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CAPE MAY HERALD. THURSDAY. DECEMBER ig, 1904-

THE FARROW DIVORCE CASE

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«1 b»r thr*c quMtiena to hta bUndMt too**. ProprUtor John J. VoCoomII, of tb* Kbbltt Hou*r, Cop* M*r. Matlllad that during the month of Auwitt and (mCwmb the date* of Ancnat SI and tt, he had aa a Kuret at hi* hoaa* by his InrUaUan atlng-

Re said she bad arranged to glee a moilcaJ* at the Stockton Hotel, and that he ■ecured the aarrices of Mrs. Farrow to accompany her at a rehearsal, which was to be glean in the Kbbltt Boose on the night

of August St.

The witness said be waited until a quarter of S o’clock, but Mrs. Farrow tailed to make her appearance. He then called up the Glen wood Hotel and asked them to get Mrs. Farrow to the ’phone. He said that he reoogntstd Mis. Farrow’s roles on thr other end of the line, sod she told him that company had unexpectedly called her and that she woo id be unable to keep

On Thursday msralng Frank Hebeothal testlfleri that Mr. Doak, the co respondent, was employed In his cigar store, and that Doak was busily engaged on the night of August 17th, one of the dates on which It wa* chanted against tbs wife that she and Doak committed an offeu**4 The testimony of Octarlne Ware, the little elerea.year daughter of the conteelani. probably excited more Interest i aay of the wUoeeaea which followed. She testified that on one night her stepfather kissed her good night end threat coed to shoet her mother. She said she never saw Doak with her mother at night. She said that she had. however, seen father and mother sitting together on sofa after they had separated ta April laat. Stuart H. Thompson, of 18M Norris st., Philadelphia, followed. He said he was an agent of the U. G. 1. and bad kaoi Mrs. Farrow four years, haring taken rooms with his wife at the Farrow cottage July 1st to September BOth last. He stated he had never observed Mrs. Farrow with either Harry Oliver or Charles Doak. and bad seen no improper ecu daring his overSou day stops at the place. Mrs. Thompson followed, corroborating her husband’s

Mrs. Electa Scbelliager. of Rogersford. Pa., next took the stand. Witness st that Mrs. Farrow was her niece and that Cape May was all their hemes and that they bad all visited back and forth for years past. When Mrs. Sokellenger visited Cape May. which she did each season, she stopped at the Star Villa, two squares from the Farrow home. Sba had spent part of the evening of Angust 11 last st Mrs. Farrow’s bouse, when that lady bad refnsed to play at the Ebfaitt House concert sn account of a so re hand. Mrs. Scbellenger stated that she had an Invalid daughter at one of the Philadelphia hospitals. Fletcher W. Stites, a young lawyer and cousin of Mrs. Farrow, followed with statement that on the memorable night of August 4th ha had gone to eee Doak at the cigar store In reference to arranging for a game of base ball ter which Doak was to catch, and of which team Stlti waa captain, and that Dosk was certainly at work that evening. H<-«aSd that he had eeec the Farrows and Doak together on the streets, however. K. Ferry Edmunds, of MO I Jamood st.. Philadelphia, of the firm No re roes & Edmunds, sand and gravel agent, at Bir zningham, N. J., took the stand to testify that he had been summoned to Cape May to aee about bis niece. Mis. Farrow. When he arrived there be waa met by the husband, William Farrow, who said to him: “Well, I s’pose you are going to side with Ethel in this matter.’’ The witness then mid to Farrow: "No, want to be fair in this matter. I will bes both sides of your troubles sad If possible will fix it wp for yon. Come 1st ns go hare supper. After that.” said thp witnear, “we had a several hours* interview , between the three of ns. Whan first Will would mafce’ao accnaatios aad then Ethel would contradict it. Nothing much came of the talk, aay more than Ethel-emphati-cally denied asaetlng Doak under or near

is ae to having Doak call tee-

qnently at his home.

