The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-13
CUT In PAY REYEALS'
WIFE'S SECRET SUIT
David Wallace Kearney Re.
wives Long Dormant Action
by Alimony Request.
FATHER OPPOSED MATCH

Successful efforts by Edward W'auae,
Kearney. wealthy head OF Van TasseN
& Kearney. dealers in horses and car.
risges, TO compel his son. David Wallace
Kearney, TO give UP the latter's wife
Mrs. Julia C. Kearney, have been re-
vealed In the Supreme Court through
papers submitted to Justice Cohalan.
These papers show that the Kearueys
we're married in Jersey City on JANUARY
l6. 1906. and that Mrs kearrey &C.
cretly filed a suit for separation In 1902.
In which Justice blanchard granted hes
ti5 week alimony.
The case has been sleeping In I'll.
courts for the last Ave years and came
before Justice Cohalan on An applllA
ton bY Kearney to reduce tho alimony
on the ground that his salary a. .
carriage salesman for his fathers firm
has just been reduced from S35 10 g.;
week. Kearney consented TO the de.
Mai OF his application when he learned
that the case win be tried SHORTY
In opposing her husbands Application
Mrs. Kearney said he abandoned her
several times before she sued him. bu'
each time che took him back and one.
she withdrew a separation suit she had
started.
From the fret moment OF our mar.
ried life," said Mrs. kearney, M hus.
bands father has always been the IN.
strument OF whatever dissension there
has been. After the final deserton.
when tried to bring my husband back.
he glorled In the fact that he had de.
serted me and laughed at ME when I
asked him to return His father Oh.
jected to our marriage and reduced nj.
sons salary to teach him lesson.
During our separation my husband
and his father have In more ways than
one prosecuted me and attempted 10
push me into the gutter. but they have
failed. In It conceivable that the 10.
PENDANTS father, who liz wealthy ard
lives at 80 West Seventeen stree
would, after attaining his object IN sep
arating us, allow the defendant only s25
or SSj "A weelS?'
Mrs. kearney says she has frequently
seen her husband driving IN the park.
with other women and entertaining them
In fashionable restaurants. and sae
doesn't think he could do Il on S3S a
week. since he is a man cf extravagani
tastes.
In reply Kearney admitted that he has
entertained various women friends in q
| moderate way, but he says the horses
and carriages he uses belong to rs
fathers firm. Edward Wallace Ke,,rnsy,
head of the firm. swore that his son gets
only S25 a week
The papers show that when kearney
opposed his wife's application for all
mony In 1909 he submitted a newspaper
clipping concerning the trial OF a suit n
1902 started by Julia LANCER against
Warren Il. Smith. carpet manufacture
OF Nonkers. before Justice Seabury. me
suit was TO recover on two notes FOR
5000 each. given under agreement TO pay
Julia LANCER 5000 a month for life on
her assurance that she wouldn't sue 70,
breach OF promise. Mrs. LANCER alleged
that Smith promised to marry her - ;Js
Hotel Savoy, London. In 1901, while slle
was registered there as his wife. 4 jury
awarded Mrs. LANCER the amount Of the
notes.
Mrs. Kearney admitted that she was
tho Mrs. Lnager referred to. and this Is
said to be the reason for the elder Keaf.
ney's objection to his sons marriage 70
her. She said that after she was ma r..
ried 10 LANCER she learned that he al
ready had wife, and that he later wen,
back to the other vito and died N
her arms.
She admitted that she was also the
wife OF one Stranger. who neglected 10
divorce another wife before he married
her. She said that kearney knew all
about her past. because her father showed
him the newspaper clippings before she
was married TO him.