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SHE IS A JERSEY CITY LAWYER. WIFE ASKS FOR TEA IMPORTER SECOND DIVORCE! LED DUAL (LIFE Caaeatipadba ‘Mrs. A. T. Simpson, of Jersey \ City, Got a Decree in 1900, Remarried Her Husband and) \, Now Wants to Be Free Again. SReoconcitiation After Their First Di- vorce Was F-'lowed by Only a \ Short Perlod of Happiness; Then Ho Left Her. = (Special to The Freaing World.) TRENTON, N. J., March 9.—Twice @arried and twice divorced to and from the same persons, will be the story of ‘the material relations between former Wasemblyman Alexander T. Simpson @nd his wife, Belle D. Simpson. Simp- woh is a well-known Jersey City law- yer. ‘Testimony: has been taken by Special | Master Pierre F. Cook, who has made @ report and advised the Chancellor | @at-Mrs. Simpson should be granted a ‘@eoree. Less than three years ago Mrs. ypson obtained a decree In the New ke Courts on statuary grounds. Tho i Mew York decree was granted Sept. 15, 2900. One month later a reconciliation '@o0k place, which resulted in a re-mar- ‘wlage Sept. 15, 1900. “The second marriage,” says Mra. @impzon in her testimony, “was a fall- tre. About ten days after our remar- wlage Mr. Simpson began staying out wiights. 1 would ack him where he had ‘wen and he would say that he didn't @onsider It any of my business, ut he Would promise that he would do better fm the foture. ‘This state of affairs @entinued until a separation took place. “On Nov. 10, 1900, I said to him ‘It @mems to me that you are going on just the same as you did before,’ and he an- @wred that he. would continue to do #0,” Qirs. Simpson says that she oried and pleaded with her husband to reform, but Bens without success. He then packed his ik and left his Sie and Phas never Thaddeus Williams, Jr, Has! Disappeared from Brooklyn, Where, It Is Said, He Had Two Wives. SON RUNNING HIS BUSINESS. Miss Lillle Smith Saye He Courted Her Fourteen Years and Married Her in October, Though Long a Benedict. ‘Tneddus Williams, jr., a wholesale tea importer and jobber of No. 156 Water street, has disappeared and a warrant tor his arrest has been obtained by Mrs. Lillie Williams, nee Smith, of No. 719 Herkimer street, Brooklyn, whom he married on Oct. 27 last, charging him with bigamy. She has her marriage certificate and a copy of the certificate of wife No, 1. Williams's son, a young man twenty- three years of age, who has deen run- ning his father's business ever since the elder man dropped from sight early laat November, admits that his father was a party to @ marringe with Nellle Smith. If what the second Mrs. Williams says be true the man who has deceived her had lived @ dual life for thirteen or fourteen years. He was married to the mother of his son, Ella Mellaso Platt, of No, 147 Suydam street, on Feb. 1, 1877, Courted Fourteen Years. “My husband,” said Mrs, Williams No. 2 tow reporter of The Evening World to-day, “Kept company with me for tilir- teen oF fourteen years. Never in all that tima did he say anytaing of having a wife or home or anything to do with another woman. He sald that he didn't want to get married wall fh had enough with which to retire from buviness. “This wae dis one theme,” ‘Miss Smith + yi tried to, aeip him all T could, ang when we would go away on ex- oursions together I would get the ncn home to save him any extra ex- Iam thirty-eght years of age mu can sée that this man has Kon away the best ft fulned my. life, hi jurned to her, part of it. 1 Wave read. of decel ful See Lcsy Mrs. Simpson, “I called} p Seople, but never did I pelleve that any hte “Tr you Rs ant one could €o as far ag to do wast he "halt mere decent I will It with | has done to me. Sim) pean replied, “P Bevel Lon Oct a lest wacware married by tre or three times, Belle, that] Rey. A. W. Hodder, pastor of the lo it to be bothered with (gic one gehngi¢ be, and so please mo! setitying Mea their relations during| E. Mrs. rage, . ae (ved our ut formed Cy gg ee was in habit goin "oat ‘then Coming in Ing me whom he had been with, Opies oe second ma) e he fol- course, mand would tell me ot ie not mentlonitig, however, any ir. Bimpgn 1g now residing In New =, No. 69 West Forty-fourth me where he has a bachelor apart- 1 Master, In making his ré- eae “that after an ‘examination the testimony offered he jn of the pred that a decree should be granted Bippaon on the ne of de- en the re- tment on Mele ipart sof -sicapeon’ st is habits, and by. of Siergon havi having ceased to care for his} fi PUPILS EADY WITH CUTICLE: Margaret Cummerford’s Class- » mates Are Anxious to Supply All the “Skin Needed to Aid Her Recovery. \ DOCTORS ARE NOT READY YET al to The Eveaing World,) N. J., March 9.