The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-12
Suicide for a Law Suit.

While in a respondent state, caused by
i'll health and business reverses, Peter Il.
Arrison, a barber and Republican poll
tician in the Ninth Ward, Camden, ended
his life on Sunday night Dy sending a
bullet into his brain. When last seen,
about ten O'Clock Sunday night at The
City Prison, he appeared cheerful. He
left, as he told Chief of Police Dodd, to
go to his home at 5S8 Clinton street and
take some medicine.
Instead, he went to his barber shop, 545
South Sixth street, where he was found
about eleven O'clock by William Gar
wood, his journeyman barber, Arthur
Wingate, Martin Fraud and Charles
Welles, who had been informed that the
shop had not been opened and that Arr
son was not at home.
The body was found near the wash
stand. In the right hand was clutched q
revolver, with one chamber empty. In
the cash drawer was found q card, upon
which was written the following note:-
Goodbye, mother, and all hands, and
hoping that you will forgive your boy
Peter Then followed memoranda OF
debts owed by him, which he requested
Ds paid. The suicide was unmarried,
ABOUT twenty-nine years of age, and lived
with his mother. 1t was said that his
trouble was occasioned by an action in
the District Court and that was to have
come up yesterday for ejectment on ac-
count of failure to pay rent.
The Prettiest Woman Ever in Chancery.
In the Vice Chancellor's Court, at Cam
den, yesterday, Prosecutor Hendrickson,
of Mount Holly, attorney for Mrs. Lizzie
Jackson, formerly Mrs. Lizzie Raynor,
presented atidavits against allowing the
petition of Llewellyn B. jackson, who
had applied for the annulment of mar
rage IN the ground that she was a mar
ried woman when he welded her, and
that she had practiced fraud and decep-
ton. The application was for annulment
without alimony or counsel fees. Coun-
sci for Mr.. jackson presented affidavits to
show that William G. Raynor. the first
husband, is now a resident of New York.
The lady's counsel said that Mrs. Jack
son was married to William Raynor at
Bennington, vt. Afterward she dis
covered that he had a wife living, and the
laws of the state then gay her freedom.
When she married Jackson he was cogni-
Zant of these circumstances, and they
lived together for three or four years. On
Septamber IA, 1883, by consent of her hus-
band. she visited her father, Lewis
jerome, in Quebec. She received letters
from her husband and one from his book
keeper, which contained a notice of the
sale of the personal effects of his home at
Riverton. She Immediately returned to
Camden, where her husband met her with
a kiss, but afterwards informed her that
he would no longer live with her.
He secured board at the West Jersey
Hotel for her, and afterwards she went
No. 1874 West Thirty-fifth street, New
York city, returning to Camden after
ward. Her counse alleged that Jackson's
billheads showed he was conducting
branch offices in twenty-five cities in the
United States, and was able to support
his client.
Lawyer Crandall, counsel for Jackson,
fought the application, and said his client
was poor and unable to pay anything.
The lady in the case is one of the hand
soonest ONE who ever appeared in the
Vice-Chancellor's Court. The Vice-Chan-
cellor ordered the husband to pay SIS
counsel fees and $40 per week pending his
suit for annullment.