The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25
Dr.BOgman'S Arrcs
for Drunkenness.
Once His HOuSekeepcr, L..
Became His Bride.
Luxurious Home on Benefit Street
Broken Up a Year Ago.

Up to year ago there was no more
familiar figure on the streets of "the East
Side" than that of a trim and comely
little woman, who always wore grey
suit and hat and who was seldom seen
except on her bicycle.
Few people knew her personally, and
fewer still socially, as the word goes on
the sun rising side of the Providence
river, but everyone knew her well enough
TO say as she went whizzing by on her
wheel, "There goes DIR. Bogmsn's wife.'~
And In fact the big, robust looking
physician who had $4,000 year prac-
tice in this town, was frequently her
riding companion.
A year ago there was nm auction sale
at the Bogman's splendid residence on
Benefit street, ana thousands of dollars
worth OF costly furniture, rare bric-a- brac,
paintings and rugs went under the ham,
mer.
The doctor and his wife disappeared and
today comes the first message from either
of them since their departure. 1t is an
official dispatch from The police Of New
York TO the police OF Providence and
reads:
"Agnes Bogman, who gives her resi-
dence as 2Sl Benefit street, Providence,
r. l., was arrested IN Central Park today
for drunkenness.
Ii is the sad climax OF one OF the ir-
reguiarities III conduct whfcn FrUvfuenco
society did not see lit to overlook
Some years ago DIR. Edward Y. Beg
man, a man with an old and honorn bic
family record behind him, no spiendid
prospects, married Mrs. Lucy orham,
daughtcr of John Gorham, founder OF
the Gornam Manufacturing Comuany.
Jt was brilliant society match and
there was no home in Providence in
which Dr. and Mrs. Bogman were not
welcome guests. Es
They went to Europe and travelled the
length and breadth of the continent
DIR. Bogman adopted the theory that Z
man in Rome should do as the Romano
do, and applied it to Paris and all the
other capitals.
He returned to Providence with what
are known as Bohemian traits" very
highly developed along various lines.
Mrs. Bogman lied of broken heart.
Shortly aiterward the doctor met Ag-
mes Hayes, Nova Scotia domestic em-
ployed at the home of one OF his patients.
He offered her the opportunity of lcav.
ing the life OF servant and she ac-
cep.ed 1t.
Bogman's "housekeeper" for year,
Agnes Hayes became Mrs. Bogman. They
were married four years sgo by Judge w.
w. Douglass OF the Supreme Court. So
ciety did not approve OF the marriage,
and the wife found no more recognition
than the domestic had; nor SO much, for
as Agnes Hayes, the pretty house maid,
her reputation bad been above reproach.
To the credit OF the doctor, he stood by
his second wife, and accepted ostracism
as the penalty for his alliance. But with
tie loss OF social standing came the
falling off in practice. Many patients
changed their physician, and to make tho
downfall more sure, the physician In
creased the use of liquor TO excess. ana
added the cocaine habit to his list at
weaknesses.
The auction and breaking up of the
Benefit street household followed as q
matter OF course.
DIR. Bogman is supposed to be In Ten
nesseee trying to restore his health by o
season of abstinence.