The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-25
THE WIFE WAS BOSS
Josephine Van V1iet Pre-
feTred Other Men to
Her Husband.
LUTHER KIND OF OBJECTED
At Last He Summoned Up Sufi-
cient Courage to Sue for a
Divorce.

A Newark divorce suit of more than Or
binary interest will come before Chancellor
McGilrs attention in a few days. 1t is that
of Luther G.. Van Vliet against his wife
Josephine. Mr.. Van Vliet's story Of his
connubial difficulties shows at least what a
model of a patient, forgiving hubby he
is. The petition to the Chancellor sets forth
that he and his wife were married at the
House of Prayer Protestant Episcopal
Church in Newark, or the 27th of Septem-
Der, 1883. They went to live at No. 131
Second street, First street and Central ave-
nue..
From the very day of her marriage Mr..
Var Vliet complains that his wife icon
Quoted herself in a reprehensible manner by
reason Of attentions which she showed to-
ward other men than ner husband, and
which she improperly permitted other men
than her husband to show toward her"
SAW MAN cAREssING HIS WIFE.
This sort of thing went on until Christmas
Day, 1887, when Mr.. Van Vliet, returning
home unexpectedly, found Mr.. johnson
Var Camper, a prominent Newark mer-
chant, and his wife Josephine caressing each
other. Luther at once ordered Mr.. Van
Camper out of the house, but the latter re-
fused to go, saying:-
I'm a friend of your wife's and you are
not boss here
Mr.. Van Camper stayed, and Mrs. Van
Viet told her husband that it was none of
his business.
Driven to evaporation by the sights and
occurrences in his household, Mr.. Van Vliet
says he left his home in January, 1888, and
,.ornoinod ouon for fbyaa months A II fhiS
time he endeavored to dissuade his wife from
continuing her relations with Mr.. Van Cam
pen, but it would not work.
Finally, in the following March, Mr.. Van
Vliet says, he left his home because he was
unable to stand any longer the taunts of his
friends in regard to the state of affairs at his
home, but before doing SO he summoned up
enough courage to s'forcibly eject" Mr.. Van
Camper from his house.
Il found" he says, "that during my alb
sence from home Van Camper had been
boarding there. My wife slept in a room
adjoining the room occupied by him, with a
door connecting which was never locked"
After leaving his wife Mr.. Van Vliet went
to live at Cornwall, New York, but hired
furnished rooms for his wife at No. Il Cross
street.
When he came to Newark two or three
months afterwards he called to see his wife,
but she had flown with the furniture to keep
house at No. so South Orange avenue with
Frank Cirque, a widower with five children
and a sa]oonkeeper.
GO AWAY, NASTY MAN." SHE AID
MI. Van Vliet hunted his wife up at the
saloon keepers address, and reproached her
for her conduct.
$50 away. ] don't want you around, y she
said. Mr.. Van Vliet then began to look up
Mr.. Frank Creque's record, and says that
the saloop keeper and local political boss is
not a widower but has a wife from whom he
was separated.
Il called on my wife several times and
asked her to be good and come home, but
she told me to clear out. Frank was good
enough for her" piteously added Mr.. Van
Vliet.
For all these reasons then he determined
on procuring a divorce and sought the ad-
vice and aid of Counselor Addison Ely of
Rutherford who filed the petition alleging
desertion.
Testimony will be begun in a few days in
Jersey City, and %subpunas have been issued
to Frank Creque, johnson Van Camper and
other gentlemen whose attentions to Mrs.
Josephine Van Vliet. her husband complains