The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-20
TURNED THE TABLES
Vice Chancellor Pitney Re-
fuses to Grant Mrs.
Michaelis a Divorce.
THE HUSBAND WILL NOW SUE
Greenyille's Sensational Suit Sur
prises the Wife and Her
WomenFriends.
TIE HUSBAND WILL NOW SUE

me sensational Greenville divorce case
oil Mrs Elizabeth F.. Michaelis against her
husband Arthur. heard yesterday after
noon before Vice Chancellor Pftney. ter
minated in surprise for the group Of
ladies' and babies who came from the
Wilds of Greenville to champion Mrs.
Michaelis' cause
1t was facer also for E. j. Trembly,
who tried unsuccessfully to secure a Ii
cense for Bamber Hall. and who sat
twisting his blonde mustaches and convers-
ing in low tones with sporty looking
bank clerk I. Marshall Hawley. whom Mr..
Michaelis says he found drunk with his
wife at No. 140 Linden avenue These in
dlviduals will. in all probability, figure in
a suit to be brought by Mr. Michaelis
against his wife charging her with
adulterous conduct
All the afternoon was devoted to testi-
mony on the part of Mrs. Michaelis re-
putting the nice 'tcarryings on at the
Linden avenue house. She denied that she
had ever used vile words in describing
her husband, and contradicted Mr. and
Mrs. Hiiton's testimony about beng
seen drunk in the hallway and kicking
holes in her husbands hat. AS she
stated this she darted angry glances at
Mrs. Hilton and turning UP her nose.
said
Il never noticed her after we went to
her house,
After she left the stand Trembly was
called. He was accused by Mr.. Michaelis
Of paying too much attention to Mrs.
Michaelis and making too many surrepti-
tlous visits from the back door of the
nan across, the intervening lot. and into
the back door of the Michaelis mansion
'nlatchpS a oh
rumors TrembIy was called, but ne was
not permitted to testify since the charge
mad been ruled out from the. defendants
answer, Mr.. Tremb1y will have to ex-
plain his conduct when Mr.. Miehaelis'
Then Lawyer Gebhardt summed Up forI
MIS-. Micnaelis, in which he painted her
a modest, temperate angel and her hus-
r Wortendyl1e ably summed up for Mr..
MIehaells Isl Il: and reversed the picture.
announcing, his decision, paid eompli-
ment to Mr.. and Mrs Hilton of No.
40 Linden avenue, who he said were
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mp Wois and fruhfo sad Wai
against whom nothing could be said
John Chase the curly haired brother-in-
trial, received dressing down by the
Court, which made his ears tingle. and
the man Hawley, too, was not forgot
ten. His testimony, the Court said.
could not be considered. Coming to the
charge of cruelty by Mr. Michaelis. the
Vice Chancellor said that there was no
proof of it. On the contrary, tine evil
denee showed thar Mr.. Miehaelis was
man, who was trusted by his employer
The severest part of the Vice Cham
celior's opinion was when he referred to
the prema ture birth alleged by Mrs.
Michaelis to have taken place as re-
suit of her husbands treatment This
the Court said was a pure fabricat ton.
falsehood manufactured to bolster up
case. He refused the petition of Mrs.
Michaelis and gave Mr.. Michaelis' law
YER MIR. Wortendyke, permission to file
a cross-bill against Mrs. Michaelis on
statutory grounds.
Mrs. Michaelis, her mother the ladies'.
babies and the lunch baskets took troll.
ley cars for Greenville very much dis
appointed at the result, and one of them
muttered as she grabbed her baby, It's
just too mean.'' -