Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-06
NEWLY RICH WIFE
SEEKS DIVORCE

NEW YORK, June 6.-Adeline Gran
dali. who learned that her husband.
Frederick Fl. Crandell. had fallen heir
to about 81. 900. 600 under the will Of his
uncle, the late Edwin Hawley, while
she was serving a twenty-day term on
Blackwells Island. yesterday filed a suit
for separation from him in the Supreme
Court. She wants alimony commensn-
rate with her husbands present wealth.
THE court action Is the last chapter
In a romance that brought upon Gran
dell the lifelong enmity OF his wealthy
uncle and forced the young man out
into a hard world to earn his living,
According to his w.fe's assertions. their
married life has not been a happy one.
Early In 1898 Crandell. then a youth.
brought his uncle's wrath upon him by
his persistent attentions to Miss Ade-
line MeManus. a telephone operator.
When he married this girl his uncle
disowned him.
FOurteen-year Poverty Struggle.
For fourteen years Crandell struggled
along, his family growing larger and
then he suddenly became rich through
the death of his uncle last February.
The lawyers of the Hawley estate found
Crandell working as a bookkeeper for a
firm of stevedores. Investigation showed
that his wife was serving a sentence in
the w%orkbouse for disorderly conduct.
Their children were In some charitable
institution.
Mrs. Crandell alleges In her complaint
that within n xsaar affair har ,,,Q mi 90
her husband stopped work and told her
that he did not intend to do any more
work. AS a result of this decision, she
says, they were dispossessed.
Crandell went back to work, but In
1901 went on strike again. the compliant
declares. In 1904 he again refused to
work. Mrs. Crandell asserts that as a
result of his conduct the family was
hard pressed by poverty and she a to
get work to support herself and the chill
dren. When she earned money she
charges that her husband took It away
and gambled with 1t. She says the fam
lily was dispossessed from several places
in the past six years.
Spent Money Gambling.
Mrs. Crandell cites several instances
when her husband Is said to have taken
away her earnings to spend over the
gaming table. On one occasion. she says,
she found him with two young women
and when she demonstrated with him for
his conduct he struck her to the ground.
She explains that her workbouse sentence
was due to the fact that her husband
got some neighbors TO complain against
her.
When Mrs, crandell came out of the
workhouse her husband did not communi-
cate with her. Although he had sudden
ly become heir to a considerable sum-
his wife says instead of meeting her. he
did yillify her to other people" Final
ly they were reunited only 10 be separated
again on May 10. 1912. by trick. device
and duress,' his wife declares. her hts-
band got her TO go some place with
him and then told her that he had ''only
requested her to I've with him so that
she could not make any complaint fot
his previous actions"
On April IA. she AYERS. he secretly
took three of their children from a
charitable institution and hid them
away from her. When she went IL
Chatham, n. Y, to find the children
she declares that her husband abused
her at the station and insulted her II
the hotel. On May 70 he is charged
with having kicked her. on May 1
with having ill-treated her, on MAY Il
with having secreted her cothes. on Ma,
81 with having kicked her and tore of
her clothes.
She ends her complaint with the charg,