~Many of “@e boy und girl pupils of the High @ehool, at the request of the physicians fm charge of M ford, who lies at the City Hospital, are gétting ready to sacrifice patches of @heir skin in order to ald the unfor- tunate girl toward recovery, Miss Cummerford was one of the pu- pills hurt in the trolley accident Feb, 19. When the train struck the trolley car he was etanding on the forward part of it, Bhe get hit by a piece of broken ood in the Jef: sido and was fright- fully injured, Tho wood tore open the flesh and ‘hen she was picked up the severed hanging by shreds of skin. s thought that she would ‘les ea O eave was ‘he exterior wound was it was alec) ft that there y urt. Miss Cunmerfot Very quickly, It was not thought able to administer applications thas giel Pout the cu etapa inte et A Peplnany a asked toe asked uy Sed? hte y class of the schoo) ahd was = i PG of Man; it ta the ay aie ee ee re. 16 Aone While tte rer ‘ery bes gh to ronew (nei aeons Were not ready Jus of ana @ time 4 u itor the ho: ARS SHE AGREES TO BE GOOD. » Promisgn te Quit ae, Falech, @ Frenchwomen, Margaret Cum:mer- | 4 Sixteenth Yiaptist Church, No. 349 West Twentieth street, in the presence of my Brother, William F. Smbin, and Fenton West, a deacon of the church. “After the ceremony we went to the erry. Mr. Williams said that he would ave to gO uway; that he had so much business to-attend to in the South that he coulg not stay in New Yorke another hour, He came back in two or three days and we ae, $e the Sagamore Hotel in Third # phere Mr, Smith deserted, me, giv Ing me five cents to pay carfare home to Brooklyn, That and an engage- ment ring, which he pald $10 for, are the only things he ever gave me in all the: years we inea me $3,000 when we were married ne pee, e a home, but I never saw any- ing of It. Som Believes Story. “A few days atter my husband left me a customer of my alte he ie a rainee Herkimer street, came Into and told him that had married anbther woman's husband. { could not belleve it, but L went to the store, In Water, sireet, and there met Mrs, Willams. told her who I was and showed her my, marriage certificate. "'Thave been amused at this Mirtation for a long time,’ 6he T Are 'fod nmiused ae the fact that I am shortly to become a mother? Is that amusing?! 1 asked her Taughed wt me, I think: she and Know whore he ts, but, of course, ty will not toll, T put ihe Gage La the Mr. Jerome and he gave mea but the police can’t Williams's: son was seen. at his place of business, and he said that he and his mother were In absolute ignorance of his father's wherei “there Is no doubt, that my father married this woman,” he said. "We res welleve ite Bhe bas the cortif: cate to show. He left us In November jast, and that. is the Inst we have heard from him. He had money, of course, but he has no more Interest’ in the business. My mother 1 pute chased {t from him many months ago. “The woman whom he married and who wants to have my father arrested ‘hax been coming around here for years, bat we never suspected anything Shé always asked for him, and every one around the store thought she was @ Baa customer, My mother nearly pros- trated and cannot und nd how my father could have done what he did after 80 many years, He was not @ ng Man, 89 one cannot make that for him, My mother is now forty-four and my favber forty-nine years of age.’ BLOWN THIRTY FEET IN AUTO EXPLOSION Dean Escaped Practically Un- hurt, but It Took Three Hours to Convince Him that He Was Not Dying. “Oh, murder! Oh, heav. don't touch me! Send for wil 4 dead man, I am, Don't touch me. fall apart, I'm done for. Good-by. And it took three hours to convince Hoetier Edward Deon he had not been blown te Wethalla or elyéwhere by the explosion of @ gasolene tank in Marcey Guggenheimer’ eutomobile pi ce at No. 8 West Beventy-seventh ju'te all right,” declared D: 1 burger ir, Bteln 'Vou're oo 8 do} ager pete lance surgeon from Deon would t bell wonder, for, the hoaterer, by’ hl tp Wass —_—_—— Whe Beat Plessis with an | £0! blown thirt ne dove t together. He prom: |. THADDEUS COMMITTE. VANDALS MAR A Island and who Were surrounded by the British and cut to pleces. The letters had been heavy ohisels, anddn leaving the thieves dropped several monument itself is not damaged and the letters may be replaced. CIRL LOSES Let IN MOTOR CRUSH Miss Nellie Musk Compelled to Submit to Amputation After Being Run Down by a Car at} Coney Island. FLAGMAN NO THERE. | Miss Neilie Musk, who lives at Nep- tune avenue and West Twenty-sixth street, Brooklyn, has submitted to the amputation of her right leg above the knee, ‘as a result of belng run down Dy a motor car at the Van Siclen avenue atation, Coney Island, last night Although several lines converge at this point, making the conges:ion very great ‘at times, there !s no flagman stationed there. ‘The young woman was removed from the scene of the accident to the Kings County Hospital, where the operation pried off with of the letters. The jtook up ILLIAMS, JR., WHO MISS LILLIE SMITH SAYS ‘BIGAMY AND LED A DUAL LIFE IN BROOKLYN. WOODEN FIGURE CREETED BROWN Former Commissioner of Works the Victim of a Practical Joke, Prepared by Fellow Lodge Men. OUT ONCE AFTER 10 O'CLOCK Former Commisstoner of Public Works Richard Brown, who lives at No. 268 Bergen avenue, Jerasy City, was the vietim of a joke penpetcated by mem- bers of Triune Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons, of which he is a member, At a mecting of the chapter several weeks ago Mr. Brown stated that ho had not been out after 10 o'clock at night since he was married, about a year ago. Thereupon several members of the chapter resolved to foree him to break his good record and so arranged astag, | While the stag was at its height sev- eral members of the lodge slipped out of the room and went toward Mr. Brown's home. Near the house they espled the figure of a wooden woman in front of a cigar store. Whatever plans they had previously made were thrown to the winds, and picking up the wooden figure they carried it to Mr. Brown's home and placed {t in the vestibule. It was very dark tere and the wooden lady looked for all the world like a live one. About I o'clock Mr. Brown, accom- panied by his son, Thomas Brown, alighted from a trolley car almost in front of the house, The joke-players positions where they could hear all that went on without being seen, As Mr. steps he Brown started up the porch evidently thought the wooden Woman was his wite, for, he stopped and began to explain why he was com- ing home so late. "Now, my dear," he sald, “I know I we Were married. ‘The lodge had a to-nignt and I could not get away earlier. Next time I will stay home will not go to a 1 ‘The wooden lady, o} ing and Thomas Brown roborate his father's story. eider Mr. Brown entered and discovered his mistake, algo made the discovery. will have the this time the men joke, Were convul the door close that The following mor? the wooden figure called @ retreat. was performed. erty. “FINE MONUMENT They Steal the Bronze Letters from the Shaft Erected in Prospect Park as a Tribute to” “Maryland’s Four Hundred.” 1 FELL IN THE REVOLUTION. ‘The discovery was made to-day that) Vandals had stolen about eighty of te] heayy ‘bronze tetters from the inscription on the large Maryland monument in Progpect Park. The entire inscription following Is missing; “Good God! what brave followers 1 must this day lose!”—Washington. The rest of the eighty jetters were taken from this inscription: “In honor of Maryland's Four Hun- dred, who on this battlefield, Aug. 27, 1776, saved the American Army.” The monument was dedicated in 1805) and erected by the Baltimore Goclety of the Bons of the American Revolution, It was to commmorate the 400 soldiers who covered the retreat of Washington's Army in the disastrous battle of Long ————————— A COFFEE DRUNK Held On to the Tree, Some people go on using coffee for @ great many years without showing much effect of the drug, but as a rule it is slowly doing its il] work, and the time will come when stomach or nerve disease of some kind will show itself. An interesting case is that of a man who drank coffees for & great many y: before he felt the effect of it. 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