The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-10
She HAD TO EAT PRUNES
Mrs. Chadwick Seeks a Divorce
from Her Husband, Alleg-
ing Cruelty.

The unfortunate results attending mar
riages contracted through a matrimonial
agency were amply shown when Albert f.
Chadwick, principal of a public school in
Paterson, told a sorrowful domestic tale to
Vice Chancellor Green this morning in Chan
Gerry Chambers. Because his wife was SO lazy
he was obliged every morning to get up and
make the kitchen fire. sweep out the rooms,
wash and dress the children, prepare the
breakfast while she, Armenia, was recover
ing from the effects of too much whlskey,
wine and cocaine taken the night before for
insomnia. Besides this wife OF his took all
the money he gave her for rent and paying
household bills and squandered it i'll other
channels, and t'jawed" him so much that his
health broke down and his reason became
affected. and he was compelled to pass some
time in Morris Plains Insane Asylum.
MRS CHADwICK'S STORY.
Before, however. Principal Chadwick told
suing him for divorce on the ground OF
cruelty, told her side of the warfare existing
between them.
Mrs. Chadwick is a young woman and was
formerly a typewriter i'll New York. She
wore in court a smart t~ailor-nade costume
and took her seat in the witness chair with a
determined air and a adlct-me-
sort of look on her rosy face. After she took
the oath, she fixed her hat on straight, re-
moved bel fur cape. Smoothed her gloves and
looked at her counsel who asked her TO de-
scribe her marriage with the school prln-
cipal.
Mrs. Chadwick in a glib, Northumberland
forty-words-a-minute rate said that during
her courtship Mr.. Chadwick had sent her
four letters a day. He implored her to marry
him, and at last she consented. After the
wedding ceremony, when they were in a
carriage, the driver asked him where to
drive to.
.'But he couldn't tell said the witness,
land l was obliged TO tell the driver to drive
TO some hotel. 1t was very embarrassing Tor
q bride to have to order rooms ct a hotel
when the bridegroom is usually supposed to
look after these things
On the following morning Mrs. Chadwick
says her husband neglected to order any
breakfast, but drove her to his home, where
there was IAN old bag in charge of his four
Children
THE WEDDING BANQUET.
Witness described the wedding banquet,
which consisted of bread and butter, some
thing called tea and Stewed prunes. Tine
children used their fingers in eating the
prunes and cleaned the dishes with their
tongues About a week after their ex-
pernence of married life, witness said, her
husband began to show signs of insanity.
He abused her and on many occasions offered
ylOie1CS To HSI- IitQuoubl9 az bi5hO tO
would get out of bed and roam about the
streets and repeatedly screamed with night
mare so that She couldn't sleep, One day,
finding her unwell, ne said "you are always
lick you damned dyspeptic crank"
For two weeks at a time he wouldn't speak
unless it was to say something mean. Wit
ness exhibited a package containing hair
which she said her husband had torn out of
her head.
Mrs. Chadwick was in the midst of a re-
pital of her husbands cruelties and told OF
several instances of abuse of marital rights
when ex-senator John w. Griggs, of counsel
for Mr.. Chadwick, objected that this charge
Of abuse wasn't specified in the bill. The
Vice-Chancellor ruled this out much to the
disgust of a crowd of women sitting at the
back of the court room who enjoyed the
very sensational and not over decent details
IF this part of Mrs. Chadwick's evidence.
MET AT A MATRIMONIAL AGENCY
ssWbere did you meet Mr.. Chadwick" be-
gan ex-senator Griggs on DISCRIMINATION.
AT a matrimonial agency snapped Mrs.
Chadwick, and by the same token the
AGENT had threatened to sue him for the fee"
For the fee for getting you" asked Mr..
Griggs.
For the fee he did not pay for getting
me-" corrected Mrs. Chadwick amid general
laughter.
Mrs. Chadwick admitted that she had been
correspond ing with this matrimonial agency
for some time.
The case is still in progress.