verses during the business panic of1893 and is now employed at the Sabln Robbins Paper company in Middletown.lie laid out Bruce avenue, one of the most aristocratic streets Id Cumminsyille, naming it after his son. Cox claims that his marital unhappiness in due to the iniluence of his mother-in-law. He says Mrs. Bates caused him to break up his household several times, persuading him and his family to live with her. Then, he says, he and Mrs. Bates did not get along together.Ben H. Cox is his brother’s attorney, and Jerome D. Creed represents Mrs. Cox.“He has threatened my life so often,” declared Mrs. Cox, “that I have been afraid of him-for years.” She then related an alleged occurrence when she says her husband came in while she was playing the piano and looked behind the sofas to see if there was a man in the room.