New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-06
SAYS WIFE TRIED
TO BUY FREEDOM
David T. Stern Alleges
She Offered $1,000 to
Divorce Her.
TELLS OF STOLEN
KISSES IN PANTRY
She Denies Charge That She
Cared for AnOther-MakeS
Cruelty Accusation.

GIINilS A(NuSdllOH.
According TO David T. Stern. shoe
commission merchant. his wife. Mrs
Cora Stern. believes that every man
has his price" and she further held
the opinion that Storms price was So
coo. which the husband says his wife
offered him 20 allow her 10 get a d.
vorce from him.
Mrs. Stern. whose brothers consti-
(tute the stock brokerage firm Of New
borg & Co.. at 60 Broadway, IS suing
her husband for a separation, and while
she alleges cruelty rs the ground OF
her action Stern says that his wife is
aetuated by his refusal TO accept the
IS 600 offer 10 let her have a divorce
from HIM.
Justice Weeks awarded Mrs. Stern
5s100 2 month alimony pending the trial
ana $3.50 as counsel fees. Stern says
that he never treated his wife cruelty.
and the only thing approaching II was
when he playfully threw piece OF
bread az her.
when she resented this act. Stern
,svs. he tried TO console her, where
rpon she called him a &c. fool"
One OF the cruelty counts against
Stern is that he compelled his wife 20
i accompany him on sightseeing tour
/ a. Europe, instead Of permitting her 70
60 % Carlsbad for the baths.
Stern says in his defence that with
cut Cause his wife left him on January
IL last and has refused 70 return to
i I'm. &c alleged that one Of the rea-
,ons for her abandoning him was her
4 ,nfatustion for one Frank Miller.
i S,srn mentioned that his wife has
81 rrcverty valued a. $4,000 and that
she receives an allowance Of $4,000 a
year from her brother, "a man Of great
4 wealth
y Besides. Stern said that his wife took
81 from their apartment AZ $50 Madison
AZ paintings and books valued at 81
~. As 20 his own income, the defend
49, husband said It was not more than
$500 a year
X Il was not true. Stern said. that he
.* .hrsv hrs wife out OF a chair, as al
81 legged. a. the home Of her mother. Mrs.
i ,ossphi7e Newborg. ~ SIS Fast 74th st.
II Husband Makes Charges.
Stern C.T TCN QCIN NNd% ne DppE Alurl
Isis wif, for hcr conduct toward Frank
4 Miller. ~ boz. tho husband said. has been
{psvirc q+tortion 20 hrs wife for four
4 yesrs. Uo said that her irdlscreet con
4 duct hes caused much gossip and that
a hsr "irfatuation and vilfulneSs' have
81 caused -c~ 20 q disregard his protests
d and those Of other persons
u ~For year past Stern asserted,
a ar-v wife has been asking nc for a d.
vorce and holding up 70 me as an cX-
4smrlc cf cfiralrv the man 20 whom /
Il have been referring. She has told me
n ihat no gave his wife p divorce. She
n tod mc chat = 7 did not give her evi-
d dence for divorce she would sue me
Il for a se0aratlon.
II "On Fc1ruar- p she cane TO ny Of
Ice and begged for divorce, saying
4 that + . was "a matter Of dollars and
4 cents sro would pay IT.. She said;
q Ever man has his price: wha- Is
yours % told her that my soul was
mot for sale.
81 ~Tie last time I saw her was on
Marc o. when she came 70 the Office
4sgsin and offered me $4,000 for a d.
Eyorce"
n Stern also had more % say In his
3zHdsvit 2 bout Frank miller. the said
~ SiliArIs TO eldLrlf o. q man VI ANt'NAt r.
band spends hrs mornings and after
noons with my wife and takes her to
Hr1blic restaurants and theatres. / once
saw them embracing IN the pantry,
vher they went there ostensibly 70 get
drins Of water"
Ms. Stern and Miller met for the
rst time IN Europe, said Stern, and
Returned 20 New York on the same
tteamer After this Stern took his
~fe 20 Europe again 20 be away from
fse attentions % Miller.
Her Trip 10 Europe.
The husband left his wife in Europe
nd returned alone 10 New York. de
AID that he later learned that Miller
~ sd followed Mr7. Stern abroad and
bad gone 20 see hc- 20 Carlsbad. Mrs.
Stern wrote 20 her husband that Miller
I'd been there and, according 20 stern,
pho expressed her regrets that Miller
tsd Left her 20 70 q seThere.
Mr7. stern denied the statements o.
BE- husband regarding her attachment
3 70 Miller. She said he was q friend
~ Oh. family whom she had net at
~ arlsDac oV chance. The wife said that
b. corc GO was not open 20 criticism.
- also Sen ed that she offered her
D usbard money 90 give her divorce.
b, told him that She could not live
- th tm again because she learned
- he had been guilty Of improper
1fonducf u her absence. She said she
sd no income Of her own and that she
+ Eei her brother S25.000. she also
81 ts,cd o. evidence o. her husbands
~ r9socrtv that be dresses extraya-
srr.y, sears fancy six hose and gam
W o. or llc stock market.
~ Justice Weeks ordered stricken out