The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-22
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no mnd Hard work In Getting the Young nj

Ho HAD Hard work In Getting the Young nj
yorcee TO Marry Hin After 11e Had Paid Her
Way In North Dakota - ie Couldn't stand
Ms N1other-in-Law and Made Her Leave.
Tho trial OF the suit Of Annie e. Loader against
Joseph Loader, the septuagcnnrian furniture
dealer, for a separation was resumed before JUS
tico Van Wyck in tho Supreme Court In Brook
Ign yesterday. Mr.. Loader was a widower with
married children when he married the twenty
eight.year-old plaintiff on April %. 1896. The
cross-oxamlnation of Mrs. Loader was continued
by Mr.. Towns. She said that she lost the latch
key and her husband refused to get her another.
She threatened to have one made, and he said II
she did he would have her arrested. She did get
the key, and her husband sent for a policeman, but
that ended the matter. Tho next day, however.
she found that che was barred out OF the house,
and she broke in through the basement Her
husband then came downstairs and struck her
with a stick. She was hungry, as she had had
nothing to cat during the night. She sat down
and criod. She was sorry for Loader and tried to
treat him kindly.
"why did you feel sorry for him 7" asked Mr..
Towns.
Because l felt sorry that a man as old as no
would marry n young woman like me. pretend
he loved me, and then turn mo out
Mrs. Loader said that she found two pistols
and a gun near the bed, and as she was afraid OF
weapons she hid them. Her husband then re-
moved his bed 10 another room and slept with q
revolver under his pillow and a gun at the side
Police Inspector P. II. Mclaughlin was next
called. u,.,
tho plaintiff r. counsel for Mrs. Loader asked.
NO. sir" replied the Inspector. .r,,
Mr.. Loader was the next witness. why dld
you get married T., he was asked by Mr.. Towns
Because was lonely w,
Al fell in love with her on account of her
mental ability, and two weeks after our mar
ri@ge ! put her her to-, 6 coSEt Spr Al the store
Q.NDid YOU take her out in tho evenings
o.-What did you say when you asked her 70
marry youf ,A.m,,oh, 1 only said to her VIII
'Io.-what did she soy in responsoi A.-she
N"What do you mean by that = asked Justice
'"Wciii, She said she could not marry me until
she had obtained u divorce from her hrst nus,
MIR. Loader then said that he had sent her to
North Dakota to get a divorce, and, that ne paid
there, but she paid her own fare back. The rea-
son he did not pay the fare back was because
right to, and he felt angry. When she came
back she wore n sealskin sacque. and he found a
picture of a man in her pocket. He dld not IKE
this. and was suspicious that she had been in the
mans company.
Before the marriage, he said, she frequently
visited his house, but put of the marriage. She
was constantly asking him how much he was
worth, and wanted hin to deed the McDonouEh
street house to her before she married him. He
said he could not do that, because he had decided
the house to his son.
"During her absence in Dakota was your
heart true to Poll = asked Mr.. Towns.
YES, sir" replied the witness; 1T was true
to her"
turkey to her house on Christmas Day:
II you help her eat II = asked Mr.. Towns
course | did, replied Mr.. Loader; that
is why I sent it."
He then told Of the troubles he had with the
plaintiff in trying to get her to marry him, and
said that on April %. the day of the marriage,
several drummers called at his. store and they
81 had no more idea of getting married than
THAN what D. asked Justice Van Wyck. =.
THAN the man in the MOON said the wit
ness.
He said that they went to n minister to ,ge!
married. but when the plaintiff said she hac
been married before and had obtained a divorce
ceremony. They then went to another minister
but this time Annie said she was single. neVel
having been married. Her sister Mabel wal
with them at the time. =.
when l left the minister's" said the wit
moss. II did not know whether / was walking
with Mabel or Annie"
He said the following August his wife brought
her mother, sister, and her sisters babies to thu
house. and he also found at night several washer
women on the stoop. He objected and snid hi
mothcr-in-law must find another home. ming
went from bad TO worse, until Sept %, whei
che left him.
The hearing will be continued to-day.