The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-07
DRAGGED BY Her HAIR
Mrs. Josephine Miller Wants a
Divorce for Her Husbands
Extreme Cruelty.


viee-Chancellor Pitney this morning, at
the request of John ]. Fallon of Hoboken,
liked May 10 as the day for hearing the
suit for absolute divorce brought by Jo-
sephine Miller against her husband, John
Is. Miller. Both live at No. 224 Bloomfield
street, Hoboken, and the ground for di-
vorce is extreme cruelty.
In her petition Mrs. Miller sets out that
she and her husband were married Sep
TENDER 10, 1870, by the Rev. Father Ever
EFT in the Church of the Nativity, New
York. They lived in that city until 1898,
when they moved to Hoboken. where they
have lived ever since.
For the first ten years Of their married
life was all that could be desired, then
he began to abuse and ill-treat her. He
frequently got drunk and charged her
with improper conduct before her chill
dren. One morning in October, 1850, he
came home drunk while the petitioner
was still in bed and beat her with a stick
and with his fists. He caught her by the
hail one morning in 1888 and pulled her
down stairs, frequently humping her head
against the wall. When she reached the
bottom he attempted to kick her in the
stomach, but she managed to roll out of
his way.
Once when she asked him for some
money for food for herself and the chill
dren, he grew very angry and told her if
she did not shut up he would split her
skull. On May 10, 1883, the petitioner al
leges, three days after she had given
birth to a child, Miller was beating their
daughter Margaret in the most brutal
-,or,o u-Ian Mrs. NTilla,r haoCad him tO
desist. He became very abusive, and
threatened to put the mother and daugh-
ter out of the house. The mother put up
with this kind of treatment until August,
1886. when she left him. Two years af-
terward her husband was taken Ill, and
at his request she went Jack and nursed
him.
A reconciliation followed and they
where to live together again. Things
went along smoothly for a year or so,
and then the abuse and cruel treatment
broke out again. On October 20, 1883,
Miller, the petitioner alleges, he beat her
on the body infiicting several bruises. In
July, 1889, he knocked her down n Nwhen
she attempted to get UP he knocked her
down again. Then her son Adolphus in
terfered ard Miller catching him by the
throat flung him violently against the op-
posite wall. George, the second son also
attempted to interfere, when his father
caught him and bumped his head against
the wall and threatening him immediate
" afterward with the carving knife. Mrs.
Miller had her husband arrested for this
and he was convicted in the Court of Ses-
sions.
Since 1889 the pair ave lived in the
same house, though in different apart
ments. This, however, did not hinder Mil
Ter from abusing his wife, until, accord
ing to the petition, the browning outrage
occurred last October, When he fiourished
a revolver before her and threatened to
empty it's contents into her body. Not
w-ithstanding that they were living apart,
Mrs. Miller says that she nursed her hus-
band back to life last summer. when he
broke a blood vessel. Mrs. Miller wants
the custody of her three younger children.