Show WHO DAUBED THE GATE 1 Congressman Coxs Trouble with a Sweetheart Sweet-heart of Other Days Congressmanelect Cox of the Fourteenth Four-teenth New York district complains of r malicious trespass tres-pass and is complained tl plained of by the widow Melville = lie says and his > i wife and hi mil j man swear to it j I that Mrs Melville i daubed his gate > porch front yard land l-and the appurtenances appurte-nances thereunto belonging with HON i N cox tar linseed oil rancid grease and other substances not usually thrown around 1 loose and she swears that he promised to marry her then married another woman and has got up the criminal charge against her merely to discredit her suit for breach of promise It is a queer case and the force of social 1 pressure in Ellenville and vicinity may bo gauged by the fact that though the double ended scandal has been public property for months neither of the local papers alluded al-luded to it even in the heat of tho campaign cam-paign until it came regularly before the court The Hon Isaac N Cox when he was plain Mr Cox in 1878 paid his addresses to Mrs Sarah Melville a widow employed in the Terwilliger house According to her testimony and that of her friends ho was very devoted promised marriage and to various tender missives signed himself Your Ikey Much to the peoples sat > prise on Jan 5 188S ho married Miss Liz zie i Stoddard of Mountaindale Sullivan county The deserted widow brought suit I which was delayed by a most remarkable series of accidentsone lawyer died an other ran off and two others declined to act ctDuring During all this time according Mr and Mrs Cox their house and grounds had been defiled as aforesaid There were twentysix distinct outrages and so many lady callers had their dress e3 injured that the secret could not be kept though they strangely enough took no legal action At length they employed one James Thorpe to watch and one fine evening last October he grabbed Mrs Melville in front of the gate There was a great outcry and struggle an appeal to tho neighbors and then Thorpe was arrested for assault He ts swore that he caught Mrs Melville in the act of dashing linseed oil on the gate and Mrs Cox swore that from the window she saw a woman throw something that she rushed out and found Mrs Melville struggling strug-gling in the grasp of Thorpe Mrs Melville Mel-ville proved that she was going on a perfectly per-fectly legitimate errand and that her dress and hands were free from any sign of oil It also turned out that Thorp was a doubtful character so it is the oath of one woman against anotherthe successfully suc-cessfully married against the jilted one All Ellenville is mightily excited and the district generally |