
nestle storm. The reception at the
| hands and tongue of the DOCTORS
wife was so very harsh and Yoluble
that he thought the far west would
| be more attractive as q residence.
| He therefore HE'D himself away TO
| Dakota, where he resided about a
| year, during which time Mrs. Fur
man heard nothing from him. She
opened tirSt-class boarding house
and managed to support herself
comfortably, and had her husband
remained away Mrs. Furman would
probably never have troubled him /;
but when he returned to Tarrytown,
and, as she alleges in her suit, took
up his quarters with Mrs. Strong,
introducing her into society as his
| wife, and driving past her door as
though to taunt her, her wOmanhood
asserted itself and she sought re-
dress in the courts.
The summons and complaint pre-
| pared by Mr.. E. T. Lovatt, of Tar
rytoWn. counsel for Mrs. Furman,
set forth that while in Dakota DIR.
| Furman obtained divorce under
the provisions of the laws of that
state, which she complains is illegal
in this state under a recent decision
of the court of appeals, because nc
notice or summons was served upon
( her, a resident Of this state. 1t is
further alleged that on the 25th OF
! October DIR. Furmau and Mrs.
Strong were illegally married by
! Rev. NJ. G.. Bullock, Of Oswego, n.
1 Y, and that the doctor is now liv-
ing with Mrs. Strong. Therefore
she asks damages in the sum of
$4,000 from Mrs. Strong, whom she
accuses of alluring her husband
away undera promise of luxury and
money. and an elegant home. The
papers in both actions have been
served but no answer has yet beer
made.
Mrs. Strong is worth about S6O,.
600. She has two little boys, is
about 80 years old, a brunette, and
a woman of many social and per-
sonal attractions. DR.. Furman is
about 45 years old, and has no chill
dain.-Ye2D York Herald