Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-25
MISS CoNDE ENGAGED.
Former Flame of Ensign stone to
Wed Another.
(New York Tlmes-2lth.l

NNCW DIX llneS-Litn.1
Society was surprised yesterday to re-
ceive the announcement that Miss Marie
Dorcas Condo daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Swits Condo. of 6 west Fifty-sixth street.
was engaged to be married TO Lebbeus
Harding Rogers, Jr., Of this city. Mr..
Rogers is "A Yale student in the classical
course of the class OF 1859.
Miss Condos engagement is notable
from the fact that she was the heroine
last spring Of love episode. which awOke
widespread public attention, and the out
come OF which was a rial by court of in
qury, which was probably without paral-
lei i'm the naval or military history OF
the country. The principal defendant
was her reputed sweetheart. Ensign
George l.. p. Stone, Of the United States
monitor Puritan, then I'm the Brooklyn
navy-yard. and the presiding officer was
Captain Sigsbee, Of the Inflated battle
ship Maine.
1t came about in this way: Ensign
Stone. whose mother was well-known 10
the Condos. and whose social position was
good. had been for some time a constant
caller on Miss Condo. and was pleasantly
received by her parents until he an
nounced his engagement 10 her last May,
and then the father entered a vigorous
protest. Ensign Stone declared that he
would marry the object Of his choice quite
irrespective of the wishes of her parent.
and was straightway forbidden the house.
He thereupOn commenced a fusillade OF
notes and other communications upon
the Fifty-sixth-street building, and in or
der to get Miss Condo out OF the reach
of his persistent advances she was re-
moved to the country place OF the Con-
des at Oswego, n. Y.
The ardent Ensign decided to follow
her and elope with her, a proceeding I'm
which his friend, Ensign Osborne. OF the
United States steamship Alliance con-
sented TO abet him. They both set off
for Oswego, and the young lover man
aged to effect an entrance into the Condo
cottage, using only a portion OF his own
name by way Of introduction. The elope-
ment scheme was ultimately frustrated
by a brother of the young woman. who
took her away from Oswego.
Mr.. Condo then complicated matters by
telegraphing to Secretary-of-th Navy
John d. Long that Ensigns Stone and
Osborne had been guilty Of annoying and
ungentlemanly conduct toward him, and
demanding an investigation. AS a result,
both officers were ordered confined 10
their quarters, and the court of inquiry
was instituted Mr.. Condo presented his
charges before that body, and Ensigns
Stone and Osborne defended themselves,
behind closed doors. The results of the
inquiry were dispatched to Secretary
Long. and he sent messages to the two
defendants and Mr.. Condo saying that
nothing in the shape of an offence against
naval regulations by either ensign had
been developed. He caustically informed
Mr. Condo that II the nature of the case
had been apparent in the latter's tee-
gram the inquiry would not have attained
the Importance IL did.
On June 18th last an open letter from
the Rev. DR.. John Hall, pastor OF the
Fifth-Avenue Presbyterian church. was
printed in this newspaper, I'm which DIR.
Hall said he had been told by Miss Condo
that she had closed communication with
the Ensign.