The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-28
C0OKEDARK AND CO0KEFAIR
SHORT COOKE AND LONG COOKE, AND
tOoKE'S, OR COOKIES, WIVES.

| whose Wife IL Virginia Starr Rowland,
| Plumber Cookies, Clerk Cookies, or Clerk
snnord's i-Nvho Chieny Wants to Know.
Whether franklin Harvey Cooke who has a
plumbing business at 1895 Susquehanna ave.
nue.. Philadelphia. is tho person who. undor
that name married Virginia Starr Rowland In
1877 Ia the snaG in the case OF Joseph 4. SAT-
ford. who Is suing to break his marriage to
her. and Judge McAdam yesterday threw the
case over to the October Torn In order to have
this snaC cradicated.
Cooke. the plumber, says that Virginia was
once his wife. and sho declares she is tho vic
tim OF a conspiracy, and never saw Cooke be-
foro. Stafford. who hrs been a clerk OF tho
Hotel Nend5me at Boston and the Victoria and
Brunswick OF this city. left tho defendant atou
the beginning OF the year and brought action
for On annulmept OF his marriage. on the
ground that she was Cooke. tho plumbers.
wife.
Tho evidence OF Cooke. the plumber. was
taken by commission. LAWYER Holm. OF Kohn.
Ruck & Lipmnn. counsel for Mrs. Stafford SAYS
that Cooke has wife himself. although he
swore to his prior marriage to Virginia Cooke
swore that tho defendant is Virginia Starr
Rowland who. up to September. 1877. when he
married her. lived with her parents at lG0
Cottage street. Jersey City. She was about 10
years old at the time and he was 81. When
asked how long he lived with her. Cooke
RI think the Indy deserted me In 1873 or
Cooke says that Virginia may not have known
went to Phiadelphia to reside permanently.
but that she could always have ascertained his
address. His mother has lived for fifteen years
at 53S Summit avenue. Jersey City. except
at her country house at Mount Tabsr. lie says
Virginia has boy BY their union living with
About. a year ago Cooke AYERS, he went to
81 on w az me ho enoest os Sanrd
He did not remain two minutes. as she said she
did not care to, soc him. He identified her and
Mrs. Stafford testified yesterday that she in
formed Stafford before her marriage to him in
man named Cooke. She told Stafford she had
not heard from Cooke tor ton yearssa ana Pc
seven Years. would have BEEN enough to emu en
title her to marry agnin.
When Cooke. tho plumber. called on her, sho
married was tall and fair. She admitted that
plumber. but from what she did see she be- be-
lieves that he was not the Cooke she had mar
The case went over to the October term at
her request. Lawyer Kohn said afterward that
his client Ind recently sent George Lockhart.
had married her sister, to Philadelphia to see
4 he could remember Cooke: Mr. kohn said
luul lOChlluTl COGlu not lueutlly HIN. Out lnuL
Cooke said he remembe Lockhnrt. The
Cooke she married was clerk. and had not
learned plum bling. When Cooke. the plumber.
was asked before Com missioner Leonard My
ers at philadelphia IL he had married again.
he declined to answer.
sarah 3. Halsted moved before Judge Bis
chofr OF the Court Of Common Pleas yesterday
for an order compelling Charles stockton Hal
sted to pay her alinony at the rate OF $500
they signed on May -. 1892: Ho was also to
give her as good n house as 1913 Clinton street.
n IN IN ar hn
maintenance. education, and travelling OK.
n wh of their three ShdrenR ,,l nalsted.
sted OF tho firm of Halsted, Haines
merchants. brought action against her
for absolute divorce about year ago making
Louis G. johnson. their mutual friend. CORE
spondent She. retorted with charges OF his
misconduct with servant girls.
motion must fail. because she had elected to
bring an action through her trustee. Louis c.
johnson. under the agreement to recover
money In arrears. She could not have the benz
fit OF n motion as we'll as the action to the same
end. Decision was reserved.