Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-26
PERRIN, 50,
SUES LONESOME {
WIFE OF THIRTY
Says She Deserted Him Because
Chatham Was Not Lively
Enough.
SAID TO HAVE TOLD HER
HE WAS WORTH $4,000
Delves in Philosophy, but Fails
to Make Spouse Stay
Home.

! Professor Raymond St. James Per-
/ rim, who raises ducks and chickens in
Chatham, and is the author Of THE
Philosophy of Religion" and other
works along philosophical and relig-
ious lines, figured as complainant In
/ an action for divorce before Vice
+ Chancellor Howell in Chaneery Cham
bers today. His wife before her mar
riage was Miss Ada Zel Smith. They
were married on February IS, 1907. On
/ April II following, he says. she de-
serted him chiefly because she found
Chatham a lonely place
He is about 60 years old and she
about half that age she is making
her home with her father in East Or
ange and only once since sne went
away visited Chatham in his company
When the case first came up on all
mony proceedings it was set forth that
the professor once admitted TO his
wife that he was worth 100000 in real
estate and also that he had just re-
fused an offer to hold down chair OF
philosophy in a Western college
on the other hand it was insisted
that his sole worldly goods are
valued at $4O0, consisting largely of
books and household effects 1t was
also stated that he supported himself
/ by raising ducks and chickens and was
unable to do anything else because OF
| Illness
After the professor had stated in an
swer to questions by his counsel, Ches-
ter w. Fairlie, that he was married in
hot IL md
wife first lived there, he said he wasn't
at home when his wife went away.
His general manager and cook,
tom" Clark, he said, was there and
when the deserted husband asked him
! where she was he said she had gone
TO her fathers house, then in New
York, and said she wasn't coming back
What did she say about being salts
fled with her surroundings" asked Mr..
Fairlie.
"She appeared TO be very much de-
pressed when We got to Chatham and
complained of the loneliness of the
country"
| How did you treat herr
81 was always kind and chlvalrous"
on the cross examination by Otto A.
Stiefel, counsel for Mrs. Perrin. who
denies the desertion the professor said
that while the house in Chatham was
somewhat of cottage and about 100
years old, everybody who came
seemed to like II except my wife"
II want it clearly understood" he
! added. that that home was accepted
by her and admired by her.
Mr. Stiefel tried to show that Chat
ham got so on Mrs. Perrin's nerves that
it seriously affected her health, and in
sisted on calling the Perrin house
bungaloo. which the professor appar-
entity resented. He said that her father
had frequently advised her to go back
! to him. but she refused
/ Tom" Clark, the professors all
around man, told that he distinctly re-
membered the day of Mrs Perrins de-
/ parture.
She went to the front door with
me- he said. She bid me 'goodby,
saying, Tn never coming back.
don't like the place; 1t is too lone
some. ="
When Mrs. Perrin was called to the
witness-stand she said that she didn't
think she had any such conversation
with Mr.. Clark"
"At that time did you have any in
tention of staying away?' asked her
lawyer.
Mrs Perrin answered somewhat
pertly:
mo, sir. hadn't any idea of stay
ing away. 1 thought I'd see my family
and talk things over. He knew | was
going down and said he would come
later"
| In answer to another question the
witness said that she had told the pro-
fessor positively that she would not
marry him, If she was compelled to live
in Chatham.
And then he said we would i've in
New York" she added But we
didn't"
Mrs. Perrin tried to show that it was
the professor who had done the desert
ing, and that the condition of her
health was such that she could not live
In Chatham.
"On one occasion" Mrs Perrin went
on with her story, "Mr Perrin told me
he desired no reconciliation, said that
he wished he had married my mother
instead of me, and that | should stay
with my father
Her father who is Cornelius Smith,
for many years engaged in the hay and
feed business, is on most friendly terms
with his elderly son-in-law, and they
exchanged courtesies frequently In the
court room and out of 1t.