The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-02
He MUST PAY
ALIM0NY NOW
Contractor McGulnness Found
I. tftsr Two Years Search.
JUDGMENTS SERVED ON HIM.
He Was Found 10 a Hammock Wife
Alleged Cru' Treatment and Failure 10
Support Twssu's Niece His FITstWIIe
JUDGMENTS SERVED ON HIM.

Jersey City, Aug. 2.-Lying In a ham
mock enjoying rural Pennsylvania breezes
Thomas McGuinness, rich Jersey City con-
tractor, race-horse owner and art col
lector was found Tuesday after two
years search and served with judgments
for $4,000 growing out Of his wifes suit
for separation.
IL was the climax OF a long hunt. Me-
Guinness. who is worth 81, O0O,oOQ has been
away from Jersey city since his wife be-
gan. her suit, and did not even appear at
the trial He must now pay his wife ar
rears OF alimony and 5000 year
lie made his fortune as "A contractor in
this city. One OF mis- two former wives
was a Miss Tweed. a niece Of BOSS
Tweed. McGuinness had many big con-
tracts in New York, some twenty years
ago He owns several stores I'm the Bow
cry, Third avenue, a fine house on Park
avenue. tenements in Fifty-siNth and Eff
ty-eighth streets besides more than a
dozen buildings I'm Jersey City.
The famous stone house IN Clinton ave-
nue. opposite his Jersey City Athletic
club, has been his home for twenty years.
McGuinness is sixty-five, while his wife
is twenty years younger. She was Mary
Ellen Anderson OF Newark Less than a
year before her marriage she emerged
from St Vincents convent I'm Newark,
a beautiful young woman and an accom-
plished musician. She charges that her
married life was one OF continuous tor
ture.
They went 10 Europe on a two years
bridal trip, and Mrs. McGuinness says
they were scarcely on the boat before he
told her that he was bankrupt This, she
SAYS, he did only 10 worry her.
She declares that he kept up this sort
OF treatment Systematically for fifteen
years. Although man with a big in
come, she charges that he almost starved
her. Myself and my children" she de-
clared, frequently suffered from actual
hunger" His actions toward her were
so cruel and unreasonable. she AYERS. that
some OF his friends thought he was crazy.
Once. she says. when a workman on the
place threw her down an embankment he
told the man TO do IL again.
xS~~om a vigorous and well-nourished
young woman. Mrs McGuinness declares
that her husbands cruelty made her thin
and nervous. She says he told Father
Carroll, OF st. Patriek's church. she was a
drunkard and traduced her 10 others.
Weeks were lost after Mrs. MeGuinness
began her suit I'm serving McGunness.
The papers were left at his house, but
Lawyer Brinkerhof had this service set
aside. Then after another long delay. the
papers were again served in Philadelphia
McGuinness paid no attention 10 them
Mrs. McGuinness won her suit and then
the effort 10 find McGuinness was renew
ed. Lawyer Clarence Kelsey. after long
hunt. at last succeeded I'm finding him in
the country near Malvern. Pa Tuesday
Mrs. McGuinness is now living I'm New
ark with her aged father There are four
children. Mary Irene. nineteen: John.
seventeen; Marcella. f1fteen: Anna. eleven
The girls are all with the mother, while
the son Is with the father