The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-31
CHILD-WIFE
IS SEEKING
DIVORCE
Continued from First Page.l

IA years old. The marriage, she said, was
performed at her husbands home, S7
Market street, on the afternoon of July
%, 1906. by Justice of the Peace Michael
Murano, a Miss Kinney and her mother
witnessing the ceremony. After the cere-
mony witness said they spent the night at
her mothers home, In Washington street.
The following day they went to Coney
Island, spending two weeks there. On
their return they took up their residence
at 537 Market street, where Mr.. Boyle had
furnished a home.
Before the expiration of two months.
witness said. her husband began 10 drink.
and frequently abused her, often striking
her with a whiskey bottle. She said he
would swear at her.
On another occasion, she said, he push
ed her against a closet In their rooms.
She left him in December last. but after
pleadings on the part OF her mother she
returned to him. He again abused her soon
afterward, she said. and on one occasion
knocked her down and trampled on her.
This was ON April 2 last. The following
day, she said. she consulted her counsel,
Mathew J. Ready, and the proceedings
for a limited divorce were Instituted. :
On one occasion. witness said, her hus-
band attacked her mother. biting one Of
her fingers 30 severely that a physician
had to be to dress the wounds.
Mrs. Boyle also said that on one oc-
casion her husband heated a poke fcd
chased her about thel rooms and drove
her from the house.
On cFoss-examination by Cecil Mcmahon,
counsel for the defendant. Mrs. Boyle de-
MED TINT Mr.. Boyle was Intoxicated on the
day of their marriage and that the cere-
mony was arranged by her mother.
On the day she left him, witness said,
Boyle &C used her Of stealing a pocketbook
containing $50. When she denied the accu-
sation he beat her. knocked her down and
trampled on her. He was intoxicated. She
slept on the floor OF their home.
She said that Mr.. Boyle gave her 81 n
day for house keeping purposes and an oc-
casicnal dollar for spending money. In adj
dillon 10 this, witness said, she ran In
account at the ~grocer's and when Mr..
Boyle learned OF 1t he stopped giving her
money for the House.
Mrs. Boyle said that after leaving her
husband in April last she consulted DIR.
j. w. Crane. He followed her on the
stand. The physician said that he found
Mrs. Boyle's body covered with bruises.
such as might be caused by 4 beating.
He also said that the woman had received
internal injuries that might or might not
result seriously.
Mrs. Amelia Jones, to whom Mrs. Boyle
went when she left her husband, testified
to the condition of Mrs. Boyle when she
went to her house. She said Mrs. Boyle
was in a serious nervous condition and
covered with bruises.
With the examination OF this witness the
petitioner rested the case.
Boyle was called In his own defense,
and said that he member little of the
marriage or what led MP to 1t. as he had
been Intoxicated for a couple Of weeks
previous to the wedding. He recalled Wis
itinR Mrs. Rooney, mother of Miss Boyle.
and leaving the house with them. He said
they went to the Italian Church In Me-
Whorter street. but the priest refused TO
marry them ON account OF their respective
ages. He told Mrs. Rooney that she
would be sorry II she permitted her daugh-
ter to marry Boyle.
the church to his home, and sending for
Justice Murano. who performed the cere-
monv. He denied all the allegations as to
treating his wife cruelty. but admitted
calling her a thief.
On cross-examinatlon winners was shown
an affidavit made by him on April 3 in
which he said he knew nothing about the
marriage until the following morning,
when he awoke and was told that he had
married the girl.
He bad previously testified to recalling
the circumstances Of the marriage and
when asked which statement WINS correct.
witness said:
They are both correct. ] was drunk.
crazy, stnpid-I don't remember anything
about It."
You were drunk when you married the
girl?' asked the Vice-Chancellor. The
witness replied In the affirmative.
But you remember the marriage, don't
your further queried the court.
II remember the circumstances as a
dream" replied Mr.. Boyle.
While Bowie was being questioned as to
the feeling he had for his child wife he
said in answer to a question
WHY sure l liked her: / bought a
piano and placed II In the house for her
to USE"
II later developed that this piano was
one Of the bones of contention between
them. The wife claimed thai the piano
was hers. a present from her husband.
She claimed that she purchased the piano
with money given her by her husband for
that purpose. He took it from the house
and placed 1t in storage, but ii was re-
plevined by Mrs. Boyle after she left him.
At the conclusion of the case, just before
the noon adjournment, some surprise was
expressed by the Vice-ChancellOr over the
fact that Mrs. Rooney, mother of the COM
plainant, had not appeared In court. She
is a piano salesman and lives In Union
Hin. She came to this city with her
daughter, but did not appear In court.
She was not subpoenaed. although she
served the subpoenas on the other wit
nesses in the case.
1t was stated that Mrs. Clara Rooney.
not be i'm court, put as she accompanied
mother of the petitioner, was IN and could
her daughter to this city, the court re-
quested her presence at the afternoon ses-
sion.
Mrs. Rooney was paced oln the stand
and stated that Boye bit one Of her An
gers, as testified 70 by Mrs. Boyle and
denied by Boyle.
When she went into the circumstance
leading up to the separation. Mrs. Rooney
said:
His treatment to my daughter was aw-
full. He called her a pauper, a dirty little
snipe and even worse"
Witness said that she saw many marks of
violence on her daughters body. She also
said that Rooney often left her daughter
alone several days at a time, and she did
not go anywhere because she did not AVE
decent clothes. and he refused to give her
money with which TO purchase them.