A Fashionable Lady Charged with Bigamy.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 68, 20 September 1884, Page 5

A Fashionable Lady Charged with Bigamy.

New York, July 16.— For several months the inner circle of Long Branch society has been on the qid vim for the explosion of a certain sensational scandal. Gossips were positive about it, although they exchanged news of ifc only in whispers, and, sure enough, it came in the arrest of a handsome, wealthy, and well-known lady near Long Branch on a charge of bigamy. The lady is Mrs Lucy Cady Hewitt Sclneffehn, and her history is a romantic one. Her maiden name was Lucy Cady Dodge, and she is said to be a relative of the late Wm. E. Dodge. Before she was out of her teens Lucy married a man named Faust, but he soon died, leaving her a beautiful young widow. Then she wedded Nathaniel Hewitt, a member of a very wealthy Vermont family. Hewitt was a speculative crank, however, and after he lost almost all of his money he began to console himself by getting drunk and staying so. This was to much for Lucy, so they separated by mutual consent. She claims j that after the separation she obtained a divorce, but this is disputed. Then she went travelling about the country and made the acquaintance of a set of women, devout belivers in spiritualism. She adopted this belief, and one of the " circle " introduced her to Bradhurst Schieffelin, one of the old firm of Schieffelin Brothers, wholesale druggists. He is overjjQ years of age.

CATCHING A RICH OLD MAN. Mrs Hewitt proposed finally to lease Schieffelin's fine mansion and estate •at North Branch and reside there. He suggested, as an improvement, that they might both occupy it together. She consented ; so on May, 24, 1883, they went to Hoboken and was married. The couple lived happily together until Schieffelin's relatives heard of the marriage, and then there was trouble. They discovered that the lady was using her great influence over Schieffelin, and was inducing him to transfer his property to her piece by piece. They warned him, and declared that she was an adventuress, but all to no avail. He was infatuated with her. Schieffelin was known as a quiet philanthophist. He was tho largest stockholder in the Metropolitan Publishing House and the " Home," published by that Company. After his marriage to Mrs Hewitt he introduced her into literary business, and she became a regular contributer to the columns of the paper. In a short time she became controller of the paper, and the officers concluded that the office of the paper, in Stone-street, New York, would be the best place to find her. After waiting in the neighbourhood for several days the officers noticed a young man named Butts, who, after leaving the office, always started for Long Branch. Last evening, when he left, a piece of green veil, sticking from his coat-tail pocket, convinced them that he was carrying away Schieffielin's goods. They followed him to Long Branch and saw him enter Schieffelin's house. Detective Stanton had a friend in the neighbourhood, and, after finding him, took him with Foley to the house. He rapped for admission and was admitted, and found Mrs Schieffelin beneath some bed clothes in the cupola. She was taken to the Coui-t-house, and the husband went to secure bail. She claims the arrest was instigated by her husband's relatives.

ANOTHER HUSBAND IN THE FIELD. Hewitt, her stcond husband, is now living in Colorado, and has written te friends in this city that he never procured a divorce on account of the scandal it would cause in his family, and no papers have passed on either side. It is said that Mrs Hewitt married Schieffelin thinking that he was worth several millions and regarded it as a good catch. Since she married him she has been making use of his name, and any prestige it may have had to make all she could out of it. She was known as Maud Raymond in Washington and Charlottesville, Va., and as Mrs Chapman at another time in this city, and she has also used the name of Lucy Cady in advertising herself as the successor of Bradhurst Schieffelin as owner of the paper called " House and Home." Herbert W. Beecher, who made the complaint- upon which the \t arrant was granted, was at one time connected with the paper.