Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-27
FAVORS DECREE
FOR MRS. PITTS.
Mr.. Fort, as Master, Character
ICES Husband as of "Sullen
Temperament"
SAYS HE SHOULD NOT
HAVE HOUSED COUSINS
Declares Others Should Not
Even Seem to Divide Affec-
tions of Couple.

After considering the testimony in
the suit for divorce brought by Mrs.
Ida Caroline Pitts against her hus-
band, DIR. Albert Pitts. a wealthy
Plainfeld physician, Franklin ".
Fort has filed his report recommend
ing that the decree be granted. Mr.
Fort heard the suit as an advisory
master.
The events that led up to the suit.
II will be remembered, startled fash
ionable circles in Plainfield and West
fed as they developed prior to the
separation in September, 1911. Since
then Mrs. Pitts has been living with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Louis Bor-
sum. at 1913 South Seventh street. this
city. and for the past few months has
been receiving temporary alimony of
$50 a week on an order made by Vice
Chancellor Stevens
Mr.. Fort favors Mrs Pitts
throughout in his opinion, and char
aeterizes her husband as man of
''sullen, resentful temperament"
While he refers to Mrs. Pitts as "a
quiet. modest little woman of good
intelligence and refined association
prior to her marriage" and. by using
DIR. Pittis's description of his wife at
the time of their marriage, there
wasn't a nicer, pleasanter little lady,
thought, in all the world.
Complains of Assault.
The immediate circumstance lead
ing to the separation was an alleged
assault DR.. Pitts made on his wife
l.
field to Westfield in their automobile
When they reached Westfield Mrs.
Pitts complained to a police judge.
who found that the breach was such
that it would be safer for Mrs. Pitts
to return to Plainfield apart from her
husband, and she was escorted home
by a lawyer.
This was a strange proceeding for
the defendant to permit" says Mr.
Fort in his report. IF he had not
intended to treat his wife cruelty, or
If he had been sorry for his act, he
would have at once asked her pardon
and entreated her to forgive him
and taken her back with him to their
home
One of the remote causes for the
petition was the part DR.. Pittis's
aunt, his sister and two brothers
played in DR.. and Mrs. Pittiss house
hold affairs. These people lived with
them from the time of their marriage
In May, 1904, at DR.. Pittis's invita-
ton, although he admitted that his
wife agreed to have her family re-
main away from their home for a
period of two years.
Says He Has $4,000 a year.
In her petition for temporary ALI
mony, which will be followed by an
application to have it made perma-
nent, Mrs. Pitts says her husbands
income is $1,000 year. He denies
this, and says that his practise has
been shattered by the divorce pro-
ceedings, and that his income now is
about $500.
Referring to the cousins residing in
the Pitts home, Mr.. Fort says: "A
man should not willingly inflict his
cousins upon his newlywedded wife
In her first home life with him. A
newly-married woman should not be
placed sin position where divided
affections may seem to her to prevail,
even when the husband may not in
fact intend it."
The next step in the case is the APP
proval or rejection by vice-chan
'eellor of the opinion. If it is approved,
the. decree then becomes effective