The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-26

his service. and after he had quit often re-
lieved the clerks employed in the doctors
two drug stores. One Saturday night when
he thus favored the doctor, the doctor in
vited him to stop at dinner on Sunday.
Mrs. Hornblower became angry the mo-
ment Vail entered the room.
"Do you mean to insult me, she de-
manded of her husband, " by bringing that
man to my table?"
"No," the doctor answered; "what has
he done ?"
elf he's what you say he is" retorted
the wife, I" I wouldn't SIT at the table with
him."
"What have / said r. qusried the doctor.
81 will show you at the proper time,"
was the res ponse. as she left the table.
81 don't want you" she angrily said to
her husband after Vail had gone, "to bring
such trash as that to my table again."
81 had no idea of offending you," the
| doctor put in.
Sim not your wife anyhow" was the I'M
reasoning reply of the wife.
"Who's the mother of these children
then?"
The devil sent them on the wing"
responded Mrs. Hornblower.
He admits that there YES some feeling
after that, and declares that he refused to
furnish her with SIS when she subsequent
~ demanded it. She had threatened him
frequently with law suits; and as she
would not say what she wanted the money
for he suspected that she wanted it
for lawyer. Afterwards, she demanded
SIS. He offered it to +.
"Chuck it into my lap" she commanded,
81 won't take it from your filthy hands
He did as she ordered
"Thank God" she exclaimed as she 1e
eeiyed it.. 81 can go and see my lawyer
now" He says that during the sickness
which followed this episode, he wanted to
minister to her but that she drove him from
her room, calling him dirty loafer, and
white hvered coward. Her food was left
for her because she refused to have her
children near her.
THE QUARREL OVER THE DAUGHTER
His version of the quarrel over the daugh-
ter varies materially, too from that given
by his wife. He says that when his wife
came to him, charging Elizabeth with i'm
morality with Jake Merseles, he was nat
urally indignant. He told his wife that it
was her duty to shield and protect, and
not malign her children. He asked her
on what she bssed her suspicious: and
she refused to tell. When Miss Libbis re-
turned home in the evening her mother
seized the carving knife and attacked her.
"Get OF your knees" she commanded,
6 or will leave mark on you that you
will carry to your grave"
The doctor and his son ran in in time to
save the girl from violence, and the grl fed
from the house. When she came back
there was no communication whatever be-
tween her mother and herself. She made
it so hot for the girl that she finally left the
house for good. Her brother Josiah was
her partisan and the mother had it In for
him. The doctor one night heard racket
in the dining room, and on rushing in saw
| the Infatuated woman holding young JOSIAH
| by his coat collar with one hand and knife
over him in the other. The doctor
PREVENTED BLOOD sP1LL1NG.
The mothers arrest on complaint of the
son followed. The doctor discouraged
criminal proceedings for the sake of the
family name. He did not offer bail for the
wife because, as he had requested Judge
Aldridge to drop the matter, he had no
idea that bail would be required of the
wife, and it was at his instance that the son
refused to prosecute the case before the
grand jury. The doctor denies that he
abused or ill-treated his wife, and declares
that if she was not the head of the house
hold, it was because she abd1cated and re-
fused to reign.
Mrs. HornbIower says her husband is
worth $50, 600, and has an income from his
practice end drug store of 81, 900 per year.
He says he is not worth So 900, and that
his practice ia not worth 5000 year. M.
L. Newbold is his counsel.