The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-22
JOSEPH WALKERS FAMILY.
MS THIRD WIFE, A LAWSUIT, AND
NUMEROUS PROGENY.
Testimony In Divorce ProceedinRs-Ch
OF Inhdelitv. Drunkenness, Deceit, Trici<-
cry. Unhlnshinu fa alaehOOd, md LnnncH.


Testimony In Divorce Proceedings -Chsrxss
OF InHdelitv, Drunkenness, Deceit, Trfcts-
cry, UnbiusbinR falsebood, and Lunaey.
Joseph Walkers suit against Eliza Jana
Walker for divorce was before Judge RoDinsoa
yesterday. upon a motion for alimony and coun-
sci fees, pending the trial. The suit was begun
In December. the husband and wife occupyina
the same house for four days afterward. Thea
on his attempting to turn her out she resisted
her waiting maid, cook, and coachman taking
sides with her Then Mr. Walker took possess
sion OF his horses and carriages through .
replevlD suit against his coachman. Mr.. Wakes
next transferred his household property to his
son by former wife. and Mrs. Walker quit the
house. taking her servants with her.
Ten sf1dayits on behalf OF tho husband.
covering over one hundred pages, havs
been submitted and twenty ave answering
and Wits OF two hundred pages have been pro-
sented for the wife. rne complaint accuses
Mrs. walker OF improper intimacy with q Rront
number Of persons. She denies these aliega-
tons, and says that for the past i've years she
has been more tlrnn half tho time confined TO
her bed, and was for one hundred days out OF
her mind under the care OF physician ana lady
attendant. She shows that the bills OF hor
family physician were $500 yea, and that sho
paid $40 a yesr for drugs. Sue urOduced TWEEN
come exceedol &1O,O 0 a year and that he
squandeted tho whole Of II. Witnesses on the
@, her side char ed tnit she was adebauches and
drunkard and that her sickness was ieigucd.
IN her answer, wnich cover, iorty pages, Mrs.
Walker says that she Is forty-one years old, that
sue was UOrn IN Kentucky, and that she was
married to James +. lIrentop at the age of six
teen. She went with him to California In 1853,
and there misfortune overlook her. She first
became acquainted with Walker In California in
1875. He was poor, and she earned the frat
thousand dollars he ever possessed. She was
after that the architect OF his fortune, secured
by dealing In uatent medicine. They were
married In San Francisco III 1858, and he return
ed to New York with her In 1867. n millionaire.
Con. Joseph Lane OF the Mexican war and af-
terwar1 Governor OF Oregon aud United States
Senator, she says, was her first cousin. She had
two children 10y MIR. Walkcr. She sent them to
jena, Germany, because he was not 1T to be
intrustcd with the custOdy uf children. lie had
been IN lrried twice before, and has children and
grandchildren 10y Dotn MS 10 mer wives, and
nifty odd step children, observation-disclosures aud
step-gi gieat-grandchidren by his second wife.
| Mrs. Walker demands a divorce on the ground
OF her husbands unfIthfuncss, and asks tn At
commission ~ lunacy Issue a,ainst him. she
charges that he IL moving and shifting his prop
erty In hostility to her having already trans
ferred $60.O01 of his est tie from & lifornia 20
New York, the reason being that under the laws
Of CalifOfnIa he and she own everything In
mmun, share and share alike. and that hcr
half may descend to her heirs and not To bis.
ins prndinv action, ede S. IS. Is "a StrU-sie be-
tween three SETS OF heirs to cast her aside. SO
| tnat they obtain control of an estate OF
| $2.DO0J0. She asks for permanent ulinuuy Of
| $3D,t1O year, and for $4,000 year pending tho
| suit.
Ihe case ia stitl on.