Extraordinary Romance.

Evening Star, Issue 7610, 12 May 1888, Page 1

Extraordinary Romance.

» ' The Times's' New York special says: In the suit just ended before the Supreme Court circuit of Oswego County, Chicago, the sequel of a romance as strange as any in fiction has been developed. In 1851, while George C. Pennell, son of Dr Richard Pennell, a former distinguished and wealthy physician of Brooklyn, was pursuing hiß studies at Columbia College, he betrayed his eighteen* year-old cousin, Mary Hannah Schroeppe), daughter of a rich Oswego County family. Some months afterward the couple were secretly married by Rev. Mr Wood, and took up housekeeping in New York under the name of Mr and Mrs George Crosby. Two months after the marriage, and while the young wife was insensible from the birth of a son, Dr Pennell spirited the child away. Shortly after he succeeded in causing a separation of the pair, the wife returning to her home under the belief that her child was dead and buried and young Pennell going back to college. From her relations Mrs Pennell concealed all know* ledge of her marriage, and in the course of time inherited a large property. She willed her property to her brothers and sisters and to sundry charitable institutions. A career f honor opened for the young Columbia student, who, after graduating in 1853, WM called to several important Protestant Epkcopal rectorates, finally becoming pastor cf the rich church of St. Marks, in Newark, where he married an estimable woman several years previous to the death of hie first wife, and had several children. Recently the cast-off son of Rector Pennell, who had been brought up in the family of a Mormon market gardener, living m the suburbs of Brooklyn, discovered who he was and set to work to establish his Identity. He found the woman who had'attended his mother, in Houston street in this city, and confronting his fathw-fei Newark forced him to fly to aWtoMtt town. Then he brought suit for sfKhart of his mother's estate. Her relations fought him, and'the jury have disagreed,