The evening world., 1888-12-07
WAS DIVORCED UNAWARES.
Mrs. Emma l.. Eames In n Very Peculiar
Legal Predicament.

Mrs. Emma l.. Eames In n Very Peculiar
Legal Predicament.
Mrs. Emma L. Eames, Of Bay Ridge, sat,
pale and pitiful, in Justice Browns Supreme
Court Chamber. in Brooklyn. to-day, ready
to deny the charges Of infdelity made against
her by her fearfully jealous husband, Frank
M. Eames, who is foreman in o straw hat
factory.
But Eames. who all but obtained o decree
of absolute divorce from his wife before she
realized that he had sued her, was not pres
emit. His counsel, Charles ]. Patterson. was
present and obtained an adjournment to
Dec. II.
Mrs. Eames 10 a dark-haired woman of
thirty-two years, and has an appearance Of
refinement and a delicate physique.
She was dressed in black. save for q red
wing In her bonnet. Her story is a sad one,
and the denouement makes q strong argu-
ment against the system in vogue quite gen.
orally In this State Of making the proceedings
in a divorce suit profoundly secret.
On Saturday, Oct. ~, Justice. Bartlett
heard q SUIT for divorce brought by flames
against his wife, in which she was charged
with criminal intimacy with one George p.
Hamilton. {E5..
whitney. appeared a. counsel for Eames.
and the servants employed in the
Eames household, Kitty and Annie
scriyen. testified that Hamilton was
the husband; that he was received by Mrs,
Eames in her chamber. and that they had
seen the two in compromising situations by
peeping through the keyhole.
charges, although Dr.. louis E. Preble tosti-
fed that at Eames's request and in order that
the whole matter be kept profoundly secret,
he served the summons on Mrs. Eames at her
home.
Justice Bartlett, OF course, saw only an or
binary default in this, but he hesitated to
sign the decree Immediately, and postponed
it for a few days.
Meantime. the newspaper men being ad-
mitied to the courtroom. told the story in
their respective papers. and, the next
day Mrs. Eames's elder brother, Will
lam II. Hamilton, who lives with his
aged mother and q younger brother at 81
Wyckoff street. Brooklyn, learned for the
his sister had been divorced.
More astounding still, as he read on he
read that the man who was charged with
sSn 1o,hsgI a her guilt 4 H %ss his S and her mG o 9wn
than her twenty year old brother.
George was crushed by the revelation.
His sister had been a good, dearly beloved
sister, and as she was twelve years his elder
a been q motherly sister. He had fire.
quently visited her and been petted by her,
but that they had held any other relation
than brother and 81, ter-perish the thought
The husband has led her q sad life, for he
was jealous of everybody, and had threatened
separation, divorce and all sorts of i'll things;
so that when DIR. Preble served the summon
on her. she thought it was only one of his
rawlings, and meant nothing.
She secured counsel III Arthur NJ. Sanders
and David Humphreys and applied for q re.
opening of the case. with the result that JUS
tice Bartlett ordered a jury trial, which has
been postponed rs stated.
1t is now confidently stated by her counsel
that the upshot of the proceedings will be the
setting aside of the former proceeding and
the granting of an absolute divorce to the
suffering wife.
The sympathy of the community is with
the wife, who Ia said to be loving and Iowa
BILE, and O perfect slave TO her husband.