The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-19

CRUELTY beat His WIFE.
Terrible Charges Against
DR.. Deraismes of
Union Hill.
FORCED TO FLEE WITH HER CHILD
Now Seeking Shelter in Her Sisters
HOme-The Doctor
Denies All.
ORCED TO FLEE WITH HER CHILD

tribulations of DR.. Edward j. DeraismeS
| and his wife. Senator William 4 DSly
mas prepared and served an answer - tas
| bill of particulars which the wife. tarse.yH
Smith & Mabon or Hoboken, ptsaaa en-
file' Ike story of this unhappy oossss g
sad one and it is told differsnti4 ~ sR4
| parties to the suit.
CHARGE AND COUNTER CHA E6s1' W
The wife. most charming ,sExgHS
| handsome, accomplished and bue thirty
two years old, in her complaint against
the doctor charges him with exeeptionaI
or uelty aud desertion, while ha in his
answer denies each allegatisR Of III
| treatment.
| Doctor Deraismes and his mother lived
| a6 Bergenwood avenus and Fulton street,
Union Hill, where. on December 1, 1879,
he was married TO Sophie A. DeraIsmes
| by the Rev. DIR. George G. Houghton OF
| Trinity Church, Hoboken. Two years
| after this event, a beautiful female child
was born. and the doctor and proud
mother decided to call it MargerY.
| THE wIFE's STORY.
| The wife alleges that at this time
she was making special efforts
once professed to have for her.
but that her endeavors were almost
IN vain. In her sad story.tas related in
| the legal papers. she claims that she Rnd
| DR.. Deraismes had not been married
more than six months when the husband
came home drunk and threatened to
| shoot her. The home provided for the
| wife during all of her married life was i q
| the house and family of the mother.
The poor wife strove hard to bear with
the insults that shs received from DR..
Deraisrnes and his family, but she found
L : n 1fr rla ~ .
her husband when he would return home
| night after night. Intoxicated. was uu-
bearable the suffering wife claimed.
| frequently this educated and talented
physician stopped SO low as to beat his
| wife in a manner that brutal prise
lighter would scorn, and the vile names
he called the poor woman were diss
gusting. He charged her with almost
every deceit that wife can practice on
her husband, and told her in The pres
ence Of witnesses that she was immoral
| IL. BEATEN FREQUENTLY.
The poor wife during the ten years that
followed her wedding day, was beaten
and abused very frequently By DIR.
Deraismes, but one of the occasions when
he was more cruel to her than ordinarily
| was last Christmas day. The doctor sut-
| tered on that day from toothache. He
had been unwell for several days prior
and his wife has nursed him night and
worn out by fatigue. and she sought
| little rest. She says that while she was
In bed DIR. Deraismes approached her aud
exclaimed:--"I suffer like h-u, and you
must suffer too."
| ToDAY's SESSION.
The man then struck the defeuceless
woman in the face. She screamed. and.
like an infuriated animal, the doctor
| shouted:
"If you call Tom. 1 will kill him too"
The Tom referred to was Thomas
Lovett, friend of the DOCTORS. The wife
| further charges that in January OF the
| present year her husband, In the presence
| of Mrs. Taylor, said to her:
| You miserable animal you, yen never
| have an1hing in this house f1t to eat.
| During March of the present year the
doctor became displeased with his break.
fast, SO Mrs: Deralsmss says, aud he
| beat and kicked her, besides call
| ing her vile names. In May of this
year, at BlaqueS' Hotel in Bergen
county, DR.. Deraismes again ILL.,
treated his wife. He became angry be-
cause the dinner was not served as soon
as he wanted it, and when 1t was ready
he refused to go TO the dining room. but
sat on the piazza. His wife endeavored
to coax him to join the dinner
! party, and he like drunken
brute, knocked the poor woman down.
| LEFT THE LADIES AT Ell DORADO.
| In the following June, DR.. Dera1smes
took his wife and mother to Ell Dorado,
but before the performance was over he
| deserted tham, and the two women went
home alone. When the wife entered the
| room she was startled to hnd her hus-
band sitting up In bed with rifle across
his lap. He forbade his wife
to enter the room. A week
| threatened to shoot his wife IL she went
| to Eldorado with his mother. The poor
| wonaM could endure life with the bruss
no longer, and with sobs she told the doc
tors mother what he had said. That
good woman demonstrated with her S)u.
but the only appreciation which he
showed was to turn TO his wife and
| shout
"You 60 TO hell. You go out aud hus-
tie for yourself. Every cent you get rro@
me hereafter you will have to sue for"
| The doctor supplemented this speech
| by calling his wife an immoral woman,
and after. when the wife had occasion to
| 60 to New York shopping, DR.. Deraismes
| would declare before others that she had
| gone there to meet men.
On June 25 last the wife was forced to
| leave her husband. She took her daughter
| Margery 10 her sisters home at Eagle
| wood aud is there now, Her sister is the
| wife of the Rev. A. B. Taylor.
Two days after Mrs. Deraismes le # her
| husbRed she received from him the fol-
| lowing letter.
| THE LETTER.
| ~ TAyLoR's HOTEL, JERsE CRY, N Jl
| June rs. 1898.
| Mrs. s. 4. Il. DerdismeS Cd:
| MADAM,-You have formed an alternative;
| this day shall go west you may know what
| that signifies; this will be the last communal
| cation that you will receive from me except
| from legal authority.
| EDWARD ]. DERAIsMEs.
| In her complaint against her husband
| Mrs. Deraismes charges that the doctor
owns real estate in New York valued at
| S42. 600. aud that he has SIS, 600 invested
| on bond aud mortgage. His monthly
| iucome tr1m his Investments is $500, and
| what he receives from his practice is
| considerable.
This statement the doctor denies, Just
| as he does all others, made by bis wife.
| He says his income from mis- practice does
not amount to 500 a year, and that his
annual income from all sources is So 600
year. The doctor in detail denies every
allegation made by his wife.
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