The sun., 1893-10-04
THE wRONGED WIFE DEAD
AND THE UNFAITHFUI WIFE OUT
OF HER MIND.

SePuet % hAFbs Dopnoht hfttcoNefy Oh hher
Husband in u Closet .. Mrs. Coxey's
House-srr. Coxey Has Beeua suit Tor
Divorce-His wife Said 10 Have Con.
fcs-cd Her Gui,t Before Sho Was Ipsnne.
CAMDEN. N. j., Oct 3.-Dr. A. T. Dobson's
vile is dead. and their homo at Fourth and
Penn streets, Camden. Is closed. The home,o
j. Clarence Coxey. at 42S Linden street is dark
and deserted, and Mr.. Coxey has begun pro-
ceedings for divorce. His wife is a maniac.
All this through the discovery made by Mrs.
Dobson at the Coxey residence fortnight ago.
Mrs. Dobson died to-day at the homo OF her
father. William Curtis on Pearl Street, from
what her attending physician said was brain
fever, following nervous prostration. but all
her friends say from q broken heart. At al
most the same hour Judge Howard Carrow
was beginning proceedings in divorce for j.
Clarence Coxey who. after days OF trusting
faith. at last learned Of his wife's guilt from
her own lips. Though It was learned to GER
tainty that Mr. CoSey Ind begun the divorce
proceedings Judge Carrow declined to discuss
the case. while he admitted the truth.
1T is all too painful for me to talk about"
said the Judge. 81 knew Mrs. Coxey as girl
OF charming presence. and ! have been Mr..
Coxeys friend and adviser. cannot now give
any information regarding the case"
Never before have Camden. society circles
been so terribly shocked as by the tragic de-
no0ment OF this domestic story.
When Mrs. Dobson. acting upon suspicious
she had entertained for two years. went to the
homo OF the Coxeys at 42S Linden street and
found her husband there under suspicious
circumstances. there was no tirmer believer in
Mrs. Coxey's innocence than her own husband.
Despite the damaging story told By Mrs Dob
son. he placed uni United confidence in his
Hie hahd ahd after hearing her story and that Of
I'D stake my life upon my wife's fidelity"
Mrs Dohson's story. was that she had gone
sisted that her husband was there. Mrs.
CSxey; to prove her suspicious groundless:
on the hs o
son. seeing that Mrs CoIey carried a key. CON
cluded that tho key belonged to the, closet
tried to wrcst the key from Mrs, CoXey, and
the ~ two womsn ne a had an unseemy struggle;
that he and Mrs: Co1ey. espite appearances.
n
bory or Ga fearing his yiiss jeslo1sy 5e did
under bonds for trial for ,in1deiity.
the Peace for crimnality, on her Rusband's
Eorsers Of the Coxeys as the optcropping q an
by overeIcltement to 2 highly nervous tenn
ons o 6 snd Ps %bsS
agreed in the main. though they did not fit ac-
curately at sundry, points. sti'ed gossip for a
Of the community thorouehly be.
lieved in Mrs. CoXey's innocence. and that she |
was. as she said. the hapless victim of an in
nnte circumstances:
Events moved rap pidly. however: Mrs. Dobson
and soon lay moaning and tossing upon her
bed at her fathefs or house where she had taken
mind told upon her with terrible effect. She
xsHW worse gay ey dny Until death came to
LieN sssum cd something Of It's oid.time
aspees ,e Coxey homo but one day. now a
itoun .stteT addressed is bis wlie's familiar
hand to DR.. Dobson. The letter was hidden
ns Thsn ksssP w BS m
commanded to the utmost secrecy, had taken
the letter to near. by post box and mailed it.
that his wife had been seen to meet Or. Dob
Various times and d drives I've ~ with s him. VIII
these fragments Of EVIDENCE in his grasp Mr..
bSn the that his "n h
tears and acknowledged her guilt:
Camden shSwed thas The o 'Hae Sad qse peea
the latter's brother. William J. CoSey. in whose
J house % IN the next block Mr.; Coxey and his
In her confession Mrs. Coxey 1t is said. told |
ol two years OF Intimacy with pr. Dobson. She
said. however. that there was but one criminal |
act which occurred in the Coxey cottage at
ofean . CITY in July last She had gone driving
and Atlantic City. and had been in his com
pany great deal while at these resorts Her
i is reported. occupied thirty-two pages OF
egal cap in her own handwriting.
Meantime Mrs. Coxey has lost her reason
entirely and is constantly watched Her friends
refused to tell where she was. but it was
F. Gridth. who % has s been '"f the ea coxey * family
physician for long, time. When seen last
1ight. Dr. Grifiith said Mrs Coxey had tempo
lition, but it was hoped to bring her around
All right with careful nursing.
DR.. Dobson has not been seen In the city for
/ fortnight or more and Is said to have gone
away to walt for the scandal to blow over. Ar
'een completed late tonight