Mr. Edmunds said that In going up to Philadelphia la the train the next day he told Farrow how fooliah be had been in suspecting bis wife aad in which Farrow half admitted that he was aad had been Isltf crnxy about Us wife for the pant few Mr! Edmunds' tsetlmouy was partial to bia alecs. Mis. Farrow, hut ha made a noble attempt to be fsir toward Will Farrow. Be reiterated aad baited an in his testimony that ft waa a very trying strain on the Conn aad - the lawyers, who were working at their highest pitch aad showed ! thr mental strain visibly l-T the time court adjourned. Mr. Kdinuads said that

i of gram ou I

irs-Mry material. Frank W. Miller, a young Cepe May resident. loWt how he would call at the Farrow's to aw Will, but tf no won but Mrs. Furrow wee homo he wouldn't linger long. Heaaid he had aoaq Doak there oaeo fixing a dog’s leg and that yonng ks gathered there to alag and. bars a id tins. Why waa It you wouldn't Unger there to one was home but Mrs. Farrow?” saksd Judge Cairow. didn't go there to aae Mrs Farrow. I went to eee WU1.” Late la the afternoon Harry Oliver, one of the co-respondeota, waa put ou the stand in defense of Mrs Farrow. Oliver said that Will Farrow came to him one day laat summer, after ha had atumpted to fasten complications on thr mas and offered him (Oliver) MO in i and all his wife's diamonds If be ltd go to a Justice’s offlee and take an aBdavii which had been prepared, the coutehtt of which, however, Oliver said tbatAe didn’t know but Imagined waa to compromise him with the eoiqplainat'e wife. When the man Oliver waa called to stand by the defense be feU short of being the nonchalant witness that he pose I to be. Oliver M s big. fat face fellow of about tt years of age. He has a rnddv complrxlnn alow voice, which at times showed nervousness when hr came to be croee-quettloaed by Judge Cairow. lawyers Hildreth and Edmunds, for the wife, took the man In band. ‘Y«n ere the Harry Oliver mentioned In the bill filed by the complainant, are yon not?” "Yea, I’m the boy.” the witness answer ad, with a smile and a twist In the witness chair, in assuming s more comfortable position. How long have yon known Ethel?” meaning Mrs Farrow. All my life. I went to school with her played with her and grew up with her.” Wall, tall ns about your alleged relations with this womaa.” Oliver then told how he had one day met Will Farrow, “with blood In his eye.” speak. Farrow accused him of bring out with his wife the night before. The said that be denied the charge and asked to be taken before Mr-. Farrow and Will Farrow's father. Chief of Police of Cape May. Together the men went to the Farrow borne and had an interview with Mrs. Farrow about the matter. “Yea,”aald Mrs. farrow, in answer to the plain question, '1 did confess to my husband that we had been out together In' order to save my life, aa be threatened me with a revolver.” “We all eat there then and talked the matter over for an boar and finally all got to laughing over it.'” I had only been to the Farrow hone# twice last year. Once I west to tel* Ethel that my father had been killed on the railroad and ask ber to stay with my mother,’ said the witness. Judge Cairow then took Oliver on cross examination. “Mr. Oliver.” be began In his low, distinct way, “at whom were yon Jnst winking?” T didn’t wink at anybody,” retorted the wttoese. "Yes yon did,” said the J odge; *T saw yon winking out there in the audience and you thought nobody saw yon.” Several person* saw Oliver cloae one eye quietly toward Mrs. Farrow, while the latter flitted a faint smile back at the wit-

ess.

Judge Carrow then proceeded to show by the witness that Farrow had been driven about cruxy by the actions of his wife and hardly knew what be waa doing when be flashed the pistol at his wife. "Why didst you apeak of the money and diamond episode before?” asked Mr. Car-

•w.

“Nobody asked me.’ said the witness. He had a whole roll Wf bilU which be ofr red me and the diamonds were la a little velvet The case adjourned on Oliver’s testimony for the day at four o’clock until Friday. Mrs. Farrow, who was the Utst witness beard, stated that she was a young widow already, teaching public school Farrow courted ber sod wed ber. She She said be bad always been jealous of Harry Oliver, one of the alleged co-res-because Oliver and sbe bad been friendly for years- Than Farrows wl family never liked ber and there trouble from the etart. My husband would always be disagreeable and pouty when be returned from u visit to bis relatives. He would pont for dam at a time. We called them “Fi fits.”

bis hip pocket. When we got boms b# told ms that 1 would bars to eonfsu* that I had bsao out with Harry Oliver or hr would shoot ms. 1 refused and be thsu called up my daughter Oct*vine and her that her mother was a bad woman a in) 'aa going to Wars b*r. 1 cried aad tbr erksd and Octavio* said ‘Papa, I don’t tells v* It.’ And I said ‘No, Oetavloa don’t you believe It. I’m not.’ H« said, ‘If U not tor yon Oetavloa, 1 would shoot ’ That night be throw ms down and jumped on ms with his knsrs sod. bolding me helpless, said ha would glvs ms Joat throe minutes to eonfess that 1 was out with Harry Oliver. ’Hurry up,’ he said. Tor you’ve on* minute and a half left to make your praes with God. 1 plu with him, but be said I waa bad enough to go with other men and be would kill me I thought my lime had com* sure and expected my brains would be blown out every second. He then rushed from the house and I summoned bis lather, who pacified him and to whom be gave the re-

volver.”

