The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-01
EDITOR WRIcHT'S WOES
Says His Wife Only Made One
Tapioca Pudding in His
Household.

v-ice-Chancellor Pitney his morning
heard testimony III the suit for divorce
brought by Frank Wright, editor and pro-
prietor of the Short Hills Item against
his wife, Mrs. L. Wright. He charges her,
with desertion. Counselor Henry NJ.
Twombly appeared for the petitioner,
whose story IN court this morning was as
follows:-They were married August ~
1895, in Hackettstown, and came to Sum
init to live. They lived five days together
and his wife left to go home to Hack
ettstown to get her goods to set up house
keeping. AT the time of the marriage he
was twenty-eight and she was thirty
five. Mrs. Wright stayed away for four
weeks. She returned TO Summit. where
she lived with the editor for a week.
During that brief honeymoon she pros
posed to him so he said, that she should
go to her home and he could sue for
divorce. At that time Wright was living
with his mother, brother N sister, the
latter sixteen and seventeen years old re-
spectively, and both working in their
elder brothers newspaper office. After
the second trip to Hackettstown Mrs.
Wright suddenly appeared in ummit and
stayed for two days, and then she skipped
off to Newark, and IN his absence in the
newspaper office she, he says, stripped the
house Of everything and shipped it to
Newark. Wright, In his petition, pleads
that his wife during all their brief life
together forced him to get up and light
the fire.
.And she only made one tapioca pud-
ding during that time" said Wright with
a wrathful look at his spouse. And she
told me that if she came back to me she
would do the same thing over again.
Mrs. Wright, who is an exceedingly
bright and attractive person, smiled con-
temptuously while her husband was tell
ing this direful history, and when 1t came
to her story she said she was treated as
a Servant by her mo~ther-in-law. She was
told within a week after her marriage
that she was an intruder and had broken
UP a happy home.
II was not allowed Mrs. Wright said,
ITO have fire or heat in my room, and was
obliged TO receive my friends in the par
lor with the other members of the fam
lily. My husband would not give me
any money for a winter coat, and when
/ asked him to provide me with q separ-'
ate place he refused; he preferred his
mamma to his wife. In March | left him,
for 1 couldn't stand his GOODNESS and
%udeness.
Darling a whitening look at her nus
band. Mrs. Wright said that after she left
him he sent advertisement to Hackests-
town papers to the effect that he would
MT be responsible for his wife's debts,
but the editors of those paper refused 70
insert the advertisements and sent the
money back.
E~x-Judge William H. Morrow, counsel
for Mrs. Wright, put the Short HilFs edl-
tor through a severe cross examination
on that point, and it appeared that Wright
sent a few dollars to newspaper IN
washington. Warren county, Summit
and townships lying near to where Mrs
Wright was living with her parents in
Hackettstown.
did your wife ever obtain a dollars
worth of goods on your credit?" asked
the lawyer.
No. sir. 1 can't recall that she ever
did, said Wright.
And you tell us that you loved her, and
Immediately after she went home you
send these advertisements to Insult ner
and her famiIy?"
Wright,s reply was unintelligible. The
lawyer went at him again about neglect
ing his wife and never taking her to pray
er meetings. and extracted from Wright
that his wife wouldn't let him steep at
night, but treated him to lectures aeoI1
his property and to whom it was deedea.
why didn't you tell herr
Because | thought she oughtnt 70
You were at your office all day and out
all night, that was the only time your
Wife had my opportunity TO talk to you.
The editor explained that II ne Went
lust about to get Indignant. when VICE
Chancellor Pitney stopped him ana
warned him to answer questions ana not
give opinions.
The testimony will ccupy all day.