The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-21
BRIDE SAYS BANKER
Is AS BOTTLE MAN
Joseph '. Jordan'S Atlantic
City Romance Ends in suit
for Separation.
HE BLAMES CIGARETT rs

Unusual charges and countercharres In
suit by Mrs Elolse Evans Jordan.
daughter Of Amos II. Evans. a New York
lawyer. for n separation from Joseph v
Jordan wealthy banker and manufac.
turer, OF Newburgh, y. Y, after less
than six months of married life, became
public yesterday when the papers in an
application by Mrs Jordan for almony
were filed IN the County Clerks office.
Mr. Jordan Is the president of a New.
burgh bank, president Of the Hudson
Valley Dairy Company and chief stool
holder Of the Coldwcl Lawn Mower Com
pany, one Of tho leading concerns Of the
kind in the country He was divorced IN
Orange county by his first wife. Mrs
Anna Jordan. on January 10. 1918. On
testimony that he entertained Other
woman at his Newburgh home, Glen Toft
while some Of his four children were
living there. The second Mrs Jordan 10
now living az the Biltmore Hotel
Jordan, who IL about thirty years older
than his wife. said he first met the plain
tin, then Miss Eloise Evans, on the Board
walk at Atlantic City last summer, when
she passed him accompanied by a woman
companion, and smiled as " seeking a
filtration. He spoke TO Miss Evans. he
said. and Un his invitation the women
accompanied him to the Hotel Islesworth.
where hs ordered drinks. Subsequently
he became attentive ~ Miss Evans, he
said, and was in her company constantly
"" bought her many articles vi wearing
apparel which she accepted readily. he
said. and when no proposed that they go
to Philadelphia and be married she went
Willingly
ASSERTS She Didn't FIirt.
Mrs. Jordan denied that she firted with
her future husband and said she refused
to accept many gifts from him, although
sle pprmlttad him n nav hpr hotel hill
because money from home failed to come
She resisted his offers If marriage she
said. because OF the difference in their
ages. and also because she learned that
he drank heavily.
She alleged that Jordan pleaded with
her parents for her hand promised 20
build a roof garden FOR her or his New
burgh mansion an, displaying a roll Of
| S. 900 IN bills, offered to buy anything she
wanted He told he parents that he
made $4,000 In the stock market. she
! said
Mrs. Jordan said her husband began to
/ drink heavily after their marriage and
! that he broke "a door leading 10 her room
| in the Newbush house and was threaten
I ing to harm her with a revolver. when N,
servants came TO her aid She then
! threatened to leave. she said. and her
| husband promised to quit drinking and
J took her ON "A trip to Jamaica and Colon
/ along all right then" Mrs Jordan went
! on. but he again drank heavily and I
! told him ! was sorry I had married him
/ ! discovered that he was accustomed to
! drinking from two 20 three quarts Of
strong brandy in twenty-four hours. and
! that he took as much as siNt. grains or
veronal. Finally he became very III and
/ had to go to a sanitarum, and We then
| found that he had taken 100 grain OF
veronal in one dose. which ;hc doctors
said Was enough to Kill dozen men"
R-concIIed for Two Days.
Mrs. Jordan said her husband came "a
her "A few days ago when she was living
at the Fillmore and signed a promise no,
20 use drugs or intoXicants again So She
went back to him. She alleged that lie
broke his promise and hat she remained
with MIN only two days.
Jordan charges that his wife Il also
! addicted 10 liquor and smokes great auan-
titles ~ cigarettes. He alleged that on
the Jamaica trip she drank freely ~ p
strong concoction known ~ planters
punch" lie says that hs wife went or
automobile rides with men he didn't know
bought many articles in Fifth aYenu,
shops which sh, had charged 20 him, and
sent him a bill for about $500 AZ the
Hotel Manhattan. most Of which was an
Indebtedness of her father.
The court allowed $50 week aliInony