The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1903, Page 3

al SISSON HELPS MRS. C. SAY NO. The Minor Co-respondent in the Christie Divorce Suit Adds His Denials of Misdoings to Those of the Accused Wife. WRISLEY YET IN RESERVE. He Is Named as Co-respondent in Christie's Bill of Particulars and Is Not Permitted to Hear Mrs. Christie Testify. The task of cross-examining Mrs. | Elizabeth Burdick Christie asa defend- ant against the charges of her husband, James H. Christie, lace Importer, who mames Wells 11. Wrisley and Harry T. Sisson as co-respondents in his sult for absolute divorce, was resumed by Mr. Morschauser before Justice Clarke in the Suprome Court to-day. Late in the afternoon the proceedings were enlivened by the appearance on the witness-stand of Harry T. Sisson, @ne of the co-respondents named by Mr. Christie. The question of just how far Mrs, Christie may ibe allowed tu testify against her husband constantly arises. and much time is spent in arguing the| point, | Bhe Js permitted | to repeat | What he said In the presence of others, | ‘out_may not tell what transpired be-| tween her and her husband in private. | Fred B. House, In behalf of Wells if. | Wrigley, demanded that he be permitted! to sit in the court-room and listen ty Mrs. Christi stimony to-day. i “He is a jondent, and as such | 4s on trial here,’ sald Mr. House, “He has a right to see and hear his accusers and every witness on his trial." H Wrinsley May Have Separate Trial.! But 1. Laflin Kellogg, for Christie was inexorable, and Justice Clarke ruled | that Wilsley had no right in this trial. | Under the law passed last winter Wris- ley has a right to a trial by himeelf on the question of his guilt on the charges | made by Mr, Christie, and he has de- manded that right. ‘Mr. Wrisley went to Amenta with you when you returned after the three Weeks you’ spent in the city, leaving | your children. this nurse and your sis: | ter at Amenta in July, 1899, didn't he asked the Poughkeepsie cross-examiner. "No, s! What It was an accidental meeting on the train purely." explained the lady. "Mr. Wrisley just happened to’ board | the same train I was on. He was golng | to Pittsfield, Mass. He stepped off tae} train at Amenia and took spbper: at} the Meade house at my sister's invita- tion. My sister was at the train to! Meet us-—to meet me—asd asked him, He remained about an hour and a half, Mrs. Christie dented having been at a-churoh fair with Wrisley at Amenia in 1899 or 1900. She sald she first knew Wrisley'’s wife in the summer of 1899. “Where is she now?’ demanded the lawyer, “YT don't know,” sald the defendant, faintly. “Have you made any cffort to get her here as a witness relative to her al. ed visit to your house in search of pasa d?" 't Mr. Wrisley give you enve- Jopes cvith his address typewritten upon hem?" . Wrisley would not suspect who they were from and intercept them?" “No, sir; not at all.” Mrs. Christie denied that she had au- thorized Mr. Wrisley to register her as is wife under an assumed je at the tanwix Hall Hotel, Chatham, and sald that she went to the hotel last year to look at the page for that day to eee if he had registered “Mr. and Mrs. Wil!- jams,’ as had been charged, but the page had been removed from the book. a Husba Wrisley visit you in October, 15997" Yeu Hotel with him?" "Yea" “And have something to drink?” “T presume likely.” “How often did he call after your hus- i forbade you to receive him?” 'You called on him No, I met him occasionally.” ‘Did you ever go to Sharon with Mr, Wrisley?” “Yes, and Miss Breckenridge and Mr, Sherman returned with us." “Mr. Wrisley was drink, wasn't he?" “I don't recall--or, rather, I should way, 1 never saw Mr. Wrisley under the inftuence of Hquor,” said Mrs. Christie. _ Did you become very intlmate. with Miss Laura M. Smith, at the Meade house, Amenia!’" very menticn of the woman who earned $10 a week and board for ingrati- pling hermelt with Mrs. Christie and get- ing her secrets, has the effect of arvus. if the ‘ire of the blond lady ““ars braved ‘vp ut this last question, and re, Plied: od knew Mins ‘Laura’ M. Smith, met ‘Lottie’ M. Smith at Amenia, but was never inUmate with her," A letter wr! Jan. 30, 1902, by Mrs, Christie to Lottle M. Smith, No. 75 Went Ninety-fourth street, was Introduced to how their intimacy. It was a forma} Totter ‘thanking her’ for an “ola ‘ie making excuses for the tardy reply, newi negotiations for securing n novel an ponaluaing wit! “T have been liv- ing very