New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-27
slflv Orleans Republican.
- ,o.osooS.>oJ>~>N~~~~o~0> >-1Nos>'ol.1''l~'s
0FFICIEL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
oFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
THE COURTS.
T1,o Observation-Disclosures AfTair,

H.
an Injunction rest a ming Jennie BrOnson,the
divorced wife, from occupying the premises,
No DIG Constance street, came up for trial
in the Eighth District Court, which was
crowded throughout its extent.
The order Of Judge beaumont, allowing
alimony TO Jennie Bronson and assigning
the present residence of Mrs HOlbrOOk for
her uAe. Mr. Mott, of counsel moved to set
aside. an this order was granted eT p0Tte,
had hpep issFad TithOut affidavit and with
ont bond. The counsel argued that this
order had been granted without any war
rant of law, the counsel knowing of no case
where such an order was granted without
affidavit. The trltT, it WIS a 81 set Ut, was
a nullity because tIaudulently issued. The
petition and prayer for injunction were then
read as the basis of the present ac;i ion.
The answer to this application for injunc
ton was then read by j. B. Howard, Of
counsel for Jennie Bronson, which sets up
that she is the lawful owner of the house
which the legitimate Mrs. HOlbrOOk now
occupies, and prays the defendant in in
junction may be forbidden to enter, and
that she acquired it by act of donation
passed before A. MaZureau, notary public
1t was also set up that the marriage with
Miss POitevent was null inasmuch as she
had not received proper notice of it and
was therefore deprived of the right Of ap-
peal.
Mott offered in evidence the act of sale of
the house to Miss POitevent, the record and
Judgment of divorce sundering the tie be-
tween.A M. HOlbrOok and Jennie Bronson,
and an affidavit attesting that notice of
Judgment was sent to the defendant And
that this notice of Judgment had been re-
ceived by Jennie Bronson, the following
letter, written in answer to this notice, was
introduced as evidence:
NEW YORK January l6 1872,
Mr.. A. NJ Holbrook:
DEAR SIR-TO-day / am so happy and so
at peace with the world that / can not re-
frain from writing you my sincere thanks
for the only act of Justice you have ever
done me since the day fOOlishly married
YOU. If Judge Dibble we're here / would
throw my arms round his neck and kiss
him. Please thank Robert Mott for me;
also your brother Marcus and Hannah, if
they have in any way kept you to the point
of getting my earnestly prayed for divorce.
Thank God, / am now free of the name
and infamy of HolbrOOk. A prouder or
happier woman than l am to-day New York
does not hold. AS you have done this act
of justice toward me, permit me to ask
once more, I. e., that you cause TO be pub
lished in all the papers of the principal
cities, East, West and South, that you are
divorced; then the benefit to me will be
something toward reparatiOn. do not ask
you TO be generous or magnanimOus, for
you can not be either; but ask justice, not
favor.
All that medicine can do, or medical skill,
toward restoring my health is being done.
All that good and true friends can do to
help me is being done. Too proud to beg, l
have tOiled till they came to help me. Now
my residence is handsome and comfortable,
or it was before, in my blindness, l loved
YOU. Thank God that love is dead.) And
M,sn vr-Tn 4o11
you, if ] can see him when he arrives.
must still work hard ! but it is very pleas
ant My amUsemeDts are very numerous,
and / enjoy them every one. So much for
peaceful heart and cOnteuted mind.
Look at your right hand, that but for my
most careful and patient nursing, must
have been amputated, and say to yourself:
She saved my right hand, that with it |
should sign away her home and with it
again strike her. Look in the glass and
see the life She on the thirtieth day Of June
last saved for the third time and say, that
might still further crush and humble her"
who il humbled now y Go to that home
and eat one meal in peace, or ever sleep one
night there quietly, if you can. 0 what is
your money TO my sweet and blessed con-
tent? Truly, it is better to suffer wrong
than to do wrong. Now comes my sweet
reward-perfect peace and content for hav
ing done my duty.
The manifold wrongs you have done me
now, that / am legally free from you, for
give; the abuse you have given, and the
pain it has and will cause, must endure as
long as / 1--we.
had rather be as poor and happy as |
am than rich and miserable as you are and
must be as long as you live.
Poor Hannah to be looked upon in the
light she must be there, and the infamy of
those niggers to be cast upon her forever!
What was Marcus thinking about, to bring
his daughter, who is white, among her mig
ger aunts and cousinsl Alas alas!
My Florence sewing machine | want.
Please send it. My breakfast and dinner
napkin ring at the same time, if you please.
/ do not 20 by either the name of Shepard
or yours. nor have in New York, nor by
my first and good husbands name; but that
can matter nothing TO you.
Trusting you will prosper in health,
wealth and happiness. / remain, very re-
sDectfully, MRS. L. u. MUMFORD.
How is New Orleans to get payment OF
me for the suit would not answer Ha!
ha ha What have l Be virtuous and
you will be correspondingly happy. Ia, ia!
MRS. LORENZO ID. MUMFORD.
The following letter, written subseQu emit
", was also introduced as evidence, show
ing knowledge by the defendant of the
No. So IRVINE PLACE,
new 1uIhI may 81 1919 }
A. NJ. Holbrook:
SIR-Seeing by the papers you have mar
ried your woman, pearl Rivers, and hav-
ing now nothing more to fear from your
mOlesting me, ETC., again ask my rights,
l. C., that you pay me for my property, No.
DOS Constance street, which you have no
right whatever to take away from me.
! ask and Tant no favOrs from you what
ever, but do want my own and that which
ia iugtly mine.
Seven years and half l was to you a
good dutiful and virtuOus wife, as YOU
well know, and you only are to blame that
nv love for you died. Of that, however
did not propose speaking, and will not.
You know what my property is worth
and | hope you will send me the money
for it.
You can send the check to me direct, as
still 10y the advice Of my counsel) go by
your name.
Mary will bring to New York, as she is
coming very soon; but if anything should
happen that she does not come. will direct
one of the captains to bring her tEval TO me
Will write Mr.. Rozier to call on you, ana
he will take the money or check ana send
it to me.
j. HOLBROOK, Ex.
An affidavit of Jennie Bronson was flee
nv counselor Howard in which the former
stated herself to be the lawful wife OF
M. Holbrook; that the house is her own
that she was never lawfully divorced; tina
she has never parted with her title to tn
propertv. The affidavit also makes charge
against Mrs. HOlbrOOk which require some
thing more than an ipSe DIRT
H "a