The testimony of Mrs. Farrow, especially where It pertained to the advent of her unde. Perry Rdmnods, who acted aa a of martial pol-unoo In tbs case, quits interesting. Under her big black with a rigorous way of giving testimony, she held tbs court room tense Id her story of tbe > many events transpirinK in the seaside resort. When aforemsmiourd Perry Edmunds arrived In answer to Ethgi'i talegram early in An gnat last there waa a four-cornered Interview in which Mrs. Farrow waa said to have participated, with the casual remark that “Ethel bad always been bad.” "Miuale Farrow hadn’t been friendly with me for a yUar. but at this meeting she kissed me.” said the witness. ^WUEs father. Chief Farrow*, v asked about the matter, said; I didn’t mix np in family affairs, and you will hare tn fix this np between each other. 1 The witness then told how Will had come to her bouse and stayed fron _ o’clock in'the morning until 4 in li>e afternoon trying to adjust matters. He wanted me to go to Sqnlre Eld ridge’s and sign a divorce proceeding,” said the witness. going to get a divorce from yon sooner or leter.” Will said to me, “and yon had better sign these papers so aa to save the publicity you msy get. Tlilnk of yonr little girl” "Well I’ll go on Unde Perry’s advice,” I told him. “Will then told me that beloved me.and we kissed and cried over It. I told him, thongh. that I waa willing to go before any judge, conn or Jury, in tbs United States and prove that the things said shout me were untrue. When Will went ont he said, this feels likes funeral to me. I gave him father’s ring be had come for. and a couple of collars and be went away ” “Do yon know Lawyer EBradge, be naked Lawyer Edmunds, pointing to ber

ebouid Bay 1 did” replied Mrs. Far“we went to school together graduated together, aad I waa organist in the ssm^Presbyterian Church be attendDid you and he go to the same Sunday-

school *”

“No, I don’t think he ever went” replied Mrs. Farrow, amid general (miles. "Haveyon spoken to him since be called

on you?”

“No, sir, and I never intend to. I then denied to him that I was guilty and refns-

" What kind of flu?” asked Lawyer Edmonds, with his band back of his “Farrow flu. I’ll explain taem. 1 “Hold np, Interposed Mr. Edmouds, M we

are not tiring ‘Farrow flu.”' "Did he ever call you

No! be did not dare,” exclaimed Mrs.

Farrow, with moeh spirit.

On their honeymoon he told how be seised ber of flirting with a man in the lining oar because he saw him takaagUaa

“What □

Mr. 1

that?” asked

>aad found |

• by the fact tuu Farrow had Lean ■eking some new fa re it are In their

“I guess be bad a ‘Farrow fit' on.” Mrs. Furrow next told of bar husband's -*rests to end her life fog bee Infidelity, (a April of this year he met her on the - rest la Gape May and asked her. “Where • <he—— have yon been. 1 gut a good

parlor Sad Mrs. Farrow bad ua • flu*

-J *-k*d him not t

pieces vf th- ' - •et. I

DM you' husband everealloa yon after he left yon?”—— “Yea. He told me be waa going to get a divorce by fair or foul means. I told him to go abend. I would stand ground.” Oore he followed me and said be wanted »speak to me. I was afraid be was going to shoot me. and I made idth bold bia hands np aad let me search him to sn be bad a revolver on him. He wanted to admit that I waa with other men. We cried aad kiaeed each other. I eras really sorry for him. as I felt he wj^ being urged to do eomethlag be. didn’t want to da Later be again wanted me to a walk, bat I again toM him no, it waa too late to get together again. Bnt ever sine* he hat dogged my footerepe. I see following me. hiding behind trees and darting ont and In tide streets. Only a weak ago I saw him in oar yard at Cape

May.-

Ia answer to Lajrycr Edmunds’ qne Mrs. Farrow again reiterated her denials of Improper or Immoral ooodnet with the two alleged oo-respondente, Charles Doak and Harry Oliver, or any other living i at home, on the benek or any other public

place.

The hour of adjournment arriving Vies Chancellor Grey adjourned tbs bearing

Attachment ftre a Witness.

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Sale For Taxes.

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