The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-14
BOTH MAKE
SIMILAR CHARGE
Mrs. LumbsTton Says Husband
Refused 10 Talk 10 Her.
He MAKES COUNTER CHARGE.
Declared His Wife PsTslstsntly Refused tp
Treat Him as q Husband Denies Ale
gallon Of Abandonment
He MAKES COUNTER CHARGE.

New York. March IA Awife who said
she left her husbands house because she
was crazy On account Of his GOODNESS TO
her. and her husband, who said that nc
had left her because she had always re-
fused 10 treat him as "a husband" con-
fronted each other before Justice Mac
Lean in'the supreme court yesterday
She Is Mrs. Lucy r. Lamberton, of No.
l35 West Thirty-fourth street, and her
suit on trial was against Edward - Lam
berton, confidential clerk In the office
or IL. ~. Howell x Co, sugar merchants
at No. loo Wall street on the grounds OF
cruelty and abandonment.
Lamberton IN 1889, brought suit for
abandonment I'm the Brooklyn Supreme
court. She brought counter charges OF
the same character. and both suits were
dismissed, but not before Mrs. Iamberton
through Howe a. Hummel, had begun an
action I'm this county.
The marriage occurred In the bittle
Church Around the Corner on July q,
1899, aud on November IL OF same
year they separated.
NEVER TREATED AS A WIFE.
The wife testified that her husband was
cool and indifferent 10 her, and never an
SWefet nor except III nonosNllaplcS, 6ne
says her husband never treated her as
"A wife, and she eventually left the house,
telling him she would never live with him
again.
A few weeks afterward he began his
action. She has been receiving SIS week
temporary alImony.
She said that prior 10 her marriage she
had been school teacher In Kansas
City. After their marriage they went TO
Ntoc ora Lfa1l aaI thaafx ant nt,a..
back to New York, where they took
apartments at No. 10s West Sixty-fourth
street.
How did he treat your Mr.. Hummel
asked.
"He left me entirely alone almost from
the first she said. 'Iie spoke TO me
but seldom. and when we were together
there Was never any conversation be-
tween us, although I tried To induce him
10 talk 90 me. talked TO him on every
subject i'm the world that j thought he
could know anything about, but II was
no use"
Mrs. Lamberton said her husband was
a widower with children when ne married
her. She said she used TO talk To her
husband OF books she had read and OF
current events and tell him what she
thought OF them. His answer was usual
~. ~ guess So
She upbraided him for his treatment OF
her and he dressed himself and went to
his office.
LEFT WITHOUT MONEY.
''He left me absolutely without money"
he said, though he knew / had not a
friend in this vast city or any resources
of my own"
Mrs. Lamberton told how when they
were staying at a hotel at Plainfield she
asked him about book, which was illus
trated by Christie. He said he knew
nothing about Christie, and that ended
that matter. The yacht races were going
on at the time, and she spoke about
them, but could get no answer.
The longest conversation we usually
had was in the evening. when he would
say, '"Would you not like to go TO the
library? BERTHE (hls SOM will go with you.
and I will stay here and smoke "A cigar"
Said Mrs. Lamberton scornfully: What
could 1 think OF husband who only
spoke IN monosylables, and would sit OPP
posite me doing nothing but smoking
cigarsg'
Mr.. Lamberton then took the stand and
denied he had ever treated his wife un-
kindly. He said she had always refused
10 treat him as husband and that this
was the reason for .he coolness which
existed between them
He denied that he left her and said
he returned TO their home on the evening
Of November a. but found she had gone
away.