Kings County NyArchives News.....Elmore, Henry S. Stranger Than Fiction January 25, 1879
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Brooklyn Union-Argus January 25, 1879
 Sat Jan 25, 1879
        STRANGER THAN FICTION
The Story of Henry S. Elmore's Attachment to 
Mrs. Hutchins--What a Former Inmate of the
Latter's House Says. 

   The attachment between Mr. Henry S. Elmore, 
ex-trustee of Rev. Dr. Talmage's church, and 
Mrs. E. A. Hutchis, which led to Mrs. Elmore 
obtaining a divorce from her husbnd, followed
soon after by Mr. Elmore marrying Mrs. Hutchins,
and later, by the sad condition of the latter's
mind which caused her removal to an insane asylum
in Massachusetts, is altogether a remarkable
story and creates almost as much interest outside
this city as it does here where all parties are
very well known.
The New York Sun of to-day gives some facts in
connection with the parties, furnished by a
person who for some time was an inmate of Mrs.
Hutchins' boarding-house at 46 South Oxford street.
The Sun's informant says: "I never saw a mother 
who thought more of her children than Mrs.
Hutchins. She had a son about sixteen years of
age, and a daughter of about thirteen, and 
           THEY WERE HER IDOLS
If a rainstorm came up while they were at school
she was off in an instant with their rubbers
and wraps, not trusting them to her servants. 
She was fond of her home, rarely ever leaving it,
and did her best to please the boarders who 
patronised her.
  "Elmore came to board there in the house four
years ago. His wife and son accompanied him, and
the only noticeable thing about him ws his
fondness for Moody and Sankey tunes, which he
led in the parlor. No one ever dreamed of an 
attachment springing up between the landlady
and Elmore. Mrs. Hutchins was the widow of 
ex-Supervisor Hutchins, of the First Ward, and
was related to Mr. James E. Raymond, a near
neighbor, who is a salesman for H. B. Claflin 
& Co. She had a moderate income, and seemed to
have no desire except for her children who were
             ALWAYS IN HER THOUGHTS	
When her relations with Elmore were brought before
the public through the refusal of Mrs. Elmore
longer to live with him, her friends and boarders
began to desert her. One banker who lived in the
house wrote a mutual letter to her and Elmore
advising them to seek repentance, and to 
abandon their unlawful attachment. Mrs. Hutchins
was quite willing to accept his advice, it is said,
and she told Elmore that he ought to go back
to his wife, and to live with her as before he met
her. When Mrs. Elmore heard this suggestion she 
said that she would have a word to say in the
arrangement, and that was that she had lived her
last day with Henry S. Elmore.
   "While Mrs. Adeline Elmore was in Monroe
County procuring her divorce, Elmore lived in the
boarding house with Mrs. Hutchins, and was most
liberal with his money. He is said to have
           CLOTHED HER RIGHTLY
to have given her jewelry, bonnets, a seal
sacque and a pony and phaeton. After their marriage,
however in Canada on Thanksgiving Day, whither
Elmore went to escape the penalty of marrying
in New York agains the order of the Supreme 
Court contained in his first wife's decree of
divorce, his course toward Mr. Hutchins as to
the bestowal of money changed from one extreme
to the other. Her friends say that she was
lured on to the marriage by the expectation
that she was to have free spending of all of his
money, which his liberal disposition led her
to entertain. The scandal had already robbed
her of her children, who were taken to live with
her dead husband's relatives; and when the 
disappointment of the change in Elmore's treatment
came upon her, her reason gave way and she 
became hopelessly insane."


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