The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-08
man LET
FAMILY
Want.
Has Plenty Of Money and Real
Estate but Wife and Child
Go Hungry.

New York. Aug Sin neat little
apartment at No. Az East sixty-fourth
street Mrs. Wallace Carpenter and her
three year-old boy, Wallace, are we'll
nigh starving TO death. Her husband.
she says. has left her.
II don't know what / am going to do"
said Mrs. Carpenter yesterday. There
is no hope for me and my poor child
unless the law will force my husband TO
support us, and l am not able TO employ
a lawyer"
Mrs. Carpenter and the little boy were
partaking of their midday meal when a
reporter called. The meal consisted OF a
cup of coffee between the two with the
scrapings OF "A can or condensed milk 10
"Is that all you have to eat2" asked
the reporter.
II have part OF loaf which the woman
next door gave me yesterday. but / am
saving that for dinner" she said. and
the conflict OF womany pride and despair
caused the tears 10 flow down her wan
cheeks. 'I haven't know the taste OF
meat for week. j am i'll for the want
or proper nourishment
My child and have lived on the char
ity OF our neighbors for two or three
weeks. | borrow little money occa-
sionally from the good woman who lives
next door. and the master in the Masonic
lodge, 10 which my husband belongs,
came 10 see me once and gave me S. My
husband sends me 81 every two weeks TO
pay the rent for these rooms The rent
is S2.35 per week. and that leaves me only
80 cents each two weeks. He gave me 81
ten days ago"
Mrs. Carpenter Is a Danish woman,
blue eyes. She is intelligent and her
conversation shows plainly that she is
woman OF education and refinement.
Soon another child will be added TO the
little household. The woman despairs
of the outlook, having no relatives to
turn to-
...t GOT GOOD WAGES.
letter from her husband dated Min
isink Homestead, Port Jervis, Orange
County, N. Y" says that he Is there
with 3 parents recovering from a
broken arm, the resc.t OF a mishap while
working in a railroad yard IN New York.
Carpenter was once a Pullman car con-
duotor on the West Shore railroad and
always earned good wages and dressed
well
mot only that" said his destitute
wife. my husband has property besides
He owns real estate at Ridgeway Park.
N j."
Mrs. Carpenter showed the copy OF a
letter from a lawyer In Port Jervis' 10
the husband, which she found among his
effects. The letter is as follows:
ear Sir: Yours inclosing money order
for 81 duly~received, for which please ac-
cept thanks.
In reply 10 the questions you asked me.
IL you have delivered the deed, you, OF
course. do not own any real estate, II this
was the only real estate you hod As to
the mortgage, i do not see any way for
your wife TO reach H. If you are put
under oath, you will have to testify that
you had this real estate and mort
gage, and also tell what you did with
them, and II she takes proceedings
against you TO compel you to support her
or something of that nature. II may be
that they will get a receiver appointed
for you and they may commence action
to recover this mortgage and the real es-
tate, But whether they would succeed or
not IL impossible TO tell Yours truly,
r.. ED. SCHOFIELD.
Mrs. Carpenter infers from this that
her husband has either disposed OF his
property to prevent her from getting
her share OF it. or trying to do So
Carpenter was arrested in Jersey City.
where he was passing under the name
of Charles Schoheld. The detectives
found S23 In his pocket although his wife
was without proper food He gave Mrs.
Carpenter the s2S in court and promised
to provide for her. Magistrate Deuel.
paroled him upon the withdrawal or com
plant by Mrs. Carpenter. but warned
him that he must provide for her and
the child.