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HOUSEKEEPER FOR HER HUSBAND.
PECULIAR STATE OF AFFAIRS DISCLOSED IN A

HOUSEHOLDER FOR HER HUSBAND.
PECULIAR STATE OF AFFAIRS DISCLOSED IN
HoBoKEN COURT
A neculiar domestic ARRANGEMENT came to light
IN Recorder McCulloch's court In Hoboken yester-
dow during the trial OF Mrs. Helena Behrens.
German woman, who had been arrested by Police
man Kennedy about o'clock Tuesday night
According TO the officer he had found the woman
standing near the Of Second ana Madiso"
sts screaming for help and insisting tha' man
had attacked her. Kennedy saw nothing Oh he'
assaiIant so he took her to Police Headquarters
where she declared that she had been s'rucN ny
a loafer who had promised TO direct her 10 d
friends house. She had gone to HopoKen she sa'o'
TO pay q visit, and had met three young men s'anu
ing on a corner. She asked one or them 10 point
the way to her friends house, and he agreed 10
do So He led her, she said, several squares. ana
when they reached a vacant piece OF ground ne sug-
eested that they could cut across and save con-
siderable walking. Mrs. Behrens agreed, ana "heh
they came to the middle of the tract her gu'ue
struck her in the face, almost Knocking her SENSE
less As she fell she began to cry for aid, and
the rascal took fright and ran away. Her clothes
were covered with dirt, and she appeared 10 De
suffering from shock, so that her story or rougn
treatment was partially corroborated RESIDES sne
seemed TO be under the influence or some drug
which the police at once OWNED to be- morphine
h poGs enps s Mr BehTen and had her held
court When taken before the Recorder the woman i
sisted that She had done no wrong In the course
of the trial 1t was developed that some years, ago
in Hoboken With them there boarded young
Cuban who was said to be wealthy ana VINO 70, al
tended Stevens Institute The s9utherner ere ou to
gether so much that comment was made on theis
result. Trouble in the Behrens family followed
and the Cuban had to leave the house On iron
railing in front of his house with several RIBS br3ken
and In an unconscious condition. His wife eXplainsi
that he had faller from window by accident. Inc
fined for weeks in hospital, and when he iinally
recovered he asserted that his wife had thrown
him out in effort to get rid of him SHORTY ,ni,
Hoboken; Mrs Behrens disappeared with the Gu
that time Mrs. Behrens has been buffeted about
considerably and II was SUPPOSED uhuI yesteru'S
The scandal and It's result were we'll known to
brought before him yesterday he asked her where
with her husband and living In Jersey CITY. she
named friend yho she said would o
investiga ton. The officer learned that Mrs
Behreps really lived at no Em9rys JerS Ser
old place wife, was merely in her husbands en-
ploy. acting as his hoqsekeeper. pooorsor Ncc,,.
telling her that her troubles were the inevitable
willingly increase them. She received her dis
charge with many demonstrations or gratitude
The Behrens home is pleasant. cosey little cot
tage In Emoryst. The woman's apartments while
rest OF the family. Mrs. Behrens last night ex-
planed that she had been on a visit to lloboken
and had no idea why she had been attacked. though
she believed that robbery was the motive. She
had. she said, some money. and she thinks that
the runh who struck ae b ae b5% so ber
head she declared. had caused her much pain, and
1t was the effects Of it. and not morphlne, that
caused her to talk rather incoherently. She Is not
addicted to drugs.