Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-14
WIFE TROUNCES PAIR
With Strap She larrups Hubby
and Affinity.
ENCOURAGED By CROWD
Event Was Only Observance of Her
Wedding Anniversary.
OTHER WOMAN ONCE FRIEND
She Discovers That His Business
Trips" Were Blinds-Run
Down in Street.
OTHER WOMAN ONCE FRIEND

NEW YORK.-August 14.-Mrs Edward
c. Gee. wife OF Edward c. Gee a wealthy
electrical Contractor of No Wall street.
visited newspaper offices last night and
said she had rounded out twenty-siS
years of married life at $40 yesterday
afternoon at Hoyt and Livingston streets.
Brooklyn. by soundly trouncing her hus-
band and his affinity with heavy leather
belt
For eighteen months Mrs. Gee said her
husband had neglected her for Jersey
City woman. Not only did he remain
away from home nights. but he refused
TO take her out I'm their automobile and
cut her allowance to Sl4 week. Mr.
Gees income. she said. was $4,000 a
year.
My husband began TO show attention
to this woman about year and a half
ago. she continued. and she has been
his affinity ever since. The woman aud
j had been close personal friends ana
did not suspect anything was wrong
until she stopped coming to see me.
Last April she left her husband and
about the same time my husband said
that his work would require much OF
his time and suggested that he live
at some hotel i'm New York while l re-
manned at our home at No. 700 Harri-
son avenue. Jersey City. i refused to
agree to this and from that time ON my
An Anonymous Letter.
I'm May. although I was sick. Mr..
Gee stayed away from the house nearly
all the time Finally received an
anonymous letter saying that my husband
was running around with a former IN
innate friend of mine. 1 started an In
vestigation and was amazed TO discover
II was my friend.
II had no money TO employ pri-
min x-<ad
Harry Kruger. seventeen-year-old boy,
who lived at No. S3L2 Clinton avenue,
to trail my husband and the woman.
He told me that my husband frequently
met her i'm the neighborhood OF Hoyt
and Schermerhorn streets. in Brooklyn
Days that Mr. Gee said he would De
out of town on business the Kruger lad
trailed the couple to Brooklyn, where thev
shopping together. On Wednesday my
husband said he was going TO Glen Cove:
l.. |. Instead he went to Brooklyn ana
met this woman. He did not return nome
until nearly o'clock this morning
Her Birthday, Too.
To-day was my birthday and before
he went to New York 1 asked him IL he
had present for me. He treated me
coldly and said he was going to Albany
and would not be back until Friday. This
afternoon I put on some old clothes,
donned heavy veil and went over 10
brooklyn with Harry Kruger and Miss
Loretta Kruger, his sister. Al o:3o 1 saw
my husband crossing the car tracks at
Hoyt and Livingston streets arm-in-arm
with his affinity.
Il had brought a heavy belt with me
which belonged to Mr.. Gee, and when
those two saw me with that belt In my
hand they turned as white as paper. The
woman drew herself up haughtily and In
returned pinched her first on one cheek
ho nf ha$ II a
over her shoulders good and hard until
she ran away. Then l turned my atten-
ton to Mr. Gee and gave him a taste or
the strap.
"A big crowd collected and a mounted
policeman said that if didn't stop beat
ing my husband he would arrest me. I
dared him to lock me up. Then Mr.. Gee
had the audacity to say that he intended
to leave me. anyway, and wanted to nix
things up quietly. l told him that the
only fixing up would mean that the whole
world would know that he had treated
the woman he had been married to for
twenty-six years like dog.
Mr. Gee is forty-six years old and l
am forty-five, and l am not ashamed OF
my age.