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

The unfortunate results attending mar
riages contracted through q 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 be gave her for rent and paving
household bills aud ~squandered it in other
channels, and ''jaweda 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
this doleful, woeful story, his wife, who is
suing him for divorce on the ground ot
cruelty, told her side of the warfare existing
between them.
Mrs. Chadwick is a young woman was
formerly q typewriter IN New York. She
wore in court a smart tailor-made costume
and took her seat i'll the witness chair with a
determined air and a don't-contradlct-me-
sort of look on her rosy face. After she took
the oath, she fixed her hat on straight, re-
moved hel fun 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, two-hundred-and-
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 when they were IN a
- A. I.-, ,elral him 1Nlnrn IN
drive to.
ssBut he couldn't tell" said tue witness,
sand / was obliged to tell the driver to drive
to some hotel. 1t was very embarrassing for
q bride to nave to order rooms at 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. The
children used their fingers in eating the
prunes and cleaned the dishes with their
t~ongues.n About a week after their ex-
perlence of married life, witness said, her
husband began to show signs OF insanity.
He abused her and OH many occasions offered
violence to her. Frequently at night he
would got 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, he said ''you are always
ack you damned d~yspePtic 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 mids of a re-
cital 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
IF abuse wasn't specified in the bill. The
Vice-C Chancellor ruled this out much to the
disgust of a crowd of women sitting at the
pack 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.
"Where did you meet Mr.. Chadwick" be-
gan ex-senator Griggs on cross-examlnation.
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..
Briggs.
ssFor the fee he did not pay for getting
me- corrected Mrs. Chadwick amid general
laughter.
Mrs. Cha dwick admitted that she had been
correspond ing with this matrimonial agency
for some time.
The case is still in progress.