The sun., 1888-06-11
1T MADE A CHURCH SCANDAL
YOUNG CONKLIN's LOVE AFFAIR ENDS
IN A POLICE COURE
Held In $1,000 Bail on the Complaint q
Ruby Grisweid. Aged 17-Many Members
of Trinity Bnptist Church In tho CeurA


Hold In $40. 900 Bail on the Complaint -
Ruby Grisweid. Aged 11-Many Mensors
of Trinity Baptist Church In tho CeurA
Many members Of tho Trinity Baptist
Church at Fifty-1fth street and LexinGtcn
avenue OF which tho Rev. d. O. Hughes II
pastor. were present In the Yorkville Police
Court yesterday. They were there to listen b
tho evidence in case that has been scandal
in the church for some time.
Among tho members OF the church the Girls
void family has been prominent The family
consists Of the Widow Griswold Of b35 East
EiGhty-flrst street, buxom and dash
ing woman Of middle age, and hsr
two daughters. or the latter. Ruby aged
H. Is the prettier. She is an innocent
looking girl. who wears compromise b.
tween long and short dresses. has blue eyoe.
and pink white complexion. She wears hsr
golden brown hair in long braid down her
back. Young George W. Conklin OF 44S East
Fifty-eighth street. who is also member a
the church. and is brlRht-looking lad OF 10.
met her a great deal at tho church sociablss
and gatherings. In Juno Of last year he ~
cepted the Widows invitation and spent two
weeks at her house. then In Sixtieth street.
This was the beginning Of tho scandal that has
stirred the church. and has led to his being
locked up in the Yorkville prison under $10s.
600 bail on n charge of seduction.
Mrs. Griswold testified yesterday that young
Conklin professed love for her daughter Ruby.
and asked the mothers consent to a marriage.
II told them" She said. that II they loved
each other had no objection So he kissed
@ overythns nG" Vas low iovsly Hs TOOK her to plepcs.
and l congratulated myself on the perfect har.
s FROM hsH fHs ps tss he SsG prs
to sI b. married.. ns1 3D. When her confronted him WITH
and promised TO marry my Ruby at once. He
kept putting 1t on from time to time, howeysr,
ness with. but told him that would do moth.
ing for him until he had kept his word with my
daughter Then he tried to avoid us Alto
Mrs. Griswold produced q letter that the
prisoner had written to her in which no agreed
co9kiin denied many Of the , assertions made a
ali along. forced him to give Ruby the engage
ment ring, end had tried to frighten him into
Why she and her family were pyt out y s,, ot the
Wow If is to e
tion had been made"
but Justice Murray ruled that he didn't want
to hear anything about the church matter.
This Is Justice and not religion, ne observed.
Mr. Hughes. who is q member OF the church
and boards with Mrs. Griswod, thereupon got
upand went out. Pastor Hughes Is in Europe:
her tears testified that she had used no per-
suasion with George. and that he had told her
he truly loved her: He promised to marry her
found he was going with another girl.
Justice Murray held the prisoner in $4,000
for further examination.
Mrs. Griswold told the reporter that her
brother-in-law. Major Griswold Of the United
States army, had been instrumental In having
reporter a letter written to her by Pastor
Hughes. which stated that she had been taken
back into the church under discipline"
"Afterward" she said, e.! got o letter saying
that Was fully reinstated."
Company to handle newspapers on tho trains
between here and Albany. His father is Q
salesman in q butter store.