The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-16

tioas-rhe Rlder vas Setback lei wealthy
Chicago DrusGist-Me says the Award went
Hold ana That ne Deesn't 1ntsnd 20 Pay.
A sher!f's jury In Brooklyn awarded q yer.
diet Of $4,000 yesterday in favor OF Mrs.
Florence Van Setback In her suit to recover
that amount from her fathcr-in.law, Peter Van
Setback. q wealthy Chicago merchant for
alternating tho affections of her husband. John
G. Van Setback. q son OF tho DEFENDANT
Sheriff William J. Buttling presided at the
hearing. Mrs. Van Setback was handsomely
and fashiouably attired, and enc testified that
she was married to John G. Van Setback at
Pensacola, Fla. on March 90, 1888. by the Rev.
DR.. Scott. They lived together In Nyw Or
leans, New York. and Chicago. until March
20. 1897, whom her husband abandoned her.
Mrs. Van Setback said that her husband sent
her to Paris for q full year in 1895, and paid all
her bills. She produced q letter written by
her husband in April, 1895. in which no wrote
that he was looking forward TO the time when
sho would turn her pretty little nose toward
home" Then she identified a letter written by
her husband to his sister. Mrs. Jennie Sim
mons, In 1892, In which he referred to certain
ISLANDERS regarding Mrs. Van Setback, and
declared that she was %guiltless and challenged
any one to lift a finger against her. There was
also an anonymous letter sent to the husband
regarding the ISLANDERS, and her husband wrote
to her concerning this letter that the man
who wrote it must have a DEVILS hoof with o
towards heart"
1t was also alleged in one Of the letters that
Mrs. Simmons's husband had assisted the de-
PENDANT in kidnapping the plaintiffs child. In
O letter written by Mr.. Van Setback to his
wife he says, My boy stands at my knee and
lisps out the story of how his grandfather stole
him and wrapped him in a blanket" In an.
other letter he wrote, "My father has written.
sdyi q n & me ne . to diyoF re- w ySs; s sTs 1 ssHe l lfved
ioseraf looking 'i Forward to our meeting and the
Many. letters Of this kind were written BY
the husband to the plaintiff, and in August
last, after he had abandoned her, Mrs. Van
Setback wrote to him entreating him to return
him. She urged him not to allow his father to
control his actions and said that his father
for her husband, her child. and her happiness.
You are influenced against your WILL she
e CO.. iInuussd 81 know you ai acre; Gene afraid RAID.
last words shall be, the same as my first after
this hi letter her husband sent tho following:
Il am in a very distressing position, While
su sBD a posi.ie 5ho M sGtSe my ny { family !es sSai t s would ID
cause me the sincerest chagrin and distress u
1 returned ito to gov e xon 10Y m HnSw Choose ny i Set%ee rs
has been little less than hell because Of the ami.
change II ever am to secure success in life.
advise a separation for our mutual benefit
feeI 4 would : u Z \ 30 y for both. Father will give 3
you 81. 900 II you get q divorce: $500 down and
ssSo 20, ON inst IRssH me sRe boy But You %y m family nSs i %siss
nuRioate in any way with you ho win cut me
Counsel for Mrs. Van .schaack then pro.
brotherain.iaW. Henry Van Setback. in which
he said: Father writes You have concluded 70
separate, and ! am, glad. You can then take
Mrs. Van Setback said that the defendant
to her. and said he was surprised that his son
G Snm1sI,t let sIus Hi' be wife s4 e. S 70 E siTsss S 81 e ars as
to you he wrote. Let that woman go. ,HeI
past | have never told you Of. Yo% knoT how hov,
she sas turned out. Mother thinks as l do
This thing mustn't go on.
in every way to get her husband to return tc
her, but that he was absolutely in the control o.
i a everything would have been pleasant
between herself and her husband;
M 5m and S MSs; ol @I2R t Tso 1 hTeq sd II a the 'a ann
a domestic named Marian Taylor, testified Z
the happy manner in which the Van setback
lived. The Jury was out only q rev minutes
and assessed damages against the Chicago
merchant at 1856 900.
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Peter Van Setback Is thu
senior partner and founder OF the firm Of Pete
Van Setback & Sons, proprietors Of the oil
: Salamandcr Drug House." 1873 and lao LAX
3 street. He was seen this evening at his home:
THE young woman. / understand" said NJ
i Van Setback, sis preparing to go on the stag
and this is merely a bit of preliminary ad
ing on her part. had nothing whatever to q q
; married. He T. past the age 81 coercion. He LEI
because he had good reasons for doing 20.
0 have never paid any attention to the suit 81 81
. lowing the advice OF sound legal counsel froT
able lawyers Of both New York and Chicago
j, They told me to simply ignore tho suit and
8 have done SO. In order to secure . valid judi
o ment against me. suit would have to DO brough
q in this State and the service on me by pubhcl
. ton was worthless"
WIN i pay the Judgment Well. ! guess no
You may say that the old man has got on hI
q fighting clothes, and that before he pays an
such Judgment against him there Is going to
!" O heap OF trouble for somebody
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