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His Own Co-Respondent. Wife's Counsel Arraigns Plaintiff — Off-sets His Testimony. A dramatic feature in a divorce case was enacted in Chancery Chambers Jersey City, yesterday, before Vice-Chancellor Pitney. In the suit brought by Charles L. Schoenfeld, of Hoboken, against his wife, Caroline, a witness named Denicke testified at a previous hearing that he had looked from a rear window of his home, at 226 River street, into the kitchen window of the flat occupied by Mrs. Schoenfeld, at 225 Hudson street, Hoboken. What he testified to having seen reflected upon the defendant. To offset this testimony counsel for Mrs. Schoenfeld organized a party of Hoboken citizens and took them to the very window out of which Denieke had looked into the kitchen of Mrs. Schoenfeld. The party included Rev. Leopold Hoffschneider, pastor of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church; Thomas H. McCann, city surveyor, former Freeholder Rudolph Freeh, Otto Kufer, John Kohn and Jacob Hischman. All these witnesses testified yesterday morning that they had gone to the third story rear window of 226 River street by request of Counsellor Lichtenstein and had looked into the kitchen window, of the Schoenfeld flat at 225 Hudson street, and they swore it was impossible for Denicke to have seen all he claimed to have seen. In summing up, Counsellor Weller laid stress upon what he said the testimony in the case clearly proved, namely, that Schoenfeld had planned to become his own co-respondent. Husband and wife had separated, yet Schoenfeld had frequently called at his wife's residence, but always under cover of darkness. In his suit for divorce Schoenfeld introduced into the testimony references to a "mysterious man" who had been calling after dark upon Mrs. Schoenfeld. Counsel Weller said the "mysterious man" in the case was Schoenfeld himself, who, he said, took that particular means of manufacturing evidence against an innocent woman. Vice-Chancellor Pitney reserved decision.

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