The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-06
LAW BETTER
THAN GOSPEL
Minister Fails, Lawyer Sue
ceeds in Reoonciling Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Barnes.
BUT0NLY WHILE
husbands Application for
Divorce Before Vice Chan
cellor Stevens This
Morning.
BUT ONLY FOR Tie WHILE

Vice Chancellor Stevenson this morn
ing heard the application of Frank
Barnes for diyirce from his wife, Ger
trude, on the ground of desertion. The
parties We're married in Hasbrouck
Heights. Jan 2S, 1899, where they have
lived ever since. The husband claims that
he and his wife lived together until De
cember, 1899, when she wilfully deserted
him and has lived apart from him since.
Mrs. Barnes filed an answer in which
she says that her husbands cruel treat
ment compelled her to leave him. The
only specific charges which size made was
that on one occasion she was severely
burned by carbolic acid and her husband
showed no sympathy for her. He refused
to have her treated and she was obliged
to go to her fathers home to have her
wounds properly treated. The Barnes
have one child, boy two years old.
Mr.. Barnes was the first witness.
After telling Of his marriage, he said that
after he had been living at his father-iil-
laws home for a short time was became
dissatisfied and asked his wife if she
would not go to housekeeping with him.
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She consehteu anu ne s.alleu ~ piepaiS
apartments for her. Some time previous
to this his wife had grown cool toward
him and did not look after his comfort
as wife should.
TOO MUCH NIOTHER-IN-LAW.
rh;s 10 a++r;h,tad ~ the faa a+ tl,ot 8. 8
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was under the influence OF her mother.
This led to an estrangement.
The witness got the Kew. MT. seald-
well, who had married them, to see q, ms
minister saw his wife and tried to get ner
to become reeonciled to him. She shook
her head and said that she weuld never
love him as she had before.
Then the husband consulted Lawyer
A. Hart and he succeeded N getting
the wife to consent to go housekeeping,
but before arrangements could bc COM
pleted she backed out again. rms time
she said her mother was gong away
and she had TO stay and take care OF
the house. Ihls was IN April. 1872;
Law BEIsIt1h IflAN aOelhL; aOesl,'i.;
Lawyer Hart got them recohclieu
again soon aIterward, anu anolllef aslee. ,t's.
ment 70 20 h9usskeeplls was uiaue, ~
y WIS aganl pioheii " :ne Wiz s, ~, W AZ
vice ol nei Motlel. iisilY ~ ,nss uiu ~
s g9 70 nousehsepihs ~ ea,,ti,- ss;s;t
mere y MS MS attn, naI ood waS s;star and aftar
81 ~ hn, nand',et +ns,'ar rds har ms
band hsna :, cool md d;stra,,t FINALLY
i,;s Eanu ,;fe rafnseG to i've wifi him any
n Iangar n his own home ana went back
~ ar fother,s homo slnca ha went
there and putting his arm around his
wife's waist asked her to 90 home
with him.
Whereupon his mother-in-law came up
and pulled him away by his ear. Mr..
Barnes declared that his wife never COM
planned of his habits or found fault with
his general conduct. He explained the
carbolic acid burns by saying that the
acid was used as disinfectant at the
time his child was born One day his
wife said she had queer feeling on her
side Her nurse looked at her side and
said she had been burned by the acid.
Barnes said he. proposed to go for
pnySlclll- Dut tile hurst sdlu sie seApect-