New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-27
WOMAN BRINGS FRESH
TROUBLE TO CREENBERC
Saws Real Estate Man Who Was
Arrested When with Sweet
heart Is Her Husband.
FRAME UP, HE CHARGES
Asserts Girls Father, Who OPP
poses Marriage, Is Trying
to Discredit Him
Through Arrest.

on the top floor Of a crowded tenement
house at No. 10 East lllth street, lives
Mrs. Rachel Greenbcrg. who, through her
daughter Martha, twenty-five years old,
said last night that she was the lawful
wife OF Jacob Greenberg. alias Isaac
Portman, who was arrested Wednesday
night i'm the Rockvew apartment house,
Riverside Drive and 1921 street, IN the
presence OF his sweetheart Miss Ray Nor
den. daughter OF Joseph Norden. a
wealthy merchant. Portmen and Miss
motored to New York from Lakewood,
y j.
James O. Wright OF the Foster. Wright
Realty Company, No. sol Fifth avenue
the complainant. appeared against Port
man before Magistrate Butts In JEFFERSON
Market Court yesterday. charging that he
passed a worthless check for s35 on him
The magistrate held Portman in 500 bal
for examination next Monday.
Meanwhile Mrs. Greenberg Of Harlem
appeared before Justice Aspinall. of the
Supreme Court. Brooklyn. asking to have
set aside an interlocutory decree OF d.
vorce which she obtained against Jaco'
Greenberg in 1905 She set forth in he'
moving papers that she did not know a.
the time she was proceeding against hei
husband for an absolute divorce. hel
lawyers, however. had never filed fna
decree Mrs. Greenbers alleges Portmar
married Bertha Portman soon after. Las
November the second wife obtained al
!ntcrIOcutory decree OF divorce againS
/ Portman before Justice kapper. Of th'
Supreme Court. Brooklyn. Justice Aspin
/ all Yesterday denied the motions OF Mrs
! Greenberg for counsel fees and alimon!
and referred the question Of the divorce
/ decree TO former Justice William u
/ Dlckey as official referee.
| Mrs. Greenberg said she was marrie'
/ 10 Greenberg in Russia twenty years ago
I He was twenty-five then and she wa
! twenty. Her daughter Martha was tV'
years old and her first husband was dead
! Thirteen years ago. she said. Greenoer'
deserted her. She got track OF him thre
or four years later, when he was runnln'
bicycle store in Broome street Eigh
wears ago. she said, he was I'm the rea
estate business in 1lsth street, under tn
name OF Isaac Portman. Her counsel
Samuel Abramson. Of No. $40 Nassa'
street. said yesterday that Greenberi
and Portman were the same man.
Since she was left alone, Mrs. Green
berg has supported herself by working
| she has never learned TO speak Englis
fuently. Through Martha she told he
story OF suffering from the wrongdong
Of Greenberg. she showed a check 70
s25 which she said he gave her on IN
city Bond Company, Endorsed by A.
Hills, on November 20 last. This. an
said, was returned to her marked IN. G.
While she was endcavoring TO max
Greenbers support her she said he cause
her unwittingiy TO sign away her right
10 property.
Greenberg. or Portman. has done we
in real estate and dresses In good STYLE
This Is all a frame-up on the part g
Mr. Norden." he said yesterday regardin
his troubles. He doesn't like me an
dsapproves OF my attentions TO hi
daughter love Miss Norden, and II wa
my understanding that we were to b
| married"