Chenango Union, July 4, 1907
In chambers, last week, Judge Gladding granted in interlocutory judgment of divorce to Mable A. Ward, against Ellsworth Ward. A warrant charging bigamy has been issued against Ward, who is said to have abandoned his wife at Bainbridge in the fall of 1906 and gone to Hornellsville where he married Ella May LeSeur, of Binghamton, with whom he came to Norwich.
In July, 1904, Ellsworth Ward married Mabel Springstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli K. Springstein, of Bainbridge. they were school friends in Binghamton, both parties formerly residing in that city. Later Ward came to Bainbridge and opened a photograph gallery, where he continued doing a good business until last November. During last fall he met Miss Ella A. Lesuer who came to Bainbridge frequently from Afton. Presumably she came to have her picture taken and Ward became enamored with her. His fascination for her was not known or surmised at that time. Last November he announced he had a position in a studio in Buffalo and would give up business here, consequently he gave up housekeeping in the Duncan Copley house, on north Main street, stored his household goods with his father-in-law, Mr. Springstein, and left his wife with her parents, saying that as soon as he became established in his new place he would return for her and their household effects.
He left Bainbridge for Buffalo stopping at Hornell where he joined the LeSuer girl and they were married at that place. they lived together in Buffalo until in January this year when Ward returned to Bainbridge and joined his wife, No. 1. He remained here four weeks, keeping up his husband like relations with her, having announced that he found Buffalo business unprofitable. His wife, No. 1, did not at all surmise the deception being practiced by him. He wrote her frequently from Buffalo and appeared devoted to her. Ward next went to Norwich and was there joined by the LeSuer girl. They obtained board and rooms in a house on Academy street. Ward first secured employment in the silk mill, later he changed to the Hammer Factory and finally was employed in the grocery store of Hoffman and Windsor. During all this time in Norwich he lived with the LeSuer girl and represented her to be his wife.
Frequently he made trips to Bainbridge to see is wife here. He continued this dual matrimonial existence up till about April this year, when Mrs. Ward, No. 1, was appraised of the situation. the news came with such suddenness and shock as to cause prostration and she was under the care of a physician for a period.
Early in the winter rumors of Ward's unfaithfulness kept coming to Mrs. Ward's parents but they were loath to believe them as they never had observed in him otherwise than complete devotion Mr. and Mrs. Springstein had been exceedingly kind to Ward having provided a home and board that he might get a start in business and concluded for a while that the rumors were idle. An investigation was finally started and through the Town Clerk they secured from the State Board of Health a copy of the marriage certificate of Ward to the LeSuer girl which told the truth.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Ward are young people about the age of twenty-two. Mrs. Ward, proper, was born in Bainbridge, her parents moved to Binghamton some years ago returning to Bainbridge to live about four years ago. She has lived most of her life in this village and is known as a fine and excellent young lady, pleasant and womanly and is a prominent member of the Methodist church. Up to the time Ward fell in with the LeSuer girl he bore a good reputation. He attended the Methodist church and was a man of good habits. It was a surprise to this community to learn of this crime and the contemptible and shameful desertion of his wife. About a year ago Ward's father committed suicide in Binghamton, and the son came into possession of $1000 insurance money.
As a result of the testimony brought out at the divorce proceedings, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Ward. He has left Norwich and has not yet been apprehended.
Bainbridge Republican & Express, July 4, 1907
Mrs. Ellsworth Ward of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], has been granted an interlocutory judgment of divorce and the right to resume her maiden name, by Justice Albert F. Gladding through her attorney, I.J. Tillman, formerly of Bainbridge, on June 22nd, at Norwich. The grounds for this divorce is the conduct of her husband, who married in November last, Miss Ella A. LeSuer, of Afton, and with whom he has since been living as his wife in various places.In July, 1904, Ellsworth Ward married Mabel Springstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli K. Springstein, of Bainbridge. they were school friends in Binghamton, both parties formerly residing in that city. Later Ward came to Bainbridge and opened a photograph gallery, where he continued doing a good business until last November. During last fall he met Miss Ella A. Lesuer who came to Bainbridge frequently from Afton. Presumably she came to have her picture taken and Ward became enamored with her. His fascination for her was not known or surmised at that time. Last November he announced he had a position in a studio in Buffalo and would give up business here, consequently he gave up housekeeping in the Duncan Copley house, on north Main street, stored his household goods with his father-in-law, Mr. Springstein, and left his wife with her parents, saying that as soon as he became established in his new place he would return for her and their household effects.
He left Bainbridge for Buffalo stopping at Hornell where he joined the LeSuer girl and they were married at that place. they lived together in Buffalo until in January this year when Ward returned to Bainbridge and joined his wife, No. 1. He remained here four weeks, keeping up his husband like relations with her, having announced that he found Buffalo business unprofitable. His wife, No. 1, did not at all surmise the deception being practiced by him. He wrote her frequently from Buffalo and appeared devoted to her. Ward next went to Norwich and was there joined by the LeSuer girl. They obtained board and rooms in a house on Academy street. Ward first secured employment in the silk mill, later he changed to the Hammer Factory and finally was employed in the grocery store of Hoffman and Windsor. During all this time in Norwich he lived with the LeSuer girl and represented her to be his wife.
Frequently he made trips to Bainbridge to see is wife here. He continued this dual matrimonial existence up till about April this year, when Mrs. Ward, No. 1, was appraised of the situation. the news came with such suddenness and shock as to cause prostration and she was under the care of a physician for a period.
Early in the winter rumors of Ward's unfaithfulness kept coming to Mrs. Ward's parents but they were loath to believe them as they never had observed in him otherwise than complete devotion Mr. and Mrs. Springstein had been exceedingly kind to Ward having provided a home and board that he might get a start in business and concluded for a while that the rumors were idle. An investigation was finally started and through the Town Clerk they secured from the State Board of Health a copy of the marriage certificate of Ward to the LeSuer girl which told the truth.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Ward are young people about the age of twenty-two. Mrs. Ward, proper, was born in Bainbridge, her parents moved to Binghamton some years ago returning to Bainbridge to live about four years ago. She has lived most of her life in this village and is known as a fine and excellent young lady, pleasant and womanly and is a prominent member of the Methodist church. Up to the time Ward fell in with the LeSuer girl he bore a good reputation. He attended the Methodist church and was a man of good habits. It was a surprise to this community to learn of this crime and the contemptible and shameful desertion of his wife. About a year ago Ward's father committed suicide in Binghamton, and the son came into possession of $1000 insurance money.
As a result of the testimony brought out at the divorce proceedings, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Ward. He has left Norwich and has not yet been apprehended.
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