The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-08
THIS ACTRESS
DOESN'T LIKE
MARRIED LIFE
Mrs. StackpOle, Former New
arker, Charges Husband
With Inhuman Conduct.

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-Charging her
husband with cruelty and inhuman
treatment, inflicted in a variety of
ways, and commencing almost at the
date of the nuptial service, Mrs. Helen
Cecilia Stackpole, formerly Helen
Cecilia Keiser, through her attorney.
Eugene V. Brewster, has commenced
a suit for separation in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn. Mrs. Stackpole for
merly lived in Newark, n. j., where
she is well known. She was an actress,
appearing under the stage name of
Vera King in vaudeville. and who is
still a pretty young woman, attributes
her difficulties with her husband.
Thomas Francis Stackpole, who is a
buyer for a large retail store in Man
haitian, to his uncomfortable jeal-
ousy."
According to the complaint, Mr.
Stackpole's Cruelty took expression
in diverse ways, and among them he
not only threatened her life, but al
most continuously made threats thar
he would end his own. Finally, on
August 2 of this year. Mrs. ~Staekpole
charges that he came home intoXi-
Gated and after saying he would 90
her bodily harm entered his room ana
closed the door. After a few moments
had elapsed. Mrs. S~tackpole states, she
heard several pistol shots fired in quick
succession, and entering the room,
found that her husband had emptied
several chambers of his revolver into
the pillows of his bed.
With difficulty he was Quilted. the
complaint sets forth, and the wife for
some moments feared thar she would
have to summon the police, but stack
pole finally left the house and did not
again appear until five o'clock the fol-
lowing morning. Nor is this the only
instance of such behavior whicl Mrs
etackpole charges against her husoand,
and she further alleges that in May OF
this wear, While she was i'll in bed with
an attack of typhoid fever, her nus
band, by his quarrelsome remarks TO
her, made matters so unpleasant IN the
household that her nurse left the mousse
Mrs. ~Seackpole further declares that
Ipon many occasions her husband
made %slanderous in%sinuations regarding
her conduct, and accused her e being
upon too intimate terms with former
friends, to the end that she became the
victim of considerable gossip among
her neighbors. Al one time Stackpole
Is also charged with having held a
revolver at her temple. and after say
ing that he could kill her At amy time
he chose, withdrawing the pistol and
r%emarking that he would defer killing
her for a time. Stackpole is said TO
have been under the influence If liquor
at the time of this incident.
After the alleged shooting on August
?, Mrs. stackpole states, she was afraid
to- live longer with her husband and
since then has resided with her mother
at 797 Prospect place. Among addi-
tional matters which the lengthy COM
plant charges is that out of a salary
Of 1925 a week Stackpole used q major
part for gifts to his relatives, and that
he failed properly to support his wlie.
The couple were married Aorll Is,
1905. at the Church of Our Lady OF
Counsel, and they lived until re-
at 1898 Pacific street. Stackpole
was served with a summons In the suit
this morning at his place Of business,
and is called to answer his wife's COM
plant in the Supreme Court next We'd
nesday. Mrs. S%tackpole asks for 500
a week for her support pending the
outcome of the suit and for counsel
fees amounting to $500 to defray the
expenses of the trial.