Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-17
Dancing followed the concert.
Elopement and Divorce

Ex Gov. Hubbard's Daughter Freed From Her Husband-Married to a Coaehman, Denounced by Her Father,
 and Divorced After Four Years of Wed ded Life.
 The sequel to the elopement of Miss Nellie
 Hubbard, the youngest daughter of ex Gov
 ernor Hubbard, and her marriage to her
 fathers coachman, Frederick Shepard, four
 years ago. has just been made known to her
 friends. writes the Hartford correspondent
 of the New York Times, who learned for the
 first time Saturday that Mrs. Shepard has
 secured divorce from her husband. The
 story of Miss Hubbard's nasty action in de-
 ceiving her father and marrying man so far
 beneath her, not only in the sociab
 but in the intellectual scale, has had the repentance at leisure for what was done in haste Miss Hubbard, who was at the time 8 young girl scarcely eighteen years of age, was secretly married to Shepard at Westfield Mass, on March 11th, 1879 while her fath- CTS family were absent from Hartford Shepard, who was about thirty years old, had acted as coacbman for ex Governor Hubbard
 for about a year and half. The couple lived very happily for time and 8 child was born tc them, girl, to cement their union. About two years ago they removed to New Haven. where Shepard started 8 liv- cry stable with money furnished by his wife and her friends | But the domestic peace was to be shattered | in New Haven. Mrs. Shepard became tired l of her uplettered husband, and they began to find that their tastes in almost everything
 ran in counter directions. Shepard attended
 strictly to his business, and Mrs. Shepard, | who vas not received with open arms by ] New Haven society, showed her contempt of the fashionable world, of which she had for
 meriy been belle, by purchasing dog cart | and handsome pony, with which she appeared in the streets, ele-
 gantly attired, on every pleasant day. | The couple separated and Shepard went to | live at public house. Some four months ago l she gave up her cottage and went to live in | the Selden House, at New Haven. The breach between her and her husband was constantly | widening, although it was very apparent | that Shepard still idolized his wife. Some l three months since when the rumor that she | was about to seek for divorce was first spread, friend of Shepards spoke to him on | the subject. He cried like baby then, and
 said that he had always been true to her, | and he should always love her de- 1 votedly. He acted like a child that was being punished, refused to believe
 that his wife would ask for a divorce, and seemed to be confident that she would ultimately return to live with him. Mrs.
 Shepard's lawyer in moving for the divorce
 was l. N. Blydenburgh, who figured as the
 counsel for the Malley boys in their trial for
 the murder of Jennie Cramer. The cause
 for which the divorce was granted is said to
 be abandonment, Shepard making coun-
 ter-charges. Great efforts have been made
 to keep the fact that divorce has been
 granted secret in Connecticut, the lawyers
 and the judge doing all in their power 10 con-
 ceaI the record from the public. It is
 thought by some that Mrs. Shepard, hay
 ing disembarrassed herself of her plebeian
 husband, will be welcomed back to her fath-
 CTS home.