New-York tribune., 1895-12-14
A SHORT HONEYMOON.
1T LASTED LESS THAN A MONTH, AND
THEN TROUBLE BEGAN
MIR AND MRS MUGFoRD AT SWORDS POINTS,
AND SEARCH WARRANTS AND THREATS OF
ARREST HAVE TAKEN THE PLACE
OF NOTES OF LOVE.

ARREST HAVE TAKEN THE PLACE
OF NOTES OF LOVE.
Mrs Carrie Erenner a wealthy widow was mar
ried TO Henry l.. Mugford, retired builder on NO.
vember l3. 1885, and they have since been living in
a fine home at No $50 Putnam-ave, Brooklyn But
the couple have not spent their honeymoon In the
serenity to be expected of middle aged and newly
married pair. They bringing charges and
counter-charges against each other in the Gates
Avenue Police Court, and Mr.. Mugford left his
home on Thursday and refuses TO return His wife
,s not anxious for him to come back. and she will
make It interesting for him II he does. she
says The husband asserts that his wife has with
held property belonging his daughter; Mrs. Mug
ford declares ttat her husband beat her, and tnat
other members OF the family were cruel and un-
grateful.
Mrs Mugford Inherited considerable money from
her first husband Mr. Mugford also had been mar
red before.
1t was agreed that Mugford's daughter by his first
wife and her husband. Edward Hovey, of the firm
OF Lowentha Hovey. tailors in Union Square. New
York CITY, should be members of the Mugford
household in Putnam-ave.
The day after the wedding. Mrs. Mugford says,
her husband asked her for $4,000 to invest in Sugar
trust bonds which. ne said. would bear 10 per cent
interest She declined to invest. Then Mr.. Musford
tried to persuade his wife to dabble In some prom
Using real estate dea.s but she would not hear OF IT,
Shortly after this Mrs. Mugford says. things be-
gan TO disappear from the house She was sus-
picious and bought a safe. gathered her deeds
documents and dia monds together and put them in
the safe Then she locked the door. and Kept the
combination secret. ,,
This action OF the wife led 10 quarrels. Mr.. ana
Mrs Hovey left the disturbed home Before tney
left they asserted that Mrs. Mugford had put some
of their own and their fathers property In the
safe. .
search warrant was applied for by Mrs Hoyey
In the Gates Avenue Police Court on THURSDAY,
and Officers Webb and Tracey were sent around 10
the Mugford house to serve the papers. Mrs Mug
ford. with emphasis. declined to open the safe She
was taken the Fourteenth Precinct station, but
Captain Ennis refused to hold her. She complained
asked for police protection The officers afterward
returned to the house with Mrs. Mugford and found
that MI Mugford had locked them out. He smiled
upon them from secOnd-story window. The officers
consulted with Mrs. Mugford She told them to
break the coalhole grating and get In the house
that way. Webb did so. and fell through the hole
TO the cellar floor. MugfOrd had locked the cellar
door. that Webb worse off than ever. lie
could not get out. He soon wcaIed of the cellars
attraction. and began TO yell, His coeage, Tracey.
laughed. Mrs. Mugford wept Mr.. Mugford. at the
window. smiled.
Webb remained In the cellar for three-quarers OF
an hour. Then Mr. Mugford reented and opened
the doors, through which the beseging party
en- fire. The officers did not the alleged as
sault committed and could not arrest Mr. Mugford.
When his wife told him she proposed to have him
locked up. he left the house hurrledly. In his
Night he dropped .etter from matrimonial
agency informing him that his name had been en-
would get a wife Mrs. Mugford says that this
shows that Mugford gay deceiver.
She appeared In court yesterday morning with
her 1ewelry, and swore out warrant for the arrest
OF her husband on the charge OF assault.
Webb. according TO the latest. advces is stil try-
ing TO II.