The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-01
SCREAMS IN An OFFICE
Mrs. Callahan When Ar
rested Says Things About
Lawyer Dougherty.
CHASING UP A HUSBAND
Trouble Began With a Load
Of Furniture--No Formal
Charges Made.
CHASING UP A HUSBAND

The a~rraignment in the Second Criminal
Court this morning of a woman VINO saVe
her name as Mary Callahan, charged Will
being a disorderly person, led to the ue-
yelopment of a sensational story.
The woman is good looking, a brunef5e'
twenty-six years old. She is a woman 81
good character. with the exception, the
police saw. that she is unfortunately a
victim to the drink habit Ta1s mas
caused trouble between her and her rus
rand. who is said to be a potato com
mission merchant. with office IN one o.
the railroad yards down town.
Some time ago, a separation was agreed
mon. but the couple went back to i've
togetner in rooms which the husband had
furnished. Yesterday. it appears. ne re-
solved to get rid of his wife. He tod her
he was going to move to better rooms,
giving a certain address. in q more desir-
able location. A furniture van was loaa-
ed with the furniture, and the husband
said he would go on ahead and nave the
rooms in some kind of shape by the Tune
the wife reached there. The woman went
to the address her husband had given,
and was astonished to~find neither nus
hand nor FURNITURE. The course OF the
van was subsequently traced to one OF the
lower ferries, and the woman knew she
had been fooled.
In her trouble she appealed to Consta-
BILE "Joe's Locke for advice. James -
pougherty. a young, ford faced laWyer'
with almost bushy blond hair, who mas
desk room in Lawyer Jas. Filrey's efilce'
an the second floor of the Beach Buildlng,
opposite the Court House. was staholns
near bv. Constable Locke told her she
had better consult a lawyer, and referred
her TO Dougherty. She accepted one OF
the Young awyer' cards and agreed 70
meet him at his office at four o'clock IN
me afternoon. She was to have 50 with
her as a retainer.
The woman appeared at the office ne
fare Mr.. Dougherty reached there and
waited for him. She did not have the
*. when the lawyer arrived the two
were in consultation for quite a long
while. They remained after the other
offices were closed.
Along about dusk, people living in the
rear were startled by the loud screams
of a woman in the office building and
some one who had seen a scuffie through
the rear window OF Lawyer F'urey,s
office rushed over to the Oakland ave-
nue. station house and notified the police
Patrolman O'Donnell was sent over i'm
mediately to investigate He found the
door locked. 1t was opened by the WON
an, who appeared terribly excited. There
was evidence of a scuffle having taken
mace. Chairs were overturned. No one
was in the room but the woman. ODon-
nell arrested her as a disorderly person.
When she was afraigned this morning,
she told Police Justice Nevin about her
calling upon Lawyei D~ougherty as d
client. She said they had remained late,
discussing the action she was to take
against her husband. She said that the
lawyer noticed that she was nervous, ana
asked her if she would take some sum
ulants. and secured a bottle Of Whlskey
from a neighboring saloon. she admit
ted she took several drinks. Flnally sne
said a quarrel was provoked by Dough-
erty's conduct, and finding that the
~neighbors were alarmed he made a hasty
disappearance.
Justice Nevin Immediately sent for
Dougherty. The young LAWYER appearea,
the presence of the woman, in the JUDGES
private office, D~ougherty appeared 10 pc
astonished and alarmed; He loudly de.
clared his innocence. and denounced the
woman. He is said to have. wrung ms
hands in agony and wept while he allud-
ed to his sick wife and the shock that
cucil d CHdISS aSdtAiSt Aiih 8OdAN ~
duce.
The woman absolutely refused to make
any formal complaint against the lawyer.
She was held for further examination to-
morrow morning.
Dougherty called at The News office
this morning and made the following
statement of his side of the case to a re-
porter
Mrs. Callahan called at my office and
endeavored to engage me to find her hus-
band and some furniture which was re-
moved from a house in York street and
was to go to No. 24 Summit avenue. !
sent Mr.. Otto Chaplin to the truckinan,s
home to see what he had done with the
furniture, but the truckman was not at
home and Chaplin was told to call again
at six o'clock. I told Mrs. Callahan to
return to my office about $50 O'Clock and
] would report progress to her. She re-
turned and / told her that Chaplin would
have to go out again on the case. While
she was talking to me she became excited
on the topic of her husband and | told her
I would have to go out. ] walked down
Newark avenue. l had gone only a short
way when an officer went into my Office
and arrested Mrs. Callahan for screaming
and shouting. She accused me Of strik-
ing her. or something of that kind, but
/ was not in my Office at the time she
was arrested and had not been there for
some time previous, and only knew of her
arrest when she was taken to the station
house,"