The sun., 1901-05-10
WE'D IN SECRET, NOW SUES.
RTCH RARM6Rs son DIDN'T SUPPORT
HER AND PLEADS he CAN'T.
Only . Farmland At sis saUnth and Board.
but Three Lawyers Fight isr Him In Court
Ordered to Pay slO week or 90 20 jail
Father Clves n Roud 20 Save Him.

Only . Farmland at o1o Mvnth and boaro'
but Three Lawyers Fight or Hfm In Court
Ordered to Pay slO week or 90 20 Jsii
Father Gtves q Bond 90 Save Him.
Frank b, Hoffmire who Is employed as
farmland on his fathers estate. Castle Hon.
mire. at Castleton, n. Y was a prisoner In
the Jefferson Market police court yesterday
charged with abandonment lie had an
ex-Judge from Red Bank. n. j, Broad
way attorney and Mark Alter OF the Jeiler-
son Market Jurisdiction to defend him.
Magistrate Cornell looked over the bunch
OF lawyers and then decided that the farm
hand must pay his wife $40 week toward
her support or go to jail
HoffmTe was arrested on Wednesday at
Castle Hofmire Policeman Hurlich spent
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday tramping
the broad Hormire acres looking for the
young man. Finally he came upon him
feeding the chickens. Hoflmire Is under
! the medium height, freckle faced and red
haired Mrs. Hofmire is tall and slender
with black hair and eyes. She dresses hand
somely. and at her home ut Red Bank. \ j..
she Is known as fearless horsewOman
Her father Is Joseph Stout, the owner OF a
canning factory. a farm. and lots Of blooded
stock John II Stout Mrs. uoNDyre's grand
| father, accompanied her W court.
Mrs. HoImlre said that she was secretly
| married TO lIoifmire on Nov. /, 1907 lie
| then worked for an architect for a small
| salary, she said. but he told her that In sd-
| dition Lis father allowed him SIS week
a part Of which was deposited in q bank for
| him After the marriage he was IN the habit
OF paying. Saturday to Monday visits to
| the Slouts ood farm at Redbank Mr Stout
| did not know OF the marriage and did not
| know that two persons occupied his daugh-
| ters room when the husband slept at the
| farm The brides mother was IN the secret /
| The marriage, Mrs Hoflmire said. took place
| at the Reformed Church IN Madison avenue
| and was performed by tho Rev Abbott f.
kittredge Later; Mrs honmire sald, ne her
| tendent, promising TO make home for her
! He wrote q letter at bor suggestion stating
that he wished her 10 be received as his wife
| and that he was responsible Tor her support
! Il got him 70 write This letter so that |
| could live respectfully and show people Just
how | received my support, said Mrs. Hoh-
eighteen months on the Castlrton farm
she asserted. he had not vet sent for her 70
come TO the home he had promised toprepare.
Hofmire Sr, examined as 70 the extent
of his sons income, said that Frank. who is
! rs years old received $40 month and his
! board for working on the farm
Then he isn't any better than the other
farmhands'" asked Lawyer Boland for Mrs
! Hofmre
"No. he isn't as good as any OF the others, Z"
! responded the father Hes been trouble
all along He hasn't got any salary since
this thing came up
| Mrs HoYmlre testified that for two years
| she had boarded AZ various places in this
! city Her present address Is S44 Fast Sixty
ninth street
Lawyer Roland tried TO have the senior
! H0Nmire admit that 10 had purposely ah-
stained from paying his son salary since
/ being notified that abandonment proceed
/ ings had been begun here but Magistrate
| CornrN decided thar the admission had been
made The Magistrate said that II the son
didn't pay his wife as ordered he must 60 20
Jail The senior HofImre went on his son 8