The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-07-26
WANTS DIVORCE
So As Her Husband Can Marry
Another Woman.
And Give His Two Illcgitimate
Daughters His Name and Thus
Save Them From Shame.

Daughters His Name and Thus
Save Them From Shame.
with the formal application made
Thursday in the New York Supreme
Court for final judgement Of di-
vorce, following an interlocutory de-
cree signed by Justice Crane on April
9th last, is made public astartling
story of martial infdelity and double
life In which Il prominent resident
of Borough Park, Brooklyn, is the
defendant, and a social scandal
which has agitated Boston at times
for several years Is revived.
The man who is charged bv his
wife with having led double life is
Joseph r. Cunningham, said to be
drawing a salary of 1000 as man
agcr OF an electrical company with
Offices at Ill Broadway, Manhattan
Ills wife, Mrs. ISABEL S. Cunningham,
of 66 Clifton place charges that he
has been living with one Lizzie Demp-
sey at 5S17 Fifteenth avenue, BOr-
ough Park, and by whom he has had
two children.
in the case which was taken before
Justice Crane on March 22d, much
Of the romance Of the Cunninghams
and the sorrow Of the wife at her
discovery Of her husbands transfer
Of his affections to the Dempsey
woman is revealed. Letters Of Mrs
Cunningham aIs0 tell OF her wish 10
endure elf-abnegation in the nope
that. if she secured the divorce, her
husband would marry the mother of
his children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cunningham were
married at the Hotel Oxford on Dec
embcr Ia, 1894. At that time Gun
ningham, it is said, had great politi-
cal aspirations in Bosom. being
friend Of former Mayor Josiah Quincy
and close associate with other
prominent Democratic politicians Of
massachusetts,. He was at one time
Il member OF the Democratic National
committee, ii is said.
Mrs. Cunningham was also Of
prominent family in Boston, highly
cultured and educated, and Of indie
pendent means. The marriage of the
parties was Il social event A few
years later, it is said and the charge
is made in the papers in the action
brought by Mrs. Cunningham, the
husband became enamored with one
Lizzie Dempsey. daughter of a promi-
ncnt society man in Boston, and de-
serted his wife, after having disSipat-
ed as much Of her fortune as he
could get hold upon the woman who
is mentioned as the correspondent
in the action. 1t is that Mrs. Gun
after tracking her husband
and the Dempsey woman to New
a al.
the woman in tho
Grand Central station
The discovery that Cunningham
and Miss Dempsey were living to-
gcthcr in Borough Park was made,
the plaintiff says in her testimony, in
June, 1906, and ii is claimed that the
$4,000 Queen Anne cottage, 5Sl7
Fifteenth avenue. which stands in
Miss Dcmpscy's name was a present
to her from Cunningham. Testi-
mony was given at the trial that Miss
Dempsey is known there as Mrs.
Cunningham, and that few in the
Borough Park cotcrie Of friends Of
Cunningham knew otherwise.
Mrs. Cunningham says, in letter,
because Of the two little girls, daugh"
ters Of the Dempsey woman and Cum
ningham, she is averse to any expo
mc Of the marital infelicitics that
have came between herself and huS-
band. She writes:
"The little girls" she says. "are
six and four and a half years, respec
lively Because OF them | was able
to bring myself to a point whore
was willing to divorce him. 1t was
through him that | lost my horses,
jcwclry and other property every
thing dear to me. ! hOrscwhippcd
her seven years ago when he wanted
to come Back to me-"