New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-09
The COURIS.
MRS. DE BELLEvILLE AND HER HUSBAND.

MRS. DE BELLEVILLE AND HER HUSBAND
ALLEGATIONS MADE IN THE DIVORCE sultan
ADJOURNMENT SECURED.
Justice Donohue, many actors and great
many curious people listened yesterday to considerable
amount assertion and denial sometimes by courtesy
called argument in the suit brought in the supreme
Court by Edith de Belleville against her huspahu
Frederick de Belleyille, for an absolute divorce
ON the ground Of inndety, accompanied by
treatment which is alleged to have been cruel
and inhuman, because those adjeoiives are
the which language of legal proceedings
of this character has yet been able to supply lle
case came up O motion made III behalf OF Mrs nc
BeevIe for temporary almony and counsel ices Inc
complaint alleges that the parties to the SUIT were mar
ried in Australia January l, 1850 Miss Ella fIord
ner is the correspondent The amount OF amony asked
for is S25 week. which is said TO be about onc-iourth
of the income of the defendant. Mr. de Beevie In his
answer denies that he ever married 10 the
plaintiff as at time Of the alleged marriage with her
he was in law the husband Of another woman, whom he
married in London in 1876. After the alleged marriage
with the plaintiff, London marriage was dissolved
and second MARI ,ge contract entered into by
and bet ween the defendant and Miss Pforduer in Octo
Der last at Chicago John H. Bird appeared yesterday for
Mrs de Believille and A. ]. Dttenhoefer for MI dc
Bellevile Mr. Dittenhoeer asked TO have the hearing
on The argument adjourned he had not yet had time
TO prepare his papers Mr. de Beleville OF
strongly opposeu 10 any uoI"y III
the proceedings but he had 10 ask for an adjournment
OF them When the papers which the defendant
pected to prepare should have been presented to the
Court and public 1t would Immediately appear that
the case attempted be made out by the plaintiff lad
been completely demolished. Mr.. Bird said that II nc
plaintiff TO be demolished by her husband II couII
only be an act OF cruelty the aters part 10 pn on
the hour of demolition. She ought to be demolished
Mr Bird then read the affidavit Of Mrs dc Beevie.
She was she says, born In Australia and had MOI fc
stood In urgent need OF necessary apparel She was IN
debted the generous fOrbearance OF the propetOs OF
anxious that Mr.. Moron's bill should be paid, rs she
entirely at his mercy for shelter she had no Noca
zion by which she could secure any money. ana
her mental distress was such That she couid
not exert herself in earning her living MT Ie bSiIt
willie had spent all the money which she had had
in Australia, which was a0ont $1,000, and an the
money which could be raised on her lewes Inc deicnu
him He wanted her TO bring suit TO have her
rage with him declared VOID the ground that he had
wife living at tine time OF his marriage with her was
S5 Hot believe ei his story about former
wife She had never attempted to get any goods on ms
insnit her in Brentano'- store airing that she
attempting him INTO debt Her husband hsd urea
Ira MnToury She had tried for months her
difficulties with her husband out OF the courts, ana 40
Belsvc would agree to no settlement and Ind
OF ali possible occasions Of making parade Of his present
alleged wife While denying her pttance Tor iooi ana
hOel and provided with mad and, as che Wa In
formed be was anticipating MS salary In order uiQnsty
and unreasOnably to lavish il upon her Mrs de Bele
VILE therefore asked that the hearing OF the mou0n
were adjourned all should only be done on the con
dition that Mr.. de Brleve pay her Dill Tor $40 Ioi
board at the Morton House.
Charles {. MaIbury IN an affidavit says that he has
lnowu Mr. and Mrs. de Beeve for about three ycars.
MIR de BepvIlc I'm 1880 Introduced the paiutln as ms
wife to the deponen Mr. de Beleyic always spoke OF
the plaintiff as wife up January D, 1883. On THIS
dale Mr. dc Bcllcyllle maiciOusly and wautOnly a.
tempted 20 defamc his wife. she Was thei. ne SAID
ofl0nf 70
ating with her. Nj Marbury had never Known
Vile 10 the last and he had asked her to do 80.
Jusce DouOnue advised Mr. de Bellcyiles counsel 70
produce nt the hearing the papers III the SUI by
which his first marriage asserted by MIN 10 have been
dissolved. The counsel sad he would abandon tue
aIleQa ton about the Orce but Justice D0nOhue tad
maj the divorce having been alleged, ought To be
nroyed II IL were not would show that the defend
snt was trying to conceal something. The case was
ndinnrned nnIll Monday next