The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-14
MRS. RICE AND Mr.. KNAPP
a TRENTON WIFE HAS LOTS OF FUN
WITH a HOTEL CLERK.

The testimony in the suit for divorce
brought by DR.. Rice against his wife is
pretty good reading for the Trenton pub
lie. Among the recent witnesses was
Mrs. M. Louisa Anderson, of Bucking-
ham, Pa.
She had for years been in the habit of
visiting the family of DR.. Rice, both at
Frenchtown and afterwards at Trenton.
The witness related a conversation
with Mrs. Rice in the fall of 1882, in
which she told the witness that she had
spent the previous summer at Watkins
Glen n had there met Mr.. Charles
Knapp. She said she loved Mr.. Knapp
more than any man she had ever met.
Mrs. Rice said that she and Knapp had
agreed to correspond and he was to adj
dress her under the name of Mrs. Leslie.
n witness said that Mrs. Rice pro-
cured a private box in the post office in
Trenton, and thus received her letters,
and the witness wrote to her also under
this assumed name during the winter of
1882 and until the fall of 1884.
AT a subsequent visit of Mrs. Rice to
the house of the witness, Mrs. Rice told
of her visit to Toledo. Ohio, where she
met Knapp at the Oliver House, and
had a very pleasant time with him with
carriage rides and private walks. She
said she would come down from her
room and meet her lover in his private
office after the guests had retired, and
there she would often remain until four
or five o'clock in the morning. She
said that owing to her meeting with
Knapp the latter's wife and he had been
divorced.
Mrs. Anderson said that in 1884,
Knapp came to Trenton at he request
of Mrs. Rice, who wrote him that she
could not come to Ohio that summer,
and boarded on Hanover street with
Miss Emma Buchanan. One day, while
he was here, Mrs. Rice and the witness
Rice told the witness that Knapp would
meet them on the rain. He met
Them on the train at Trenton Junction.
When Mrs. Rice entered the car MI.
Knapp kissed her. They then took
seats together. and Mrs. Anderson sat
alone. At Columbia avenue, Mrs. An
derson said, she got ont and went to her
brothers and Mrs. Rice and Knapp
went on together. The witness related
a conversation with Mrs. Rice in 1887,
when the latter told her that she had
been to Elmira, and had lived while
Knapp, on the Third floor over Park
Church. Her room was opposite that
of Mr.. Knapp, and the latter was often
in her room. Mrs. Rice also told wit
ness Of a trip she made with Mr.. Knapp
to Wilmington, Del, when they regis
t6tcu do " uuLel DIS man duQ WIG. III
1885, at Doylestown, DIR. Rice's brother
was buried. At the cemetery Mrs. Rice
came up to the witness and exclaimed,
referring to DR.. Rice:-sI hate him.
The wrong man was buried today. /
will leave him yet."
The witness had not been to the house
of DIR. Rice since he and his wife sepa-
rated last week. She became acquainted
with Detective Speedy last spring. He
was brought to her house by DIR. Rice.
Not until the spring of 1889 did she tell
DR.. Rice or anyone of the relations exist
ing between Mrs. Rice and Knapp.
Mrs. Sarah c. Williams, a dressmaker,
who was in the employ of Mrs. Rice in
1884, testified of the visit of Peter Wilkes
to the house one morning. He came TO
the Office door and Mrs. Williams let him
in, and he went to the telephone. While
standing there Mrs. Rice opened the hall
door and looked in. Seeming to recognize
him witness subsequently asked her who
1t was and she replied:-"That is my pretty
curly headed beau" She then told Mrs.
Williams that she was going to New
York that day "if that old hog CDR. Rice)
will ever get up to breakfast She did
20. and on her return told witness that
Peter Wilkes went on one road and she
went on another. They We're together in
New York.