quietly, going nowhere. T sup: me you are having a gay time, aa How is the man? 1s he as ‘nico mt Sissou Alno Denies, The cross-examiner released Mrs. hls afternoon, and” Harry’ i chubby you! tloneer keepsies, followed on the Wit. Sir, Christie's charats neaiiot ie ice ~ Chirlatie's inst his wife, and he denied cash charwe categori: Sally, and deciered that his. triendahip with’ the “aocused “wife” was purely Under cross-examination Sisson ad mitted that he drove fifty miles on day the Mead to see nd tall ut this case W weeks ago, but he denied that iked Meade to hi ‘Mrs. Meade swear to no more than w Recesary. “Didn't you see Miss Breckenridge in Poughkeopsle and tell her of certain alleged occurrences, and didn't she dis- pute you, and refuse to promise to 0 it In court?’ agked the cross-ex- r. Bisson replied in the negative. —— POSTMAN PROVES ALIBI, Katigr-Carrier Was at j eu Gheck Was Pres ‘When Benjamin W. Hobson, a lotter- carrier, employed at Station L, One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street and ‘Lexington evenue, was examined In the Harlem Police Court to-day on a charike _jof the theft of ® check for $48.13, he | ‘The letter that has been sent to the | Coroner not only states that the young mothe MRS. M. E. W. SHERWOOD. Writer on Social Topics Declares Leaders in 400" Are Not so Black as They Are Painted, Although They Do Not Come 'Jp to Old Standards. “My attitude 1s that of apology for the American soclety woman, not a con- demnation,” said Mrs, M. E. W. Sher- connected with her name. was never fast of loud. She was an excellent wife and qother. Social func- She) into soctety, now that refinement, fam- education are no THE WORLD:. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1903. AMERICAN SOCIETY WOMEN’S DISSIPATION DUE TO IGNORANCE, SAYS MRS. SHERWOOD. NOTE SAYS GIRL BEHEADED CHILD WAS MURDERED, NOW IN CALVARY Anonymous Writer Notifies Cor- Mother of Baby Girl Slain by| oner that Florence Sheridan} Coachman Hardly Able to | Was Put to Death with Bi-) Stand Beside the Casket at chloride of Mercury. the Funeral To-Day. | aces | STOPS THE VICTIM’S BURIAL. HER HAIR TURNED ‘GRAY. | | Body Was to Have Been Taken when the Body of Her Murdered from the Morgue to Potter's Field Child Was Lowered Into the) as that of a Friendiess Unknown) Grave She Broke Down and Ia in Suicide. | Charge of Physician. Coroner Scholer to-day forbade the re- n al fre he Morgue to © Field | Sere eae " eve tornotten a Miele | 8 50 cruelly murdered by | he body of 2 “| Albert King, the discharged coachman See ate ‘ Roosevelt | of hor father, took place at noon to-day topay revealed to be bieioride of mers | 70M the Finlay home, Corcoran Manor, Bun), palnon ink Mount Vernon. Only relatives and in- Since the autopsy Coroner Scholer bas/ timate friends of the family were in- [recetved an anonymous letter atattng | vited, jthat the girl did not commit suicide, but was murdered and he Intends to! make an exhausti vestigation into] Iteraily smothered in flowers sent by [the clreumatunces surrounding her death. | son atnging trends, Actives plats Evidence Waw Scarce, [bore thin Inseriptlor The dead girl came to this city from | y+ : Philadelphia. She was a stenograph and Ilved with the family of James Mo- | natr, at No, 30 West Forty-second | street. From the acant evidence that | could be obtained at the time she was taken to the hospital It was b that she had ende by drinking the T inlay, who w » funeral of little Helen Katherine | e Sheridan, young woman who died {n The services were very simple. The child's body lay In a white couch casket, Died Jan, ELEN KATHE cAged three years, ten month: Mother Could Just Stand. . | More pitiful than <he beautiful dead | elleved |tace of the ttle @irl was the heart- vored to end her fe | broken mother at the coffin's side. She on, had just enough etrength to stand the |trying ordeal—the strength born of a love, which made her cling to girl was murdered, but that she Is the/the very last to all that. waa left. of daughter of one of the wealthiest fam-|her child. Her hair, so black until the les in Pennsyly: The letter states| tragedy changed her whole I!fe, Is now positively that her name !s not Florence | tinged with gray, the pitiful harvest of Sheridan. After receiving the letter, |one night's terrible grief by the corpse Coroner Scholer went to Capt. Schmitt-| of the dead daughter. berger in the West Forty-seventh street] During all the service her weeping ftatton and asked his assistance in| Sounded through the rooms and not an- working up the case. other eye In the house but wept In sym- Wil lene Subpoenas. peey wits Be Wits tt was stove . 