Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-08
A SENSATIONAL ELoPEMENT.


NEW YORK sept. "A sensational
elopement came to the surface this after
noon, i'm which prominent Brooklyn
physician ana lady patient figure. Dr.
Carpenter is the physician. lie left his
wife yesterday, The lady is Mrs. Mary
Drer. The story OF the elopement is told
by the injured wife, who Swallowed the
couple from Brooklyn to boat which
they took to a resort on the Hudson. she
watched them all night, and, covered with
heavy wells, took the same tram they did
this morning, and had them arrested at
The Grand Central depot. She was seated
Just opposite the couple on the train, as
she told the Record correspondent
her story: about six months
ago my husband began
To attend Mrs. Drier professionally, and
two week since she came 10 visit our
house. One day last week | saw her max
ing love TO my husband while he was
lying down, kissing him on the hands and
lips. / was in the next room looking at
them. She noticed me and left the house,
sending afterwards for her trunks. l
went to her fathers house and told him.
IL refused to believe it, and showed me
of the stoOp. | asked my husband then
to write her letter, saying he would
have no more to do with her. This he re-
fused to do. Then my mother interfered,
and my husband left me yesterday saying
he would never return. He went
TO Mrs. Drier's house, and re turn
ing, said he would be away
until evening. / disguised myself in
black. and be went to the steamer James
w. Baldwin. He met Mrs. Drier on
board, and kissed her. followed. They
bought tickets for ROndout and got a
II
keepsle they got off, and leaving their
baggage ut the depot weut to the Pough-
keepste hotel. l followed. They regis
tered as F. W. Ray and lady. l took a
room there myself at | o'clock this morn
ing, after unayailingly trying to get the
POughkeepsie police TO interfere, and left
word to be called at the same time #. w.
Ray and lady were called. They were
called at O'Clock and ! followed them to
the depot, where we took this train for
New York city. | have been watching
them from this seat all the way down.
They have not even bought a paper, but
have sat there and Rugged one another
before my very eyes all the way down.
on, ! could tear her eyes out"
Mrs. Carpenter related this story quiet
~, but with evidently suppressed excite
ment. When her story was told she asked
II she could have the couple arrested in
this city. She was advised to telegraph
to the Grand Central depot police, W hich
she did at YOnkers> and on the arrival of
the train at that depot ROundsman
Quintard met her, and to him she pointed
out her recreant husband and his cOmpan-
Ion. They were evidently quite unpre-
pared for any trouble, though when
Carpenter SAW the little knot OF people at
the front of the depot, he began to suspect
something, for he tried to dodge out of the
horse car entrance. ROundsman Quintard,
however, stepped up to him and said, q
want you" Carpenter turned pale and
gasped, "What for" His wife was then
standing in front of him, and a step
higher up. Throwing back her three
thicknesses of veil, she exclaimed, dra-
matically, "FOr me, you wretch, you"
Mrs. Drier almost tainted and fell back
against the shoulder of Carpenter.
ROundsmau Quintard took his prisoners
to the nineteenth sub-precinct, where
they gave the names respectively of
Frank E. Carpenter, Is years old, physi-
clan, and Mrs. Drier, aged 80. They were
locked up until this afternoon, when they
will be taken to court