The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-23
THE WIFE IGNORED.
Married a Man Who Had a
Spinster Sister and
Two Daughters.
THEY MADE LIFE SWEET" FOR HER
Husband Tired of the Chickering's,
and Let His Wife Return to
Her Fathers Home.
THEY MADE LIFE SWEET" FOR HER

Edward A. Ransom, as counsel for Mrs.
Louise Dummer, applied to Chancellor Nc
Gill this AFTERNOON for counsel fee and ali
mony in her suit against her husband, Chas.
H. Dummer, for separate maintenance.
Mr.. Drummer is paying teller of the Mechan-
les Exchange National Bank of New York,
and at present resides at Montclair. He
was formerly a resident of Jersey City, an
active member of the church, and an ener-
getic promoter of all branches of Y. M. G..
A. work. His present wife is his second
matrimonial venture. She was Miss Louisa
G~reenless, andlived with her parents in Jersey
City when she met Mr.. Drummer. They were
married at Mrs. Dummer's home here on
October %, 1889. According to Mrs. Dunn
mer's bill previous to his marriage with her,
the husband lived with his two unmarried
daughters and a spinster sister about seventy
years old. Mrs. Dummer alleges that Dunn
mer, as a part of the consideration of her
consent to marry him, promised that the
spinster sister should not reside with them
after the marriage, but, unmindful OF his
promises and against Mrs.
frequent request to keep the same, he per
mitted his sister and daughters to remain
members of his household.
TREATED HER WITH
Shortly after the marriage the sister and
daughters, encouraged by Dummer, for the
purpose of compelling her to leave her bed
and board, as Mrs. Dummer verify believes
and charges in her bill, began to treat her
unkindly and with great indignity. The
sister interfered with the household duties of
Mrs. mIne in such a way and to such an
extent that Mrs. Drummer declares her posi-
ton became that of a domestic servant
rather than that of a wife.
In October, 1890, Jennie Drummer, one of
the daughters, took possession of Mrs. Dunn
mer's private rooms without her consent and
against her will and used it as a school room
in which she instructed strangers. Mrs.
Dummer also charges that her private cor
~respondence and other property was alb
stracted from the place where she had put
them, and part of the correspondence was
appropriated or destroyed by Miss Jennie.
Mrs. Dummer's commands to the servants
swere frequently c-ountermanded by the
Misses hummer, and the servants were in
structed by them that Mrs. Dummer's com
manos were subordinate to theirs.
RETURNED TO e FATHER.
In spite of his promises to put an end to
these indignitieS her husband never did so
and finally on March 25, 1892, Mrs. Dummer
went to her father, informing her husband
in the language of the bill, shat she had de-
cided to visit her parents for a few days in
order to give him al opportunity to con-
slider her position and MAKE some arrange
ment whereby she should not be subjected 10
further indignities at the hands Of his said
sister and daughters" In reply to this Mrs.
Dummer says her husband told her that his
marriage to her was all a sad mistake and
that she must leave his house at once. Then
he selected certain articles of furniture
which he told her to take away with her.
VERY KIND NDEED
He was even so kind as to her
part of the way to her fathers home and
carry a satchel for her which he had kindly
loaned her and which he requested her to
return to his home the next day. She has
been at her fathers home ever since.
When she had been away a short time he
sent her several articles of furniture which
she had left behind. Since then he has never
requested her to return to him, although she
has frequently offered to do so if he would.
make her home pleasant for her.
Judge Douglass opposed the motion, claim
ing that the bill showed that Mrs. Drummer
had deserted her husband. The Chancellor
continued the case, in order TO allow Mrs.
Dummer to submit affidavits in proof of her
charges.