New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
CALLS BANKRUPTCY
ALIM0NY DODGE
Wife of WoOlIen Merchant
Balks Move to Reduce
Her Allowance.
$50 A WEEK MUST
BE PAID, SAYS COURT
Justice Refuses to Cut Amount
S. II. Golden Also IS S69O
in Arrears.

Samuel Herbert Golden, president
and treasurer Of the S. Herbert Col
den Company, woolen merchants VINO
used 10 allow his wife. Mrs. Rebecca
Harris Golden. $4,000 year for her
cIotbes and the household expenses
hos made an unsuccessful application
IN the Supreme Court TO reduce the
,I;monv of $50 a week he is now pay
ING her to an amount commensurate
,yifb his present financial condition.
Colden's firm went into bankruptcy
and made settlement With creditors
at 33 Is per cent. .ol
Mrs. Golden said when she Opposed
the reduction Of her alimony that the
bankruptcy proceedings were part o.
scheme TO defraud her Inc GoIdeHS
were married in 1898 and nave Two
children William Theodore. hve' anu
Berrah, two years old. MIS- uoluei
said her husband had a fortune OF
about $3.50 600 or 100000 The trou-
bles in the family began soon AFTER
the birth Of the younger child "heu
Golden. it is alleged. frequently an
scented himself from his home
81 was born Of decent people ana
was educated and bred as a gentle
woman" said Mrs. Golden IN telling
of the manner in which her husband
treated her. 81 did not know what
abuse meant until / heard IT ana re
ceived it from my husband.
81 was p devoted nurse and lone,
some wife" added Mrs. Golden. and
had TO face every crisis alone. | mad
TO remain alone, as all my relatives
had been forbidden by my husband TO
enter our house. SO | was simply
kept busy nursing my two infants.
Mrs. Golden is now suing the
woolen merchant for the second time
for a separation. There was peace
patched up between them after the
first action. and Golden promised TO
pay his wife 500 a week. Subsequent
ly. she said, he reduced this allow
ance TO So. then to $50 and later to
$50 a week. Her life was humdrum,
according TO her affidavit. She alleged
that for more than two years her hus,
band did not take her 20 any form Of
amusement, while he frequently at
tended the theatre, she said, I'm the
company of know not whom. He was
seemingly bent on torturing me. No
amount of pleading would seem to
move him"
Mrs. Golden complained that when
she opened charge accounts IN yarl-
Gus stores her husband notified the
merchants not 10 give her credit. The
couple lived at Pinehurst av., on
Washington Heights. Mrs. Golden said
her husband permitted the rent to run
behind for three months, when they
were threatened with evictment. When
he left her, she said, she was without
any means of support
Commenting on the facility with
which her husband emerged from the
bankruptcy proceedings. Mrs. Golden
said that his business was incor-
porated az from Sl50,000 to 100000,
and. so far as she knew, he never
played the races, dabbed in stocks or
gambled. The wife said ait was diff
cult to understand" how he obtained
his complete discharge from bank
ruptcy in "a single month"
She went so far as to venture the
belief that the chief purpose of the
bankruptcy proceeding was TO defraud
her of her alimony. the monetary gain
Of settling with his creditors at 33 / g
per cent being Incidental merely and
secondary in importance" Mrs. Golden
told of a threat made by her hus-
band that unless she turned her chill
dren over 20 Golden's sister he would
"starve her to death"
Golden is now $500 in arrears Of
alimony. and in asking Justice Gle
gerich TO reduce the allowance he said
he owned only $4,000 worth of stock
in the S. Herbert Golden Company.
and that he was now merely employed
there at a salary of $35 a week. Out
OF this he said he had TO support his
eighty-three-year-old mother
Justice Giegerch. in denying the
application. said that if Golden in
sisted on the point the court would
appoint a referee to ascertain his
ability to pay the almony.