The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-01-23
OBJECT
MATRIMONY
Manche Kadowsky Loses
Her Suit Against the
Man Whose Adver-
tisement She
Answered.
BURNING LOVE LETTERS
Court Decides Her Agreement
to Divorce Her Husband
Is Against<Pu
Morals.
BURNING LOVE LETTERS

Wilma Blanche Kadowsky, the pretty
| Hungarian woman who claims tha,
James Batchelar, wealthy New York
printer living on the Heights, induced
her to obtain a divorce from her hus-
band in order to marry him, and then
| cast her aside for another, was nom
suited by Judge Nevius in the Circuit
Court yesterday afternoon. in her SUIT
against her former aged but ardent wooer
for S25,000 damages.
The motion for a non-suit was made
by James A. Gordon, representing the
/ defendant, who insisted that the con-
| tract to marry. even il it had been en-
| tered into by Batchelar at all, as claimed
by Mrs. Kadowsky. could not be binding,
as the woman at the time was legally
! the wife of another.
incidentally the Court in allowing the
motion, remarked that it would be
against public morals and public de-
cency to sustain such a claim as the
plaintiff made.
This is the fair plaintiffs third failure
in her legal fight to compel the wealthy
publisher to compensate her both for the
less of the husband she gave up, and the
one she expected but didn't get. The
first suit was for $25, 900, which amount
Mrs Kadowsky claimed she had lost
as a result of Batchelar,s attentions to
her This was unexpectedly discontin-
ued. The second was for a similar
amount for breach of promise, and ended
| in a non-suit because of the failure of
/ the plaintiff to appear when the case.
! was called for trial some time ago.
It required a fair sized dress suit case
to contain all the love letters that Mrs
Kadowsky had received from Batchelar
during their little more than three years
the fair plaintiff continued as the
wife of Philip Kadowsky. The
| dress suit case Mrs. Kadowsky car
ried in her hand. when she
entered the court room yesterday and
took with her when she entered the wit
ness box The contents she handled most
tenderly when She gave one or the other
of the missives to her counsel to read
/ to bear out her tale of Batchelars per-
fdy.
MRS. KADOwSKY's STORY.
Mrs. Kadowsky, who talked with a
pleasing accent said She lived at No. Al
/ West Sixty-fourth street, New York
City. She was living there with her hus-
band, Paul Kadowsky in 1897 when she
/ first met Batchelar. Their acquaintance
was formed through personal inserted
/ by Batchelar in New York paper ap-
pealing for some wealthy woman to form
the acquaintance OF a wealthy bachelor
of social and religious standing-object
/ matrimony."
Mrs Kadowsky said her husband had
been sickly for some time and as they had
no friends in this country he suggested
and it would be well for her to get some
good male friend who would look out for
her interests if anything should happen
to him. She accordingly answered the
advertisement and met Batchelar
Afterwards she introduced him to her
husband and everything was pleasant un-
til the new found friend began to make
| violent love to Mrs. Kadowsky. AT first
she claimed She resented this, but later
she accepted the attentions of the bache-
lor publisher and yielding to his imper-
tunities to get divorce and marry him
she engaged private detective and put
/ him on the track Of her husband, who,
she had reason to be suspicious of in
spite of his illness, she said. The desir-
ed evidence was obtained, BatchelarI Mrs.
Kadowsky claiming, furnishing the mon
ey to obtain the decree.
One day when the elderly swain called
at her house letter dropped out of his
pocket, and in examining it Mrs. Kadow-
sky says she learned for the first time
that Batchelar was engaged to marry
another woman. She went to the ad-
dress of the woman whose name appear
ed in the letter and upbraided her for
stealing JOINS" affections. Then she
wrote letters to all of Batchelar' S
friends and even called on the pastor of
the church he attended to have him inter-
cede with her lover in her behalf But
apparently the ardent wooer of a short
time he had tired of her. His letters
showed this and finally she learned that
he had married another
sTHkEWs STONES AT HIS HOUSE.
Then Mrs. Kadowsky came over to
Jersey City and going to Batchelalss
palatial brown stone residence on Summit
avenue, near Montgomery street, she
threw stones through the windows in or
der to ne arrested and get her story IN