The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-22
OBRIEN DIVORCE CASE.
Witnesses Testify to Mrs. 0'Brien
Receiving Men in Her Rooms.

The sensational divorce case of Thomas
O'Brien against his wife Margaret, was
before Vice Chancellor Green, in Cham
Gerry Chambers today, and brought out
some very spicy testimony.
Mrs. O'Brien was we'll dressed in black,
as usual, and for the first time was &C
companied In the court room by her
pretty 5-year-old daughter. The seats
were filed with an audience Of women.
The men, with two or three exceptions,
stood mp. Father hickey and Oakley
w GODS. the principal correspondents. sat
together.
O,Biien is a liquor dealer Oh Yves
street, New York. He formerly lived in
Passaic, and owns considerable property
there. His wife continues to live there.
Arthur Shoemaker, 9 porter at the
Mountain House at Delaware Water
Gap, gave testimony corroborative of the
previous evidence of the visit of Mrs.
O'Brien and Mary Ryan to the Mouptain
Woods q Mr.. Simons, W men who
were registered as the women's husbands.
George Hillenberg. a barber at No. 2OO
Chambers street., New York, swore that
he lived for three years at No. 81 Hamil-
ton avenue. Passaic, next door TO the
O'Brien residence. He saw Oakley
Woods, Father Hickey and other men
visit O'Brien's house. The witnesses
| business kept him out at night. He often
saw men going in Mrs. OBrien's mouse
when he came home at night. Father
Hickey had a key for the O'Brien house
and used 1t when he entered.
EVIDENCE OBJECTED TO.
Counsellor Gourley, for the plalntlH,
asked If the witness had observed Mrs.
GH Ev Cnnnfnr fNrinOH
for the defense, objected. Mr.. Geurlev
said he wished to show that Mrs. O'Brien
was u drunkard. The Vice Chancellor
| sustained the objection aud said that be.
cause Mrs. O'BrIen drank was not proof
she was a drunkard.
Mrs. Emma Hiilenburg, the wife or
the preceding witness corroborated MIN.
O'Brien's house W seven aud
| eight o'clock at night and leave about
| eight o'clock the next morning. As
| times he would be there every night.
When Oakley Woods got off the train
| and went co Mrs. O'Brien's house, The
| children In the eighborhood would
| shout: Here comes Woodsy," Father
| Hickey usually walked very close to the
| fence and "sneaked" up to Mrs. O'Brien's
| house. She saw MIN in the rear yard
| of Mrs. O'Brien's house one morning
| with his coat off. A year & this time
| she noticed Father Hickey out riding
| with Mrs. O'Brien.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hendry and Mrs. Mary
| Meade. of Ha milton, who live near Mr
OtBrien's house testified TO seeing mel
| visit Mrs. O'Brien's house. Mrs. Hendry
identified Father Hickey and Oakley
| Woods. Father Hickey appeared an
! moved at times. He read q newspaper
| occasionally, when he was under discus
| sion and held 1T so his face was hidden.
| He and Oakley Woods sat on the north
side of the chancery chambers by them
selves.
Father Hickey was in full clerical garb.
Cornelius Jones testified to moving
furniture from Mrs. OBrien's house to q
| house in Clifton. b significance was
not made apparent.
A DETECTIVE TEsTIFIEs.
Burt Demorest. y detective. Testified
| watching O'Brien's house. He saw Oak.
Icy Woods enter the house. lie watched
| nearly all night. and one night until
| morning. but never saw Woods come
| ont. When he watched all night ht
noticed a light In Mrs. O'Brien's rooms
in the morning.
Ex-senator GrigCs examined the de
tective at length to find out something OF
his detective experience. Demorest go
very much tangled up. He couldn't re-
member the title of III previous case.
He refreshed his memory bv reading
\ from u memorandum book. Counsellor
Griggs took the memorandum book aud
| read from i5 q statement that Mrs.
| O'Brien had remained with the Bashaw
| family all night at a ball. He testified
| that she left the Bashaws and went home
with Oakley Woods.