The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-17
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Henry Ferris was tried In the General
Sessions Court yesterday for assaulting
Eliza Wilson with an axe, at No. 514
Fourth street, Hoboken, on October Is.
The couple were living there together,
Ferris said. as man and wife. but Mrs.
Wilson denied thatA Henry Wilson, Mrs.
Wilson'S husband, IS not in very robust
health and last winter he went to Florida,
where he secured employment in a hotel.
He went away in the early part of No
vember. shortly afterward Mrs. Wilson,
who was left to support herself and her
child, secured a position as ~janitrix Of
a fiat in West Eighteenth street, New
York. Ferris was the engineer there and
he took board there. Wilson returned in
April last and learned that his wife was
recognized in the neighborhood as Mrs.
Ferris. This does not seem to have dis
turbed him much. He let his wife remain
there and visited her occasionally. When
HE had any money to spare he gave her
some. In September last Mrs. Wilson
moved to Hoboken and Ferris went with
her. Her husband called on her on Oc-
tober 10 and bought the child a pair Of
shoes. What occurred after that was
told by the parties interested at the trial.
Mrs. Wilson first testified that she was
married to Wilson at>her home in Sau-
gerties, N X, in 1873, BY q German min
lister whose name she had forgotten. She
did not get any certificate, as she did not
think it was necessary. On October 10
her husband called on her and was lying
on the lounge when Ferris came in, He
was drunk and he proceeded to thump
her husband and then he struck ner with
the axe on the SIDE of the face. He did
all this without saying a word. Mrs, VIII
son said. She denied that she had eyer
lived with Ferris as his wife.
Wilson next took the stand and testified
that he was married to the woman In
1879. For some. reason which he could
not remember, there was no ceremony
performed, but they agreed in the pres
ence of her parents and other relatives
to be husband and wife. After he re-
turned from his trip from the South he
did not ask his wife to live with him
because he was not doing much. He
called on her occasionally. On the day of
the ARRAY he was lying on the lounge
and his wife was lying on the edge Of
the bed in another room. Ferris at
tacke Mrs. Wilson and then ran out TO
where Wilson was and said, Il can do
you, too
Il didn't want to have any trouble with
him, so | ran down stairs to the street.
Ferris ran after me and was about to at
tack me again when a policeman arrested
u.s."
Ferris opened his testimony by declar-
ing that the woman was his wife. They
were married in the same unceremoni0us
uA4flAAtt 4A WHICH TIT Aia4A Aa-E WIKI ' q
son was performed, hui he always recog-
nized her as his wife and does yet. Com
ing down TO October Is, Ferris testified
II met q contractor. a friend OF mine.
an I asked him upstairs. I found me
wife lynn on de bed beasiiy drunk, I goes
over an / shakes her an she mutters
something. Den ! gives her a couple Of
siapS In de face. pretty hard slaps, too,
but I couldn't get her or. Den I saw
dis Teller WILSON lynn on de lounge. He
was drunk. too. an I says TO him. ! says.
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God Afm'ghty N lei YOU. Den me wife
says: Where's de axe1 Gimme De axe
an rn split his damned head OPEN I
fought she meant him. but she meant me.
She came at me wild de axe, an ] tux Il
away from her. I didn't hit her. I runs
dow after Wilson an be calls me a mug.
I went fur him agin an de copper tux
US IN. OATS all. I didn't hit Mrs. VIII
son. or Mrs. Ferris. or whatever her
name IL. wild de axe"
The Jury convicted him.