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York JUtVliillL ULieUV,Theuret took his wife and Uttle girl, Angel In e, to visit the Keeios, and from that uatp no alleges that she became estranged from him, neglected her home and child and finally left him, as he thought, on a visit to Keel o’a, on Aug. 15, 1893, aftor which ttmo she never returned to his homo, and he alleges that every effort was made to keep her from seeing him. On Aug, UO, he says, he a ailed at Keele s, where he waa brusquely, received by Keele, but was treated affectionately by his wife. Mrs, Keele tpltl •him that hie ■wife was ilylnaof constf,notion and that she would'not bo permitted to return to him. He says he made n series of attempts to recover nor, and laat September he found her at Christ's Hospital, Jersey City Heights, Soon afterwards she was ta-icon btiole to the Keele residence, lie called there, but was refused admission. Hla brother Marcel Anally saw her. and he says eho begged him to bring her husband and somebody who would give her proper medical treatment,Thouret states that, accompanied by Dr. Tbeodoran, his uncle, ho called two days later. He was told by Mrs. Keele that his wife was dead. He nelud to hoo the body. Uncovering the dead woman's head Mrs. Keele, so he alleges, said: “There, you brute: that Is the last you will see of her,u Ho further alleges that ho was refusod all Information us to the funeral arrangement* and was forbidden to attend the funeral. Finally oho was buried, he says, in the Hudson County Catholic Cemetery without his knowledge.When he at last learned of it c?Ve(Luu*0ff Father Brawn, of St. Joseph a Church, who had been hla wife's confessor, as well as his own, and to whom he alleges that ho paid money for masses for her repose, but the priest, when he demanded the right to exhume Ills wife s body, said be must get the deed oC tho grave. After obtaining a letter of authority from his mother-in-law and a permit from tho Hudson County Board of Health for the exhumation or the body, ho placed triom in hie lawyer’s hands, who sent an application for the deed to Keele, who said It was ]J? tblt;3 possession of Rev, Father Brown, rne latter has not as yet either returned the Jet tor of authority or given up the deed. To a World reporter he said: HJ wish to be quoted as saying that I know nothing for publication about the case,”Mr, and Mrs. Keele tell a very different story from Theuret’s. They say that Thau ret was a brute and that ho abused and starved his wife', and that they took her In merely out of charity.'1 Mrs, Keele says that Mrs, Theuret, whom .as a baby In 1887 she took care of, was worn to a mere skeleton when tost year she begged for a home and sufficient food, According to Mr, Keele the stories which Mrs, Theuret told of her husband's cruelty were almost beyond credence.
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Tue, Jul 10, 1894
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