The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-04
SHE WAS NOT LURED AWAY.
MRs. TOURS OF sMITHTILLB SOUTH
TELLS HER SIDE or THE STORE

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She ..d Her Friend. Mrs. Vas Cote OF mel.
more, Found at Her Fathers House
| Dou,irie Smith Relates the Anteeedentr
or the Scandal that IL Exciting Some
RisIicaiiy Named Towns OF Long leland.
This story begins In Jerusalem and ends in
| Jericho. 1t includes In It's scope Smithville
South where the original long Island Smith
once lived. 1t incfutss to- Salt Lake City.
Hogs Head. the Merrick camp meeting
grounds. Egypt Bethpage. and Lots Landing.
1t even includes Jones's Creek. which runs
| down into Jonos's neck.
| The story is about two young women. Ono
blonde. not yet IL years old. with peachy
cheeks. hazel eyes. and delightful red hair
that for warmth and beauty rivals that OF Mrs.
| Leslie Carter. The other is a brunette. sodate.
| with fine features. large, innocent dark eyes
| that become warm and flashing when the oc-
| casion requires. The first was Miss Alice
| Davis. now. owing to an unfortunate marriage,
Mrs. Tours. She is tho daughter Of J. H. Da-
| Wis. one OF the deacons OF the Bellmore Pres
| byterian Church.
| The other was Eugenia Smith. now. owing
| TO an unfortunate marriage. Mrs. Van Colt.
| She is the daughter Of the Rev. Stephen C.
Smith. the local pastor Of the Bellmore Metho-
dist Church. These two young women find
| themselves In a most ungraceful situation
| considering their birth and their family con-
nections The Deacon's daughter is accused
| OF abandoning her husband. The Dominiss
| daughter is accused OF enticing the Deacons
daughter away from her husband. and the
specification Of that charge. which Is made by
tho husband Of tho Deacon's daughter. 10 that
on an occasion whom the husband ordered his
wife out OF the company Of three young men
to her home the Dominte's daughter embraced
her and said:
''Shs shall rot leave me. We have stuck to-
gether from Freeport to Bellmors. She shall
not leave mo-"
Both OF tho young women are under arrest.
They have had an uncompleted hearing be-
fore Justice James Seaman In Wantagh. and
they will have the rest Of 1t on Friday
morning. Probably no two young women
in the whole Of that religious region
OF Long Island are better known than
these two. They are members OF the church
and members OF tho Sunday school. Hereto
fore the blemishes on their regulations have
been that they contracted secret marriages
without the consent OF their parents, but as
both marriages turned out bad. the people
have said: 1T was the judgment Of God for
disobedicnce They have been punished
enough"
This present trouble 10 brought about BY tho
husband OF the Deacon's daughter. He is re-
ferred to by partisans on one side as Q hard
working painter. and by partisans on the other
in other terms. His story in brief is that he
married the Deacon's daughter: that he loved
her. and loves her still. But" he says. "she
has streak OF the old boy running through
her. and she knows too many young men.
This minister's daughter has such q hold on
her that can do nothing with her. She will
not 1.-Two with me- have had both tho women
arrested as q last resort"
The arrests were made by Constable Hicks
OF Hampstead. and tho young women won't
Historically. They were calmer at the hear
ing In the evening. The husband appeared
with fourteen young men. who were to blast
the reputation OF his wife. as well as the repu-
taton of the domines daughter. But. with
one exception. they swore that. 20 far as they
knew the regulations OF tho young women
were above reproach
was learned that he was piaueh because Mrs.
him. Being pretty and bright. it is natural
has girl friends at Freeport and she visited
The Eev. Mr.: Smith was found at his home
my s and to Of Af he sa
We'll. you've come to headquarters and I'll
give you little history OF how they are trying
years. I've lived in, this town thirty
lOuE years buu my hcTOSS lHe btTeets
the Merrtts, have lived there twenty-five
years. His wife used to come to my wife and
GOSSIP ana his rot and
down on my wife. That was the beginning.
I've grnned and horne good deal since then.
but now must rebel when they say I'm run
pns h,es the R{ ne th %e Mef
family. 1t was transmitted to the children.
Why. one day the mother sent her oldest boy
out to lick my oldest boy. I'd said to my boys
Now. boys, II you fight I'll lick you:' but what
Here the Rev. Mr. Mr. Ts0 e rs
and there was suspicion Of pride in his voice
ss1 he sSd .pt ssy s hsy S n k0E ~
the cue and hit her boy on the nose and licked
that's bad little FL boy ana don't want you to
the, dominic. AS said. that's an instance.
and there are hundreds Of others. They've |
Hs @ '.ss atI
about thiS III jSst say that this fellow Tours
more and enticed this little gin away
nd 5e The her asH IL The truth
has been in company with his wife good deal.
because her father knew my daughter was,
would be sale. The Immediate thing ls' that
my s s an ws os the rdnf
dered his wife to 20 home As / say I |
guess II the truth were known he's the devil |
let loose. II you see him. sir. you'll see muir
der in his eye. He's got that Italian east Of
countenance with murder In 1t. Well. when |
his wife didn't want to go homo my girl said |
she shouldn't 20. That was because she was
afraid he'd Kill Alice II he got her alone. And
him. said they'd go to the Squire and |
have them arrested; That's, all. The
girls not doing anything but |
hero they are arrested. and I'm going to see
the thing through now no matter what Even
the worm will turn and Pyo turned now I've
peacefully but now when a man says my
house is a house OF Ill fame; and my daughter
amt what she ought to be- I'm aft or him"
Mrs. Van Colt. the daughter. IL after him.
too: while the father has sworn out warrants
for the arrest OF TOuris and Merritt, on n
charge Of sandsr. the daughter has sworn
out others on charges Of threatening to, kill
Mr.. Davlss house. and the reporter found her
there; Mr. Davis said; Jealousy and malice
this fellOw TOuris in BroOkTVn and on hIa