Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-21
SWEARs
WIFE DRANK AND
DID TENDERLO|N
Says She Left in Taxicab With
Another Man When He
Refused 500.
special to the Newark STAR

Especial 10 the Newark STAR
MAYS LANDING, April 21.-When
court opened this morning Mrs. Marion
Reiners, who is prosecuting her hus-
band, Frederick Reiners, together with
his friend, George Montgomery, and
Thomas Shrill, a constable. for con-
spiracy to involve her in acts on which
a divorce suit could be based, failed to
appear and Prosecutor C. L. Golden
berg rested the states case on the evil
dence adduced yesterday. Her absence
was not explained and occasioned con-
siderable comment, as it was expected
she would appear to take the stand
herself this morning.
Reiners himself was the first witness
TO take the stand for the defense, his
story being substantially as follows:
I'VE were married November 20, 1903,
when 1 was q and she was 26. We had
been s~weethearts since l vas IS.
ION my wife's thirty-sixth birthday
/ arranged for a dinner at the Cdre
Boulevard, New York. We We're nearly
through when she asked me for 500
for d present, but / told her I { couldn't
afford hat much as ! had been buying
her sealskins and jewelry and my bank
account was low.
said shed Find Another Man.
"She became angry and said if 1
could not give 1t to her she would find
someone who would, and shortly after
left me TO go, she said. to the ladies'
room. 1 waited for her nearly an hour,
and when she did not return found she
had left in a taxicab with another man.
After hunting her in vain l went
home and found her there, at li39
Park place. Brooklyn. We made up the
quarrel and l promised to get off from
work and take her to Atlantic City,
l did the next Saturday. We
registered at the St. Charles, n
everything went smoothly until Sun
day, when she left me and went out to
a cafe. AS she liked the resort L made
arrangements for an apartment and
promised her to stay over another day.
says She Cursed Him for Hat.
ION Monday she took me to O mil
linery shop on the boardwalk and asked
me to buy her a SIS hat. told her l
couldn't afford it, and she became very
and cursed me.
ION Monday 1 met George Montgom-
cry, a friend, who asked us to dinner.
We were all ready to go to the MARI
borough Blenheim, where he was stay
ing, when she wanted q cocktail, and l
refused to give ii to her. She got mac
then and went out, saying she would
get it herself, and 1 had to go to Mont
gomery alone, expecting her to follow.
I'VE searched for her that night un-
til 8 O'Clock when she came and did
not tell me where she had been. l
had to go back to New York the next
day, and she promised to follow on
the next train. On Wednesday she did
not come, and l received word that
she had been expelled from the hotel
and was going from cafe to cafe much
the worse for drinking.
Il took the next train down, and
with Montgomery and AL Adams,
owner of Adans's baths, hunted her
all night through all the cafes, but
did not find her. The next day Mont
found her in a very bad con-
dition and took her TO a sanitarium-
When l went to see her she was In
such a condition that the physician
denied me entrance to her room. When
she did see me she begged my forgive-
ness, but did not tell me where she
had been.
Police sIeuth Notifies Him.
THE first intimatIon / had on what
she had been doing was when a detec-
tive from the police department came
and told me my wife had been through
the Tenderloin district several nights.
and that her jewelry had attracted at
and she was liable to be robbed.
Then found where she had been,
1 decided to apply for a divorce.
but up to that time I had never
thought Of such a thing, in spite Of
her drinking habits. It was only after
I found she had been frequenting
places of ili-fame that I contemplated
separation from her"