Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-12
BABY'S BIRTH
BROUGHT D|SCORD
To CRAG|N HOME
One-time Indoor Tennis Cham
pion So Testifies in His
Suit for Divorce.

"She said many things that cut me
deep. She said she didn't care for me
any more, and that as soon as she got
the necessary money she would see a
lawyer"
William b. Cragin, jr., of Plainfield,
one-time national indoor tennis cham
pion, testified along this line before
Vice Chancellor Emery in chaneery
chambers today. at the hearing of his
divorce action against his wife, Mrs.
Maysie Bruce Cragin, who is making
her home in Trenton Junction.
He claimed that she deserted him,
while she is fighting him IN the ground
that his treatment toward her was so
cruel hat she was compelled to make
her home elsewhere. At one time she
found refuge with her uncle, James
Donald, a wealthy banker, who lives
at q West Seventy-fourth street, Man
haitian.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cragin were married
November 20, 1901, i'll New York by the
Rev. DIR. Halsey, OF the Rutgers Pres
byterian Church, and lived together
until October u, 1905. The couple have
one child, Marguerite, born February
%, 1907.
After Mr.. Cragin, in answer to ques-
tons by william r. Day, his counsel,
had told about two trips to Europe
they had made before they became
estranged he swore that there had been
no discord until the birth of the baby.
After the baby was born" he said,
"she did not seem nearly as eontented
as before. After the baby was born
and we moved to Plainfield she said
she did not love me any more, and If
she had a private purse of her W she
would not live with me-"
Several letters were introduced in
evidence to show that Mrs. Cragin had
port of herself and the baby, and in
which she wanted to know what be-
came of his comfortable salary as a
sales agent for a New York house.
His reply would be tina their house
hold accounting showed where the
money went, and that her frequent
sickness had swallowed much of it.
When Cragin was cross-examined by
Samuel Kalisch, who, together with
Malcolm Buchanan, of Trenton, repre-
scented the wife, he said hat he paid
Mrs. Cragin's bills, and sometimes he
gave her money, but no stipulated
amount. He admitted that he received
1870 from his wife's rich uncle to make
good on the doctors bills, and admitted
that he never paid it back.
Sometimes when games of tennis
would take you away from home, how
long would it be before you got back"
asked Mr.. Kalisch.
THAT would depend upon where 1
played" vas the answer.
He Was Away Ten Days.
Pinned down, the witness said hat
in 1908 he played for prizes at Lake
George, and was away for ten days.
He explained that it was the same
time she was away"
Have you ever contributed one dol
lar to the support Of the baby since
October, 190S?' Mr.. Kalisch wanted to
know.
of course, ! have" the witness an
swered; Il sent checks to my wife"
He afterward admitted that since
they parted he had sent her nothing,
and went on to say that before hat
time he always gave her enough
money, but did not know what she did
with it.
In her answer Mrs. Cragin declares
that one of the causes of the trouble
was his failure to provide for her, and
she also alleges hat on June 3, 1908,
while he vas under the influence OF
liquor, he struck her, knocking her
against the wall. Besides that, he often
told her to go back to her parents, she
says. and once made arrangements to
sublet. the Plainfleld house, telling her
to get out.