The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-21
JEALOUS WOMEN FIGHT.
But One Was Armed With
a Big Horsewhip.
LIFE AT SHADY SIDE.
The Last Scene Was in Judge
Puster's Court-Damages
Assessed at S125.

There was an interesting suit tried In
Judge Puster's court this morning. which
was all the more interesting from the
fact that both plaintiff and defendants
were pretty an attractive women. The
case was docketed ELLEN Mcclure
against Patrick Bracken and Ellen
Bracken.n Mr.. Bracken lives at Shady
Side, one of the North Hudson villages
where he keeps combined grocery and
butcher shop. He and his wife have
lived there for some, time; 80 has Miss
Mcclure. 1t app ears that Mr.. Bracken
and Miss Mcclure were acquaintances
and friends before Mr.. Bracken surren-
dered to the ample charms Of the fair
Ellen.
II appears also that ever since the mar
riage there has not been that degree OF
cordiality and friendship which should
have existed between two real ladies OF
Shadyside. They were in the habit or
calling each other pet names, Whicn
neither appreciated and which the laws OF
polite society require, shall not be puD-
lisned in a newspaper OF such wide cir
culation and influence as The JERskx
CITY NEWS.
Thus things went along until October
9s >ASAAA>SA%>A ~&>~>
when they met on the public highway
and after indulging in an exchange OF
courtesies Mrs Bracken drew from be-
meath her sacque nice supple horsewhtp
with which sshe did then and there beat,
strike, wound and make sore,n accord
ing to the stated demand. the satd
plaintiff to her damage $780,"
MISS M'GUIRE's STORY.
After brilliant forensic effort on the
part of Counsellor George Ryerson BY
way of opening, Miss Mcclure was
sworn. She is tall. slender, graceful
s1s s9pds which Sash mass masy sfE Mss snsa
Kidder SO popular in this city week or
SO ago. She was modestly attired and
modestly did she testify to the facts here
inbefore set forth. Her sister, Sarah,
pretty little copy Of herself. was then
called to corroborate Miss McGuire.
Alderman Salinger, who was defending
Mrs. Bracken, In his usual Chesterfieldiau
manner objected to the little girls testi-
fyfnq on account of her tender years,
But Judge Puster, reading Innocence and
truthtulness in her large blue eyes, ac-
cepred her testimony.
She corroborated her big sister, as did
also Mrs. Maria Mcclure, the mother OF
the girls who added the interesting and
important fact that Mrs. Brackcn threw
an egg at Miss McGuire
MRS. BRACKEN TALKS BACK.
This closed the PLAINTIFFS side
and Mrs. Bracken took the
stand. She is as pronounced q brunette
as Miss Mcclure is q blonde. She is
much larger than Miss Mcclure and con-
siderably stouter, albeit q fne-lookinR
woman She wore a tailor-made costume
and upon her head rested very bewttch-
ing hat. She admitted with sorrow in her
voice that she had committed the assault,
but pleaded that the taunts. jeers and
| insults she had borne from that woman"
ever since she had been married were be-
yond human endurance.
Whereupon the fair plaintiff and her
mother looked at each other, and shook
their heads in astonIshment.
No other testimony was offered for the
| defense, and after the learned counsel on
both sides had sawed the air and
waxed SO eloquent that the captive
goose in the rear of the Weldon building
which has been disturbing the neighbor-
! hood for week. ceased its screams TO
listen. Judge Puster awarded the fair
plaintiff $125 damages and her costs OF
suit most wrongtul1y sustained in that
| behalf"