Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-18
MONTCLAIR MAN,
DESERTED, NOW
n SEEKS DIVORCE
William E. Marcus Sues Wife,
Who Tired of Domestic
Life.

4 After waiting two years. the time
required by law, since his yoang wife.
Dorothy Cookseyl Marcus, caused a
sensation in Montclair by deserving
her home in Lloyd road, that town,
it has become known that her hus-
band, William Elder Marcus, jr., son
! of the head of the jewelry firm of
! Marcus & c., of New York, has filed
a suit in the Court of Chancery st
Trenton for a divorce. The utmost
secrecy surrounded the filing of the
papers.
The suit is brought on the ground
of desertion. No answer to the COM
plant has been flied by Mrs. Marcus
and as 1t is understood the time al
lowed for such action has expired II
Is not likely that she will defend the
suit. In that case Mr.. Marcus VIII or
tain a temporary decree, which may
be made permanent at the end OIL SIX
months.
Ralph Lum, of the firm of Luni'
Tamblyn & Colyer, counsel for MIS-
Marcus. refused to discuss the case OF
disclose the whereabouts of his cIeh'
1t is understood, however, that she IL
in London with her father, George d.
Cooksey, of Pasadena, Cal, Where she
has spent most of the time since July,
1872, when she left her husband ana!
two little ~daughters-Jane, now al
most three years old, and Linda, five.
The children live with their father
in a new home in Afterglcw way,
Montclair. In his petition for divorce
he asks the court to grant him the
permanent custody of his daughters
Domestic Life Unendurable@
Mrs Marcus,s disappearance from
her home, in which she enjoyed all
the Injuries which her husband
wealth could afford, because, as she
said afterward, domestic life had pes
come uncomfortable to her, shocked
Montclair society. No scandal mac
ever been limited at and friends OF
the young husband knew now ne
worshipped the attractive California
gipl. whom he had married after n
brief and romantic courtship, winch
began when they were fellow pas
seneers on an ocean liner returning
from Europe. Marcus was gradualeo
from Yale shortly before.
IInon deserving her home she merely
left a note for her husband, explain
ing that their wedding had been WIN
ont love on her part and that she
could no longer endure their married
life. She declared that in order TO pc
consist ,'as wife and mother she
felt it q duty to sever the pona5 tnal
tied her to her home lie. she ex-
pressed no real regret at leaving her
husband and children.
girls to the home of his father, Will
lam Elder Marcus at FOG Upper Mont
clair avenue, where they remained
until thew moved into their new
bonse, several months ago. Mrs, Mar
Gus returned to her home IN q rev
DAYS as suddenly as she had left re-
uloyed her belongings and supposedly
left the ntry. She returned "a yeef
aao AMI arted an action to obtain
THE custody of her children, but the
suit was never brought into court.
Defendart Independently Wealthy.
A1rs Marcus was Independently
uealthv. She owned the homo In
which she lived after her marriage.
Fler friends said that life IN Mont
clair or New York never appealed TO
her, and she spent much time WIN
her horses and dogs. Her relatives IN
california sought to explain the I'M
conventional manner in which she
shirked her family duties by saying
that she had always been used to lie
IN the open, and that if she could
have continued it things would have
been different.
According to an affidavit filed with
the court, Mrs. Marcus is twenty
seven years old and lived at "a Church
Avenue, Montclair. 1t was said she
was here short time last summer
at that address, where she was served
with the papers in the divorce action.
Edwin b. Goodell, of Montclair, is
nolInsel for Mr. Marcus.