The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-08
C. 0. D. REVENGE.
Mrs. Dougherty's Enemy
Gets Even Through the
Department Stores.

Mrs. Kate Dougherty is the wife OF lhe
captain of the fire boat Seth Low. This
sort of thing has been going on for three
months at their home, No. 1856 State street,
BROOKLYN
Delivery wagon of big store stops,
driver rings door bell. presents large
package to servant, says
"Forty-seven dollars and ninety-eight
cents, collect; hurry please"
Servant calls Mrs. Dougherty
What is this?" asks Mrs. Dougherty.
" 'Pon my word, don't know" driver
answers, getting impatient about the de-
lay, You ought to know. You ordered it,"
Il have ordered nothing" Mrs. Dough-
erty answers. Il will not receive this
parcel and certainly l will not pay for
it,
Driver takes parcel and drives off, LASH
ing his horse.
So, day after day, silks, satins, cloaks,
hats, silk stockings have been sent c. o.
d. to Mrs. Dougherty from the big
Brooklyn department stores. The bills
presented to her nave ranged from five
cents to $50.
Mrs. Dougherty, when seen at home
yesterday, had in her arms four-weeks-
old baby. 1T is all SO strange and mys-
terious," she said, that can account
for it in only one way-a woman's spite
| work
'The trouble began two months ago.
My husband answered a ring at the door
and found c. o. D. package containing
a lace veil. I told him I had ordered
nothing from any store and we sent it
back Well, from that time until now
things have been sent every week and
two or three times week from the diff
ferent stores in Manhattan.
'It would be impossible for me to
enumerate the character of the articles
sent to my address, but some of the
things We're valuable and many of the
pieces of dress goods were cut so that
their value on return was impaired. Silks
and satins, neckwear and hosiery, hats
and shoes, and I don't know what else
have been coming to this address for
two months and not one thing has been
ordered by me-
Mrs. Dougherty, before her marriage,
lived in Woodlawn avenue, Greenville.
She is twenty-six years old. She was
| asked if she had any suspicion as to the
identity of the person who was ordering
goods in her name.
Among all my acquaintances," she
said there is but one person who, I
think, might do this, but why she should
do it I cannot tell. She is Mrs. Florence
Schwenk, of No. GA Wayne avenue, Jersey
City. I was married just little before
she was and until just after her mar
riage we were good friends
How did your quarrel arise?" I asked.
s.It was such foolish thing, Mrs.
Dougherty replied. She told me about
paying over Sl00 for set of dishes, and
when saw them I told her that 1 did
not think she had got such a great bar
gain, and that the set that had which
only cost about $25 was just as good.
She got very excited about it and 1 have
not seen her since we parted
Mrs. Schwenk was indignant when told
of Mrs. Dougherty's suspicious. She de-
MED she had ever ordered any packages
sent to Mrs. Dougherty's house. She said
she had enough to do to attend to her
household duties and take care of her own
home without running about New York
stores to order goods sent to the houses of
other people.
She also declared that big package
| was brought to her home on Tuesday
| from a New York store. She sent it back
without examining it's contents, not hav-
| ing ordered it.
She received letter from an unknown
writer, two weeks ago, signed your
Friend and upbraiding her for not keep
| ing an appointment to take buggy ride.
She had no such engagement, and mad no
| idea who could have written the letter.
She believed it was the same person who
sent the package to her house and who
may have sent the packages to Mrs.
Dougherty.
81 don't know Mrs. Dougherty,' she
said, emphatically. "I don't know any
thing about goods being ordered to be de-
| livered at her home. If my husband
were home he would put an end to that
story"
| When Mrs. Dougherty was told Mrs.
| Schwenk said she did not know her, Mrs.
Dougherty SO energetically patted her
baby, that the baby yelled.
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