2 e body of the child was bro o Detective Rohert Uilmer was arstened | New “york and. Interred in Calvary to assist in unravelling the supposed Camatatys Dara: Finlay then broke down | pated Corones: Leholer said to-day | completely and whe) put under the'care | hat they have dincovered wo far that| or a physician ie Ney Jersey before com-| White the funeral of little Helen was 3 a ene t 1 Their attempt to trace her to her fam-| ; rosters the body of her murderer ead jay, unclaimed, in an undertaker's n Pennsylvania have falled thus Tae GhOREN tbo Bt "Stroom. Later in the day, his brother, i Fexpects to learn! Richard, of Philadelphia, telegraphed from several persons he will summon "1 y - that he would pay the expenses of the pen induelt the full particulars about! ¢uneral, ‘The undertaker was about to the girl's life. Ho sald that to-night he| bury the body in Potter's Field, but on would issue a number of subpoenas,| the advice of the Coroner held it. some of them to persons of prominence ee in business in this city, He sald he Would not give out any names as that} ACCOUNTANT HASKINS DEAD might drive these witnesses out of the = city. The Coroner expects the testimony | Pmeumontu Carrice Away a Well- that he will adduce at his inquest to be Known Man, of a sensational nature, proving that the! Charles W. Haskins, senior member of girl was poisoned, He intimated that| the firm of Haskins & Sells, public ac- to an Evening World reporter asked for her opinion of numerous recent attacks on the women tlons wore elegant in not so grand or elaborate as now. There have been changes in more ways than that women who do not ‘belong to the clrole are mistaken ignorance of New York society woman of to-day leads her into indls- She sometimes visits a so- | called swell hotel where women of ques- “lonable character masquerade as s0- clety women and in this way lays her- open to criticism, “It is In one such hotel that many tales of gambling, drinking and smoking I do not class the women ite corridors as society Women, however, so they do not come into the present discussion. Seated in state, in her “throne chair as it is called by her fellow patrons of the Hotei Majestic, Mr: cussed at American society woman. Ignorance Causes Seandal. “That scandal has cast Its web over society cannot be attributed to degen- but to ignorance. “You see I take an optimistic view of the situation. “The attacks upon society are greatly exaggerated. The simple fact that grounds for criticism are given by ignorant young women who do not know how to act. net understand the dignity Sherwood dis- tatus of the impaired the hea'th of this clever lecturer, ’@ Wish. and author, her remarkable vitality has “Did your husband ask you not to le: |enabled her to continue actively the dis- cussion of questions of literature, socl- jdn't you see him after that?” ology and philanthropy. one Using an alpine staff, “And visit the cafe of the Colonial|py a chamois foot and adorned always with a huge bunch of violeta, ted with Bherwood every fs assisted to her Ey where a sort of levee is in order after He did not call after that.” Alaners Gowned in a heavy black brocade, with a fold of white lace at her throat and wrists, with jewels of quaint de- sign sparkling on her hands and throat, fa black Jace head dress with white and black aigrette in her hair, she makes # picturesque figure in the foyer of the “The first characteristic of this new growth of American society young wo- men is the initiation of foreign habits It Is this which has used the Invasion of scandal into our society, Smoking, in which some of our society women now Imitation of our foreign sisters, that the unthinking young women have picked up kambling tendencies. As to drinking, f leave that undiscussed. never seen any of my friends drink, “One great cause of soclety woman {s more daring in her purple ribbons, the aristocracy indescretions evening have met in other countries?” No More Daring, Mrs. Sherwood answered emphatically in the negative, “The woman risque is a type, and custom: She exists the world over, She cannot be sald to be a pro- duct of any time Princess Loulse of §: shown her nature In he. Nn, #0 do others of the themselves everywhere It 1s abroad, axony has openly elopement with “The American society woma: she, "is much abused, The stories of her degeneracy, of