Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-30
DESERTED WIFE
GETS CASH LEFT
BY HER HUSBAND
sherwood Quit Home in 1879,
When She Wanted Last Word
in Argument.
ENGLISHToWN ROMANCE
HAS AN $11 900 CLIMAX
Caldwell Man Saved Up After
Coming Here-Widow Iden-
titles Herself.

If James 1sherwood's wife had not
insisted upon her womanly right to
have the last word in an argument
she would not have been deserted by
him and forced to make her own liv-
ing for thirty-siX years, nor, on the
other hand, would she now be the
recipient of a small-sized fortune
amounting to something like $ll 200.
Isherwood died two months ago in
this city leaving no next of kin eN-
cept his wife in lIngland-whose last
word, he claimed, had driven him
from homeland a son, who Is also
living In England.
The story of Isherwoods life is told
in affidavits submitted to Surrogate
Fred G. Stickel, ir., to prove the
identity of lsherwood's wife and son.
who, in the absence of a will, share
the entire estate. The surrogate, sat
isfied that Mrs. Alice Fletcher. of
Bury, England is the widow of Isher-
wood, today granted letters of ad-
ministration on the estate to Mrs
Ellen Smith. of AZ Brookside place,
Bloomfield friend of the woman In
England.
Bet ON Dog Race.
Mrs. Fletcher according to the affi-
davits filed with the surrogate, SO
strongly insisted upon her rights in
an argument over his betting on a
dog race in 1879 that lsherwood-or
Fletcher as he was known then
could not speak three words that
would have cooled her wrath and
restored domestic peace in the house.
hold When he couldn't get in the
three little words he left home and
came to America.
If Mrs. Fletcher had let him ex-
plain he would probably have never
left England. He would perhaps have
continued to work in the coal mines,
where he was working then. and the
family would in all likelihood have
been just like their neighbors, work
ing. eating, sleeping and living out
their humdrum existence. But Mrs.
Fletcher didn't let him say the three
words that meant peace, and so the
course of their lives were changed,
and today she is one of the wealthiest
women in her neighborhood and can
live in comfort for the rest of her
days.
The three unspoken words which
sherwood his friends in this
country would have ended the dis
pute were MY dog won Accord
ing TO the affidavit of Henry G. For
shaw, of Bloomfield, boyhood chum
Of sherwood, the latter told him that
his wife would never have quarreled
il she knew he won the bet instead
of losing, as she supposed.
After coming here in 1879 Isher-
wood went to live with another old
chum, Stephen Taylor, at 179 Morris
avenue. Taylor, who now lives at 27b
South Eleventh street. declares in an
affidavit that sherwood later went
n in nd i,, ha
stone quarries. While digging a well
there about twenty-five years ago.
Mr.. Taylor relates, the walls of the
well caved in on him and he was
buried for nearly eighteen hours be-
fore neighbors dug him out. Isher-
wood was in a hospital for three
months, and when he had regained
his health got a job as guard at the
penitentiary in Caldwell. He re-
mained there until the time of his
death.
Known az Fletcher.
Taylor and Forshaw and Mrs Smith
all swore they knew Isherwood in
England as Fletcher, and that they
knew his wife, Alice Fletcher. Mrs.
Smith averred that on one occasion a
number of years ago, she took "A pres
ent of $40 from Isherwood to his
mother in England when on visit
there, and that at that time Isher-
woods wife inquired about him, Upon
her return she told sherwood about
his wife and he promised to send for
her, but he never kept his promise
According to people who knew him
Well sherwood married in this coun-
try, but his wife died, leaving no sur
viving children. Where sherwood ao-
cumulated the sum of money he Is
said 10 have possessed at the time of
his death is more or less of mys-
terry. His friends say he was very
thrifty and lived on very little. His
salary at the penitentiary was not
much over 5000 year.
At his death IsherWood was over
sixty-hve years Of age. Fletcher was
the maiden name of his mother, and
he used 1t till he came here.