The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-15
NO EL0PEMENT ABOUT IT.
ONLY A CASE OF SIMPLE ABANDON
1ENT BY Mr.. WRIGHT.

MIR. Bercroft Tells the story OF His
Domestic TrOubles.--HOw a West
HOboIken Man Abused His Wife.
A TAT TIER reporter fonnd Mr.. William
81. Bercrof seated in the dining room of a
very neat two-story frame building on the
corner of Hague and Spring streets, West
Hoboken, yesterday. When he was ques-
toned concerning the attempted elope-
ment of his son-in-law, Raymond Wright,
with young lady residing on Central ave-
nue., he evinced the greatest reluctance to
speak. 'Myself and family always lived
in peace and contentment until RAYMOND
Wright made bis appearance IN our tam.
lily circle. Mr.. Bancroft finally said: she
was nice looking, gentlemanly fellow.
and made a very favorable impression on
my daughter, Ida. He made great represent
atoms of the bright future before him and
spoke of an estate in West Troy, n. Y, he
he would fall heir to when his parents died,
and when he asked for the hand of my
daughter in marriage my wife and I con-
sented. Our trouble commenced at once.
He and his wife boarded with me previous
to their housekeeping. l found that in
stead of the thriving business man he re-
ming and deceiving glib-tongued scoundrel.
He was employed by the firm of Browning
q Co., spring bed manufacturers, as a
travelling salesman. He travelled but little
though, and shortly after the marriage he
began to abuse his wife, and repeatedly
made threats of violence against her when
she spoke of informing me of his brutal
conduct. He would come home late at
night, after his disreputable orgies, and
knock her down and kick and jump on
her, and l seldom saw her without swol-
len eye or some other ailment"
'sHe did finally try to shoot you, didn't
he :" the reporter asked.
"Well, I'll tell you," said Mr. Bercroff:
''the stories they have been telling in re-
gard to that are utterly false. It was not
me whom he intended to shoot in the first
place; it wss my daughter Emma" and
Mr.. Bercroff pointed to a pretty youno
girl, with bright blue eyes and dark hair,
who was clearing off the table, "On the
morning before the shooting Wright sat at
the breakfast table. 1 sat opposite
him.
'SThis is the night / shoot somebody in
this house, he said, then I viii take my
clothes and depart quietly"
Nothing more was thought of this, as
he frequently made such threats. In the
meantime, let me say that she believed
Wright was criminally intimate with the
wife of a man named Scholderer, with
whom he and his wife had been boarding.
That night while my daughther and
a gentleman friend were seated in the par.
Tor. knock came to the door. It was
Scholderer. He asked for Wright who was
seated in the kitchen reading. Wright
went up stairs and Scholderer Immediately
Iav 101 L.
timaoy with his (Scholderers) wife. When
heard the loud conversation, l went up
stairs, and on learning its cause requested
Scholderer to leave my house. He refused
to go, and 1 undertook TO eject him by
force. AS did SO Wright, who had his
revolver in his upper vest pocket, drew it
and pointed it at my daughter Emma. We
were near the door, and l closed it, leaving
Wright in the parlor, and my daughter and
myself in the hallway. Wright pulled the
trigger, but the revolver missed fire. He
pulled it second time, the ball going
through the casing of the parlor door, and
lodging in the frame of the door leading to
the street."
"Have you any belief in the rumor that
Wright has eloped? the now thoroughly
interested reporter asked.
"No, don't believe it." said Mrs.
DercfOH, mhIrOnly LOOKING woman, VINO
up to this time had not spoken; ''nor does
the rumor of his being in Baltimore con-
tain any truth. He is stopping with his
step-father in Brooklyn, an old rascal who
was disbarred in Troy for forging will.
He is as big rascal as Wright, and they
will make very fine team"
The reporter went to the place desig-
mated as the residence of the Scholderers.
'sWho's there?" was the reply of a fe-
male voice to the reporters knock
Somebody who would like to speak to
you, replied the reporter
''Vell, id is bedder for you to 90 way
from dot door righdt away quick If you
vos some more of dem crazy newsbaber
mems vot bodders me mine head some
more, I'll drow some hot water by your
head some more times; you don'd got no
more senses like Won leedle bapy."
The young woman residing on Central
avenue that it was supposed had eloped
with Raymond Wright could not be found
1t is generally believed that the elopement
story is hoax, and was gotten up by his
family to conceal his whereabouts.