The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-22
Homes on the Heights Brok-
en- Up By the Faithless
Men and Women.
A FoRGIVING WIFE
She Prays That the Lord Will
Be With Her Runaway
Husband.

Two houses in this city have been
broken up, three children are in the care
of strangers, and loving husband and
fond wife have been deserted. the re-
suit of an elopement of a married man
with another's WIFE
Although the affair took place on Oe
tober Z, the deserted man and woman
have just realized what the disappear
ance of the wife and husband means.
Charles Parsons, formerly the mana
ger of the branch office of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, at No. 13S
Monticello avenue, has deserted his wife,
Olga Parsons. demonstrator and agent
for the company, and two girls by for
nfer marriage, one of whom is six and
the other ten years old. The woman in
the case lived with her husband, an en-
Warren street. on Railroad avenue, near
Clark place. The couple had one child
which has been sent to local orphan
age. The name of the deserted husband
is not obtainabie, but it is said that. with
his wife, he occupied rooms rented from
woman clairyoyant.
SOLD HER A MACHINE.
Parsons met his inamora in a bust
ness way, having 'old her sewing ma
chine. His calls at her home were
numerous, and the elopement preceded
storm which was brewing in both
families. Where the man and woman
are now, no one knows.
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thirty years Of age, and formerly mem
Der Of tie Salvation Army and the First
Church of Christ, Scientist. His first
wife died about four years ago, leaving
two small children He married the
present Mrs. Parsons a few weeks after
the decease of his first wife Neighbors
of the deserted woman, who lives at No.
19 Clinton avenue, say that she has been
a good mother to her stepchildren, while
the father of the children has abused and
neglected all three.
BARBER SMITH ELOPES.
Frank Smith, for many years a resi-
dent and business man of Bergen, has
deserted his wife, and, it is said, eloped
with a woman named Hillard
Smith was the proprietor of a barber
shop at No. 122 Monticello avenue and
met the Hillard woman about a year
ago. Her husband was the proprietor of
a cafe at No. 12S Monticello avenue,
and it was there that Smith spent most
of his leisure time and many of his
business hours. He became infatuated
with the woman who claimed to be Hill
lard's wife and few weeks ago they
left town together.
Mrs. Smith is now living with her mar
ried daughter, an only child Of a former
marriage, at No. 100 Monticello avenue.
She was the wife of Charles Koeble. a
well known business man of Jersey City
Heights, when she married her husband
nineteen years ago.
Koeble was in business on Communi-
paw avenue at the time of his death.
after which Shut, who had been in his
employment, married his widow and con-
tinued the business, after having OBJ
tanned control of her property, piece of
land and house at No. 81 Monticello
avenue, worth $4,000.
A FORGIVING WIFE.
During the past few years Smith
squandered the proceeds obtained from
the sale of the property losing most of it
to race track "bookies" and pool rooms
He also had a fondness for wine and
women, and the sale of the barber shop
at No. 122 Monticello provided him with
enough funds to carry ON this form of
amusement until the time of his elope-
ment.
The deserted wife is very deTout
churchwoman, and when seen at her
homo today said:
I'm not angry with my husband.
pity him. He has drifted into sin and
degradation, and | am sorry Tor him.
hope he win be saved some day. / have
never worried about his disappearance
or about how | am going to live. l sup
port myself bv sewing and depend on the
Lord to guide and always take care of
me- AS long as my. husband is in love
with this woman he may go to her. He
IS hers. The Lord be with them both and
forgive their sins.
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