The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-25
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DIVORCE EPIDEMIC
Five Suits Begun in This
City Within the Past
Week.
COUNTESS De ST. MARTINS WOES
Linn Peryeil's Search for Money
Mrs. Norris Runs Away With
Mr.. Darling--0ther Causes.
COUNTESS De ST. MARTINS WOES

Counsellor E.. K. Seguine has begun in
in the Court of Chancery a divorce suit
which promises to be replete with racy de-
velopments. The lawyer is acting for Mrs.
| Julia de st. Martin. who charges her hus-
band with infidelity. When but twenty-five
years old Julia Yuengling, who lived with
her mother on Pacific avenue, met and fell
in love with Count Joseph de st. Martin.
She was very progressing in appearance
and brilliant in conversation and the Count
became infatuated with her as soon as they
met.
The Count is a F~renchman, and two years
before he met the fair Julia he deserted from
the French Army in South Africa and fled
with a woman to Madrid. After living with
her for a year he left her and came to
this country, and later met Julia Yuengling.
He pushed his suit vigorously, and III 1888
the couple were married. They went
abroad on their wedding tour, TOOK up
their residence at Brussels,
TOOK HIS WIFE TO EUROPE.
After q short sojoprn there, de st. Martin
| took his charming wife to Antwerp. and
then to Ostend. He did not dare to take her
to France, because he feared he would be ar
rested as a deserter from the Army. The
| Count during this time developed great de-
| sires for pleasure, and he made a struggle TO
| obtain as much of it as possible.
His parents supplied him with his income,
which was a liberal one, but not enough to
meet his requirements. To obtain more
money he gambled. and after leading
his wife an unhappy life while he was IN the
4 pursuit of his gambling business she left him
at Monte Carlo. and last December came to
this country and returned to the home OF her
| mother. where she now is. Her husband
followed her in May last, but he did not visit
the home of his wifes mother, he pre-
| ferred to stop in New York City, and his
wife says he is living u~nlawfully with a
| woman in that city. She has made this
woman a correspondent in her suit for di-
Vorce.
THE COUNT FILES A RIOS BILL.
Count Joseph de st. Martin in his answer
to the bill of particulars filed in the Court OF
| Chaucery by his wife. denies that he has
| been unfaithful to his marriage vows, but
| alleges that his wife has been, INC he aftirms
| that she and James Moore, said TO be a
wealthy biscuit manufacturer of New York,
have been unduly intimate. In the cross
| bill which he BIAS prepared the Count makes
| this man q correspondent. The ST. Martins
| have no children The Chancellor will re-
| fer the divorce proceedings to a master to
take testimony very soon, and some rich de-
velopments are anticipated.
Too Much Mother-in-LaW.
A suit for divorce has been begun by Bah
bitt e. Lawrence in the Court of Chancery
on behalf of Frank t. Zellers formerly of
this city. The case, according to Zellers is
one of too much mother-in-law. On Novem-
Der 5, 1879, he and his wife were married at
Middletown. N. Y. He was then a
telegraph operator on the New York,
S~usquehanna and Western Railroad. After
the wedding the couple came to this city
and resided at West End" In 1880 Zeiiers
was promoted to be train dispatcher, and
his Headquarters were Hackensack, where he
and his wife lived six years, aud were happy.
In 1885 the mother of Mrs. ZelleFs left her
husband ana made her home at Zellers'
house. but soon after reaching there she be-
gan TO run the house, and all protests on
the part OF ZellerS 1alieC TO make hef know
her place.
To get rid of her he resigned his position
in 1888 and accepted a similar one at Nor
witch, n. Y. He and his wife remained there
one year. and then Zellers was made Chief
Train Dispatcher of the Pennsylvania,
Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad, and
was located at Goshen, N. Y.
Soon after moving there the company
made Zellersi headquarters at S~latington,
Pa, and when he told his wife they must
live there, she refused to go, assigning as a
reason that she was tined of SO much NOV
ing. Mrs. Zellers remained at Goshen unit
1882, when she left her home and
went to that of her mother at
S~herbourne, NY, where she now lives. She
refuses to return to her husband, who is
living in this city, and therefore he has
brought the suit on the grounds OF desertlon'
MIR. Preyeil Wanted Money.
NJ. -. o,ar,ai1~nf +h;c ai+v hos haO11Y1 a
suit for divorce from her husband, in the
Court of Chancery. On the grounds of deser
ton. Four years ago she married Linn r.
Preveil, who. as she alleges, was in search
of money. When he found she had none. he
deserted her three weeks after the wedding
day. She has never seen him since.
Mrs. Becker Ran Away.
Andreas S. Becker, a gardiner, who lives
on Gates avenue, has brought suit for di
yorce from his wife Alleonore Becker in the
Court of Cnancery. The couple were mar
RED on March 3, 1888, in this city,
and they lived together and Were
apparently happy until April Is, 1891, whef
the wife left her home, and has never beer
seen since by her husband. He has instruct
ed his lawyers, Hudspeth q Puster to pro
cure a divorce for hIm. The couple had nc
children.
Mrs. Norris Preferred Darling.
Alfred w. Norris of this city and his
wife were married here in 1891. He was 6
hardworking baggage master on the New
Jersey Central Railroad at the time, and
was much i'll love with his wife, and he made
his little home at No. 80 Dwight street a.
happy as he could.
The young wife did not appreciate these
efforts Of her husband and preferred the
embraces of Joseph Darling to those Of
Norris.
One year ago she confessed to her husband
that She had been unfaithful and then fled
TO Brooklyn with Darling, where she now
lives with him.
Norris consulted Counsellor e. K. Seguine
and directed him to bring a suit for absolute
divorce, which has been done.
A POLICEMAN RIGHTLY SERVED
Patroiman John Hunt, who is suspended
for ~assaulting William Hayes of Kearney
avenue, was again on the warpath last
night. While intoxicated he dropped off q