The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14
MARRYING In HASTE
Jersey City Young People 10
An Amusing Divorce
Suit.

The odd adage about marrying In haste
and repenting at leisure was exemplified
his morning in Chancery Chambers be-
fore Vice Chancellor Stevens. The pretty
daughter of Mrs. Olive Matthews, Of Nc.
32sh Eighth street. this city. some years
ago ran off with Harry Ebersoll, of No.
2S3 Sixth street, and they were married in
St. Pau1's M. E. Church, Third street. Now
she is suing to be freed from EbersoI,
who she says was cruel to her and drove
her from her home. They were married
in st. PauPs M. E. Church, Third street,
and they boarded with Ebersolrs mother
at No. 2S3 Sixth street. Because of her
husbands quarrels with his mother about
the board, life at Sixth street was very
stormy.
Her husband abused her and so did the
mother-in-law, which ended in the hns-
band siding with his mother and ordering
his wife to cave the house. She did, and
went home to her own mother, on Eighth
street, where she lives at present.
Since she left the house she had seen
her husband repeatedly on the street, but
he would never recognize her. In cross
examination by Lawyer Clarence Kelsey
Mrs. Ebersoll said that overtures had been
UldQe To bC
but she had rejected them.
isn't it true, Mrs. Ebersoll," asked the
lawyer, that you want to be divorced to
get married to John Dubois Of this ity?'
s.No, sir" said the witness.
ssYou go carriage riding with him?
.s0nly once. and tnen there was a lot Of
people present"
walk with him in the streets and go
to places Of amusement persued the
lawyer.
mo, sir"
At this stage the husband came into
court and took a seat beside his lawyer,
Mr.. Kelsey. He is a young man about
twenty-one years old, with a smooth,
common looking, sulky face. He chewed
gum and sneered at his wife while she
gave her testimony. Ebersoll has filed a
cross bill making charges against his wife.
ssDid your husband try to speak to you
on Pavonia avenue one night, and did
YOU tell him if he spoke to you you would
have him arrested?" continued Mr.. KEEL
sey.
mo, sir"
sDid he speak to you and did you say
that if he put his foot in your house your
fathe would fix him n
"No, sir replied Mrs. Ebersoll. smiling
at her husband, who scowled and NUT
tered .'Oh. what a lie"
Mrs. Ebersoll said that she was en-
ployed in a candy store in New York since
their separation and she met her husband
frequently, who passed her SAYING
Hum but always tried to avoid her.
Mrs. P-armenter, she continued. called to
49, -. f+na xr;t,,accA afta- bnr holay uraS
born. and said that Harry Ebersoll was
no good and could net support his wife.
This testimony was stricken out.
Mrs. Olive Matthews. of No. s23l4 Eighth
street. the mother of the plaintiff. cor
roborated her daughters testimony that
she came to seek shelter. having been
turned from her husbands house. The
witness said that Mrs. Ebersoll on that
occasion was in delicate health, was cold
and hungry and her feet We're sticking
from her shoes.
do you know Mr.. Dubois % asked
Lawyer Kelsey insinuatingly.
Yes. hes my grocer, and calls to de-
liver groceries"
Isn't it a fact that there was some
understanding that when your daughter
was divorced she was to marry Dubois?"
Nothing of the kind
George Matthews. shipping clerk of the
Jersey City Packing Company and hus-
band of the last witness, corroborafed his
wife's statement as to Mrs. Ebersofl re-
turning to her home. He said that the
marriage Of the Ebersolls was a runaway
match, and when he heard of it he de-
manded to see the certificate, which
young Ebersell produced.