The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-22
MR.. BEHRENSS DIVORCE.
THE SENSATIONAL DETELOPMENT0 IN
HIS SUIT AGAINST HIS VILE


The Rich Hoboken Druggist, Who was
Thrown From His window, Presents
the Evidence of His Wife's InndcIity-
Remarkable Stories Told by Witnesses.
The evidence taken in the suit brought
by John F. Behrens, the wealthy Hoboken
druggist, who has removed to Jersey City
Heights, to secure a divorce from his wife,
is full of sensation. Behrens's domestic
troubles first came to public notice the
night he was found lying unconscious and
bleeding beneath one of the windows of
his handsome residence in Hoboken. Sus-
picion was strong at that time that his wife
had thrown him. out of one of the upper
windows. They Separated soon afterwards,
and Behrens, to escape the scandal-loviDg
tongues of his neighbors, moved to Jersey
City Heigets. The peace of that commu-
nifty was disturbed few months ago by
her attempt to abduct one of the children
from her husbands house. At that time
divorce proceedings were in pr gress.
Behrens charged the woman with conduct
unbecoming wife, and mentions a Span
ish student named Felix Lozano as
correspondent. From the testimony
which has been taken it appears
that in the Summer of 1884, Mr.. Behrens
sent his wife and family to Weston, Conn,
for recreation. They boarded in a house
that was an educational institute in the
winter time, and boarding place in the
summer. Lozano was one of the students.
He remained at the Institute during the
summer vacation, and so became acquainted
with Mrs Behren nurse who accom-
iod On 1aa trim tocfsfs oT
in the pending divorce proceedings that
one night aft,r she had retired, Mrs
Behrens enterd her sleeping room, and hav-
ing satisfied herself that the witness was
asleep, went out, taking the witnesses lamp
with ner. She was absent long time, and
witness remembering that her mistress
drank freely, feared that something had
happened to her. So, the witness arose
from her bed, and went into Mrs. Behrens's
bedroom to look for her. Mrs. Behrens
was in undress, and the witness saw Lozano
there
A. S. Jarvis, who kept the Institute, at
Weston, testified that on one occasion,
while riding with Mrs BehrCns, she leaped
from her bench, and indecorously sat on his
lap. When he reminded her that she was
a married woman and should behaye her
self, she retorted IN the most unchaste
language.
john F. Behrens, the complainant, testi-
fed that Lozano visited his house last Fall.
One evening when they had little COM
pany, he missed Mrs Behrens and the
student. He hunted high and low and
finally caught glimpse of his wife in an
upper bedroom. As he entered by one door
Lozano ran from the room by another
door. Mrs. Behrens, too, disappeared with
surprising suddenness. He found her in
another room arranging her hair. She was
very flushed It was then that his suspic-
ions were aroused.
Mrs. Behrens's case has not been pre-
sented yet. The taking of testimony on
her side will probably be begun this week.
She has SO far attended only one Of the
hearings and that was the one at which her
husband testified. She is a well preserved,
handsome woman of perhaps forty Yeas,
but brazen in manner. She was accom-
panied by an elder daughter who is living
with her. She and her husband had been
married for twenty years and have seven
sons and one daughter.