Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-21
SAYS HIGH LIFE
AND WOMAN TOOK
HUSBANDS LOVE
Mrs. Robert Appleton Is Granted
Divorce on Charge of
DesertiOn.

That Robert ". Appleton, who for
merly lived in East Orange, was en-
tirely too fond of expensive dinners and
costly trips, and SO neglected his fam
lily, was the primary cause of the
action for divorce brought by his wife,
Mrs. Mary H., of Monmouth Beach, be-
fore ce-Chancellor Emery today. IN
defended by the husband, and after the
hearing the court decided that the COM
plainant had proven her case. The
actual cause of the suit was desertion
october 5, 1907.
Many Dinners and suppers.
The dinners and suppers at Delmoni-
cos, Sherry's, the Waldorf-Astoria
other such establishments proved too
great a drain for his resources, al
though he is supposed to have an IN
come of $40, 900 a year.
Appleton. according to his wife, VINO
was represented by Attorney-Generai
Edmund Wilson, went on a yachting
trip on the date last named, starting
from Monmouth Beach, where the fam
lily then lived, and leaving the yacht at
Atlantic Highlands motored to Prince
ton. The wife said that she located
him at the Princeton Inn and 'phoned
to him that if he did not come home
that night she would have to return to
her fathers home, as there was moth
ing in the house to eat and the family
credit was no longer good with the
butcher Ind baker.
%bough Matter n Joke.
Mrs. Appleton testified that her hus-
band appeared to think that 1t was a
good joke, and t~elephoned:
Don't be so footless."
When the Vice-chancellor asked her
what her husband meant by that, h
said she didn't know, but she did know
that he didn't come back hat night
and she went home to her father and is
still there.
Father ~Corroborates Story.
The story was told in it's various
phases by the. wife and corroborated
by Edward P. Horsman. her father,
and Mrs. Laura Wilcox. a sister, who
also lives in Monmouth Beach.
They all agreed that the husbands
income was the amount named, n
Mrs. Appleton added to this informa-
ton the statement hat one summer,
while at a resort in New : ork State,
she was obliged to work as a hat
trimmer to care for herself and her two
children, Florence and May. the first
named now IL years old and the other
three years her junior.
Married in 1897.
The Appletons were married April
%, 1897, In ST. Johns Church, Brooklyn,
but their happiness lasted only a few
years, as, so Mrs. Appleton testified, he
became utterly Indifferent to her. The
indifference and subsequent neglect,
Mrs, Appleton said. was due to her
husbands confessed i~nfatuation for
another woman, in whose company he
spent he greater part of his time. Be-
sides that, Mrs. Appleton testified, he
began to dis ipate. On this point she
sNore:
He drank all the time. morning. noon
and night. and by night time was
usually in a state of stupor."
Then again, instead of staying with
her lille sh was about to undergo a
serious c. ration, he went away and
her sister cared for her. At another
time, while at Narragansett, together,
he lost all his money at a gaming
table. They ere practically stranded.
After the separation there was a
family conference, the wife's father
testified, in which he elder Mr.. Apple
ton. now lead. too. part, and that the
Young mans father cried bitterly at
the confessed shortcomings of his off
spring.