The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24

eat IuetE litealS III an oiu 81 N0ilV - S'S'ts
near the homestead, leaving the children 10
shift for themselves.
LEFT THEM WITHOUT FOOD.
"Do you mean," asked TIE Chanceliof'
''that your mother didn't provide you with
foodfa
"Yes, sir" said Miss Bentley, ''since April
| last my mother has not given us cent for
| food for myself, Eugenia, Peter and John.
| We cook our own meals bought with money
| given us by Grandma Bentley. My mother
! furnishes US with nothing. | worked IN the
/ house, cleaned the rooms, did the washing
and mended the clothes until my sister and
! brother-in-law gave me some money TO pay
for that
! Isn't your brother John sick with Typhoid
feversn asked Mr.. Collins.
He is aud has been sick for some time,
( yet my mother never comes near him. She
| sent him some ice cream and cake once, ana
| that is all she has DONE am taking care of
| him. DR.. Rector attended him. am en-
| gagged to the doctor, you know. This inter
| esting admission was accompanied by be-
| coming little BLUSH.
BOON POT COMPANIONS.
| Then turning to her mothers and Whee-
don's conduct in the house Miss Bentley said
| that Wheedon went every night down to a
| saloon on the coruer of West Side and Com
munipaw avenues with huge pitcher for
| beer and he and her mother would sit IN the
| dining room alone for hours. Ihey were
| often under the influence of liquor, and she
| had seen Wheedon several times intoxicated.
| He would take little Parker with him to the
| grog shop, and that young hopeful. having
| been in Wheedon's company so often, had
| become proficient in the art of cussing.
| Wheedon, she said, one night got drunk and
| both he and her mother had been celebrat-
| ing freely with whiskey beforehand.
| Witness then declared that her mother
was in debt to New York dry goods people,
grocers, butchers and others. She enumer-
| ated the amounts: Grocer, $780, butcher,
| $500; Ehrich's, $500; McCreery Bros, $50;
| Lord & Taylor, 81, 800, and schooling bills at
| Princeton and Hasbrouck Institute.
| This testimony was strongly objected to
| by Gov. Bedle but it was permitted, be-
| cause it tended to show that Mrs Bentley is
| extravagant and that fact would affect her
| 1--WE ALL" continued Miss Bentley, ''spoke
| to her about her and Weldon drinking
together, for they drank good deal, Chan
| cellor, but my mother replied, III go right
and left through the property SO that you
| can't get any of it."
| An adjournment was then taken.
| SLAPPED THE DOCTORS FACE.
| Almost Immediately after the adjourn
| ment a scene took place. Young Dick Bent
| lev. not liking some of DR.. Rector's otServa-
| tions, turned around to that person and told
| him to mind his own business.
| The Doctor made some reply about lies,
| etc. when Master Dick slapped tine Doctor
across the face with folded newspaper.
| No return was made to the affront, but the
counsel was requested to bring up young
| Bentley for contempt. Friends interfered
| and ''bloodshed was averted."
ToDAY's PROCEEDINGS.
| The parties in the suit which promises to
| become veritabie cause cetebTe were
promptly on hand when Chancellor McGill,
with his accustomed punctuality, took his
| seat on the bench at one o'clock.
| Mrs. Bentley was in her place in neat
| fitting costume of shepherds plaid, while
her jiance (lVheedon) sat in the rear of the
court holding fast to young Parker Bent
| ley's hand.
Miss Emily Bentley again took the stand
| and in answer to her cousin, Mr.. Hartshorn,
who acted during Mr.. Collins absence as
Years Day and the date when Wheedon was
acquitted of the assault or Peter Bentley,
Wheedon was intoxicated.
'.0i, that date she said, s'you could notice
in my mothers eye and tone of her voice
that she was under the influence OF drink:
Ny mother gave Geo. Wheedon the keys of
my papa's cabinet where he kept his cigars
| and whiskey. DR.. Rector attempted to get
the KEYS from Wheedon, but be was in
| toxcated and refused. She and George
Wheedon were very familiar"
''What do you mean by familiarF asked
| the Chancellor.
We'll, after supper George Wheedon was
sitting on the sofa with my mother and he
| had his arms around her"
MRS. BENTLEY FED GEORGE.
"Later in the evening found her feeding
| George Wheedon with pop corn. She was
putting it into his mouth. Again, at nearly
midnight. l found her standing near the reg
| lister with her head on Wheedon's shoulder
! and his arm around his waist. During the
I h va INV M
| George Wheedon. Always when he came
| to the house she kissed that thing Wheedon."
At this testimony everybody looked at
Mrs. Bentley and Wheedon who looked about
as confused as guilty pair could under the
embarrassing circumstances.
"Now," pursued counsel, relentlessly,
'stell us again when you saw your mother
under the influence of drink?'
lone night when George Wheedon," Miss
Bentley replied, "was acting in play my
| mother said, oh, don't he look handsome!
Don't he do it fine,' and when we returned
home they went into the library and | saw
| my mother later with her hair down and her
dress slipping from her. She was evidently
| intoxicated"
Ex-Governor Bedle again objected. but
witness proceeding said that Wheedons
| conduct and her mothers were SO disgrace
full that Peter Bentley and herself put
Wheedon out of the house.
Miss Bentley then told of the incidents in
the house on the night following the acquit-
| tai of Wheedon for arrest.
II heard Wheedon say that if he was ac-
| Quilted he would get drunk with a great big
capital D, and haven't l. he asked of my
| mother, who offered my brother Dick some
| beer TO drink"
Witness then spoke of the absence of fuel
| in the house. Her mother wouldn't provide
| her or the other three children with fuel in
| the winter, and her brothers were obliged to
| 60 into the woods and hew down some trees
| to keep them warm Often witness discov-
| cred their food missing which her grand
mother had bought, and once she found
| George Wheedon and Mrs. Bentley in the
cellar trying to break into their store.
| Il told my mamma she ought to be
ashamed of herself trying to take from us
| the little we had.n
OTHER EVIDENCE OF FAMILIARITY.
| Counsellor Hartshorn sprung a surprise
when he asked Emily if she had seen her
mother familiar with other men.
"Oh, yes," said Miss Bentley, some time
| ago at Belmar on the New Jersey coast, a
Mr.. Frank Glaze OF Newark, would visit her
and my mother would bring out a bottle of
| whisky and Glaze and my mother would
stay on the upper porch for hours"
ANY other familiarity with men! 2 pursued
| counsel
! 'iYes some time after when we were at
| Baysnore my mother met a young actor
named Jack Palmer there, and as We drove
home in a wagon my mother and Palmer.
their arms around each other and kissed
each other
II ought to say, Chancellor,' said Miss
naixrplx ttfhaf ma of tho me-