The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-12
WIFE JEALOUS OF HER Maid.
MRS. STINSON DIDN'T MEAN TO
TELL THAT IN HER SUIT.

hut Her Husbands Amdavits Provoked
the Disclosure OF the House-
hold Gone" When MT. stinson Dis
charged Maggie, So Mr.. stinson said
In suing Joseph W. stinson, a member
| OF the firm Of Downing, Clark a Co., woonen
merchants. for a separation In the Supreme
Court Alice W. Stinson asserts hat he
unjustly accused her OF being unchaste and
out OF her mind. and that he made such
remarks In the presence Of their children,
Joseph and Mary. aged II and IS years.
At Asbury Park in the summer OF 1899, she
AYERS, he threatened her with . pistol.
At another time he elected her from his
room and flung her clothes out after her.
They went to Europe on May 4 last and she
says trouble began with him on the first
day out. At the Hotel Cecil In London
In June, she says. he flew into a rage and
threatened to commit suicide. They re-
turned on July o last. and he told her, as
she AYERS, to 60 and get another man.
He refused to go to church with his family
on Nov. 10 last. and -hurled vituperative
language at her.
Stinson retorted hat his wife, through
III health. had become fretful, peevish, iras-
chile and extremely jealous; had acquired
a violent dislike " him and tainted him In
various ways.
These statement stirred up replying
afidavits in which Mrs. Stinson declares
hat the cause OF their differences has been
her husbands attentions to her maid. Mag
gle 4. Teahan. to whom he sent flowers.
tt plaintiff says her eyes beca me funy
opened at Asbury Park In the summer OF
1899. Regardless Of whether there was
- A. ~ >Al Ina 1lrI NNaad N
take long %siestas In the afternoons, At
one time, Mrs. Stinson asserts, she found
the girl sitting alongside her husband as
he lay In bed. tanning him. Her husband
and the girl, IL is further stated, o water
and sun baths together and once when
they were in a room Mrs. Stinson heard the
distinct sounds Of q kiss. To upbraidings
by Mrs. Stinson 1t Is asserted the girl re-
piled that IN was keeping the roof over
the head OF Mrs. Stinson by staying there.
Subsequently while her husband was
away Mrs. Stinson discharged the girl;
On his return her husband Is reported
TO have told his wife he would not enter
the house until Maggie was reinstated.
He did come back and, according TO The
wife. pleaded with her TO take the, girl
in again and Mrs. Stinson releDted. II
got so warm for the girl. however, last
October that she left the Stinson residence.
1897 Lexington avenue. Al this house
Mrs. Stinson says her husband insisted
on having a separate room on tne Top moor,
the floor on which the girl had her room.
Paul Stinson, their son, makes affidavit
for his mother that when the girl was away
his father declared, The charm OF the
household II gone
Stinson asserts that he took the room
on the upper floor at the request OF his
wife. He AYERS:
'Sho insisted that ! sleep In another
room than hers, giving as an excuse that
| had too much magnetism and took away
her strength; also that l disturbed her
rest by my snoring
He SAYS the girl had 20 long bcsn In their
household (seventeen years. that she was
treated almost as If shc was a member
OF the family. When he sent home such
things as flowers on special occasions
they were for his family as well as FOR the
girl.
Mrs. Stinson asserts that her husbands
firm does a business OF about a million
dollars a year and he makes abou si7 600
a year. Justice Giegerich has allowed
her a counsel fec Of $500 and SIS a week
alimony.