The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-16
GAN SEE HIS CHILDREN
Sad Result Of a Camden
Secret Wedding.

The troubles resulting from one OF those
secret Camden marriages which led to the
passage Of the marriage license 1aw,were
aired in the Court of Chancery before
ice-Chancellor Stevens this morning
Frank r. Krater of Freehold, applied
through Mr.. Frank McDermott OF this
city for an order allowing him to see his
two children, Marie Antoinette, five years
old, ana Mervil Mariel, about two years
old. In his petition Mr.. Kralter says he
was married to Bertha De La Reussille
in November, 1894, and went to live with
her parents In Freehold. The situation
was not agreeable to him and he persuau-
ed his wife to go housekeeping, wfieh
she did. Soon afterward she took the
furniture away during his absence, ana
returned to her father, taking her cnh-
dren with her Although he often request
ed her so to do she refused to let him see
the children.
In an affidavit read by Mrs. Krater' $
counsel the wife tells another story, She
says that at the request of her husband
she was secretly married to him in Cam
den IN August, 1894 She was married uT1-
der the name OF Mary Russell which her
husband requested her to take. At the
riaee secret until November. 1884, when It
became impossible to hide It any longer
Then fearing the scandal Of the secret
marriage they married over again pub
Hcly.
They went TO live with Mrs. Krater's
parents, but her husband, she declares,
soon began to exhibit morose dispo-
sition He found fault with his wife and
took decided dislike 10 her parents,
which he never undertook to conceal
Finally on the advice of her mother they
went to housekeeping. There ne soon
began to abuse his wife, going so TAR as
to assault her so severely that she had
to scream for help. One day he drew
a revolver on her and threatened to
to take her life. That was more than she
could bear and the next day she employed
her uncle to take her things back to her
fathers house. While her uncle was at
work her husband came along and threw
the uncle out. She went home to her
while her husband wrote her letter ad-
hitting that he had done wrong and ask
ing her If she would not come back TO him
for the sake of their child. She went
home to her parents. After she had been
there while her husband wrote her a
letter admitting that he had done wrong
and asking her If she would
not come back to him for the
sake Of their child. She went
back to him and lived with him for a
awhile, the result of which was the birth
OF their youngest child Soon after this
they quarreled again and this time her
husband left her. Mrs. Krater says she
does not object to her husbands seeing
the children at reasonable hours, and not
on the street, as he requested, and in the
| presence Of some person to guard against
abduction. This fear Of abduction she
said was caused by an occurrence one
night last September.
She was walking on the street with her
youngest child when her husband came
l'afong and picking up the child walked
| away, saying that if there was train
| leaving town that night he would take
the child away. Mrs. Krater screamed
and a crowd gathered. Her husband be-
came abusive, declared that he would see
| his children and there was much scandal
over the affair.
| Mrs. Krater also said that she had dis
covered that her husband had been un-
| faithful and she had begun suit for di-
vorce against him on that ground The
Vice Chancellor decided that Krat& shall
see the elder boy three hours each day
alone and the younger one hour in the
| presence of a third person.