The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-06
A BIG ROW--ABOUT WHAT?
Family Troubles Which Judicial
Stupidity Magnities into
Mystery.

There is a desolated home in Fifth
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Folsom,
of No. 1923 Fifth street. have dissolved
hymenial co-copartnership Mr.. Folsom,
while his wife was in Justice Davis Court
this morning to press the the charge of
assault and battery against her husband
instead of appearing carted away the
organ and some other articles of furniture
from his domicile in Fifth street, it is sup
posed, to his mothers in Laidlaw ave nue.
Mr.. Ben Fo lsom was until recently en-
ployed, according to report, as a night
watchman at the piers of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Mr.. Folsom, as a wild
over, married quite handsome
young brunette some years ago.
his home with the father on the first floor
of the large double brick four-story fiat
at No. 1923 Fifth street. Here the family
lived in comparative enjoyment for num-
Der of years, and several juvenile members
were added to his apparently happy
household.
On the other side of the hallway. how
ever, lived another family by the name
of Podmore Mr.. William Podmore is a
middie-aged man with thin gray locks.
He had. however, cheerful aspect, and
is decidedly a favorite with the women
cracks his jokes. Mr.. Podmore's daily
routine of work is by daylight, and he is
supposed to spend his nights at home.
A MYSTERY.
Somehow the rumor leaked out this
morning that an important case, in
which scandal was involved had been
suppressed by the courts and the news
papers. Neighbors who heard terrible
racket in front of No. 1923 Fifth street late
Saturday night looked in vain for story
in connection Herewith on Sunday and
Monday.
At last, however, the murder was out
in the shape of a rumor that Mr.. Folsom
had surprised Mrs. Folsom by returning
home late Saturday night ana found Mr.
Padmore IN his rooms.
Repeated visits to Justice Davis off ce
this morning failed to elicit the desired
which followed this unseemly racket
bore out the truth of this rumor, for the
simple reason that the Judge was out OF
town.
MRS. FoLSoM's STORY.
At the house IN Fifth street Mrs. Fol-
som was seen this morning by reporter
of The JERSEY CITY NEWS. II am per-
fectly willing to give the papers the
whole of this affair."" said the tall pre-
possessing woman. A lady, who it
Is believed, is Mrs Podmore. was with
Folsom Mrs. Folsom declared that the
whole trouble between her and her hus-
band originated over the collection on her
part of $s40 out of her step-son's weekly
salary OF $500. The boy is employed rs
an errand boy in the Boston Ode
Price Clothing Store. According to
the neighbor's reports this boy
has caused all the trouble by telling his
father that he himself caught Mr.. Pod
more in his stepmother's room ON one oc.
casion under rather peculiar circum-
stances. When l asked Mrs. Folsom If
there was no ground for the rumor that
the neighbors were circulating concern
ing her intimacy with Mr.. Podmore,
up their hands in horror at such an
accusation and declared that Mr.. Folsom
had hatched up the yarn after they left
the court. and thar it had nothing what
ever to do with the court proceedings
Mrs. Folsom said she understood that