The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-31
LIFE ROMANCE
Mr.. Tunnison and Mrs.
Waring We're Once Be-
trothed Lovers.
WARNINGS LIES SEPARATED THEM
Now They Are In the Same Board
ing House and Divorce Suits
Are Pending.
LIES SEPARATED THEM

NEWARK, Aug. 81, 1S94.-Howard w.
Hayes is about to make an application
to Chancellor McGill, in support OF which
he will file several ~affidavits, for the dis
charge of the bono for $500 that his client,
Percy S. Tunison. was obliged TO give
in a suit for abandonment and no-sup-
port brought by his wife, Annie H. Tun-
ison. Tunison was arrested in TINS city
on Friday, August 10, and was released
on the Monday following, having OBJ
tanned the necessary surety. Mr.. Hayes
says that the sworn statements he will
present to the Chancellor will be calcu-
lated to demonstrate that there is no
necessity for holding Tunison in this way.
aeA romantic story is developed by this
case. Nearly fifteen years ago Tunison
was engaged to be married to Miss
Laura Smith, but the match was broken
off, and Miss Smith became the wife of
Andrew G. Warning, while Tunisona also
made another choice. Now both Mrs.
Tunison and Mr.. Waring are engaged
in actions for legal separation and the
custody of their children, and Mrs. War
ing is keeping a clearinghouse at No.
II Halleck street, with Tunison as one
of her boarders. These conditions have
given rise to stories which both Tunison
and Mrs. Waring deny, and different YER
sions of which they are anxious to have
the public know.
A. reporter saw them last night and
heard their narratives, together with that
of c. N. Smith. Mrs. Warnings father.
Tunison was seen. at his clearinghouse
MRS. Warning and 1 were lovers before
either of US was married. Our engage
ports that Mr.. Waring carried to her.
She married him, and ! married another
woman and had a family of three child
ren-Harold, now twelve, years old
Natalie, who is eight. and Ray, who is
six years of age. | did not see Mrs.
Warning again until April 2 Of this year,
when my wife and l were invited to at
tend a reception given in brooklyn on
Warnings sister. who is now boarding,
with her husband and children. in this
house. Mrs. Tunison refused to accom-
pany me. so 1 went lone.
Fifteen lays later, on the seventeenth
Of April. my wife deserted our home IN
Tenafy, taking the children with her,
ing Mrs. Warning as the correspondent,
but that action has since been toned
down to a plea for a legal separation.
Mrs. Tunison asks for the custody of the
two girls, but says nothing about the boy.
When the case comes to trial l shall be
able to show that 1, not she. was de-
serted et t ,,os+;on ,s ofton askaa univ ON
living in the house of Mrs. Warning. My
answer to that is that she and l are old
friends. She has to earn a living for her
self and children and l var to help her
along. 1 am on the same footing here as
any other boarder."
MRS. WARNINGS STORY.
1T is true as Mr.. Tunison has said,
that he and 1 We're once. hetrothed. We
.,~..- 49, 49, 49, Aff--A- e NJ,
Waring, who declared to me hat Mr..
Tunison had confided to him that he did
not intend to marry me and that he
lively disposition. With Mr.. Tunison
out of the way, Mr.. Warnings suit pros
pered and we were married.
II did not learn how Mr.. Tunison and
1 had been deceived until the night of
my sisters reception. 1t was because |
discovered his duplicity. I think that
Mr.. Waring made up his mind to lenve
me. At any rate, on the morning after
the reception he came to me, and in
brutal language, denied the paternity
of my little girl May, who is now six
forgiveness, and 1 told him that, while
I could never forgive him, l would toll
crate his presence in our house and thus
children. Then he repeated the assertion
about our little girl, and | gave him
back my wedding ring. [ did not throw
it in his face, as has been stated, but put
it in his pocket and informed him that
I would be his wife no more. On April
26 he left me and the children, telling me
that it was none of my business where
CAN'T SEE HIS CHILDREN,
He has entered a suit in the Supreme
Court of Kings county, N. Y, for g
separation and the care of the children.
| Grcnville and May. My application for
alimony was denied, owing to a misun>
| derstanding, pending the trial in Octo-
| Der. but I was granted counsel fees and
| Mr.. Warning was denied the privilege
| Of seeing the children.
The allegation that Mr.. Tunison and
that would justify a suit in which
| false and wicked. When l came to New
ark to rent a house my mother came
with me, and I have always conducted
myself in a way. that have no cause
| to be ashamed of. I also wish to deny
that 1 ever lived in Tenafy, where the
Tunisons resided"
C. N. Smith, Mrs. Warnings father,
said
1--WE have tried to avoid publicity, but
the time has come when we must sneak
in order to right ourselves. Mr.. War
ing promised me when he left my daugh-
ter that he would keep this painful bust
ness from the public, but he has not
done so, nor has he taken the pains to
deny the SANDERS that have been put
| upon her. He also promised to give Mrs.
| Waring; half of his income, but he has
not done se-f9r some time 3.
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