The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-07
CHAUNCEY ALIENS WIVES.
HE rs ARRESTED FOR ABANDONMENT
1FIER 4 DAKOTA DIpORCE

The case OF Mrs Margaret ID. Allen OF % Co
lumbus avenue. New York. against Mr. ant
Mrs. @. W. johnson. lessees and managers o
the Getty House. Yonkers. came up before
Judge Barnard in White Plains yesterday
Mrs. Allen sues the Johnsons for $4,000. as
sertinR that they have alienated the affection,
OF her husband. Chauncey d. Allen. Allen is Q
son Of Mrs. johnson by her first husband. He
is tall man. with black moustache and hair.
Before coming to Yonkers Mr.. and Mrs
johnson lived at Westerly. H. l.. where they
kept n hotel called the Rhode Island House
Chauncey Allen was their clerk. He was a
dashing young follow In those days. He be-
came acquainted with u beautiful girl. Mar.
garet Kennedy. the present plaintiff. She was
very young. very trusting. and had implicit
faith in Allen; 80 that when he proposed one
day that they should go to New York and get
married she consented. They arrived in this
city on Nov. 81. 1888. and went to the
house OF the Rev. s. b. Hodge in
125th street. where they were married at
o'clock In the afternoon. On the following
day they returned to Westerly. and. according
to Mrs. Aliens story. lived together as man
and wife for two months in the house Of her
mother. in Beach and Elm streets. During
all this time Allen was receiving salary
from his stepfather. Mr.. Johnson. At his
request his wife consented to keep their
marriage secret. and. although o
few intimate friends were made aware
OF 1t, she was still known in public Us Miss
Kennedy. Tho reason for this was that Allen
feared that II his parents knew Of his marriage
to a girl whom they considered as inferior in
social standing to themselves. they would cast
him off. This was the state OF affairs. when
one day Allen said to his young wife that he
was going away To lind employment IN another
OF M so no tTat h" c C. aeEpd%edge
He left here on January 81. 1885. and that
though she had received letters from him
dated at Boston and at different places in the
MSs s HHeF the Gst
whom he could trust to MANAGE it. sent word
When Allen arrived in Yonkers he brought
with him young woman whom. it Is said. he
many friends in Sonkers She was devoted to
her new home: Thus matters ran on smoothly
some time in the year 1890. After Allen had
abandoned her. as she says. she supported
Continued d to trust him. and kept on hoping
year after year that he would at last
nd rbGs and send Ind" for her to
the manager, Of the Getty House there. is not
a
in New York. working at her trade and board:
ing with respectable persons. When she found
out. Aliens whereabouts she wrote to him.
telling him where she was To this letter he
ent places in New York.
to the houses whore sho boarded in II state OF
uproarious intoNication. which caused the
next dhy to re%%sst her to leave She
Ser and IN SoysnbeE $50 he eSIsd p? her
a hotel near High Bridge. where they remained
meetings Allen got her under the influence Of
Her health had become SO broken down BY his
worriment She had sndersone. that sho S Was
unable to work regularly. In fact what she
could earn would not have supported her If
So she wrote to her husband in the latter part
Of 1880. asking him for aid. In reply. he came
She again asked him to assist her he showed owed
great reluctance. and she called upon Lawyer
William Cummings Of 1.l93 Broadway for
He SUCCEEDED in getting Allen to agree to
pay her $50 month For two months she re-
Y onkers and no one. IT Is said. knew whittier
he he had gone. It is nov known that he went to
Court Of the Third judicial District held
city "e 81 sr .Af Dec s5 t Snss e 'fs
Allen apgledt for divorce from Margaret
er a shs for more i is
ime Of his marriage. under the influence of
become eneeb thcraby so that S he ~ was n nn
able to comprehend intelliTently the ordinary
affairs He hat bdu 5id tho
what was going on. He Furthermore assorted
hat he never lived with Margaret Kennedy ut
.; l,N,
M Mis- nat put nna
.hn cont Earsh H. ssGreo annunE the
a Oak ota divorce does not necessarily hold
good IN this State and In any event Allen ron
II he married the second Mrs. Allen while
: After Allen left for the West Mr.. and Mrs
tho Getty House. The second Mrs. Alien lives
with them. sho is a quietly disposed woman
band had another wife living has main
tanned discreet silence.
:, About week ago Allen. having returned to
the Getty House on the charge Of abandoning
bis first wife. He was taken before City Judge
signing the bond. This. ease will be brought
before the Judge on, June IT.. On Saturday
last tn, the first Mrs; Allen served papers upon
On statutory. grounds Tho papers e', wero
,STNtu upon MI. hiIen Dy ner attorney, william |
II. Deadly of New York. John F. Brennan, a |
eading Y9nkers lawyer. has been retained by |
Neither MIR. Johnson nor the second Mrs.
Allen could he seen at tho Getty House yos- |
terday. but Mrs. johnson WAS seen. and she |
spoke very fcelingly Of the trouble her son had |
caused her. N
~ do. not deny that Mr.. Allen was legally
married to Miss Kennedy" she said "forit is |
. matter Of record. But ! do say that neither |
my husband nor myself have had ANYTHING to |
10 with alienqting tho affections OF my son
x W. ~ married until sho began Fostering ring
how sho is to prove that there has been any |
influence exerted to prejudice my son against |
ler de was very young when thoy were mar |
led. and, as he had been drinking Very hard. |
he probably did not know what he was about |
when he took her as his wife When Mr.. Allen
las been drinking no does not know what he |
loes. nor can he remember anything that has |
aftcrward am convinced that he |
las never looked upon Miss Kennedy as his |
vile; otherwise he would never have married |
When did he marry the present Mrs. AL |
en- I" was asked.
- cannot tell tho exact date" was the reply. |
but think 1t was about five years ago in Chi |
ago; She is an admirable young woman. and |
feel very. deeply for her. since she discov-
red that Mr.. Allen had another wife she has |