The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-21
A SPICY LAW SUIT.
A Well Known Bergenite
Accused of S1andering
Two Ladies.
MR.. BRUSH SAYS IT IS SPITE
A Nice Mess to Be Served Up
In Judge Puster's
Court.

Mrs. Adeline Roberts, a very estimable
young lady, residing with her parents at No.
60 Jewett avenue has instituted suit for
damages against Mr.. and Mrs William
Brush of No. Is Jewett avenue. Mrs. Rob
erts says that they have maliciously slam
dered her
The parties to the suit are well known in
that section of the Hill, and if some OF ths
rumorS floating around be true, the testi-
mony before Judge Puster on Monday
morning next will certainly be spicy.
The alleged wrong done to Mrs. Roberts
consists in this, that few days ago Mr..
Brush went into certain drug store on
Monticello avenue and talked lndiscreetiy
about her. She happening at the moment
to pass, Mr. Brush it is alleged, pointed her
out to the drug clerk as a young woman OF
bad repute.
MRS. ROBERTS STORY.
"He told that clerk, >" says Mrs. Roberts,
that my sister and were as bad as these
dreadful women giving evidence before the
Lexow Committee. He also said that men
were continually going in and out OF our
house at all hours of the night. and in fact,
that our house was a disorderly place. Isn't
it dreadfulm
In her complaint Mrs. Roberts says that
Mr.. and Mrs Brush went among the neigh
bors telling them that herself and sister
were not respectable people. She is sure
that all this was said, because, she ADDS, the
neighbors told her, and the drug clerk,
being a friend of the Roberts sisters, re-
peated to them what Mr.. Brush had said IN
the store.
The upshot of it all is that the ladies
sought the advice of Counsellor DENIM,
who now brings the suit for 500 damages.
Mrs. Roberts says she Intends when she
gets through with the civil suit, to go before
the Grand Jury and have her defamers IN
dicted.'
BRUSH SAYS ITS SPITE.
A News reporter went TO find Mr.. Brush
to hear his version of the story and rang the
bell of a frame house, pointed out as the
Brush mansion
s'Does Mr. Brush live here?n he inquired
Of an elderly female in curl papers, who
came to the door.
mo, sir" She snapped, ''and I wish he
didn't live in the street, and so saying
banged to the door.
At No Is Mr. Brush was found, and he
| first denounced the falsity of the charge. and
said:-
Last winter I was stopped on the street
by Captain Archie Mckaig and Policeman
| Mulcox, and they asked me if [ knew any
thing about the reputation of Mrs, Roberts
and her sister. told them didn't
Mr.. Brush then said that he went nome
| and told his wife. His wife, however, sand
| he ought to mind his own business and the
| police theirs.
| The conversation with his wife was over
| heard, ne said. by Mrs. Kirk, who, after
! a little trouble with him, spitefully told
| Mrs Roberts that Mr. and Mrs. Brush were
| talking about her.
The whole thing" summed up Mr..
| Brush, lis they think I've a little property
and they want to get hold of it. But they
won't. and don't you forget it,"
CONTRADICTS MR.. BRUSH.
| When Mrs. Kirk was spoken to about the
matter she laughed at Mr.. Brushs state
ment that spite was at the bottom of it.
! ''That man Brush said Mrs. Kirk, 8
| pretty young woman, sin front OF myself
| and a friend characterized Mrs Roberts
| and her sister as common girls and unfit for
| any decent society. He told me that ne WIS
| getting up petition to eject them from the
| street"
The plaintiff, Mrs. Roberts, q young and
| attractive woman, was next visited and she
| was much distressed at the rumors circu-
| lated about herself and her sister, Miss Dora
| Stebbins.
81 do not know Mr. Brush, and I do not
know why he spreads these awful stories
about us. I have positive evidence that no
has been slanderiDg me, and we mean to
push the matter to the utmost. 1T is shame-
ful that we should be annoyed by such a
| man
Mr. Brush has engaged a lawyer and
means to fight. He proposes to bring out
| some facts which will completely exonerate
him of the charges.