The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-22

MAGO Wan ARRESTED
Trenton's Rubber Magnate
Held for Relations With
Helen Edith Barnes.
HUSBAND THE COMPLAINANT.
Unable to Obtain s25,5oo Bail He
Goes to Jail in the Custody
of the Sheriff.
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TRENTON, Aug q, 1S95.-Frank A.
Mcgowan, the rubber manufacturer who
has been in financial and domestic diff
culties for some time. was arrested this
forenoon on bench warrant charged
with criminal relations with Helen Edith
Barnes, wife of John Albert Barnes, the
superintendent 'of the Eastern Rubber
Company one of the concerns controlled
by Mcgowan until it passed, two weeks
ago, into the hands of receiver.
Mcgowan was taken to the Mercer
county Jail and held in $4,000 bail.
The charge is preferred by the hus-
band, Barnes, who claims that Mcgowan
not only seduced his wife, but alienated
her affections from him. Believing that
Mcgowan was about to leave the State
for good he caused his arrest on a capias
and means to follow this proceeding with
a civil suit for 100000 damages The
complaint in the case is a very volumin-
Gus typewriter document covering every
detail of Barnes life from a period be-
ginning ten years ago and describing
the actions of Mcgowan in invading the
sanctity of his home life and running it
by corrupting his Barneso wife.
The complaint is in the nature of an
affidavit and upon this Supreme Court
Commissioner John S. Aiken granted the
capias, stating in his belief that having
read and considered the same it is suffi-
GENTLY proved that the said Frank A.
Mcgowan has been guilty of criminal
acts with the said Helen Edith Barnes"
The Commissioner also stated that
the grounds for believing that Mcgowan
was about to leave the state were suffi-
GENTLY grounded.
CAUSES A BIG SENSATION.
The affair has created a profound sem
sation here. although the public have for
more than a month been prepared for
any sort Of a sensatlona! den2uement g me %, OF
ported and generally believed that
Barnes was heavily, armed and going
about the city seeking Mcgowan 4s f9r I,?r
complaint Barnes says he ne was marriea
to his wife on May Z, 1888, In Toronto.
Canada. by the Rev. r: Mckee
child which was named Beryi was born
to them in September, 1880; Barnes was
then employed by the Gutta Perchas
Rubber and Manufacturing ompany Of
Toronto. In May, 1894, he was persuaded
by Mcgowan to come to Trenton and
take the superintendeney ct the as Eastern fte,.
Mcgowan induced Barnes to move into
a house WHICH he. Mcgowan, was ieaYr az,
ing. at No. IS North Cliaton 3 toi lay avenue Tor
a new 1000 mansion adjoining.
Mcgowan represented to him that he
would let him acquire the property at q
fav n pe i and i hs ated wfe shs and PaInfi ehd
moved into this house where they lived
happily. Barnes declares, Until g0at H., Just be,
discovered disc se.r that Magowan was paying
4 MAGoWAN ils(itlSV n TOOK HIS WIFE AND
A. +b;e noin+ of his statement Barnes
goes into the minutest description of
Magowan's doings, averring. that Ma
eat periods at hotels in New York, Buff
falo, Pittsburg, Chicago and IN other
cities.
Barnes, returned from a business trip
West, he learned that Mcgowan had
taken his wife and child to % New sed YORK; tx
Hotel Barnes upbraided his wife, cen,
suring her and Mcgowan severely, put
She refused to return to Trenton. On
April II Barnes declared he came upon
his wife and Mcgowan in a room at the
Hotel Anderson in Pittspurg; Pa Pa NJ,
Der der assumed names at Hotel Savoy.
New York. Barnes declares, that Ma
sections with him and his wife when
they were all travelling. westward on
business, trips, and that he, Barnes.
of his house in this city,, Mcgowan, he
swears, called there at all hours OF the
day and night, and once he escaped
by scaling rear fences. when Barnes
was looking for him with a weapon.
UNDER MAGOWAN,S INFLUENCE.
Barnes says further that his wife seems
under Magowan's control; that she wor-
ships the ground he walks on. and that
both are now living at the Hotel Wind
sor, New York. Mrs. Barnes, according
to the complaint is awaiting the divorce
of Mcgowan from his wife in order to
be married to HIM,
Much of the matter in the. complaint is
unfit for publication, all of 1t going to
show ALagowans intimacy with Mrs.
Barnes.
Magowan's downfall is now considered
complete here He has been making her
culean efforts during the past FIVE or o.,
company, by having the receivers dis
possessed. but so far he has. failed in
these efforts some of the creditors, it is
said. refusing to give their assent to
the proceeding.
Up to one o'clock Mcgowan had failed
to secure bail and was still In the GUS
tody of Sheriff Ego.
Senator slSirm. his principal financial
hacker until lately. is out of town for
the Qay,