The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-19
SCANDAL IN ulGa LIFE.
a DamagO Suit win an Spterta,D,nv n >,
senantionni ni.,nr. 80.


A Damage Suit With an SutertasnIpv ora
Sensational History.
SYRACUSE, Jan. lS.-Tbomas Parish
Sherman, member of tho New York
City Bar and formerly a banker in Now
York, has begun an action in the United
States Circait Court for the Northern
district of New York, against William
G. Tracy, Of this city, senior member OF
the law firm Of Tracy, McLsnnan 4 Ap-
ling. Mr.. Tracy is wealthy and unmsr-
ricd. Mr.. Sherman accuses him of
having alienated tho affections Of hiu
wife, who recently applied for divorce.
and he demands damages in the sum Of
ss6.OOO.
Mrs. Sherman was tho daughter Of
Hamilton White, one of the pioneers Of
Syracuse, who at his death left vast
estate. She Is sister OF Howard a.
White, member OF Assembly. and a
niece OF the Hon. Andrew D. White. of
Cornell University. Her first husband
was DR.. John i. Swift, OF New York
city, who also left large fortune al hia
death. Mr.. Sherman was married. nm
November 10, 1876.
TOOK CHARGE OF HER FINANCES.
Hamilton Whito died in 1894, and
under his will his daughter, Jane Am.
toinetto, was entitled the income during
her life from trust fund Of SIS OO1 and
not to exceed thirty per cent Of the
principal thereof, in case the trnstaes
named in the will should deem that hsr
comfort or interest wonld bs promoted
by the payment OF tho came. In 1870
by the request OF his wife, who had hes
come dissatisfied with the ,na0aoensnt
Of the fund, the plaintiff was ap5ointai
in the place OF the testamentary trustees.
The plaintiff ssts forth that untii 'Si
their relationS were atIeCtionata and
loyal to more than the ordinary deeree
In 'S4 the plaintiff was visited bv a
series Of financial losses, in consequence
Of which he became unable 10 suppork
his wife and children. In consequence.
the plaintiff declares, the harmony h..
tween himself and his wife became in.
paired. lie says that he then under.
stood her 10 notify him that aha In.
tended to end their marital relRtions hnt
subsequently insisted that she had NOT
intended her conduct to he 30 unders
stood.
WENT TO TRACY FOR ADVICE,
The plaintiff alleges that on or about
tho month of December, 1884, his wife
applied to the defendant for legal advice:
that she then had no idea Of doing any.
thing TO affect her marital relations. Int
that the detendant proceeded 10 carIv
into effect 8 goheme to aiienate tbe AZ.
feCtiona Of tie plaintiffs wife from him
and to divert the same TO himself, The
plaintiff also deClare1 that Tracy gave
Mrs Sherman wiltnlly false Information
respecting the plaintiff, aud asserts that
Tracy did induce Mrs. Sherman 10 begin
an action in ths Supreme Court OF Onon.
daRo county for permanent legal sepa.
ration, or limited divorce, from the
plaintiff, on the grounds OF abandon-
meDt and failure TO support.
The complaint reClttS that in the COM
plant In tho divorce caav, prepared by
the defendant, the fdsts as 10 the plain.
tid's management of his wife's estate
we're falsely stated, TO the oil G thu he
had wasted her properly, wherr1 ia
value had been diminished by her style
OF living, prior to her marriaxs 10 the
plaintiff.