New-York tribune., 1886-08-21
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rrsrcHEsTER CONTRACTOR ELoPES

~ur WOMAN TAKEs ALONG HER TWO CHiLpRhS-
.rr-uAx DESERTS wIFK AND MISTRESS
xvupam Henry Garthwaite, rich contractor and
...,o,.er of White Plains and Kensico. disappeared
a., "Wednesday and the same day Mrs Susan
Cos. Stevens the wife Of Samuel Stevens, OF harri-
~, also disappeared leaving note Oh the table
paying;
SUSAN CRoss STEVENS"
Tho husband had como home to his supper after a
.a dsy's work on q peighboring farm lie immeoi-
,,,v began Tn investigation, and learned from TWO
,.,od woman that his wife had gone away with her
,ro babies in Gartbwaites buggy. but Mr Garth
- was not driving The women afterward refused
4, ,el who the driver vas or which way the women
-, A. near as Stevens can ascertain. she was
5,vsn u Port Chester where she took the train tor
.h. c;tv On the Same evening Mr.. Garthwaite drove
90 Rr,cc,s stable White Plains, in his buck board
~ason and told Mr. Briggs that be wss going to the
, and he did not come back that night TO send his
hor.e and wagon up to his Kensco place. be did not
.o,Ds hack and tho team sent up Garthwaite
g. M, s,nce boon seen In Westchestar County.
car,hwaite's acquaintance with Mrs Stevens dates
hack only about tour mouths LAst spring he obtained
CONTRACT FROM the OF Harrison to build bouie
card about three quarter. of nile long to str2Ghten
The road from ST Mary's Lake 10 Rye Lake ne to"H
she contract for $500 and tnishcd TOE Joo iAs'
week On Saturday evening be display % a' 1no y,
ali. in hotel at bite Plains amounting to So, 700
When he an the contract he rented two rooms o1
<be road between White Plains and furchAse Aii
within I've hundred yards ot whese NC s . :" - -
onerat,ons Gsrtbwslts wsnted tnS '~o r"op'A 'o'
Pnrdv Ackerly and his wife. OF kensco Aekeriy wae
a blacksmith in Garthwaite,s employ ana IL w-
that the bose shoud take his dinner AT ths
hacksniths and should pay the rent OF the rooms "A
commentator for this privilege IL ~sa mere that nc
hn nsed freauently call upon her in the afternoon
and remain In her house for hours. MI stevens s@d
10 reporter that he had never had any trouble with
his wife until since Garthwaite had made her &c,
ouaintance Then she became CROSS. neglectful ana
roodv He Is an riOus 70 get his children back. but
savs he viii never have anything more 70 do with his
III; lie is fearful that she may place the babes IN
some pubtc institution: .
NJ iGarthwate about fifty years old, about five
fa., ei ,ht inches IN height stout wears heavy mus
tacbe Mrs stevens is 81 good looking woman about
!wenty-one wears old. Garthwaite married niss Mary
Depue by whom lac had two children. one a daughter
Mrs Garthwste in interview win reporter
yesterday. said that about ten years ago sbe learned
That her hu sband not true de left ner ana went
10 live with another woman in kensico FOR Ine sake
nj her children h~ refIained from bringing him INTO
the courts. lie promised. she said, " she wou1 not
diayrace him to provide handsomely FOR her ana her
children lie Kept his promise until about year ago,
vheu Lo became some what negecttuL She did not
compsin because she thought when he got somew bat
older he would leave the woman and come home.
He nsed 10 call occasionally 70 see her and she hoped
mat some dav he would shake off his mistress He told
her a few weeks ago that the place he lived in at
Kensico vas In the Of his mistress that he did
NOT own auy real estate and that therefore she would
have 10 take what he chose 10 give her.
The woman with whom Garthwaiie lived in kensico
was in White Plains yesterday. trying to get some
trace of him She sad sho goiDg to Harrison
T. sell his horses and wagons but she too late.
They were all sold on Tuesday