The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-20
DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS.
Testimony in Three Cases Was
Heard Before Judge Edwards
in Chambers Yesterday.

Testimony in three divorce cases was
heard in chambers yesterday before
Judge Edwards. The testimony was
taken by Stenographer NJ. J. Mean
drew. In the first case William Read,
asks divorce from his wife, Mrs. Es-
tella Read, on the ground of improper
relations with boarder in their house,
Robert Naismith. The couple lived on
Electric avenue. Dunmore. Last sum-
mer Read brought suit against Mai
smith for alienation of his wifes af-
fections. AS Naismith had no bonds
man, he was sent to Jail. and was
finally released from it on his promise
to Read to get out of the country. In
stead of so doing he went to New York,
from where he corresponded with Mrs.
Read. Read Immediately sued for di-
vorce and the first hearing was yester-
day afternoon. Attorney John Scragg
appeared for Read. His wife is not
opposing the application.
The couple was married on February
Is, 1891, in Pittston, and have one L
year-old girl. Read is a foreman in the
employ of the Pennsylvania Coal COM
pany and is away from his home most
of the day
Naismith. the boarder, lounged
around the house most of the time and
soon worked himself into the affections
of Mrs. Read
Read often saw suspicious actions be-
tween his wife and the boarder and at
last told Mrs. Read that Naismith
must leave the house. She replied that
II he went, she would also go. When
Naismith was finally put in prison Mrs.
Read left her husband and lived with
a friend in Bellevue, Mrs. Ally Makely.
Mrs. Makely testified that while there
Naismith visited her
Mrs. Louise Swartz. a neighbor of the
Reads in Dunmore, testified that on
visiting at the Read home she had no.
ticed suspicious actions on the part OF
Mrs. Read and Naismith.
Mrs. Jennie Duffy OF Bridge street
sued for separation from her husband
Patrick Duffy on the ground of cruel
and barbarous treatment. The couple
were married on Oct. IS, 1881. at Pitts
ton, and have lived in Scranton for the
past eighteen years. Mrs. Duffy testi-
fed that her husband has always
abused her, but was particularly vio-
lent last April and June. On June 10
he beat her and then lert her.
Her statements werc corroborated
by Margaret Donnegan and Dora Nor
ris, two of her servants, and by Miss
Josie Wilson of Washington, T.. G.,
who was visiting with her during
April and June. and witnessed her hus-
bands brutality.
Attorney Nathan FidaVer appeared
Cor Mrs. Duffy. The divorce is not op-
posed by Duffy.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Dickinson, Of Green
Ridge sued for a divorce from her hus-
band, Alexander NJ. Dickinson, on the
grounds that the latter pleaded guilty
to bigamy on May %, 1895, and was
sentenced to five months in Jail for It
by Judge Gunster Attorney John
Scragg appeared for Mrs. Dickinson.
The divorce was not opposed.
The couple were married November
%, 1857, by Alderman &. w. Rosar
Emil Bonn deputy clerk OF the court
showed by the court records that on
May 25, 1895, Dickinson was convicted
, Of higamy. He also showed that in
/ February, 1895. a marriage license was
made out for Dickinson and Alice j
Roberts, of Peckville, and that on
March 3, 1895. they We're married by
Rev. Mr.. Doty. Henry Beebee, Mrs
DiCkinson's father, testified that Dick
insOn was the man who pleaded guilty
of bigamy.