her plunges into vice 1 take exception to the attacks made upon her by several prominent journallats, who dilate upon her gambling, her drinking and smox- ‘That women smoke cannot be de- nied; that they gamble can only be too readily ascertained at Sarat never sene a society woman intoxicated, so I cannot speak knowingly of that phase of the question. the American aptitude for dissipation is that she has never been instructed in the art The English woman diplomacy as a ge ner reaker of conventional rules, eee gine fonal rules from gly- ng 1s done op American women do are exaggerated. of amusement, knows how to take amusement. trained In literature, art and music, in outdoor sports; she is brought up to take things consistently. “The German girl is trained to be # domestic woman, Worse things ‘thi ve ard to publicity Il the tondencles towa nae ndencles toward seen much there n half that is but Ido no rted, 99 Not American's very es her at @ disadvantage in amuse- Uninstructed goes to extremes, vice and the mischief ts done, “I do not belle: Has Not Degenerated. would not like to be quoted as She imitates foreign men and the woman as having degenerated from the days when Mre, John Jacob Astor was the leader of our New York aristocracy, but to one who has lived through the different changes since and has known the change 1s alarmingly Holds Optimistic View. “While I realize the deterioration in the society of to-day from what it was ars ago, I take a di timistic view of in ten years society will have regained Society women will become tired of this fast or gay spirit, as you might call It doctrine of limitations, at least a marked improvement in the soclety of New York tn the next years, and of course the Improvement in New York, where the pace is set, will mean the Improvement of American society In general that the soclety woman has been a much abused creature. She has Articles have about her abroad—espe- olally in Paris—by writers who bi not seen real American society wom Women who pose as soclety women and who may dress and look like them are too iaiten the cause of America’ women belng criticised abroad, New York especially, of our society women has given grounds for criticiam, Now that money has come to be the pass-word American women, but I d erleans Envied, ply when I was in Calr American woman 1s bor “The trouble with the present soclety is not degeneracy or vice, it Is ignor- ance. The leaders of society to-day are women who have not been educated to thelr positions. “In the days when Mra. John Jacob Mre. Belmont, Fish were New York's first leaders of soclety there was @ substantial refine- ment about their position which cannot be duplicated by young women whose antecedents have not fitted (hem for the I believe in the There will be She will mak tas it should be, there ts no more opportunity for error n of these house- meet them in connection charitable work, py ever the case—the more more charitable, ‘ow do not say that I have atta: the New York & Mrs. Sherwood “T do not conde before, T am h Kreatiy abused,’ Mis. Sherwood, many articles fashionable the been unduly been written “To Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Fish society was their life work. They were thor oughly fitted for tt. former regime, you might say, Js that you do not meet hostesses to-day like those of old. There has been a dena- nce in the realm of the American AST have sata 4 change from the T think she Js society, has long been in @ position to know the social world Her greatest activity from the inside. . at present js in "The characteristics an to-day a ser American hostesses wure dignity, con- servatism, refinement. SET-BACK FOR CROKER, of four readings at the Majestic Hotel for the benefit or reduced elrcum- ‘Distory to the Fire Department. It de-| Sturgie wouldn't let him. Croker got that Commissioner Sturgis had}@ mandamus from the Supreme Court instatement to active ‘rom this the Commi: mr of, om Revides Mr. et te, hone a warrant for the arrest of some per-|countants, died at his home to-day of son or persons who were involved In the | pneumonia. mystery might be issued before the in-| Mr, Haskins was one of the hest- quest was bexyn. known accountants in the country. Jie After jasulne “his order forbidding the| was President of the New York Society removal of the dead girl Coroner Scho-| of Certified Public Accountants 1nd of ler went to the Morgue and examined | the National Federation of Socleties of the body. He said then that