The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-05
WEALTH AND UNHAPPINESS
a SUIT DISCLOSING ONE MILLION
AIRES DOMESTIC LIFE.
wife Demanding q Luxurious Mansion,
Coach, and n frinceiy AIlowance-Both
Husband and wife Charging Adultery.

A wife Demanding = Luxurious mansisn,
Coach, and a Princely AIlowsnce-Both
Husband and wife Chargins Adultery.
Counsel for Eliza Jane Walker, who sues
and Is sued for q divorce from tho millionaire
Joseph Walker, made q motion before Judge
DAILY, yesterday, for Temporary alimoDy Her
motion recltes the pecunisry and other assist-
ance that she gave her husband In establishing q
bis business, from which In 1870 he accumulated
one million dollars, and then she AYERS that the
assistance he gives his very numerous relatives
has considerably reduced his fortune, and given
rise TO unhsppiness between her and bin. She
believes that he has large deposits In two banks,
and owns . tl2,000 mortgage on real estate In
Orange county, N. j.; dwelling In Brooklyn
worth $1,000 fec OF $4,000 In large Pbila-
delphis commission house . hotel and farm In
Keyport, N. j., valued al $4,000; hotel, dwell
ina and large farm near Natiek, Mass. worth
tlOO,0O0; a half interest in the house Of II. II.
Mcdonald 4 Co., New York, worth 100000, and
patent or copyright OF Vinegar Ditters, which
Yields an income OF 100000 year. 6he has no
property Of her own, but is dependent upon bim
for support.
Among her reasons for spplying for divorce,
Mrs Walker says that MIR. Walker Is inclined
TO coaseness, rouEhness, and unevenness Of
temper; that he has voice which, as occasion
inclines him, starties one with fear, and that
since he has risen to wealth he Is without an
equal In the use of profane violent vituperative,
and iDdiscreet language in the family circle and
himself"
Mrs. walkers complaint further AYERS that
without proper cause MIR Walker has frequently
threatened to advertise her In the daily news
papers, cautioning the public against trusting
her on his account, and that bis friends and
business partner often dissuaded him from this,
but that once one of the notices was published
In an altered form, omittinR her name, and tnat
sdS Css sshs Is ar RT the
ant physical violence, and has so reviled and
abused her as TO prostrate her with sickness.
Her physiclan has thus become her most expen-
sive necessity. Her husband, the complainant
continues, has attempted, by Offering bribes to
might have grounds for a divorce. She denies
all charges OF adultery made egalnst her, out
prefers many charges OF adultery against MIN.
Walker has been improvident, sausnderin9 his
money At the rate Of tl0o day, and has been
preJudlcia TO her and her children. Since this
action has been commenced he has seized her
coach and horses and has driven her from his
house, taking In her place his son Gerry Walker
and his family, and transferring to him all the
appointments Of the house as a eltt.
In conclusion, Mrs. walker prays that her
husband may be ordered to provide her with a
furnished house IN TINS city, OF n Kind TO which
sho has been accustomed, and to pay for her
support $40 a week and her counsel fees, OF
else that he be ordered to AFFORD her relief sum
Client TO buy proper furniture span OF horses
and coach, and pay her counsel fees and 500 a
week for her support. As final decree she sues
for $4,000 alimony during her life.
davits OF servants in his employ, charging upon
Eliza Jane Walker hAbitual drunkenness and
immortality, including adultery with several per-
sons, one OF them well known In this city, who
visited her In her husbands house and met her
while she rode In her coach.
Mr.. Walker, denying that he has committed
adultery, AYERS that at no time has he been
worth more than S3o0,o 600, and that recent losses
have reduced his fortune to less than $1,000
His ch ldrsn grand dchildren, and step grandchil.
dreu number At least nifty. and almost all OF
them enjoy his support, or, AT any rate, his gen
ae4t nf Ia IL " "
as a sporting man, owning three cele brated
horses, and living TO some extent At the expense
of his father. lnis son lived In his fathers bo-
tel, near Natick, Msss., and is the person who
was taken into the Charles street house, with
his family, to take charge of the property, the
furniture IN which was Afterward given TO him
Ii IL said that Mr.. alker's weakness Of intellect
is frequently exhibited In his Iessness about
his moneys and nearest interests. He u said tt
have lent large sums upon fictitious bonds and
MORTGAGES. His est tabishment Of the Pulsome
ter Iron W orks. In jersey City, is said to hav,
been a rash and unbusinesslke venture, costing
t400,00O and resulting In total failure.