The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-14
ENSLAvED BY DIVORCE.
Mrs. Morrow Asks the Chan
cellor to Compel Her Hus-
band to Support Her.

One of the most sensational divorce
| cases ever heard in this city for many
| years was that of Mr.. Ora Harden, of
| Deckertown, against his wife, Mrs. Ida
| May Harden. Mrs. Harden issa very at
t~ractive young woman, with a varied ex-
| perience in divorce matters, being cred
tied with breaking up several homes. She
is now residing with her mother in New
| ark, but that she is still in the business
| of ensnaring the affections of married
| men appeared in a case which was heard
before Chancellor McGill yesterday af-
ternoon. 1t was hat of Mrs. Eve Nor
| row of Newark, who says that her hus-
| band, Charles Cooper Morrow, is conn
| pletely fascinated with the gay Mrs. Har-
den, spends all his money on her, and
devotes all his time to her, while she,
| Mrs. Morrow, has to live with her par
| ents and hasn't a dollar. Counsellor
| Charles ]. Roe, of Jersey City, read the
| wife's petition for support, which set
forth the following facts:-
Mrs. Morrow was married to Mr.. Chas.
| Cooper Morrow, who is in the machinery
| department of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
| at their meadow shops. On September
| Is. 1889, they went to live at Thirteenth
| avenue. Her husband made the acquaint-
\ ance of the dashing Mrs. Harden and
| learned that after her divorce she was
living with her mother, Mrs. George
| Martins, at No. 36 Mulberry street, and
| there was no peace in the Morrow house,
| hold init Mrs. Morrow broke vi her
| home and went with her husband to
| board with Mrs. Martins. Then her
| troubles began. Her husband lavfshed
| the greater part of his salary on Mrs.
| Harden, took her out to places of amuse-
| ment, and, to furnish the wherewithal
| for these rackets, pawned his wife's jew
elry.
Mrs. Morrow says that her husband and
| Mrs. Harden would remain sitting to-
| gether long after the rest Of the people in
the house had retired, and when she re-
m~onstrated he would make jeering re-
marks. To add to her humiliation, Mrs.
Harden would say things to her in her
husbands presence, and he laughed and
| always encouraged her. Finally she
could stand it no longer, and left the
boarding house and went 10 her fathers
4 house.. She implored her husband to come
with her and break off her relations with
Mrs. Harden, but he refused, anG still
boards on Mulberry street. and basks in
the smiles of the fascinating Mrs. Har-
den.
Morrow's lawyer submitted an answer
to the wife's petition, and in it the hus-
band says that his wife is insanely 1eai-
Gus, ~extravagant and negligent of her
duties. AS an instance of the latter
charge, Morrow says that the bed linen
had not been changed for at least nine
weeks. and as to her extravaganza, In
stead of paying grocery and butchers
bills, she actually bought skirts costing
$40 and silk waists $40. and in various
feminine fripperies used up all his money.
There were other misdeeds charged BY
the husband, who, by his own account, is
a much ill-used man, a domestic martyr.
Touching his relations with Mrs. Ida
May Harden, he wakes virtuously indtg-
nant. Monstrous, absurd, purely platonic
| love. immense respect, friendly .feeling,
highly proper, and all hat sort of thing,
is how he meets the charge.
81 am not in favor" said the Chancel-
Tor, "of giving any sum where. one OF the
parties IS living with her paffnts, but I
will allow Mrs. Morrow $40 counsel fee
and $12 a week alimony in order that she
| may carry on her case"
Mrs. Morrow will instruct her lawyer,
| Mr.. Roe, to begin suit for divorce, nam
ing Mrs. Harden as the correspondent.