The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-19
KELSEY'S SECRET.
The Young Surveyors
Father Reticent as to
Why He Left His Wife.

the ONCE OF the Tax Adjustment CON-
missioners, who suddenly disappeared
from this city New Years eve. is proba-
bly, in Kentucky. That is what his father
said last night.
There has been 30 much said about
the desertion by Kelsey of his
wife that a JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter made some enquiries
Acton was found at her home on Wayne
street, where she moved a few days ago,
but owing to a serious illness from nerv-
Gus prostration she was unable to talk
much about the matter. Her daughter,
Mrs. Kelsey, was not at home.
Mrs. Acton said her pretty brunette
daughter was the idol of her father and
he was sad the day that Kelsey asked him
In her presence IL he could wed their girl.
Mr.. Acton consented reluctantly. He
often felt surprised that nothing further
was said for time about the matter and
he was astonished when later he was
told by Kelsey and his wife that they
were married on November is, 1890, by a
minister in Brooklyn.
my husband was indignant at the
clandestine marriage, which had been
kept secret for year, and he expressed
himself so. He demanded that Kelsey
pay him for years board for his wife,
sdylnR thdt no ulhn IN as UoOu u pOsitiOn
as Kelsey held would expect his father
in-law TO board his wife for nothing. A
quarrel followed and Kelsey and his
young wife went away"
DID HE GAMBLE3
'Do you know whether he was a
gambler or drinking manY" Mrs. Acton
was asked.
II only know that my daughter told me
he played cards at Woods Hall II you
will call on Mrs. Crevelliug, on Mercer
street, she may be able to tell you more
facts than can"
Mrs. Crevelling Is very estimable lady
who keeps a boarding house and counts
among her boarders the Rev. Mr.. Wick,
of the WAYNE Street Reformed Church.
She and her daughter both said, when in
terviewed, that Mrs. Kelsey was a lady in
every sense of the word; that during the
months she and her husband boarded
there they had learned TO like her very
much and to like Kelsey also. They say
he never had an unkinG word to say OF
anyone and often at the breakfast table,
If in conversation Mrs. Kelsey censured
the actions of some person, he would
check her.
what was the cause of the separation"
Mrs. Crevelling was asked.
Il only know what Mrs. Kelsey has told
me, was the answer.
"And what was thatin
II do not care to say anything more.
might say something she would not like.
Yes, it is true, he would come home very
early in the morning Mrs. Kelsey told
me he gambled at Woods Hall and that
kept him out.'
Mrs. Crevelling would say no more, and
the next visit was to the house of Mrs.
fearance. No. III Mercer street, where
Kelsey took his young wife when he left
the house of Mrs. Crevelling. Here Mrs.
Yearance and her daughter, Mrs -Me-
Loughlan, were seen.
Il never saw more devoted couple, I"
said Mrs. Yearance.
'Yes, they were like two children" 7"
said Mrs. Mclaughlin. "They would
romp and race about like boy and girl.
When Mrs. Kelsey said to her husband
that she would run around to her moth
er's for half an hour on New \ ears eve,
Kelsey kissed her and said, Don't be long,
Kitty. for we will pass the evening to-
gether.' That was the last saw Of him.
and / would not believe Mrs. Kelsey
when she anne home and few moments
later came TO us and said her husband
had deserted her. 1t was true, however,
and the poor girl was alone"
YES" said Mrs. Yearance. ''she threw
her arms around my neck and asked me
o lend her ten cents to go to his fathers
house to learn the truth. OF course / let
her have the change. Kelsey took the
few things he had with MIN, but nothing
that belonged to her. He left an envelope
on the hall floor containing his board in
full to date. ! never saw him intoxicated.
put ne was man who could not look you
square in the eyes and didn't like him. I"
KELSEY's FATHER SPEAKS.
At No. 20 Van Reypen place the father
of young Kelsey was found. He said that
before his son went away ne had received
an offer OF a position in Kentucky and
presumed he had gone there.
Va I L
from his wife" said the father, ''for he
told me so and he told his wife SO, too,
repeatedly"
81 don't care to say; | don't want to
say anything that would reflect on the
young woman; l don't wish her any
hard"
"Was your son jealous of herr"
mo, not that am aware Of She never
fiirted."
"Why did you oppose the marriageiv
81 did not oppose il. My son asked my
consent, and / told him my objections,
for knew they would not be happy; but
| told him he was twenty-one and had
a right to do as he pleased"
"Was it because the girl was Catholic
that you objectedw
Il do not care to say anything about
it,"
.It is said your son drank hard, gam
bled and was entangled with a Young
womanr
''Yes, know it is, but there Is not a
word of truth in IL. He was good moral
young man, and although he may have
taken an occasional drink, he was not
what is termed drinking man. There
was no woman in the case other than his
wife"
"What was the trouble thenf"
s'I won't say. When he comes back he
can if he wants to. He frequently COM
planned to me that he conld not get along
with his wife. They were an unhappy
couple, that is all.
"Why don't your daughter-in-law con-
suit Lawyer Corbin."
because one night last fall, after a
quarrel, Clarence pushed her from the
door and she fell on chair, she said she
would have him arrested and saw Mr.
Corbin about it,
WAS their trouble case of bad tenn
per on her parts'
II don't want to say anything about
her to harm her. A man naturally likes
to be able to come home and TO be able to
chat socially with his wife. If my son
was penurious, and TO save money, did
not give her all she wanted for dress, that
was not my affair. The reason know
she knew my son would leave her was
thar she came here after he left New
Years Eve and said he had gone. She
had hardly left the house when Clarence
came in. He told me what he had done.
No, l will not say why he lett her. l Will
not say it was because she was Catho-
lic."