Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
DOMESTIC STORM
ENGULFS BOAT OF
SEA COAST GUARD
Lifesaver and Wife Hard and
Fast on the Bar of Family
DiscOrd.

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nected with the life-saving station at
Long Branch, he was apparently un-
able to save himself from domestic
shipwreck, as his wife. Mrs. Fannie r.
Chasey appeared before Vice-Chancel-
lor Stevens in chancery chambers to-
day and recited a long story of domes-
tic woe. IN which she charged deser-
ton on his part, and he answered with
an accusation Of inndelity in the cross
bill, naming one Sullivan as the cause
Of much of the trouble.
Wife Lives with Mother.
Mrs. Chasey now lives with her
mother, who runs a clearinghouse In
Asbury. Park, and swore that he not
only abused her, but that she Is seek
ing divorce because he deserted her
April 2, 1898, after a married life of
eight years. :
The couple was joined in wedlock in
Asbury Park, and 1t was at Long
Branch that he left her and refused to
support her. according to her story.
There was a lot of trouble when the
furniture was being removed from
their home, and Mrs. Chasey went into
details with such rapidity tina she soon
became the despair of the court and
the stenographer.
Threw Bedding Out of window.
HE was cursing a little and singing
a little then" Mrs. Chasey testified.
After q while he tool up a lamp filed
with kerosene, cursed me and spilled
the oil on my dress. Then he said, T
cut my hand and l am going to have
you arrested / did not strike him
back, but as he went downtown 10
make his threat Of arrest good l threw
some of the bedding out of the window.
Once he threatened to twist my arms
out of joint and said he would break
my neck. He said ne was lone with
me and did not intend to live with me
any longer
WAS there any cause for all this?"
demanded Thomas p. McKenna. counsel
/ for the life-saver.
"Ah, WE'LL" sighed the witness. eve
never lived happily together"
WAS there IN accusation of infidel-
ity during these quarrels?" Mr.. Me-
kenna wanted to know nex
mo, sir. there was not" snapped the
witness.
Feared Husband, She Says.
But she added. when he vas sup
posed to be walking the beach he was
home lots of times and / was afraid of
him.
Didn't you tell him you did not want
to live with him?'
mo, sir
Louis Kirby, a relative by marriage;
Wellington Harvey, Mrs. Margaret Lip
pincott, all residents of Long Branch
formerly neiGhbors of the Chaseys, told
what little they knew of their quarrels
Mrs. Annie Bovine, a sister of Mrs.
! Chasey, who lived with her just before
| the troubles eliminated, swore that on
| the day of the desertion Chhsey was
singing war songs and swore a lot.
81 know he struck my sister three
times, saying he was through with her
He struck her twice on the shoulder
and once on the nose. | cannot thini
OF all the bad things he said as 1 did
not write them down. I know, as my
sister said, when he was supposed tic
be walking the beach he would come
to the house, and his actions were so
strange we were in fear of him."
Works for Uncle Sam.
When Chasey was called he said that
for twenty-seven years he had served
continuously for Uncle Sam as a life
saver, and agreed with the testimony
of his wife that they never lived hap
PLY together since their marriage.
He admitted the desertion, but in
sisted it was justified because OF his
wife's unseemly behavior.
"Why," he testified. when | was
moving the furniture out she was sit
ting on one Of the rugs playing my
ACCORDION and singing. Just Tell Them
That You Saw He I smashed the
accordion and took away the rug"
On his part he denied mos strcnu-
ollsly that he had ever been ia'thless
to his marriage vows. and then Wesley
Rodgers, of Elberon. who ssilad boats
for a living on Pleasure Bay a dozen
years ago, swore that Mrs. Chasey and
o man of the name of Sullivan were
once his customers.
Tells of Cruise.
"What did you see them do?" asked
the ~life-saver's counsel.
"Well,'' replied this witless, MIR.
Chasey was not there. and they first
had dinner together in Browns He
tel. Then they went sailing out and
had drinks ON the boat. After that
they went to a hotel at Goose Neck
and l saw them drinking together
there"
Recognizes oma
Rodgers, under sharp cross-examina-
ton by Samuel Patterson, counsel for
Mrs. Chasey, insisted that in spite OF
the fact that he had not seen the wom-