New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09
CORRESPONDENT CALLED A MYTH.
REMARKABLE TESTIMONY IN A DlNohOH
SUIT BROUGHT BY RICH
CONTRACTOR.

,,,. for an absolute divorce on trial before
Justice Pryor In the Supreme Court YESTERDAY
the defendant asserted that her husband NOT ohA'
invented the correspondent but induced her TO SGD
confession of misconduct with this nctluous
orsorasa for the sum of SO. John G. Scully'
wealthy contractor, OF Duane-st and west broau-
way who several years ago was caluiua'o w
the Assembly is the plaintiff In the suit. ne anu
his wife Lena were married in DECEMBER 100
and he alleges that for six months IN 1877 anu 4e'I
sba lived with a man named Henry Josteeh' AZ
No q9e Ues, Forty-ninth-st Mrs. Scully says she
never heard OF any person named JoS'ee" e"oep'
from her husband . -
Mary Ward Essie Graham and DAVID Brown
were the first witnesses called when the care "e"'
70 trial Yesterday They testified on behalf OF the
,ot,,tf that they had seen a man In Mrs. Scuys
an,rtnents at No 1886 West Forty-ninth-st late al
night and early In the morning. ana hdu see' 'i''
SculIy cooking breakfast for him whi'e ne Wa
half dressed They said they could not iueh'iiS
the man. but had heard Mrs Scully speak OF MN
as Henry Josteen. Mrs. scully was living apar.
from her husband at the time. THY Aherh next
swora to seeing a man. TO whom she was intro
duced as Josteen, sitting In Mrs Scui! "P''t
ments with Mrs. Scuy on his lap She "ou''
not know Josteen if she saw him. she addeo' An
other witness swore that Mrs. Scuhy had confessed
to her that she had left her husband FOR henry
Iosteen. who was going to marry her when she
had divorce e,,.
when the plaintiff rested his case, Mrs. scullys
counsel called William II. Godfrey, grocer VINO
su,ora tina, the defendant lived in his house az
nurse through September. 1880, mt the time she was
said TO have been living In Forty-ninth-st. lie
said he had never heard of Josteen. Other VIII
nesses who had employed the woman gave similar
testimony and George j. Scully, the eghteen-yeai,
old son OF the plaintiff and defendant, was tIIeIl
ca lied lie testified that his father drote nm 'ui'
home and he had been supported D.! hIa ~ Tho
Mrs Lena Scuy, the defendant, then TOOK ne ny
stand She told the court that her huSpahus III
treatment caused her TO leave MIN ana WoIh w
sunDort herself and her children, ana she never
heard of such a man Henry Josteen uitIl her
hveband suggested the name. Gle told me ne
defendant "and wanted me to go TO hoieI WIN
some man. | refused. and he then asked ne -, 20
write a confession that had done So ana saiu ne
would give me so. was almost destitute az tiio
time and heartbroken. and wrote the cof'ieSS'o'
at his dictaton. ,, ,..oor, ,o, ,bereo"
How did the name Henry Jos'eeh SCI '"''''
Justice Pryor asked . . T.. .,l he
~ did not know what name TO put IN, ana lie
suggested and spelled the name. ., -
'3This is extraordinary statement re-
marked Justice Pryor. land a very serious one II
true" r.. -, 80. .ata .ho do
PENDANTS counsel. $500, -, l.,
Mrs Scully added that her husband told her II
she would sign the confession he would aiways
provide for her and her children. but ne mao nor
| done So Divorce papers had since been served on
! her by her husband u .,,s
"Your husband" echoed Justice Pryor, should .,L
| have known this The could have been dis
| missed on that ground alone, -, - $500.
| The Attendants counsel said he did not want
| the complaint dismissed on a technicalty; Dut dc,
! sired TO expose Scuy's disgraceful conduct, and
| Justice Pryor adjourned the case until Monday.