Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-13
MRS. DRAYTON WILL FIGHT.
She win Bitterly Contest Her Husbands
Application for IA Divorce, and File
COMnter CharEes of Unfaithfnlness.

She win Bitterly Contest Her Husbands
| Application for IA Divorce. and File
Counter Charges of Unfaithfulness.
| TRENTON, N. j., Sept. 6.-Mrs. j.
| Coleman Drayton has not yet filed the
answer to her husbands petition for
divorce, although the last day for doing
so was yesterday. This failure, how.
ever, docs not necessarily forfeit her
right to make defence, as an extension
OF the time for filing the answer may
have been extended by application to
any one of the four Vice Chancelors, or
by mutual agreement of counsel for
both sides. If Mrs. Drayton makes no
answer, then the matter will be referred
by the Chancellor to special master to
take testimony on behalf of the petit.
TONER. The masters report, with his
recommendation, would then be passed
upon by the Chancellor, or one Of the
Vice. Chancellors, and decision rem
dered.
The suit is in the court of chancery
in New Jersey because Mr.. Drayton is
nominally a resident of this State. The
ground for the complaint against his
wife, who is Charlotte Augusta Aston,
is adultery, and Hallett Alsop Borrowe
is named as correspondent. Mrs. Dray-
ton acknowledged the service of the
subpoena.
The complainant sets forth that he
married his wife, who is Charlotte
Augusta, daughter of the late William
Aston, on October Goth, 1879, at the
residence of her father, $50 Fifth avenue,
New York city. The Rev, Morgan Dix,
rector of Trinity Church, performed the
ceremony. Until 1886, the bill recites,
the couple lived together at 374 Fifth
avenue. Then they moved to Bernards~
vile, N. ]. In 1893 the complainant
moved to Someryille, N. j., where he
has since resided. The husband IS charges
OF intidelity are specific as to person,
time and place, as the following shows !:
I'm January, February, March, April,
May, June, July August and September,
1881" the complaint declares, "the de-
PENDANT wickedly. dtsregarding the
solernnity of her vows and the sanctity
of the marriage state, committed adul-
terry with one Hallett Alsop Borrowe, at
the Palette, West Fifty-second street,
New York; and at 374 Fifth avenue,
New York, in February, 1891; and at
the house and grounds at Bernardsyille,
between January and October, 1891, and
between January 9th and January goth,
1899, at the Terminus Hotel, Kings
Cross, London, known as the st. Pan
creas Hotel"
MIR. Drayton asks that the marriage
be dissolved, and asks the custody of
the four children. Mr.. Drayton's COM
plant shows that four children we've
born OF the marriage-Caroine Aston,
October Goth, 1880; Henry Coleman,
January 9th, 1888; William Astor,
November 2Sth, 1888, and Aida Living.
ston, November gath, 1890. Since the
separation the children have been in the
care Of Mr.. Drayton.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-Contrary to ex-
pectations it is reported that Mrs. j.
Coleman Drayton will contest the di.
vorce suit brought by her husband. It is
said she not only does not regret the
bringing of the divorce suit, but re-
ceived the news of it gladly, and ar
ranged that the papers might be served
on her expeditiously.
Mrs. Drayton not only will contest
the case, but will fight it to the bitter
end. She will answer Mr.. Draytons
petition with cross-petition alleging
untaithfulness ON his part and gross
violation of his marriage VOWS. She
will enter general and specific denial
of all his charges against her, and will
bring what her friends regard as proof
positive that she has been maligned.
She precipitated the divorce proceed
iDgs by deliberately bringing suit for
the custody of her children. All these
facts are true, her friends saw, and when
they are confirmed by the filing of her
cross-petition and by the testimony at
the trial the confirmation will be so SEN
sational that the statement of the bare
facts will seem very tame.