Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-02
THEY CALL IT pASSlONLESS LOVE
ans. SCOTT AND MN. OGDEN DE-
VOTED.
They Say II In Pintonic, Hut the In
auisitive Ncighbors VIII Talk, aud
the Husband of the Woman Has
brought suit for $4,000.

New York, Jan. i.--william il.
Scott of Brooklyn has sued John w.
Ogden of the same city for s25,0OO for
alternating his wife's affections. With
the news OF this suit has come one Of
those curious stories between men ana
women that are as interesting as they
are battling Of solution.
Twenty-four years ago William Scott
married his pretty cousin. Lottie Ste
vcns Of Plainheld, N. j. She was
then l6 years old. and now claims
that she did not know her own mind.
and that after she had borne her hus-
band two children she discovered that
he was not her ideal OF a husband
She says he was not Sympathetic
companion and that thcH lives dtifted
apart. After u few years of married
lie they moved 10 Mddletown, n y q,
aud joined the baptist cnurcn. Mrs.
scott became one OF the most faithful
women in religious work IN the church
her piety ana her beauty We're noted
by evoay one, ana She WAS pointed out
as model wife and mother.
There Is no reason TO doubt that she
was II sincerely religious woman, that
she Is telling the truth when abe says
she threw herself into religious WORK,
undlng IN 1t consolation for her heart,
IN which her husband had only place
oil respect SO matters dTifted along
until some yeavs ago. Then John W.
Ogden came To live on a farm he had
taken near Mlddletown. He had
VIE and two children almost grown.
lie was successful business man in
Brooklyn, but his health had failed,
ana THIS drove him TO a farm. 70
Keep himself In the open air us much
as possible, he went into the dairy
business, and he carried the milk to
ms customers. He connected himself
with the Baptist church and continued
Tue life OF devotion and plety which
he had led In Brooklyn. The SCOTS
were AMONG his customers and he and
ms wife belonged to their church. In
ms way Mr.. ogden and Mrs. Scott
became warm friends. He helped her
IN religious and charitable work. In
which neither her husband nor his
wife took so much interest. Almost
Immediately, as MIR, Ogden ana Mrs.
scott claimed, there began between
them an Intimacy Of relation that had
In 1t.
They felt they claim. that they
should have met and married and
spent their lives together. They felt
that life had been empty until they
met, ana that, as each was wretched
without the daily companlonship OF
the other, they must meet and COM
muhe IN what they call their soul love,
They calm that while they would have
married had they been free. they did
not permit their love to oVcrstop the
laws of religion and society. They
claim that In the lette' at least each
was true to the marriage vows. After
a tune Mr.. Ogden's health camc back
and he returned with his wife TO
Brooklyn, to his work as first assist
ant engineer Of the Consolidated gas
company OF New York, and to his
church work In the Marcy Avenue Bnp-
tist church. OF which the Rev w. 9.
Il, Rhnades is the pastor But he
and Mrs. Scott found 1t impossible TO
1--we, each without the other. So. as
Mr.. SCOTS business was not doing well.
Mr.. Ogden got him the place of SUI
perlntendent of the Consolidated pns
company's plant, and the SCOTS moved
TO Brooklyn. Mr.. Ogden's mother was in
falling health. and this gave Mr.
Ogden and Mrs. Scott chance TO 500
ench other oftener than ON Sundaya.
Wheh poth tanliies went to the Marcy
MIS- scott, free from homo cares. be-
cause her children We're grown. snent
her time in doing charitable or church
work, and late In the afternoon went 10
cheer IN Mr.. Ogden's dying mother.
Ana after p. M, M. Ogden an
stead of going home. went 10 soc Ills
mother. And so the two had the en-
1oyment each Of the others society in
the congcnial employment of nursing
the Old woman, who knew and ap-
proved OF their affection each for the