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Funny Divorce Suit. Wife Says Her Husband Was the Co-Respondent Named in Her Husband's Bill. The highly novel situation of a husband being a co-respondent in a divorce suit he has brought against his wife falls to the lot of Charles L. Schoenfeld, a member of the Hoboken Quartette Club. This odd state of affairs cropped up this morning when his wife, Mrs. Caroline Schoenfeld, asked Vice Chancellor Stevenson for alimony and counsel fees pending her husband's suit, The Vice-chancellor gave her a week's alimony. Schoenfeld's bill sets out that because of the improper intimacy of his wife with Julius Groenwald of Hoboken, Paul Baumgarten of New York, and "an unknown man," he is entitled to freedom from the bonds of matrimony. Mrs. Schoenfeld indignantly denies any misconduct with the two men named and declares that the "unknown man" was her husband himself. It appeared that after a quarrel the Schoenfelds separated, the husband wrote to meet his wife, in which letters he made appointments at a flat at No. 225 Hudson street, Hoboken. Mrs. Schoenfeld swears that her husband told her to have the lights turned low at the stated times he would call and requested her to tell nobody about her visits. She swears that her husband would sneak into the flat and remain the night there. This he did several times and on each occasion and would talk so loudly that the neighbors might hear there was a man in the flat. He, she insists, was the "unknown co-respondent." Schoenfeld was a widower with three children when on June 4, 1896, he married his present wife and they disagreed because of the step-children. She rented the flat at No. 225 Hudson street and taught German and French. Articles of separation were drawn up and he paid her $6 a week. Julius Groenwold rented a room from her, so the wife says, and Paul Baumgarten, a New York spice merchant, wanted a governess and he engaged her. In looking up her references, Paul says, when he discovered she was, separated from her husband he refused to engage her. That was all he knows about the case. Mrs. Schoenfeld says further that when Baumgarten called on her to engage her as a governess her husband walked in and she introduced them to each other. At no time, she denies, was there any improper relations with Baumgarten. Shortly after this visit the husband stopped paying the $6 and he began the present suit.

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