The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-03
A DISTINGUISHED Ex.MIs.
sIssIPPI POLITICIAN IN A
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
c. E. FurlOng in a New Role.

sald 10 be an intimate friend Of O.
1rant. The woman in the easan IA M.
: sophie Allen, about twentv-two vears !
age, and residing with her mother IN n;
city. She alleges that on April q $50
the general promised to marry her Win
m reasonable time, but failing In hi
Sne brings suit, claiming $4,000 damages
IN the papers hlled by her ATTORNEYS Mis-
allen says she met Gen. Furlone for N
nrst time at the house of friend at Sar,
! toga Springs. He was then guest At an
OF the hotels, and a resident Of Vicks
burg, Miss. He was reputed to be 4 ma,
OF wealth and high social position an,
As their acquaintance ripened she wa
pleased at his expressions of affection AM
admiration. He discovered her admire
ton for the love of music. and ofTsred :,
pay her expenses for a years study undel
Tue Dest teachers in the country, and senc
her to Europe. After consulting hel
mother she accepted his offer, and begar
taking lessons in New York.
lie called nearly every day and even.
ing at Mrs. Sawyer's to see me. and tool
me to the theatre or the opera" continues
Miss Allen. HE was profuse in his ex
pressions OF love and affection for me. III
gave me money to pay my expenses and
music lessons, and we attended church 10.
gether every Sunday from the Ara
Sunday in January to the first Sunday n
April 1880. He accompanied me to INV
music lessons occasionally. He presented
me with pair Of bracelets with INV mama
engraved thereon, which accepted He
SAID he wanted my love and affection. re-.
lated to me his adventures as an officer n
the late war, and told me Of his advance
ment on the staff Of most distinguished
general Of our army.
We walked together in the spring
time to the Central park, where. seated in
one OF the little arbors, / would, at his re-
| quest read to him some book Of romance
or love, and Often the sun would sink be-
mind the Palisades before we would reach
my home, from which we had made our
start. On these occasions he would tell
me OF his love for me and express his re-
greet that | was not one year older and nv
education completed. He asked me fire.
quently il | thought could like him. but
SAID re wanted me for the present to apply
myself to my studies. In January, 1880
on my birthday, he presented me with a
locket and chain, which accepted. We
went to the theatre that night and in the
course OF the evening he asked me if /
supposed he would ever take me to Europe
except as his wife, saying that if thought
SO was mistaken.
II were to give you my heart would
you keep it ~ he asked, and ARE Won will
ling to be my wife ?" | was deeply affect
ed, and told him he had paid me the high
est compliment that could be paid a
woman, and that l appreciated it, and /
hoped | would never be unworthy of it, II
also told him that if he felt the same way
next January would put his picture in the
locket he had given me. On the Tuesday
following he wanted me to go with him to
the Safe Deposit Company in the Equita-
bic building, | and he went. At this
place he showed me over $l50,000 in 500
gold pieces, done up in rolls, and invited
me to take some of them, which declined
lie told me on that day that he would
give me an engagement ring as soon as he
returned from the South, where he expect
ed soon to go on business. He took me
from my boarding house and took me to
Mrs. Harner's school in Gramerey park.
saying that he would not marry girl out
OF a boarding house, At this place he paid
my expenses and had me take music les
sons every day. He furnished me with
money Tor my clothes, and gave out that
we We're engaged to be married.
"On April, 1880, he went to Vicksburg,
where he said business matters demanded |
his attention. In, his absence We cores !
ponded. He returned in the latter part of
the month. He sent me box Of beauti |
full flowers from Vichsburg. On his re-
turn told him of the talk among people |
OF our engagement, and he said Take |
this ring taking one from his hand, and !
tomorrow will get the engagement ring
The next day he came and accompanied |
me to Titfany's and bought an engagement
ring for $3.50 and left it to be engraved |
with his initials and mine, and sent to me
at my address. The next day it came,
and has been worn by me from that time to /
the present.
He went to California that season, and
during his absence we kept up a constant
On his return he wished
me to 60 to Mount Desert, Me-, with him,
and | think told him not alone. He
then asked me ii would go to Old Orchard
Beach Me-, if Mrs. Radley, an old ac-
luaintance of ours, went along. l told
lim would, and Mrs. Radley and went
here. He then took me and lady friend
o Mount Desert, where l remained two
weeks and received his constant attention.
On our way home, and while stopping at a
lotel, by reason of his promise of mar.
'iage, he and afterward beast
ID of it.
"Since that time she says she has re-
,eatedly asked him to marry her, but he
declared that ne would have nothing more
o do with her, and that all relations be-
ween him and her were at an end On
he presentation of her case, as above, be-
ore the chief justice, his honor granted an
rider Of arrest against Gen. Fnrlong, and
ixed bail at $4,000. Alexander V. Da-
-idson, the present sheriff-elect, then de-
,uty, arrested the general, who gave the
,ail required, himself giving bond Of
10000
In order to procure the order Of arrest,
Mss Allen had to find two sureties in $3.50
ach, to be answerable for costs or dam
ges should the suit go against her Fri
lay the case was up before Judge McAdam ,
Il chambers, on motion to place it on the
alendar for trial. The attorney for the
License fought for more time to enable (
linn to get all his Witnesses who were very
much scattered, some Of them residing in
saratoga, Albany, the State of Maine