New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08
IIE[LS OF HUSBANDS JAG
urs ]. W. Sterry Says Spree
| asted for Three Months.
sae SUES FOR SEPARATION
counlaint Also States That I'm
porting Druggist Threatened
TO Kill Her.

-, allowing for banking ones Tag"
,.s,;rne so that Il will require only
-. -skindling in the morning to bring II
S'1 49, normal power. II must take a great
..,,tv OF liquor 10 keep that same Jag
se,rg for three months without dying.
-. 49,, Elizabeth s. Sterry, who is suing
brsbapd James ". Sterry, for a sep
"a - SAYS he was not sober one full day
-. r,lv last Sterrys was a trans
..,-..,,sntal Tag the wife says. for he
~ I, with him on August 1 10 California.
=, August s. when he returned to
81 Work. it was as carefully preserved
- ever. g.. -
r.s Mrs Sterry's authority that her
rd was intoxicated throughout the
which his wife said cost him 5000.
~ ~. now stcrry is in sanatorium in
Yonkers -.
who was shot and killed on May 49,
~ w his second son. George W. sterry,
rso then killed himself 10 was said
-. time that the son was wrought up
=. act BY the announcement that his
80, widower. was 20 marry Miss
30 Briggs Blake. who was forty
years his junior.
H. hsr affidavit in the separation action
A. sterry saws her husbands brother
-, uss addicted TO drink. and that he
&c suffering from a At OF drunkenness
,,sr he killed his father and committed
..,.as Bearing this double tragedy in
,r,,s ssys Mrs Sterry. she feared her hus-
- would carry out hts threats 70 kill
her
stsrry is vice-president and a director OF
weaver & sterry. importing druggists, at
=, . Pine street OF which first his father
vas q member. and is director Of the
bloomfield Mills Company. His wife SAYS
l,s income IS S20no0 year. but he says Il
Z, orlv c.I1 and that he Is s. no IN debt
Roth had been married before. and Mrs.
s,ar-v has a son sixteen wears old.
s,arry denies his wife's charges and adds
ma she knew him eight years before the
marriage and that she had ample oppor-
unity 20 know he was not a drinking man
7, was not until June q. saws the wife
that her husband began 10 show signs Of
.v,sssve drinking Mrs Sterv az that
tine refused 70 60 out with him. as he in
sisted. and Ansllv persuaded him 70 retire
Fut II was not for the night. for he got
IN again snd Went out Of the house
stsry returned at o'clock in the morn
irE according 70 her story. accompanied
hv three bottles q V'hiskev. which he took
u bed with him He had no appetite FOR
hrssnsst the 7evt morning, but he fin
kasS the vniskev he brought home With
hin and another bottle that was IN the
house The wife had to call s'doctor, Who
gave her husband a bromide
Mrs sterry also said that on July 4 last
serry took her son with him. He cele-
lrstsd the day with great enthusiasm. she
alleged and wanted 10 fight nearly every
hodv he met That also was the day on
which Mrs Sterry says her husband
threatened 70 kill her
Later Sterry caused his wife TO be fol-
loved hy detectives There were seven
assigned TO this work she says. and one
cav size had one Of them arrested for fol-
loving her Mrs Sterry declared her nus
s1d. who IS one Of the executors Of his
sthers large estate, had squandered his
money. She has only 5000 and some Jew
aE. and In making her charge Of cruelty
ard non-support asked for 800 week all
non. Justice Pendleton yesterday grant
e her SO a week.