The Washington times., 1907-12-15
Baltimorean c h arg e S
Woman With Act That
Forced Him to For
swear Clergy.
Alleges She Was Desir.
Gus That He Should
Make Her His
Wife.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14-AppIication has
been made to Justice Keogh. in the su-
preme court Of West Chester county.
for an order to examine as a witness,
before trial, the Rev. James 3. Goggin,
assistant rector Of Holy Trinity Church.
This application reveals a remarkable
suit by which Frank Drugan, a former
member Of the Jesuit brotherhood. asks
$4,000 damages from his cousin, Mrs.
Emily r. Dunphy. alleging an attack.
Mrs. Dunphy, through her attorneys,
has entered a general denial.
Mrs Dunphy is the wife OF John
James Dunphy, formerly a wealthy
Gold street leather merchant. who
failed IN 1906. She is a woman OF
striking beauty. the daughter OF
Thomas H Barrett, who was deprived
of his Office OF steamboat inspector by
President Roosevelt because Of his con-
nection with the Slocum disaster.
she now lives. separated from her
husband, at the handsome home OF her
father in HuIcrest avenue. Yonkers.
He ForswOre Priesthood
Mrs. Dunphy, In 1895, went TO live in
the Belleciaire Hotel, Broadway and
Seventy-seventh street Il was about
this time that her friendship with her
cousin. young Mr.. Drugan, then a Jesuit
student in good standing and a profess
sor in St. Francis Xavier College, grew
into the alleged infatuation. which. ac-
cording TO the papers In this case. led
y 70 his withdrawal OF his candidacy for
the priesthood.
Frank Drugan is a son OF a wealthy
Baltimore commission merchant and is
twenty-seven years OF age. His mother
IS the sister Of Mrs. Dunphy's father.
He took his first four years of study
in the Jesuit order at Frederick. Nd.
and passed the next four years in phil
osophical studies at Woodstock Semi
nary. Woodstock. Md.
It is alleged by Mr.. Drugan and his
friends that, as a girl, Emily Barrett
loved him. and that she used to travel
from New York to Baltimore to see him.
Also It IS asserted that she admitted her
disappointment when he entered the re-
ligiOus order. Mr.. Drugan declares that
his cousin not many months ago ad-
mitted that it was once her fond de-
sire that he should marry her.
During the late summer and autumn
months Of 1906, according TO the sworn
statement upon which the complaint and
the damage suit are predicated, Mrs
Dunphy and her young Jesuit scholastic
cousin went about in pleasant comrade-
ship 20 all-nlght restaurants and cafes
Of New York, where members Of re-
ligious orders are seldom seen.
nh
said TO have taken place in a fashion
able Broadway hotel near Seventy
fourth street in the latter par: of 40
vember, 1906. the result Of which was
that Mr.. Drugan could not consistently
ccrtinue his studies for holy orders.
His Plant in Legal Verbiage.
The complaint. which was served Sep
tembor 30. 1907. by Alfred B. Osgoodby
as attorney for Mr.. Drugan, alleges a.
follows:
That for a period Of about ten year.
Immediately prior to the first day OF
December. 1906. the plaintiff was a
Jesuit scholastic. associated with St
Francis Xavier's College, In the city o.
New York. and iu such vocation it wa,
required of the plaintiff that he lead
life Of strict purity and celibacy, nut
that until said first day Of December
1906, the plaintiff risidly adhered to
life Of purity and celibacy.
That the defendant IS and was, or
December /, 1905. and for long tirn,
prior thereto. a married woman, beinl
the wife of one John James Dunphy.
That on the first day Of December
1906, the defendant. by trick and arth
fee induced the plaintiff to enter /;
room at Ansonia. Hotel, located in tht
borough OF Manhattan. city OF New
York. and that while the plaintiff wa
in said room, I'll and confined to the be,
therein, the defendant surreptiuousl!
entered said room.
The complaint. which is unpublishabli
in its entirety, then sets forth that tn,
plaintiff was not only tempted exactl,
as St Anthony was. but that ne Wa.
subjected by force Of arms" to an at
tack