Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-11-27
STRANGE TALES
TOLD Of KRAMER
Talked of Suicide and Death,
Witness Says, in Hearing
on the Will Contest.
HEAR MISS KRAMEF
Refused to Eat Unless He Ex-
amined Food Admits That
She Called Him a Pig.

By STAN Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. 81
After hearing several more witnesses
in the hearing on the Joseph Kra-
mer will case of Perth Amboy. here
yesterday afternoon. before Judge
Daily, il was continued until Dec. II,
at which time it is expected the Ca
veator's testimony will be completed.
The principal witness called yester-
day was Miss Jennie Kramer, daugh-
ter of the deceased. who is left with
an allowance of s12 a month for the
rest of her years.
Miss Kramer testified to the FAM
lily conditions from the time she was
six or seven years old until the death
of her father. She broke down at
times during her testimony and
wept. Her father, the witness tes-
tilted. often cursed her mother.
causing her to cry. after which he
would not speak to her for weeks.
Miss Kramer said she remembered
her father constantly talking of
death and suicide, and had often
said he wished both she and her
mother would be burned to death.
Once, the witness testified, when
she was about seven years old, her
father was beating her mother and
clenching her fists. she (Jennie)
cried. "Oh. you pig" at her father.
For months, the witness said. her
father would not speak 10 the family
| only when it was absolutely neces-
| sary. He said he was going to COM
| nit suicide, she continued. His state
ment, made in the will, Miss Kra-
mer said, that she had told him to
stop coughing when he was sick as
he was disturbing the neighbors, was
much distorted. The witness said
she had told her father cursinG
would not help his cough and told
| him to go to the Doctors for atten-
ton. The witness also told of an in
| cident which occurred when she was
about fifteen years old. She said she
was going to Sewaren to take a
music lesson and her father had de-
clared he hoped something would
happen to the car and that she
would be killed.
The witness said her mother i'm
plored her father to put on clean
clothes but he refused and then told
his friends that his wife would not
| give him clean clothes. About eight
years ago, Miss Kramer testified, hei
father began to became suspicion:
of the food he was served. Ht
would always smell 1t before tasting
i Il and refused to eat with the family
|
to the store for his meals. she said
Upon the birth of Esther. her
younger sister, the witness testified,
her father began to show consider
able affection for her, but as she
grew older his manner towards Es-
ther became as cold as that towards
the other members of the family.
Max Bernstein, another witness
called yesterday, told of visiting a
fa mily living next door to the Kram-
ers about twelve years ago and hear
ing the numerous quarrels between
Kramer and his wife. He had seen
both bleeding at one time, he said
and when he attempted to remon-
strate with Kramer. he was told
that the affairs in the Kramer
household were none of his business
Senator Thomas Brown Is repre-
senting the caveator in this action
Adrian Lyon represents the Peril
Amboy City Hospital, one of th'
bereficiaries. and G. c. Hommani
and Jacob Klein represent the Pert!
Amboy Trust Company, executor
under the will.