Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-22
GEO. STENCIL
DEFENDANT IN
DIVORCE SUIT
Elderly Newark Leather Manu-
facturer Charged With Bru-
tality by Wife.
COUPLE MARRIED IN
SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR
Petitioner Was Hattie OxIey,
School Teacher in Mon
mouth County.

Suit for divorce and maintenance
has been instituted in the Court of
Chancery by Mrs Hattie Oxley
Stengel against her husband,
George Stengel of this city. Mr..
Stengel is a prominent Newarker. He
is head of the firm of George Stengel,
Inc, leather manufacturers, in Fre-
linghuysen avenue. He is said to be
more than seventy years of age
The grounds for the divorce petit
tion Is extreme cruelty. 1t is alleged
by Mrs. Stengel that her husband
forced her to undergo physical tor
ture of an unusual nature. Mrs.
Stengel is much younger than her hus-
band. She was formerly a school
teacher in Monmouth county. They
were married last September
The divorce petition alleges that
Mrs. Stengel has no means of sup
port and is too i'll and weak and sick
to attempt to support herself by her
own exertion.
: Mr.. Stengel, according to his wife,
possesses real and personal prop
erty of the value of over 81, 500 900,
and is in receipt of an income from
his estate and from his business of
leather manufacturing of upward of
$100, 900 a year
The Stengels were married at Long
Branch on September 16 by Rev.
Morton i. Barnes. Since then they
have made their home at Long
Branch and in Newark. They sep
arated on May 81.
According to the petition, Stengel
continuously sWore at her almost
from the day of their marriage until
the early part of November" He
also. it is alleged, used vile epithets
to her. On November Mrs. Stengel
entered the German Hospital and re-
mained under treatment until De
cember 8. During the three weeks
after she returned home, she says.
Stengel swore and cursed at her and
threatened to get divorce. She also
relates that Stengel during this time
kept a pistol in his bed and that his
treatment Of her made her nervous
and sick.
The petition of Mrs. Stengel con-
tinues OF to state that on December
2S she begged her husband to treat
her with kindness and consideration,
but that he, in the presence of some
of his acquaintances, told her she
would have to leave the house. She
thereupon went to live with relatives
in New York
Stengel she asserts, followed her
there and berated her. The petit
toner remained with her relatives in
New York until January 2S, when a
reconciliation was effected with her
husband. She then accompanied him
to Florida, he pleading that such a
trip would be beneficial to her. They
returned to Newark on February 49,
On the trip home, she declares, Stem
gel used such abusive language that
she decided to leave the train, and
would have done so if she could.
Went to NutIey.
After returning to Newark, tho
petition states, Mrs. Stengel again be-
came seriously i'll and she went to
the home of her mother In Nutley.
This was two days after returning
here from Florida. Later there was
another reconciliation, and Mrs. Stem
gel, on March IS, entered a sani-
tarium at Philadelphia for the pur-
pose Of taking a rest cure. On April
Is she went to private hospital to
undergo an operation and seven days
later went back to the sanitarium.
She recovered and then returned to
her home at Long Branch.
Mrs. Stengel declares that soon
after her return to their home her
husband got a five-ounce bottle of
carbolic acid and "left it in her room
without any directions on the label
of the bottle, although the defendant
knew that the petitioner was very
i'll and despondent." She left the
Long Branch residence on June l and
returned to Nutley, after which she
went to live with her parents. She
then decided to file suit for divorce.