The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-07
VALUABLE SERVANT
She Read Mrs. Browns Let
tiers Before Mailing Them
divorce Arguments.

The naive admission of a servant girl
that she knew what her mistress's love
letters contained, because she read them
before posting them made Vice Chancel-
lor Pithey and the lawyers in Chancery
Chambers this morning chuckle with
laughter
This occurred during the hearing of the
suit of George Brown, who is suing his
Wife for divorce and duplicating as CO.
respondent William H. Kane, Jr., of Bo-
gotta. From some testimony recently
taken before master and on which law
yer Flavel MCGEE based his argument to-
day for divorce for his client, Mr..
Brown. the servant girls in Browns
house in Bogota saw a great deal of ear
ryings on" between Mrs. Brown and
Kane
While your honor" said Mr. MCGEE.
81 know generally there is some doubt to
be placed on the tattle of servants yet
you will find that all who have been ex-
amined practically tell the same story.
To say the least it is extremely improper
for young married woman to write let
ters for, clandestine meetings with a man
other than her husband.
Read one of the letters" said the Vice
Chancellor
Mr.. MCGEE said that the servant girl
swore that in one letter addressed by
Mrs. Brown to Kane she distinctly re-
membered seeing that it began:--"My
dear WILL and among other things it
said that:-"Your photograph is always
on my bureau, and is in front of me as
write this. I always think of you" The
girl wound up by saying that she knew
they were love letters because she read
then, first.
Valuable domestic acquisition" observ-
ed the court
Continuing, Mr.. MCGEE said that Kane
and Mrs. Brown took long bicycle rides
together, and when she went to the sea-
shore for the summer with Kane's sister,
Mrs. Van Keuren, they were visited by
Kane and a Hackensack city official nam
ed Ramsey. The men and the two women
seemed, said the lawyer, to be on very in
innate terms, sitting in the hammock to-
gether and
''I guess we used to do that sort of
thing, too, when we were young" laugh
ingly remarked the Vice Chancellor, and
Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Van Keuren and two
other pretty women in the room had
hard time of it to preserve their gravity.
well, yes" replied Mr.. Gee, ''but there
are certain proprieties to be observed
even then. The Court is not likely to
disregard this testimony which shows
that Mrs. Brown allowed Kane to en-
brace ner and returned his kisses, met
him by appointment in remote places,
spent hours with him in a room the doors
of which were shut and sent loving mes
sages to him"
Counsel read a statement made by ex-
Mayor Kane of Bogota, father of the CO.
respondent, and in this Mr. Kane said
that on one occasion he told Mr. Brown
m mis- store in Jersey City that he should
pay some attention to his wife and ne
would soon find a cause for divorce Tho
witness warned his son to break off the
intimacy with Mrs. Brown and he prom
ised he would.
Summing up Mr.. MCGEE said that every
thing pointed to Mrs. Browns guilt and
her husband should have a decree.
Counselor Isaac S. Taylor for Mrs
Brown began his argument this afternoon.
He maintained that the relations of his
cllent and young Kane were strictly hon
orable.