The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-13
CHASED
HUSBAND
IN STREET
When Hs Was Arrested Mrs.
fuTIOng Announced Il Was
a misunderstanding.

New York, Sept. 1o.--After an exciting
chase on foot In Fifth avenue yesterday.
Mrs. Paul r. Furlong. member OF an
aristocratic New England family. caused
the arrest OF her husband on q charge of
assault.
In court she told story OF domestic
uphsppiness which involved a summer
filtration, but as she saw her husband
taken to prison she softened toward him,
and late last night obtained his release
on bail and announced that a reconcilia-
tion had taken place
Furlong dashed out of a fashionable
tailor shop In Fifth avenue, near Forty
sixth street, about three o'clock In the
afternoon In his haste he smashed the
glass In a swinging door.
His wife WAS a few feet behind him.
and as the door swung to it struck her.
Her head and shoulders crashed through
the shattered pane. sending a shower OF
glass onto the sidewalk. Her face was
! cut by the Jagged edges.
She disengaged herself and, with hys-
| terical cries OF stop thief" she sped up
| the street after her husband.
Furlong soon stopped and tried TO pla-
| cate his wife. begging her not to make
scene. crowd gathered and Policeman
Clark. OF the East Fifty-nrst street sta
L
the Yorkville police court.
NOT USED TO POLICE COURT.
.dagistrate Brann was surprised when
| prisoner and complainant appeared. Mrs.
Furlong is a pretty blonde. anu was rich
| ly dressed. Her husband. too, wore fash
ionable and expensive clothing. II was
apparent to the magistrate that police
court surroundings were new TO both.
Furlong said they were married in the
| Church OF the Ascension last October.
| They went 10 live at No. s5S st. Nicholas
| avenue and for the summer went TO
Larchmont. He said his wife did not like
the home he provided for her, and that
| she frequently vented her temper by
throwing golf sticks and hand mirrors at
him.
Mrs. Furlong said the beginning OF their
trouble was the finding OF a note in her
husbands pocket from a strange woman.
Together they went TO Springfield, Mass.
where Furlong's family resides and ef-
forts were made to patch up their differ
| ences. They were unsuccessful, Mrs. Fur
long said.
Magistrate Brann held the prisoner in
$500 bail, which he could not furnish. and
he was locked up. His wife began to cry
and left the court 10 obtain bondsman.
She offered cash bail. but IL could not be
| accepted.
| AbOut tlkut " tloth last HlSHt Slit df-
peared at the prison with DIR. Walter
Maynard of No. 222 Central Park South
and was allowed TO see her husband. She
clung to him and said IL was all a mis-.
take. There was no magistrate to accept
a bondsman.
BONDsMAN FINALLY APPEARS.
They had hardly gone when bonds
man appeared and Furlong was released
Friends OF the couple had interested
themselves I'm the case and Magistrate
Brann signed the necessary papers.
Mrs. Furlong was seen last night. she
was still hysterical from the days expe-
riences and regretted that she had
brought herself and husband into noto-
riety. She said Mr.. Furong's family il
well known in Springfield and that heI
family name is we'll known in New Eng
land. She said she was reared and edu
Gated in the family Of the Rev. +. Win
chester Donald, rector Of Trinity church
| Boston.
Mrs Furlong said her difficulty with
her husband had arisen through a misun
derstanding; that he was an athlete ant
handsome and q favorite with women.