The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-20
WIFE SUES DAVID T. PULSIPER
Welded 30 YEARS TO THE HORSE.
M4N-ASkS 4 SEPARATION.
He's Cruel. Has Low and DissoIute"
women Companions and Has Deserted
Her. she Says-She's Extrava cant and
Won't Live with Him, Says lie,

won't Live Win Him. Says lie.
After thirty years Of married life Mrs.
Ella l.. Pulsifer has begun an action for a
separation from her seventy-year -old hus-
band, David Tenny Pulsifer, the we'll
known breeder and owner of racehorses
and dogs. and owner Of the celebrated
stallion Tenny. She accuses him Of i'll
treatment and abandonment. and lays
their troubles to her refusal TO join him
in mort ging his real estate. Mr.. Pull
sifer lays all the blame on his wife and
her prize dogs.
Mrs. Pulsifer says that her husband ia
stil, wealthy, though he has sustained
heavy losses through gambling on race
tracks and in poolrooms and through his
association with slow and dissoute women
She says that he made $500 from the
horse Tenny. and that his aggregate in
come in the last four years has been ISL 500
Nevertheless. she asserts. he has made
her do her own housework, saying he had
no money for a servant When they did
have a girl he used to eat in the kitchen
To avoid sitting at the table with his wife.
She says as TO her refusal 10 Join him In n
m tgage on property in Chicago that she
was unwilling to thus -fritter away the
real estate and make a beggar of herself
AZ we'll as Of him" The refusal occurred
a year ago and he then told her he would
live with her no longer. He had papers
in a separation suit drawn. she says. but
when he found her willing to separate he
dropped the suit From that time forth
he began TO abuse and humliate her, re-
fusing TO speak to her in their home.
On Sept. 81 Last. Mrs Pulsifer says, a
wagon drove up To the door of 80 West
Castle place. New Rochelle. A colored
man. who drove the wagon. asked for Mr..
Pulsifer's trunks.
Yes, am going to live in New York, ="
said Pulsifer To his wife.
But where am to live?" she asked
Il don't care" she says he answered
and when she asked who would pay the
rent of the cottage. he made the same
reply, He left her no money for the bills
falling due, and getting in the wagon with
the driver, shouted back To her:
This is a good thing. I'm worth over
800 900 and have To ride beside the driver
on an express wagon"
He went to live at i2i West Seventy
ninth street and n few days later sent her
this letter, the cold contempt Of which,"
she says. is not the usual way in which
Ocr 2. 1902
A. YOU are VII aware. the climate Of New
Roch"ll" has been killing me- gradually. and
compelS IN" to leave the place | con~g-
guently have removed my home TO IL, West
Sryyenty-ninth street. the hou,e which origl-
OF dollars for = home for our family My
residence, there. i and Will b" beneficial TO
my health. and also enables me- TO engage.
In an occupation nv which | may procure \
livelihood. for although upward Of 20 wears
OF aer. | ,annot b" inactive ! must there.
that address, whore | Will fully provide Tor
YOU according TO my means
Awaiting your answer, am, respectfully
yours, ID I PUIsIPEH
She asks for $50 week and counsel fee
pending the trial of her suit,
Puslfer replies that he has provided his
wife with a suitable home ana invited her
20 come to it. but she has refused. In h-
affidavit he says that he was 20 wears old
on Dec. 81 last. and that up To fifteen wears
ago he made money. but has since mot with
financial reverses through speculation and
horseraCing For many years NE says,
his wife has lived in luxury. travelling ex-
pensively and keeping her own stable of
valuable and speedy horses ont Of his pocket
He denies sQuandering any money. IL
all vent he saws, 20 crafty her tastes and
whms and 10 pay for her purchases Of prize
Winning dogs at eHtraNaeant prices.
THAT the money is gone" he continues,
eve both admit, and while ! sadly regret
that ! am more CrevCd that after a long and
apparently contented married life GER
tainly a respectable one on my part, it
should be in my declining years ~ old age
that l must be subjected 10 the charge
in a public courtroom Of cruel and inhu-
man treatment Of her whom il was my sol.
aim in life 70 satisfy and make happy, God
knows. and well she knows, that | never
treated her in n cruel or inhunan manner
or II any way ever Intentionally humiar ed
her"
are unfounded and fancful He movei
10 New Rochelle To accommodate his wife
and her dogs, hut the climate was so bad
for his asthma that he could not stay there
His appeals 10 her TO move back to New
York were always met by promt and hu-
initiating refusals, he says, and he finally
had To go back alone. she staying in New
Rochelle with her family Of prize doga
Il am convinced says Pulsifer. that
the cost Of maintaining those dogs has
been as great, If not greater, than that Of
maintaining both herself and myself. OF
late her dogs have had more care and atten-
ton than either myself or my home"
Mrs Pulsiier says that four wears ago she
bought female dog for 500. Then her
husband bought male for $50. These
two were the only prize winners they ever
had. She never had more than eight
dogs, all bred from this pair. she says and
these are now kept in the kennel on he floor
Of the New Rochelle house, in a room I'M
suitable for occupation, and with her hus-
bands consent,
She charges him with having been in
the company Of low and dissolute women
for years. She says that for her daughters
sake she has previously forborne from
making this matter public. She attaches
TO her affidavit this letter. addressed 20
MIR. e. Heminway," which she says her
husband received in June, 1901, while she
was al Long Branch:
Dear Mr. Hominrap'
| was disappointed NJ your not meeting
mo on Tuesday evening. but suppose YOU
We're called out OF town or would have kept
the engagement should YOU care to see
mo on your return. lot mo know by sending
me messenger. and ! will make an effort to
see you "a YOU know II Is impossible for
you to call here I,ou PEEK.
?5t WEST TwtSry-FOrRTH STREET
Mrs Pusifcr says that her husband is
the dog breeder Of the family. that he
carries a dog around constantly In his
ovcrcoat pocket, exhibiting il IN barrooms,
poolrooms, clubs, and other public places.
His i'll health. she says, is all magin alton,
He never had sick day in his life.
Justice Scott has denied the motion
for alimony and counsel fee. The Justice
says that home has been offered TO Mrs.
Pulsifer, and she has failed to show that it il
insufficient or improper, He continues:
She refuses to live with him apparently
simply because she prefers to stay apart
from him. Her prospect OF success, in this