The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-23
ATTACKS Els FATHER.
John Watts Kearny, Jr., Makes
an Affidavit in the Appliea-
ton for Guardian Pro-
eeedings.

Owing to the absence of Lawyer Corbin
this morning, nothing was done. in the
Orphans Court in the matter of appoint
ing a guardian for John Watts Kearny,
Jr. MI. Spear has prepared this affidavit
which he will present to the Court
John Watts Kearny, Jr., of full age,
being sworn according to law on his
oath says that John Watts Kearny, his
father, is totally unfit to be appointed
guardian of this deponent for the follow
ing among other reasons: The said John
Watts Kearny is a resident and inhabi-
tant of and domiciled at the city, county
and State of New York; that the said
John Watts Kearny has not spent over
three weeks in the State of New Jersey
throughout the last six years, but has
luxuriously fitted up and when not trav-
elling during the summer, has always
lived in a home erected by himself in the
city of New York; that Belgrave, the So
called family homestead is lived in and is
in charge of a caretaker and is not II
has not been since 1891 the abode of resi-
dence of John Watts Kearny.
THAT there is not and never has been,
so far as deponent can remember, any
love in the heart of the said John Watts
hSdTuy lOI lIllS QGpOlGIl, Dul Ill lIC OCiA
thereof is implacable dislike and disre-
gard; that the conduct and bearing of the
said John Watts Kearny toward this de-
ponent is not and for a long course of
years has not been kind, affectionate and
fatherly, but haunting, impaternal and
cruel; that the said JOIN Watts Kearny
has not the reformation of this deponent
at heart, but rather his Incarceration and
continual confinement, so that deponent
will not bother or disturb said John Watts
Kearny; that this deponent is now con
fined in the Hudson County jail, confined
there upon ar exeat issued at the in
stance of said John Watts Kearny, but
the said John Watts Kearny, although
protesting and boasting that he is caring
and providing for this deponent, permits
(although he has been informed of the
facts) this ~deponent to be and remain in
sufficiently clothed, fed and cared for.
"Deponent is Informed and believes this
fact 10 be hat the said John Watts
Kearny instructed the jail authorities not
to permit anyone to see or converse with
deponent, and deponent further says that
his confinement has been solitary with
the exception of the visits of his aunt,
the Marquise De Kernel, which have now
been prohibited; her son, the Comte De
KERNEL, which have now been prohibited,
and his counsel, and that the said SOLITARY
confinement has broken the health ana
spirits of this deponent, while deponent S
father, well knowing the sad facts, has
stood stoically by permitting what he
could prevent and enduring what no
father could or would endure without at
tempting to ameliorate the sorrow and
suffertngs of his son..
THE Marquises De Kernel has been
more than a mother to deponent, kind,
affectionate. loving, sorrowful, and SYM
pathetic, alternating as much as she could
the misery of deponent, Frightening his
cell by her CHEEKY presence, furnishing
him with such delicacies as she could and
making an uncomfortable lot sufferable.
Deponent therefore prays that (although
risdiction of the court over him), that the
court will refuse to appoint his father
and give the custody OF deponent to Ma
dame de Kernel or some other fit, de-
cent and discreet person.