Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-20
ON Part of
Friends for Recon
citation Fail.
HUSBAND in MAINE AS
SHE PREPARES TO DEPART
'MontcIair Woman Deserving
! Kin Because She Finds Life
Without Love" UnbearabIe.

All efforts on the part of friends
10 effect a reconciliation between Mr..
and Mrs. William Elder Marcus have
failed. Their beautiful home at %
4 Lloyd road. Montclair, has been
stripped of its furnishings. and Mrs.
Marcus is today preparing to leave
for Europe, where she will visit her
father, George B. Cocksey. 1t was
because she found "life without love
unbearable" that Mrs. Marcus left her
husband.
There were rumors among the
neighbors in Montclair yesterday.
when Mr.. Marcus was seen there.
that their family differences had been
adjusted and hat the wife and
mother had changed her mind and
would return to her husband n W
small daughters, Linda and Jane.
A call at the jewelry establishment
of Mr.. Marcus In Fifth avenue, New
York, ELECTED the information. how
ever, that Mr.. Marcus. after a trip
to Maine and then in the West, had
returned from Cleveland Sunday night
n had visited his former home
Monday for the sole purpose Of ar
ranging the packing of his personal
belongings. He left today for an
other trip to Maine, where he will re-
main until his wife has sailed.
Couple Did Not Meet.
There was no meeting between the
couple in Montclair. At the time of
Mr.. Marcus's visit Mrs. Marcus was
away from the house attending to
business" according to the maid.
A visit at the Marcus home today
by an Evening Star reporter found
the place the scene of great activity.
A small army of packers from a stor-
age warehouse in this city we're strip
ping the place of its decorations and
packing the furnishings for shipment
to the former California home of Mrs
Marcus. where it Is said h will make
her home upon her return from
Europe.
Mrs. Marcus was in a high
state and declined to be interviewed,
She is still wearing her wedding ring.
When asked If the rumor of a recon
citation was true she simply turned
her head and gazed at the bare, car
petless hall. and then requested hat
she be allowed to continue the work
7 of experimenting the packing of her
furniture.
Dispose of Horse.
1t is said that the live stock on
the place, which is alleged to have
been a contributing cause to the
wife's deserving her husband and her
children, has been disposed Of that
is, the horses, while the dogs will be
placed In the care of friends to await
the return of their mistress.
1t will be recalled that several weeks
g Mrs. Marcus shocked Montclair
society by suddenly leaving her hus-
bands home, leaving a note stating
that she had tired of domestic life
and had answered the call of the
wild; hal her love for the freedom
of the California plains, where h
was reared, had overshadowed her
mother love, and that she would not
return to Montclair. A few days
later. as mysteriously al she had de-
parted, she reappeared at her home,
but only to remain overnight and
attend to the shoeing of n of her
horses the next morning.
Returning to New York, where she
carefully guarded her whereabouts,
she remained until the departure of
her husband for a trip to Maine with
his father.
The two daughters are with their
grandmother. where they will be per-
mitted to remain, though the father
will have control of them.
Divorce Not Broached.
In this connection, it Is alleged by
friends of the couple that the mother
has informed her husband hat II
at n time the care of the children
pals on him, she is to be COM
municated with and that she would
see what could be DONE"
1t is said by those in a position to
know thai no definite plans for the
future have been decided upon by
the couple; that their domestic af-
fairs are in such a tumult that the
subject of divorce or separation has
not beer preached by either side,
though that one or the other will
ultimately come to pass.
Mrs. Marcus declined to state the
date of her departure, saying: when
]. leave and where / am going con-
Germs no one in the world except my
self. 1t is absolutely none of the
p,blic'a husinasen