An intimate study of how the lives of Geoffrey Hawley Chapman, his young bride Cora Rapp Chapman, and his private aide Herbert Searvant were dramatically altered by an intemperate and ill-conceived extra-marital affair that ended in Searvant's conviction for Assault in the 1st degree. This is the editor's compilation of hundreds of articles covering this mystery that appeared in local newspapers. This history recounts the sensational attempted murder trials of 1891 in which the author's great-grandfather was found guilty of assault upon his paramour after getting involved in a frightful love triangle. Herbert Searvant was sent to Sing-Sing Prison where he obtained early release six years later in 1898.