The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-21
WIFE'S EYES START
A SEPARATION SUIT
Mrs. Joseph N. Early Had .
Habit Of Staring; Husband
Said Flirting.
COURT FINES on ALIMONY
She'll Get SIS a Week and 5000
Counsel Fee Pending
the Trial.

A matrimonial career wrecked because
the wife had a habit OF staring at persons
which her husband thought was flirting
was disclosed in afiidavits submitted to
supreme Court Justice Page yesterday
when Mrs. Mary c. Early asked $500 q
month alimony and s. 1000 counsel fec
pending a suit for separation from Joseph
" Early. a manufacturer OF street signs
at l27 Reade street
Mr.. Early is a son OF Joseph Early ana
received s25o.OoO legacy under his
fathers will. lie is n brother OF Charles
NJ. Early. a lawyer. and is prominent in
Catholic circles. Mrs Early IL a sister
OF Thomas Moore Slmonton. a lawyer.
After reading a score OF affidsvits sub
mitted by Mr.. and Mrs Early Justice
Page decided that SIS a week alimony
and counsel fee OF 5000 was sufficient
and he awarded the custody of three boys
aged T. and 3 years. to Mr. Early
pending the suit.
Mrs. Early said her husband has treated
her cruelty since they we're married In
| St Patrick's Cathedral on October 20,
| 1908. They went to Hot Springs. Va. on
their wedding trip and there Mr. Early
first displayed jealousy. The plaintiff
said they were climbing a mountain one
afternoon when they met two men de-
scending. After the men had passed her
| husband went ahead and left her to push
her way to the summit alone When she
reached there her husband went back
| down TO the hotel by himself and she had
TO find her way down through the dark
ness alone.
She didn't know the reason until she
| got to the hotel, when her husband ac-
cused her OF flirting with the men who
| had passed She said that all she did
! was to turn around and stare at the men.
Mrs. Early said she went to the homo
| OF an aunt in Ocean Grove TO remain until
| after her first child was born and that
her husband compelled her TO leave there
and go 10 an unfinished house he was
building at Loeb Arbor, " J.
"He told me he wouldn't have a child
OF his born in Ocean Grove" said Mrs
Early.
She declared that her husbands mother
Mrs. Mary A. Early, who lives at 81 West
Forty-sixth street and has a country place
at Cornwall-on-H Hudson told her she wa
poor white trash" and not fit 10 be the
wife of Mr.. Early.
Mr.. Early said In his opposing affidavit
that his marital troubles have been due
chiefly to his wife's habit of staring at per
sons about her He said many personI
made themselves obnoxious to him becaus,
they thought his wife was flirting with
! them.
Mr. Early averred that after the wed
T ding breakfast at the Hotel Buckingham
$ his wife's father said: Joe. you ar,
: MARI ed to n very nice girl. You will FIND
g her lovely and sweet so long as she hal
her own way. but II you don't give he
everything she wants you have my sym
pathy." The defendant said he learned hi
y father-in-law had not exaggerated on
n iota" The defendant complained that hi
n wife never had breakfast with him unles
r she wanted some money or had anothe
| favor TO ask.
A The defendant accused his wife of goin
= 10 his house In Riverdale on December .
: last while he was away and driving on
a the servants with cane. Then she toll
/ him she wouldn't hesitate TO shoot hir
II he gave her sufficient aggravatior
Charles NJ. Early corroborated this state
ment.