he would| public uuntants in the United States, hold his ‘inquest on Monday, and that | Pubic Acco among the witnesses he would summon | = Was the physician who had attended the woman ‘during her briet Hinesa. “He sald A COMPARISON he cage resembled in many particulars that of Hattie Balley, who later turned In Money and Food Value. out to be Hattle Laroque. aS “Coffee had been used in our family for years, and we all drank St except husband, who gave it up sonie years ago because it injured his health,” writes a lady from Granville, Ohio. “Last year we spent the summer in the Northern woods, Among our ta- ble supplies, unknown to my hus- , |] vand, I had taken along several packages of Postum Food Coffee, but {t was stored away and formotien {9 j i eeks, during which tlme we used “Big Bill's” Headquarters Are} ‘iter, P cr a husband sald: ‘I Named by J. Sergeant Cram} 41.0%, “ayo Possible to get some ii ji » I Id like to try it.’ Two as Place to Hold Primaries. pote rlater at dinner I served him a cup, brewed according to the direc- tions on the package. His surprise ‘There was jubilation about the “pump” | Vag complete; the taste pleased him to-day when the followers of “Bix Bill) 214 he drank a second cup. From Devery read in the advertising columns | that hour we continued to use Pos- of the newspapers the formal call for! iin with gratifying satisfaction, and the unoMwial primary election to elect! not another cup of coffee has ever delegates to the Sixteenth Senate Dis-| Morne to our table. trict conyention to nominate a Demo-| My husband found that it did not tle candidate for State Senator to produce the distress that forced him succeed the Inte Senator Tratnor. to renounce coffee and that it The Deveryites were quick to see| Strengthened his nerves and stopped recognition of their leader in the fi all hig stomach trouble, Ite effect on tat in the call published by J. Ser-| ie was no less gratifying; though 1 geant Cra the headquarters of the|)oq drunk coffee but sparingly, I had ation, the clubhouse at] cuffered considerably from it. It dis- moth avenue, was named as} ordered my nerves and disturbed my the place for holding the primaries in| \jyer, Poxstum corrected these evils the Ninth Assembly District, and three) and proved a sedative and most Devery men were appointed Inspectors, | wholesome food. namely, James Cummings, John Walsh] «we were both interested in the and Joha Gorman comparative cost of coffee and Pos- The primaries are to be held on Monday, | ium. We had always paid 35 cents a Jan, 12, from $to7 P. M., and the conven- | noynd for coffee, A large packag» of tion. consisting of delewutes from the] postum costs 25 cents and weighs one wh. Eleventh and ‘Thirteenth Aa-| pound and @ quarter, Though we sembly Districts, 1s to be held at No, 271/ drank Postum more freely and fre- Waat Thirty-toird street, at § o'clock, | quently than we had coffee, we found on the same evening, Tae election is tol that the large size package of Po be held on Jan. 27. The Ninth district | tum lasted as long as two pounds of wi}! have Afty-seven delegates in the | coffee, a difference of 45 cents in aleventh, forty-one; and | favor of Postum. In a year this sav- forty-one; a total of |ing of money Ww considerable, and this fact recommends Postum to all people who believe in economy. “Bven a person prejudiced in favor of coffee would admit that Postum erly brewed 1s as pleasant to the e as the best of coffee. I know — onor of Jewspaper | prop Is Prohibited | ty some people have been dissat- 8T PETERSBURG, Jan. 9.—The police fran with Postum because they di¢ have pronibited the proposed banquet] jot make it properly. ‘on the occasion of the two hundredth ‘Another advantage of Postum that anniversary of the ewablishment of the) makes it vastly superlor to coffee for first Russian newspaper, owlng to the| ‘ly use {s that ft can be given it became known that it was | family fetanded t9 resent a radical resolution | freely to children. being a real food h timulant lke coffee, It In favor of freedom of the pres | and pot, 0 stim the moat dstcate e| create a whiel Oak CARNEGIE’S PARTNER KILLED oh) pe actly to Indulgence in stln- apie yea uiants of a stronger nature, Andrew MeWt i believe that if every one knew A Wil coffee a so muel hich, beng @ stimulant en tari without food Yalue, ts 80 Gre Juedge—On what charge do you arraign these “Markdowns’? . Che Potieeman—Y our Honor, the: characters. 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