Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-16
HUBBY T|CKLED
HER FEET, WIFE
SAYS IN COURT
Nailed Up Door, Too, Says Mrs.
Scfmitz in Marital
Sqnabble.

Suppose you had husband whose
favorite way of showing his affection
was by tickling the soles of your feet
until you were on the verge of hys-
terics, and suppose he locked you out
of your house, compromised by giving
you back-door key and then pro-
ceeded to nail up the pack door with
half keg of ten pennies" and sup
pose he wouldn't allow your "1ady
friend" to take up her residence with
you and under no consideration would
consent to the gentleman friend" of
the aforesaid lady friend" making a
semi-occasional social call-wouldn't
you be peeved just a trihe?
Well, these things, and a few more
happened to Mrs. Eunice Schmitz, who
with her iege lord, Cleveland A.
Schnitz, appeared before Judge Oehring
in the Fifth Precinct Police Court to-
day, and gave the family skeleton a
rattling. from which 1t has not yet re-
covered.
OF course, Cleveland was there with a
come back every time Eunice scored
particularly telling point, but after
the foot-tickling episode had been
brought to the attention of the court,
Cleveland was content to retain calm
and dignified silence
Husband Gets Chance.
The judge gave the male end of the
family Schmitz the first opportunity to
get the weight of domestic troubles off
his chest.
Cleveland went back three years. At
THAI time, he declared. his wife hied her
from their humble home, at 615 North
seventh street. with the Jersey beach
as her destination. The daily letters
which came from his summering wife.
said Cleveland, contained glowing SEN
tenceS explaining what perfectly
lovely time she Was having, She spared
him the details. however. so when the
hrst weekend came he boarded a train
ana dropped in on his wife,
According 20 sae husband he received
a freezing reception, Wifie, he said,
was truly having perfectly lovely
time, That he admitted without Ques-
ton. hut q number OF what Schmitz
declared were young Johnnies'
seemed decidedly in his wife's favor,
and moonlight promenades on the
boardwalk were taken with hubby
'piping" the events of from the dim
distance, This program, he added, was
rendered each succeeding summer until
the present one, when he said, Mrs.
Sohmtts came home from the shore i'll
company with an attractive and viva
cious young woman, whom she told her
husband was going to live with them
In the future, and, moreover, whose
gentleman friend" was going to be a
frequent visitor.
Schmitz said he put the veto sign on
this proposition forthwith, and there
started the difficulties which brought
the pair into the police court today.
Wife Tells Story.
Mrs. Schmitz was at this point of
her husbands recital given her chance.
One night, she said, she found the
front and back doors of her house
locked and the keys in her husbands
pockets. When she asked her husband
for one of the keys he assented readily
enough, handed her the key to the
back door, and bade her come and go
as she pleased. The first time she tried
her key, however, Mrs. Schmitz said
she couldn't get the door open, though
she tried and tried. A close exami-
heads of many large nails, deeply i'm
III liic uOOl-lI dilu
entrance or exit impossible
Last Sunday. she said, her husband
was in good humor. In such good hui
NOR. indeed, that the foot-tickling
scene herein and above hinted at took
place. She admitted that she pinched
her husband to make him stop and said
that he retallated by slapping her face.
In a manner similar to this she said,
things had gone on until today, when
they decided to throw themselves on
the tender mercies of a police magis-
trate.
Judge Oehring did not presume to
tell Mr.. and Mrs. Schmtz what to do.
lie suggested that session in Chancery
Court might clear up matters for them
and advised them as a temporary ex-
pedient o.try and go through the mo-
tions of living together in peace and
happiness.
Come on home. Eunice." said the
husband when the judge had finished
NO. indeed" exclaimed Eunice. and
they left the court by separate paths