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Show SEWGJUSBAM. Rot; Female Physician Increased Hor .come and Bank Acconut By Match Making. jtNGLING TOE MEN 01 WEALTH. A Doctress Who Believes In Doing Good for Her Fellow Beings for a Cash Consideration. Newburgu, N. Y., June 2i-About six months ago a woman came to towu and took rooms at the Leslie house. Subsequently she leased rooms at No. 11 Water street, and the sign hung out bore this legend: "Dr. M. L. De Vcssy, M. D. V. I). C. M. S." The woman was showy in her dress, and attracted much attention on the street. With her came a woman whom she said was her daughter. The latler occupied the front rooms as au agency for a New York pattern establishment. The doctor doc-tor occupied the other rooms, and, if her story is true, made big money by effecting several remarkable cures. It is now shown that the doctor carried on the business of a matrimonial agent as well, for news comes from Middle-town Middle-town that she is the defendant in a case which has been instituted against her by Lizzie Moore Lee to recover money loaned the doctor. In. her answer an-swer the doctor says that Mrs. Lee agreed with her that if she would introduce in-troduce her to any man who would marry her she would pay her $100; that she did introduce Mr. Lee, and they were married, and that Mrs. Leo is yet in debt to her for board and money paid out to investigate the character of Mr. Lee when the marriage contract was made. The case is soon to be tried in Middletown. Dr. Do Vessy was surprised yesterday afternoon to learn that the matter had become public. To a reporter she said that she was of a fun-loving nature aud had helped hundreds of men and women to make matches, and considered it the most charming of work. It was generally gen-erally the women who applied to have partners secured. When an application applica-tion was made she looked about her at. some of her several offices in Washington, Middletown or Newburg, and, having picked out a gentleman she thought would fill the bill, secured a meeting of the couple, aud in a majority ma-jority of- cases matrimony followed. She believed in doing good for her fellow fel-low human beings, whether physically or matrimonially. Being asked if any matches had been made in Newburg, Dr. De Vessy smiled sweetly and sain : "No office secrets will be revealed here." Then she told about the suit Mrs. Lee, nee Moore, had brought against hor. In 1887 she was called to professionally pro-fessionally care for Lizzie Moore, who was then a blind girl. In time she wholly restored' the girl's sight, and ' dur- ing the attendance a warm friendship friend-ship grew up between them.' At length, she says. Miss Moore importuned impor-tuned her to iind her a rich husband, bhe told the girl that it would be very expensive work ' to visit summer resorts and similar places for that purpose. They boarded at the Russell 1 louse together and then at a privato house. Iji.zie, she says, gavo her . money ami so importuned her that she finally set to work in earnest to get the former blind girl a husband, hus-band, the girl agreeing to give her $100 . as soon as the wedding took place, and tho Doctor claims to have earned the money, the match being be-ing a case of lovo at lirst sight, The Doctor says that although the money was earned, she never made a demand for it, and that Mrs. Lee's suit is for money claimed to have been borrowed last summer. |