The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-29
SCALED THE BACK FENCE
'fhe Marital Woes of Nh.
and Mrs. Richard Gran
mer Told in Court.
IN TIE FRONT STU0P ALL NIGHT.
lnttlicilies Of a Wedding Solemn
lied on the Thirteenth Of the
Month = Evidence in The
Divorce Proceedings.
oN TIE FRONT sTOoP ALL NIGHT.


Richard K. Cranmer. BY Chancellor Nc
Gill. She was married on October 10,
1884, by the Rev. DIR. Spellmyer al the
parsonage OF the Central Methodist
Church. Newark. There was some op-
position to the marriage upou the part
of Mrs. Cranmer's family. aud none of
her relatives were present at the wed>
ding. In fact. it was wituessed only By
Mrs. SDeilmyer aud another witness
Mrs. Cranmer was n teacher IN the Dub
lie schools, aud continued to teach there
after her marriage until June. 1885.
On j uly %, 1885, her only Guild a boy,
was born. Mr.. and Mrs. Cranmer lived
with an unit of Mrs. Craumer's on York
street. AT first Cranmer paid 81 a week
hoard for himself and wife, but after a
while he ceased maKing the payments,
and Mrs. Cranmer went back to teach
ing.
She continued teaching to . her.
self ami child. AT the time OF their mar
rage her husband was employed by
Thomas Thedford, a Wholesale coal dealer
n New York aud received $1S a week. In
May. 1885. he lost his position and did
nothing for six months, when he went
back to work for Mr.. Thedford at q lower
salary.
BEGINS TO DRINK HARD.
Soon alter her IN irriage Mrs. Cranmer
discovered that her husband drank TO
excess. She knew that he drank some
before marriage. bu during the year
Immediately preceding her marriage he
was a total abstainer. He began to stay
stay out every night for o week at a
lime. He would come home In the early
morning hours and insist upon his wife
getting up and talking to him.
He did not support. her aud never bought
| ANYTHING nirhar FIR hnp or Pnr thu hahu
not even as much as a pair OF shoes.
When he vas Intoxicated he would
smash things about the room and he often
through dishes around the table. He
was very rough and insulting in his
language n called both his wife and
her aunt insulting anne He was never
asked to pay any board, only to behave
himself. At first when he began to come
home late his wife reproved him. Some
times he would be penltent but more
often abusive. and after awhile, finding
now useless her remonstrances were. she
gave up trying to induce him to do
better.
One nightin April, 1888, she came homs
from night school. about nine o'clock.
She had been teaching all day and was
very tired. Craumer was home, and,
after come words, he tool her head be-
tween his hands and spat into her face.
telling her that II she ever put up q lunch
INK tdRb c6 AO WOukQ bDI0W IL az uCI.
She had prepared for him that morning
what she had considered a good lunch,
but had made 1t small because he insist
ed upon 1t beiag small enough to out in
his coat pocket. This conduct SO
angered Mrs. Cranmer that she
spoke to him harshly and told
him to go away and never come back
again. Cranmer said he would go away
aud stay and left. but as he often said
that and always returned after u brief
absence. Mrs. Cranner knsw he would
some back. He did SO in about two
weeks. He said ne was sorry for what
he had doue and appeared to Oe penitent.
He soon, however, became worse than he
ever was before. He was intoxicated all
the time and his conduct was uubear
able. After two weeks of this he went
away, saying he was going to visit u
relative. There was no quarrel nor was
he told to go. but he went away OF his
own volitton and has never lived with his
wife since.
CRANMER JUMPs THE BACK FENCE.
One evening in January. 1889, Mrs.
Cranner had a mall party of her girl
friends aG her house, and they spent the
evening playing on the piano and sinR>
ing. Suddenly while they wers quietly
talking among themselves. in walked Mr..
Crammer. He had scaled tile back fencs
and made his way into the house through
the rear euterance. He was very q
aud began to uDbraid Mrs. Cranms r.
He accused her of duplicity and declared
that she had deceived him in not letting
him know that she was teaching again.
He declared there was some one hidiuQ in
the room and began TO search for tue
concealed person. Mrs. Cranmer Ind
given bin q pocket book on the Christ
mas before. and he then took 1t from his
pocket aud threw 1t into her face. He
talked very iusultiugly, and said he
4 uunrId ~ loo fn ntck fta rpifo Or1r ~ thn
gutter. He became SO abusive that Mrs.
Cranmer's aunt came down stairs and
ordered him out of the house. He left.
The next morning Mrs. Cranmer re-
ceivsd q telegram signed Woods, saying
that Dick was dying and to come at once.
Mrs. Craumer and her aunt went to the
house whore Cranmer was boarding
and the landlady told them that Gran
mer had been alright during the night
and had rome out for his breakfast. Mrs.
Cranmsr aud her aunt then went to
where he was employed aud met Gran
mer on the stoop of tue Office. He said
nothing to her but pushed her from the
stoop and prevented her fromsenteriog
the place. That evening Mr.. Woods
called TO sly that he did not send the
telegram. While he was there Cranmer
called at the house. but was not admitted.
He tnen went out into the street picked
up O brick ana hurried 1t through the
parlor window.
DID NOT SEE HIM FOR TWO YEARS.
1t was TWO years after that before Mrs.
Cranmer saw her husband again and
then she met him one night on the street
when sue was returning from night
school. He was drunk AMI maudlln
and she would IA nothing to do with
him. He often came TO the house aud
rang and kicked, but they refused to adj
init him. One night ne came to the
house and the inmates heard a ring at
the bell, then they heard a heavy body
fall. Mrs. Cranmsr looked out of the
window and saw her husband lying on
the sGoop. He remained there all night.
Finally Mrs. Cranmer, driven to despera-
tion by this conduct. applet for a d.
vorce on June IL. LAST. She had consld-
cradle difficulty in finding her husband.
but at laat located him In Philadelphia,
She asked him to acknowledge service of
the papers, SO as to ayeid publicity, and
he wrote back:
Ready to receive the papers you want
to serve. Not to avoid the publicity OF
publication which vour lawyers mention,
for that's what l want. Publicity is
what l AM looking for, and have no dauot
of being aple to create a sensation in the
way Of a scandal. II i picture of vour
lovely self is not printed in thu Police
Gdzette l shall think it very strange, In
deed. But then | don't SUPPOSE you'll
care, and your friends will lhfDK it Just
too lovely for anything. Besides. you
won't have to teach school then, will you
dearf The next time we meet / know
We shall have a pleasant time. Some old
friends of yours will, / think, be there to
greet you. suppose you will want the