The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-21
THE PUZZLE OF THE HULSES.
HUSBANDS ALIKE IN NAME -
WIVES ALIKE IN FEATURES.

Ono Mrs. Frank Hulse, however, Has blue
Eyes and the Other BrOwn-BOth Hus.
bands Failed to PrOvide-Mrs. Blue
Eyes Makes 1t Up With Her Spouse.
Miss Frances Day, general agent of the
New Jersey State Board OF Childrens
Guardians. spent several puzzling hours
In Jersey City on Saturday night trying to
straighten out the tangle occasioned by
the domestic troubles of brown eyed Mrs.
Frank Hulse and blue eyed Mrs. Frank
Hulse. good looking young women with
dark chestnut hair whose respective hus-
bands had failed to provide the wherewithal
to make housekeeping success.
While Miss Day was busy on Friday
afternoon arranging to place some chill
dren in good homes in the country one Of
the doubles called and told the usual tale
OF woe.
Il am Mrs. Frank Hulse of II Montgomery
street" she said. II am stopping with Mrs.
Monastery. My husband has abandoned
me and I'm going to have him arrested,
He will be in the court in the morning. l
would be so pleased if your society would
take charge Of my child, as will be unable to
support it,
Miss Day entered the First Criminal Court
on Saturday morning just as Frank Hulse
was called to the bar to answer complaint
lodged against him by Overseer Of the Poor
Edward Hewitt for abandonment. Mrs.
Hulse was not in court.
"The wife, said Assistant Overseer Of
the Poor George Murray, is unable to
appear because She laid up in st. Francis's
Hospital with broken kneecap. She has
been there some time. I called the sisters
up on the phone little while ago and they
told me she wouldn't be able to get out for
several days, perhaps weeks
That's strange" remarked Miss Day.
Mrs. Hulse was at my Office yesterday and
husband would be in court this morning.
She described him to me and he seems to
be here"
There must be a mistake somewhere
said Mr.. Murray. I'm sure Mrs. Hulse is
in the hospital
Hulse was ordered by acting Police
Justice Edward A. Ransom, DR., to give
$500 bond to pay his wife SO week for her
support. He couldn't scare up bondsman
and was sent to a cell.
Miss Day has had much experience with
unhappy wives and she knows intuitively
whether woman who has been deserted
is telling the truth or INDUCING in fiction
when contiding her woes. Sh' was much
impressed with theI blueeyed Mrs. Huse''s
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statement that she intended to have her
husband arrested was correct.
The prisoner had heard that his wife
was laid up as the result of fall and he
said he could throw no light on the exist
ence Of second Mrs Frank Hulse, whose
husband apparently had fallen into his
bad habit.
On Saturday night Miss Day and Poor
master Hewitt went to Police Headq quarters
and had a talk with the more or less puzzled
HUI go.
Have you two wives?" he was asked
.No, Stree he exclaimed. "One gets
follow into enough trouble"
Then he was asked to describe Mrs Hulse,
and what he said tailed exactly with Miss
Days remembrance of the unhappy little
terry. There was one detail, the color Of
her eyes, which set Miss Day thinking.
His wife, he said, had brown eyes, and Miss
Day recalled that the other Mrs. Hulse's
eyes were blue. Huse also volunteered
the information that he had three children.
one.
Determined to see IL Hulse was telling
the truth, Miss Day went to II Montgomery
street and found Mrs. Monastery.
p saa the %b She M Saa s sons
trouble with her husband, l believe, but he
came here this afternoon and they went
away together, taking the child with them.
! guess it's all right
Miss Day thought so, too, and was glad
that Mrs. Blue Eyes's difficulties had been
happily adjusted. She was sorry that
afflicted little Mrs. Brown Eyes in the hos
pital and her husband couldn't arrive at
some understanding and live happily ever
afterward for the sake Of the three little
Hulses.
1T is one OF the most remarkable cases
I ever came across" Miss Day said yester-
day. "The Mesdames Hulse evidently
look very much alike except for the color
Of their eyes, and their husbands ap-
parently resemble each other, judging
IRON the description given to me Of the
man didn't see. The men have the same
names, and their wives had the same COM
plant to make against them"
The Frank Hulse who was jailed lived
at 295 Third street. His wife lodged COM
plant against him several months ago.
While on her way to the poormaster's Office
to make some inquiries about the case
prior to his arrest last Thursday she slipped
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