The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-08
DAILY DIVORCED.
Young Phil Is Legally
Separated From Dash
ing Jennie Joyce.
SHE CUT A WIDE SWATH
Fair Defendants Counse
Threw Up Her Case at
the Beginning.

Vice Chancellor Pitney this morning
granted Philip Daily, Jr., of Long Branch,
divorce from his wife, Jennie Joyce,
the burlesque actress. and he lost no
time in advising a decree either. Mrs.
Daly's cause was lost at tse very start
of the case, when benjamin. Morris, May
or of Long Branch. arose and said ne
appeared in the case and he did not. His
firm had filed an answer for Mrs. Daily
when the bill was filed, but had been un-
able to see her since. He had tried to
get in communication with her. but could
not. From an examination of the case
he was satisfied that the woman had no
defence.
"Then you throw up your brief?" m
terrupted the Vice Chancellor.
Eyes, SIR replied Mr.. Norris and he
left the room.
Ex-Senato Henry Terhune who appear
ed sor Mr.. Daily then proceeded to prove
his case Alfred D. Vandoren, Long
Branch Justice of the Peace, testified that
he married Mr.. Daily to Miss Joyce, on
July 1S, 1894 Philip Daily then told how
he had reason to suspect that his wife
was llnfaithful and how he took steps to
entrap her. On July 2S last he sent his
wife word that he was going away and
would not be home that night. About
three O'Clock in the morning he returned
ito his house and found the front door lock-
ed. He crept through a window and just
as he entered he heard the rear door
close.
He hurried into the rear yard and saw
man and woman enter his barn. He
G11u sr-t,
room in the loft. where his coachman
slept, and broke open the door, but found
the room empty. He afterward learned
that the people he followed had gone to
another room. which he did not know ex-
listed He then returned to the house and
found that his wife was not there. He
waited on the porch and soon his wife
came up the railroad track (the barn
being along the track. Daily asked her
where she had been and She said she had
been to visit Mrs. Ryan. She had on
nothing but a wrapper and one of Mr..
Daly's caps
Mr.. Daily said he then told his wife to
leave the house and she did SO.
Fannie Dunn, a very knowing young
cofored woman, was the next witness.
She was a servant IN house on Thirty
eighth street, New York, kept by Mrs.
Julia Hartley, where Mrs. DAILY frequent
ly met Fred Wood, the correspondent.
Her testimony was very damaging to the
defendant. The witness also said that
when Mrs. Hartley gave up the Thirty
eighth street house last July she went to
live with Mrs. Daily at Long Branch. She
produced packet of letters which she
said were written by Wood to Mrs. DAILY.
The girl said that Mrs. Daily had a box
in the Long Branch postoffice in the name
of Mary Gainor,. and it was to that name
that Wood sent the letters TO Mrs. DAILY.
The Vice Chancellor questioned the girl
closely as to how she knew the letters
were written by Wood and how she came
in possession of them. The girl replied
that Mrs. DAILY told her they were from
Wood and telling her that she was afraid
to keep them, bade the witness put them
into the bottom of her trunk.
Mr. Terhune said that he was prepared
to show that the handwriting was Wood 8
but the Vice Chancellor said that would
not be necessary.
Mrs. Julia Hartley, the proprietress OF
the house on Thirty-eighth street where
Mrs. DAILY frequently met Woods, testi-
fed to those visits. She also said that
summer and went to VISIT Mrs. DAILY at
Long Branch. She also told of Wood
visiting Mrs. Daily at Long Branch dur
ing her husbands absence She further
testified T. a visit of several days dura-
ton which she, Mrs Daily, Woods and a
man named Burke (Who was in the court
room and acknowledged his identify paid
to the st, Cloud HOTEL Long Branch.
Walter Scott, a young colored man,
who was employed as a waiter in the
Thirty y-eighth street house, testified that
he often saw Wood and Mrs. Daily to-
gether in the same room in that house
and frequently served them with beer.
At this point the Vice Chancellor brought
the case to an end by saying THAT
will do, Mr.. Terhune; I will advise a de-
craa