New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-02
sIBLEY SUED FOR SEPARATION.
HIS WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY AND ASKS
FOR COUNSEL FEE AND ALIMONY.

his WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY AND ASKS
FOR COUNSEL FEE AND ALIMoNY.
Mrs. Garlic Well Sibley. through her counsel. Ed
ward A Sumner, yesterday asked Justice Leven-
tritt award her $3.50 a week alinony and $1,000
counsel fee, pending the trial of the suit for
separation the ground of cruelty she has insti-
tuted against her husband Richard Clay Sibley.
who q prominent member of the Whiskey
Trust Both parties move in society. and Mrs.
Sibley says her family has for generations been
Of the highest in ancestry in Brooklyn New
York The parties married in 1856, and have
children, Aline. twelve years old, and Adele,
twelve years old.
Mrs SibIey alleges that her husbands Ill treat
ment began after their marriage, and
tinued until they separated, less than year ago.
Prior to their final separation she had been stay
ing for the most part with her mother, Mrs. Belds
Mrs. Sibley's father a prominent resident of
Brooklyn named Henry Wen. who left consid-
cradle amount of property her mother for life.
On mothers death Mrs. Sibley and other rela-
tfves VIII inherit the principal Her grandfather
too, wealthy, and she alleges that her husband
succeeded IN getting from him more than S350,O00
which he lost in the dtstilling business He has
still. she says. income from his business as a
distiller OF more than $4,000. well a other
money. He is a member of many clubs, and is In
the of living in the best hotels this city.
Mrs Sibley that when staying at the
Octagon Hotel. at Seabright, \. j., after they
were married, she invited TO dance by a
woman belonging 10 one of the best families in
NeH-YorA but her husband flew into passion,
told her she could not go, and struck her, and by
his conduct broke up her friendship with her &C
qllaintance
II is also stated that they lived At the
Sherwood Hotel. F1fth-aYe and -fourth-st
IN 1886, and he told her Of number OF clubs
he intended join. When she read novels
he in the habit Of snatching them from
her and telling her no woman under his roof should
read novels He recommended instead that she
read Gibbons Decline and Fall Of the Roman
Empire Mr.. Sibey sometimes was in the habit OF
carrying a pistol. and threatening to shoot the
Sheriff or anybody who would attempt TO arrest
hira. as he believed there was q warrant for his
arrest.
one OF her husbands habits Mrs. Sibey saws
AnlIe they We're living at No. 25l West Seventy
AtL-Sl was 70 STAND IN the back windows in view
81 the inhabitants Of the neighborng houses when
onlg partially dressed. This conduct led to his
..ifesl and his appearance before a MAGISTRATE
- hen she eXpOstulated with him he used nrofa No
language and threatened her. She saws She was
Always a faVoTite OF her father and on one occa-
his OWN o' -
Mrs sibley says her husband once raised a dis
- tnrDance al the Metropolitan Opera House when
she was there in a box with him and a party az
frlenos he went away. and she had dine with
her TRENDS without him She says, on infoTra tiop
and belief, that her grandfather turned over ~
him more than $4,000 on the understanding thai
she was 10 get 5000, and he have the OF her
5000 TO use In his business, but he kept II AIN
When invited by dine al Deimonico,s
IN December. 1895, he snatched the letter invita-
friend. and refused TO allow her accept the in
gitatton. 80 Az
dollars In the Bay State Dsriling Company and in
the Great White Spirit D!stiing Company a nd has
got least s35o.gD9 from her grandfathers estate
He has summer home in Tuxedo. which she says