The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-10
HOWARD AND ANNIE
The Whee1ers Unload a Lot
of Shocking Testimony
ON Special Master
Williams.
A NAUGHTY BLoND's STORY,
For One Day, at Least, the Wife
Had the Worst of It-A Mid
night Surprise.
NAUGHTY BLOND's STORY,

The divorce case of Howard z. Wheeler
VS.. Annie E. Wheeler was continued before
Special Master Washington B. Williams at
Chancery Chambers, this morning. Coun-
sellor John DENIM appeared for the petit
t%itioner, and ex-Mayor Gilbert Collins for
Mrs. Wheeler. Allegations of inddehty
were made by both sides. Wheeler was the
first witness called. He testified that he
married Mrs. Wheeler in New York or
March 8, 1884, and that the ceremony was
performed by the Rev. D.. Snyder of Third
avenue.
81 lived with her in Jersey City, " said he,
s'until April of last year when l accused her
of improper relations with William Van
Wyck on December 20, 1892, at No.. T22
President street, Brooklyn"
In his petition Wheeler gives his residence
as Grand street, this city. and says that he
has four children, Percy, seven years; Her
bert, five years; Stella, three years, and
Mabel, one year. He asks for the custody of
these children.
MRS. wEExLR's ACCUSATIONS.
In her answer Mrs. Wheeler denies the al
legations set forth in her husbands petition,
and files a cross bill accusing Wheeler OF
having Improper relations with Annie NJ.
Prince in July, August and September, 1892,
at Ne 18s Grand street; in September, Octo-
Der, November and December, 1899, and
january, February, March and April, 1898,
at the Colunnbia Hotel, on Washington
street, Brooklyn, and in August, September,
October, November and December, 1893, at
No. GIT Hudson street, Hoboken; in Decem-
Der, 1893, and January, 1894, at No. SO Union
street, and in january and February, 1894,
al No. AS Monitor street. She also charges
him with having improper relations with
other persons whose names she does not
know. Mrs. Wheeler asks on these grounds
that a decree of absolute divorce be granted,
giving her custody of her children and al
lowing sufficient inony aad other relief as
the nature of the case may require.
CONSTRAINED.
Wheeler, when cro-ss-examined, said:--"I
lived with my wife until 1898; most of the
time in jersey City; all our children were
born here. was interested in and conduct
cd the Columbia Hotel. The cause of our
separation was nay accusing her of having a
lover. When / confronted her with this,
she said, He isn't a married man, anyway
One night / came home and found the doors
locked. l knocked, but received NO reply. |
heard a scurrying in the room, and then !
broke down the hall door. | found the bed
As soon as l entered the bed
roem the lights went out. My wife
and her sister approached me and threw
their arms about my neck. As they did this,
/ saw a man attired in a long coat and black
cap pass out. In appearance. he resembled
MIR. Van Wyck. | saw Van Wyck a few
days later on the street, and he had the
same coat and cap on.
THAT night / demanded an explanation
from my wife. She told me the place | was
in was no longer my home, and that | had
no business there. reviewed her past his
tory, reminded her of how l took her out of
a factory and gave her a home. But this
mazda M AiffaronHa | than left her ~
BY THE NAME OF WILSON.
Evidence, which was afterwards pro-
duced, established the fact that at one place
Wheeler was known by the name of Wilson
and Miss Prince by the name of Annie
Prince Wilson. Wheeler said he assumed
this name because his wife was prosecuting
him..
WHERE H SAW MRS.
The next witness called was Susie Saund-
srs, a pretty blonde with rosy cheeks, who
admitted that she was an unchaste woman,
and that she frequently visited a house Of
designation at Nc. pa West Seventeenth
street, kept by Mrs. Rosetti.
Il visited this place a number of times
said She, and while on one of these visits |
saw Mrs. Wheeler there with a tall man who
was dark c-omplexioned and had a small
black mustache. / don't know his name, but
I would now him if l saw him again. | had
been in the house about five minutes when
l heard Mrs. Wheeler and her companion
coming up stairs. They went
into a room adjoining that
in which I was. / was in the house about TWEEN
tv minuteshnd when | left Mrs. Wheeler and
her companion we're still there"
When asked how she knew it was Mrs.
Wheeler, she said that while she was en-
ployed at a saloon kept by a Mr.. Burnett on
Hoboken avenue, Mrs. Wheeler passed the
store and Burnett told her who she was.
After further testimony regarding her
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The case was then adjourned until Friday
morning at ten O'Clock.