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SMOKED CIGARETTES.
Sensational Testimony in
the Buttlar Divorce
Case Today.

; Vice Chancellor Stevens eat in the
Court of Chancery this morning ana
heard the Buttlar divorce case. Christian
Buttlar of West Hoboken, through MS
counsel, Marshall Van Wrinkle, filed bill
for divorce against his wife, Nina, alleg-
ing desertion He set forth that he was
married February II, 1872, and has had
two children, now twenty-five and tWen-
ty-three ye ~. old respectively, ana
charged that his wife had wilfully de-
serted him. Mrs. Butt1ar filed an answer
and cross bill in which she denied the de-
sertion and said that during the last few
years she lived with her husband he treat
ed her not only with indignity but with
extreme and inhuman cruelty. In 1898 they
moved to West Hoboken, where his abuse
and ill-treatment grew constantly worse.
In the month of August, $780, he brought
woman named Cordes to the house ana
kept here there eight days, but Mrs.
Ruttlar did not know who she was and
thought she was some unfortunate her
husband was befriending, until the wom-
ans husband came to the house ana
whipped Buttlar for taking away his VIE,
Mrs Buttlar further charged that IN
August. 1893, her husband choked her ana
struck her in the face, and in December
of the same year he broke in her bed
room door with hatchet and threatened
to strike her with the hatchet Buttiar'
his wife charges, called her obscene
names. and before her children declared
she was never married to her former
husband, Frederick Heinburg. She also
charges that her husband was guilty OF
the most gross abuse of his marital prlvl-
leges and committed atrocities too brutai
and indecent to MENTION
Her husbands conduct toward her be-
came so cruel that she was afraid to i've
IN the same house with him and on jan
llary 81 1894, she entered into an agree
ment with him whereby she gave up en-
tire control of about $4,000 worth of prop
erty in West Hoboken which she and
her husband held in their joint names
in consideration of which her husband
agreed to allow her to live separate and
paw her SIS every month. This agree
ment he has not kept and still owes her
s525 on account of it, Mrs. Buttlar
charges her husband with infdelity and
names as correspondent Telka st. Germain-
She charges that her husband still con-
tlnueS TO live WlIn MISS ot. SSiii1iiA -
No 600 Malone street, West Hoboken
Today's proceedings were devoted to sub
stantiating the wife's charges. Several
witnesses were examined who testified
that Mr.. Buttlar was often seen on the
street arm-in-arm with Miss st. Germalr,
that he had Rugged and kissed her ana
conducted himself generally toward her in
an affectionate manner.
One witness testified that Buttlar gave
a party at which Miss German and some
of the women present smoked cigarettes
and drank wine and beer. The eldest
daughter Of the Buttlars' testified that
her father once told her that Miss St.
German was the finest woman in the
country and if his wife should die he
would marry Miss st. German at once.
Buttlar is a fine looking man of middle
age and appears to be younger than his
wife, whose hair is tinged with gray and
who wears spectacles. The case was on
at recess.