Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-13
CHARGES FILED
IN DONOVAN SUIT
Twenty-Year-OId Bride of a
Year Seeks Separation
Is and AIimony.
Ispeclal 70 the NewarIk star. ]


TRENTON. Feb. 13.-Charging her
husband, Matthew Donovan, sixty
years old, of Paterson, with inhuman
cruelty. Mrs. Katie Donovan, twenty
Years of age today applied to the
Court of Chancery for separation and
aIimony.
The Donovans were married in st.
Patrick's Cathedral New York city,
JANUARY 81. 1918. Mrs. Donovan al
lNges her husband Is worth 100000
and has an annual income of $4,000
a year fl ON his business in Paterson.
After the wedding the paair took up
their residence at 497 Broadway,
Paterson, and on February Is last
sailed for Europe. They were abroad
two months, during which time. Mrs.
, Donovan charges, her husband beat
her and ill-used t4er Ito such an
extent that the safety of her health
as well as her person was endan-
gered." She alleges that this cruel
treatment continued until November
II, 1913, when she was compelled to
leave him because of his extreme
cruelty. The suit for separation fol-
lowed.
says He IL lnsanely Jealous.
According to the petition filed in the
court, Donovan has a violent temper
and was insanely jealous of his young
wife. She charges that he would not
allow her to speak to any person near
her own age, especially men. and re-
fused to permit her to be out of his
sight. His ill-treatment was pro-
11Of 4nrI1f ri
bound for Europe. the wife alleges.
Continuing her charges, Mrs. Dono-
van says, that while at Seville, Spain,
last March her husband accused her
of being too friendly with their guide.
and demanded that she acknowledge
this friendliness. She refused, she
.says, whereupon he struck her in the
face. Donovan then called upon the
American consul and entered a COM
plant against his wife. The consul
sent for her and informed her that
she would have to take her husband
back to America. as he was insanely
jealous of her. She refused to do SO,
she declares, and her husband threat
ened to throw yitriol In her face.
On another occasion, while in
Europe, Mrs. Donovan claims that be-
cause she refused to promise her hus-
band that she would not speak to
other persons in the party, he grabbed
her by the throat and choked her
until she was black in the face.
Donovan Asked to Quit Tourists.
Donovan was so enraged at this
time, the petition AYERS, that 1t took
three men of the party to break his
hold on his wife. This was in Spain,
and the officials wanted to arrest the
defendant, but Mrs. Donovan says
she begged them not to do so, and
Donovan was allowed to proceed to
Madrid. There, the petitioner charges,
she and her husband were compelled
TO leave the party and proceed alone,
because the manager of the touring
party refused to have Donovan ac-
company them further owing to his
actions. Mrs. Donovan declares she
was in fear of bodily harm all the
time she was in Europe with her hus-
band.
Mrs. Donovan charges further that
as they were about to sail for Amer
ioa her husband bought her a new
hat, but while on the way to the boat
he became enraged. snatched the hat
from her head and jumped upon 1t.
She complains that he brutally mis-
used her on the boat as they were
returning. She says she was COM
PEELED to leave him several times dur
ting their brief married life. owing to
his treatment, and each time returned
to him upon his promise to reform
and treat her properly. Then the
final separation and this suit came.