The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03

DOMESTIC TRIALS.
Mr.. Streitwolf Objects to
His Wife Meddling With
His Cooking.
NEW BRUNSWICK CASE IN CHlHCERY
Extraordinary Revelations in Court
Observation-Disclosures Politi-
clans Prominently Fig
ure in the Case.
NEW BRUNSWICK CASE IN CHlACERY

A New Brunswick divorce suit was aired
in Chancery Chambers yesterday after
noon before Chancellor McGill, and some
very sensational testimony was revealed.
The suit was that of Mrs. Elizabeth
StreitwoIf against her husband August,
who is a wealthy wholesale wine mer-
chant of New Brunswick and once was
a prominent political figure in Middlesex
county.
Mrs. Streitwolf sues for maintenance
and in her bill she alleges cruelty. charges
her husband with Incorporate habits and
i~nsinuates that he was by far too friendly
TO a bewitching damsel, one Miss Minnie
Johnson.
On the other hand Mr.. Streitwo1f de-
clares that the suit is a put up job by
his wife's poor relatives, who are anxious
to bleed him. He said that his wife de-
mands s25,000 and $50 a week alimony,
and because he refused she started the
present proceedings.
The lawyers read yoluminous afidavits
from both husband and wife yesterday
evening and in one of these Mr.. Streitwolf
said that he was not Incorporate, but
his wife was and he was obliged to
place her in a sanitarium in Connecticut
AoI lrcdtHlell lOr dlcOuOiiSui.
That's a base lie,' said Mrs. STREET.
wolf. when the lawyer had read this
statement. ''That man, pointing to her
husband who was sitting beside his
lawyer, took me to the place by a
false pretence, and when / found out
what kind of a place it was I - Here
the Chancelior's gavel abruptly closed
the speech, just as it was in danger of
becoming Interesting.
Replying to the charge of intimacy
with Miss johnson the husband said in
his affidavit that ne had been for years
suffering from heart disease and the
doctor had directed him to have Miss
johnson sleep in an adjoining room SO
that when his attacks came on she could
be at hand to nurse him.
ssYou gave her your diamond ring and
accused my boy of stealing it," interrupt
ed Mrs. Streitwolf.
The husbands AFFIDAVIT explained the
ring episode in this wise:-His wife, he
said, asked him where his $1,000 ring was
and he said someone had taken it from a
drawer in his room. He consulted a de-
tective and learned that his son, a boy of
sixteen, was addicted to draw poker and
pool, and being perhaps pressed for cash
took the ring and pawned it. Hearing this
subject the husband answered a charge
that he with other politicians in New
Brunswick invited women to his house to
drink champagne with them.
Now, the fact is" replied Mr.. STREET.
wolf in his affidavit, lone evening 1 had
Recorder Hawkins, Aldermen ]. H. Deck
er and other gentlemen dining with me.
We were at dessert when Mrs. Sarah
Buckalew and another lady called to pay
their rent and l invited them upstairs to
take a glass of wine. They played the
piano for US and sang, but everything
was very proper, and it was only an acct
dental visit"
Both ladies put in afidavits corroborat-
ing his point in the case. Then Mrs.
S~ireitwofts lawyer took a turn at read
ing affidavits. and in one of these Mrs.
Streitwolf said that when Minnie Johnson
Was staying at ,his house he told her in
ms Wifes presence not to take any orders
from her because his wife was only an
invited guest in that household.
Nothing of the kind Mr.. Streitwolf
1~nterposed. Il simply told my wife not TO
interfere in the cooking. Too many cooks
spoil the BROTH
Coming back to the ring incident, it APP
peared that when Streitwolf suggested
that his son took 1t his wife Indignantly
said:-'Do you want TO make a thief of
the boy. You stole it yourself, and if you
don't get 1t back from Minnie I will put
you in JAIL"
Streftwolf put in testimony as to his
sons character at school and college,
where ii seems he gained some notoriery
and was ultimately dismissed. He was
allowed to do as he pleased. and his wife
aided and Allotted him in that direction.
It was nearly six o'clock before the
amdayfts were all read through. Streit-
woh proposes to file a cross bill suing for
divorce. The Chancellor gave no decision.
The Polls remain open until Z o'clock
fhis eveninp