The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-19
MRS. LEADERS TROUBLES.
HER STORY TOLD ar THE TRIAL
or HER SUIT FOR sEPlRhTI0N.

WA I'll treated. she naya. by meF Husbapd
ana Accused OF several Otepces-Teia Eim
she was Starving and Wnitel an nay tn
yain nv = Deiiar ne Hsd rreuispa ner.
Justice vnn wyck in. tho Supreme Court, in
Brooklyn, heard Testimony yesterday in the
separation suit brought by Mrs. Annie E. Loader
against Joseph Loader. who at one time had q
large furniture store at e76 Fulton street,
Brooklyn. Mrs. Loader is % years old, while
her husband has passed the septuagenarian limit.
Mrs. Loader testified that she was married TO
ar. Loader on April 20. 1896, and that they be-
gan housekeeping at A0l McDonough street
From tho first week Of hor marriage there was
trouble In tho house. This. she said, was due to
the presence of Mrs. Rose Bretler, who declared
sho would have been Mrs. Loader had not the
plaintiff got ahead OF her.
The week after our marriage" said the
plaintiff. Mr.. Loader told me that Rose had
begun an action against him for breach OF prom
ise Of marriage, and that she was trying TO
break up his home"
FROM that time the trouble In the house be-
worse until Sept. 10. Before that time the
defendant had started q furniture store at 124&
Fulton street, Of which tho plaintiff was in
charge. On Sept. 15 she visited Mr.. Loader at
his store and found Rose Bretler there. She
told the defendant to put Rose out Of the store.
but no seemed afraid to carry out this order.
AIteT ItOb6 leIJ mo btOTt, 1T plhintiH bdiu, NUT
husband became so angry that he grabbed her
and threw her against an Iron post, and that she
was black and blue for several weeks after.
"A few days after this assault said the wilt
ness. The accused me Of trying to poison him.
and said. II you are not careful! thereU DO
another Fleming case"
He accused the plaintiff OF bIgamy and then
when she visited his store, the defendant said:
u only want one more man to prove that you
Police Inspector Mclaughlin"
II found the man he had reference to-, said
f fHs teS'fh, hun with M. loader and Fullerton dc:
MED having said any such thing, NIX husband
! was hungry. and he said he would give me a
dollar Il 70 Eet sso son FL na g to to- eat ,So d | MSitsd at the
You're hungry YETI asked MI. Leaders
An Insurance agent called at her store ono
day to insure the furniture, and later in the day,
tn, ,hea Plsinillff 80 SAID ID; her ,Se h s,ops on ACCUSED Sge. late. hsF S Ss
said he had got rid Of Rose Bretler for $50. and
he h9D > dn he co %sl get fea rid Of v The PLAINTIFF lint n aei for az az
her husbands lawyer one day to enter into an
agreement. but Loader did not appear, and
turc had been taken away. She was also dis.
possessed from her store for non-payment OF
rent, and the furniture was sold at auction. Mr..
On cross-examination Mrs. Loader said she
with him him until 1859, when they separated. She
then went to Fargo. n. D., she said. and secured
divorce from Knapp. When she returned she
Mrs. Loader was asked how it was that she
was 80 well known to Police Inspector McLaugh.
he had a pass on the Kings County Elevated
Railroad and that there was q row In which abe
the row wrote a letter to a woman, and tho wo-
man visited the station where Mrs. Loader was
e ene ,a's sSe s ssid, she i the W wftness, s Was pay isg too es,
much attention to Inspector Mclaughlin.