AN AMERICAN SCANDAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4093, 8 April 1876, Page 4

AN AMERICAN SCANDAL.

TbeNew-York correspondent of the * Sydney Morning Herald* writes:—, “ Crime is on the increase all over the ’YBttfitfy, bttt that' has .been -the fatal tendendjr ’hr’ ’t&mferfcaff society ever since L the war. ' It rarely, however, i assumes!'. tHah r routine jforms, : hy^ + when. it- does is • scarcely plea^^ s , r&ding! ’ 'Quite' a sensation 1 "’ has 1 been made the last week by a temporary lapse of sanity 'in the highest of Canadian circles. •• ■Tfie the former, manager of the Grand 1 ' Think Railroad and present Railroad Commissioner for the Dominion, eloped with the wife and two small children of a wealthy Montreal merchant. The Lothario is only tweijty-two, and is an ex-lieutenant Of the army. They came to New York, and the superintendent of -police here, on the telev graphic reiju&st of the Montreal chief ~ :: of'/police, arrested arid threw them into gaol, in a very obliging manner, though he had not the slightest color ; of s»W' for mterfering. Then the father and brother of the wife came to?sew Yorkj and exacted a promise from ; her that she would return with them to her home. The Same evening, however, she gave them the slip, andVentwith her paramOr to PhilaA dolphin. Here her friends again came this time she returned The New York a savage gratification .j? p i tl|e;iiameß and fullest de- <" ■ " ' - .d'id: / ■■■./.