The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-16
RECTOR HOWELL GOES TO. JAIL.
Refused to Pay mis- Finc. but Somebody raid
nc for him. and lie Maa RaIeased.

Refused to Pay mis- Ftnc. but Somebody raid
nc for Him. and ne Was Released.
MoNrIcELLo. N. Y, Dec. 15.-The case of the
Rev. David T. Howell Of st. Johns Church.
arrested for choking his wife. closed last night
at 8 O'Clock, and at IL ESQ.,. after three and one
half hours elaboration, the jury found a YER
dict Of guilty, and the court fined Mr.. Howell
So or nve days in jail. The rector refused to
pay his nne or allow his friends to, and was put
in the Monticello jail at 10 o'clock last night.
Mrs. Lizzie Howell, wife Of the rector, has
brought an action against Mrs. Samuel b.
Greene Of Monticello for alternating the afec-
tions Of her husband. Mrs. Greene Is the only
child Of the Hon. Thornton A. Niven. and the
only grandchild of the late Gen. A. Q. Nivcn.
Her mother was q noted belle of Monticello.
the daughter Of the late Col. I. P. Trcmain, for
many years President of the Bank Of Sullivan
County. Mrs. T. A. Niven Is also a niece of
Lyman Tremain. known in the politics and his
tory Of tho State. The papers in the suit were
served on Mrs. Greene on Tuesday. Former
Judge T. F. Bush Is the attorney Of Mrs.
Howell.
Rector Howell was liberated this morning at 8
o'clock. the fine having been paid unknown
to tho rector, and although Mr.. Howell refused
to leave tho Jail, the Sheriff insisted on his go:
when seen on the street this morning looked
as smiling and fresh as though he had, passed
the night quietly In his pleasant bedchamber
that his martial troubles had been growing for
the past seven.years, and began soon after his
menced about a year ago, when he found that
Mrs. Howell had carried news of domestic I'M
happiness outside. and particularly to those
who had been striving for his ruin ever
TO Monticello. He says he has had this trouble
in a greater or less degree in all the parishes
where he had preached. but here there was a
faction that continually encouraged his wife
and put her up to making his lifo a burden.
Il have never had q home," said the rector.
came husky in the recital, never had a place
where I could invite my friends or brother
clergymen. My wife had often said she did not
like church people, and that l was a liar and q
hypocrite. She has refused to attend my
church services, alleging this to be her rea-
SON."
When questioned about the suit begun by
Mrs. Howell against Mrs. Samuel B. Greene
for the alienation Of her husbands affections,
he said he had just heard of II after he came
out Of the jail this morning. The claim of the
Mrs. Greene Is q wealthy woman, he sup
posed the amount was fixed in proportion to her
wealth rather than to the real value OF his affec-
tons. Tho rector has been very much OF a so
ciety man since his residence in Monticello,
playing lawn tennis and croquet. at the homes
| Sunday Mr.. Howell frequently escorted Mrs.
Greene to her homo and partook OF o warm
supper, and quite often of o week night he
could be found in her deliberately furnished re-
authors, but his visits there, he says, were pure-
~ Legitimate and friendly. His calls, he says.
have been as frequent at other places as there,
and have never been questioned.