Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-12
Young Nurse-wife Of
Cook Calls Scandal
''Outra6e.''
WANTS NOTHING TO DO
WITH PHYSICIANS WIFE
Even if Relations With Her Are
Proven, Will Not Seek
Divorce.

Incoherentiy but emphaticaiiy de-
Tending her husband, Mrs. David NJ
Cook, the young nurse who married
Mr.. Cook three months after his wife
had died. branded as an outrage the
suit which will be commenced this week
by DIR. Henry w. Thayer against her
husband for the alienation of Mrs.
Thayer's affections.
my husband is the most upright
man in the world" she exclaimed. in
dignantly, Strengthening up in her
porch chair on the veranda of her
Maplewood home and facing an Eve
ming STAR reporter with an angry
flush on her face.
Let me tell you right off," she
snapped, that I have implicit conf
dence in my husband. Those vile
stories being circulated about US
why"
She broke off abruptly
What can you say about those
stories?" she was asked.
Our friends have advised us not to
pay any attention to Them was her
halting answer.
"As a matter of fact Mrs. Cook, you
DSH6Ne, uDH you, lIldl 1t Is u ue yOur
husband has been rather intimate with
Mrs. Thayer?"
"It must have been before I knew
him." she returned evasively. 81 don't
know Mrs. Thayer," she added. angrily,
"and l don't want to- If she came
UP the steps now I wouldn't know her."
81 deny that my husband has been
attentive to Mrs. Thayer since I have
been married to him. II 1t Is proven
to be true. however. In the alienation
action which is being instituted against
my husband l will not seek a divorce.
These things about my husband VIII
never be proven, because he is upright
in all his works and dealings"
you refuse to believe any stories
whatever about your husband then?
For instance. the one about his friend
ly relations to Miss Esther Rosenthal.
stenographer in the bank?'
'I don't believe them"
HAS your husband ever conf1ded to
you whether or not he loved Mrs.
Thayer?" she was asked
Her cheeks burning, she stammered.
"Such thing could not be, I ID
not think that anything will be left
undone in this affair to vindicate ry
husband" she exclaimed. I'VE are
very patient and know that It will all
come out right with us"
To File Suit This Week.
| Jacob L. Newman, attorney for DR..
Thayer, stated that the papers in the
alienation suit will be served some time
this week.
DR.. Frank G. Gregory dental sur
oaou oF 2 WAIST parlr Straaf a close
personal and business friend of David
NJ. Cook, said that to the best of his
knowledge the negotiations which were
attempted between Mrs. Thayer and
Frank Bell, Crawford lawyer, were
made in behalf of David M. Cook and
not William Cook.
The negotiations involved the pur-
chase of the property which William
Cook sold DR.. and Mrs, Thayer u
Bloomfield.
While at first he denied that any
communication from David M. Cook to
Mrs Thayer passed through his hands,
DR.. Gregory finally admitted that he
did receive one letter for Mr.. Cook,
which he thought was from Mrs.
Thayer.
Were you led TO expect letter for
Mr. Cook?" he was asked.
Yes, a few days before this letter
came he told me I might receive letter
for him in the course of the next few
days"
! When asked If he knew the relations
between Mr.. Cook and Mrs Thayer, he
said:
Eyes. knew; but as said, I am un-
der instructions not to say anything.