The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-22
HERE'S RICHNESS.
The Lively Domestic Life
of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hathaway.
FROM TIE SEA SIDE.
A tory in which a Husband
Makes Charges Against Both
His Wife and His Grown
Daughter.
Special to the Sunday Morning NsDs.


scandal which John G. Hathaway. of
Long Branch City, and his wife have been
circulating about each other for the last
few months has eliminated in cross
divorce proceedings instituted by each
against the other, in the New Jersey
Court of Chancery. Each alleges that the
other has been guilty of adultery-Hath-
away naming Terence c. Boylan, a liquor
dealer on Tenth avenue, New York, as
the guilty party with his wife, and his
wife naming Katie Stone, house maid
in her employ, as the guilty party with
her husband. A likely outcome of the
suit is a third divorce case that will prob
ably be brought by Mrs. Boylan against
her husband. Mr.. Hathaway has already
stolen quiet little march on his wife.
Having retained Charley Haight the
County Prosecutor, as his counsel he has,
through his influence, secured the indict-
ment of Mrs. Hathaway and Boylan, who
in his relations with the woman is said
to have passed as Henry Benjamin, for
| adultery.
SHE HAS A HISTORY.
Mr.. Hathaway is the eldest son OF the
late William Hathaway, Sr., who was for
many years the proprietor of the Hatha-
way House, at Deal Beach, one Of the
Jersey coast.
1t is estimated that Mr.. Hathaway is
worth $4,000 10 100000. His mother Is
still living at the Old Homestead ri Deal
Beach; she is ninety years of age. Mr..
Hathaway's family have. owned the
| hathaway House, at Deal Beach, for
| forty years, and the family is well known
to nearly every summer visitor of the
| upper part of the New Jersey coast. The
house stands in a beautiful grove of trees
on the avenue leading from Seabright,
Monmouth Beach,. Long Branch and
and is a favorable stopping place of
driving parties.
| Mrs Hathaway is fair, fat and forty
| four. She Is a daughter of the late Elisha
| West, who was for many years the pro-
prietor of the old hotel at Long
Branch City. She has brother who is a
wealthy fish dealer in Washington Mar
ket, New York; another brother is James
| West who is at present serving term at
hard labor in the New Jersey State Prison
| at Trenton for bigamy.
| One of her sisters, Mrs. Ruth Cooper,
alias Mrs. Ruth Marshall, is the woman
| who created scandal in New York some
years ago by claiming to be the widow of
| the late John Marshall, one of the origin
ators and proprietors of the old stage line
on Broadway, and by instituting pro-
ceedings to gain possession of his i'm
| Inense fortune. Mrs. Cooper was the wife
OF Isaac Cooper, now deceased, q former
| proprietor of the famous New York Hotel
| At this hotel Mrs Cooper became ac-
quainted with Joha Marshall and ran
| away with him: when she brought suit to
secure Marshall's fortune, she claimed
that after the death of her husband Mr..
| Marshall made her his wife.
SHE FRIGHTENED THE POLICE.
John G.. Hathaway married Eliza West
| in September, 1861, at Long Branch vii
! lage. They moved from Long Branch to
| Goodman avenue and Bangs street, AS
| bury Park. Mr. Hathaway went into
business as a hardware merchant. He
went into politics, became Director of the
| County Board of Freeholders and as
sumed control Of the Shore Press in As
bury Park.
Mrs. hathaway bore him seven children.
but the husbands suspicious made his
| life miserable. He accused his wife of
consorting with other men, and quarrels
between them were so violent that on one
I occasion the husband had to call q
constable to arrest his wife. On this oc-
casion the wife rolled up her dress sleeves
and put the blue coated official to flight
On another occasion Mr. Hathaway al
| leges that he became so indignant at his
wife's conduct that he locked her out of
! the house. He claimed that she had been
to New York with a certain hotel pro-
prietor.
They returned afterwards to Mr..
Hathaway's house on Broadway, in Long
| Branch City, and lived cat-and-dog life
there till at the beginning of last Octo-
Der, Mrs. Hathaway, In the absence of
her husband, packed up lot of furniture
and started an independent household in
the MulenbrincE block, only short dis
lance from her husbands home. Mrs.
Hathaway took with ner four OF her chill
dren.
Mrs. Hathaway's youngest child was
down with the Group and Mr.. Hathaway
claims that his wife brought this child
from her home TO his home with scarcely
any covering on it, despite its illness.
| She left the child there without attend
ance Mrs Hathaway had no means of
support when she separated from her
husband, and he alleges he did not sup
port her.
The morning after Mrs. Hathaway sent
the child to her husbands house by Katie
Strong, the servant. Mrs. Hathaway went
to New York. where, it ia claimed, she
has since lived with Mr. Boylan
THE LITTLE BOY TAKES PEEP.
Mr.. Hathaway alleges that from Janu-
airy 81, 1899, up to the afternoon of Feb
| ruary 4, Boylan had lived with Mrs. Hatha-
| way in her apartments in the Mullen
brinck block; that during the four days
they were both grossly intoxicated most
of the time and that she was careless of
her demeanor even in the presence of her
own children. Willie, Mrs. Hathaway IS
thirteen-y ear old son says that his mother
tied the door leading into her bedroom
fast with rope so as to keep him out;
that he peeped through the keyhole and
saw his mother sitting on the bed in her
night dress kissing Boylan, who was in
his undertaking.
He further alleges that when they after
wards vent to New York they lived at
No. 241 East l14th street Her sister, Mrs.
| Cooper at that time occupied the same
flat at No. III West Eleventh street in
which Robert Ray Hamilton lived with
! Evangeline Mann.
His twenty-year-old daughter Jennie
a bright and pretty girl, lived with her
aunt in that Hat with Henry Worth,
her husband. They afterwards went to
live with her mother and are still with
her.
Two years ago Jennie went to her
fathers house at Long Branch City,
bringing Henry Worth with her; she told
her father that Worth was her husband.
Mr. Hathaway demanded her certificate
of marriage, but she claimed that she
had lost il. Mr.. Hathaway became tired
OF supporting Jennie and her husband
and put them out. They then went back
to New York.
MRS. HATHAwAY's ANSWER.
Mrs. Hathaway, in her answer, denies
that she knows Henry Benjamin. and
alleges an intimacy between her husband