File:John Edward Oldrin (1867-1947) in The Central New Jersey Home News of New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 22, 1913.jpg

Somerville Widow Who Lured Away Her Hubby to Pay $25,000. Charging that she was deserted by her husband, John E. Oldrin, five years ago November 20 last, Mrs. Mary Cone Oldrin of 809 Washington street, South Somerville, yesterday had papers served on Mrs. Beatrice Madeleine van der Perren of South Somerville in a suit to recover $25,000 for the alleged alienation of her husband's affection. Mrs. van der Perren, who is a widow, with three adult' children, lives on a farm she owns, and la the principal owner of Howard Company, gold runners, at 10 John street, which business her father, the late Stephen P. Howard established in 1887. Oldrin, who is said to have an interest in the business, being actively engaged in the management of it, is a member of the van der Perren household, it is alleged. According to Oldrin's her husband's affection for hat seemed' to wane two years before he left her, and seeking to learn the cause sna played the part of a sleuth and discovered, she, alleges, that he frequently accompanied Mrs. 1 Woman Wants van der Perren from 10 John to her home at 116 Pacific street, Brooklyn. One night she further alleges, Oldrin detected his wife in the act of following him and the Widow van der Perren, and this circumstance, Mrs. Oldrin says, led to an absolute break, her husband shortly after abandoning her and his two children, Arline Luella, then eight, and Alfred Edwin, six years old, to make his home with Mrs. van der Perren. Eight months before this Oldrin gave up his position as head bookkeeper for the T. H. Wheeler Company, a branch of the Hammond Beef Company, and entered the employ of S. P. Howard and Company, as the assaying concern was then called. The first and second Christ mas after leaving his Mrs. Oldrin alleges, her husband sent the two children gifts but in the last three years he has never written to them, visited them or paid any attention to their birthdays. Once a year in the first two years Mrs. Oldrin took the children to the Howard concern's office, "So "'he wouldn't forget he bad she alleges, but each time her husband, abetted by Mrs. van der Perren and her son, she alleges, the oldest of her three children treated her with such contumely in the presence of the children that she never went again. In July, 1908, being about to go to Christ Hospital, Jersey City, to undergo a serious operation, Mrs. Oldrin wrote to her husband tuning him about the necessity of the proposed operation and her fears that the might not survive it. Her husband sent her a curt reply 'to the effect that he couldn't do anything for her, she says. Mrs. Oldrin through John E. Helm and Mathew J. Ready, filed a petition for divorce against her husband early in November. She had it in mind then to bring her alienation suit, but refrained out of consideration Tor Mrs. van der Perren's daughter, Miss Marion Chandler van der Perren, who was preparing for bar marriage to Benjamin LeRoi Bragg, of Springfield, Massachusetts. The marriage took place Oct. 17.

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