The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1914, Page 3

WE NEARLY PUT JEROME ADMITS SOOM" INBLOOM ASKING INDICTMENT WTHHERPSTOL| OF HS ST. LAR, Goodness, Mabel! Wasn't It|Denles He Tried to Force Awful When She Made Actress to Make Affidavits That Gun Play? He Wanted. SO RUDE, YOU KNOW!/ATTORNEY IS QUIZZED. Mrs. Gilman (Poor Dear!) {Accused Woman Faints in Res- Tells All About Little Fracas in Her Flat. taurant During Recess Hour. | Tt took a long time to get in and interview Mrs. Mabel Gilman this morning in her apartment at No. 260 West Elghty-fitth Street. The muld opened the door ever so little, peeped out, then closed and locked it; then returned after a long minute and grudgingly opened it, An Evening World reporter found Mrs. Gilman ready to go to court, for it was in he apartment that Mrs. Felice Bloom began, last evening, the attack on her husband, Moses Bloom, that cul- minated in his shooting her with her own revolver and the arrest of both. “Oh!” cried Mra. Gilman, pressing her hand to her brow, above which dark masses of Titian hair were piled. “Oh, I was afraid you were Mr. Bloom, out on bail and come back to shoot me! You know, they say that in cases of this kind the husband always sides with the wife. Well, anyway, I was pos-{-tivesly scared almost to death; #0 you'll excuse the maid and the door. “About the shooting? Well, good- ness knows! I don't want Moe Bloom. I have no use for him—pos-i-tivo-ly! Say, if I'd wanted him, I could ‘a’ had him long ago, but not for me! Why, listen: two weeks ago he was here, and I telephoned his wife: ‘or heaven's sake, Mrs. Bloom, if you want your husband, come around and get him!’ That will show you. “I've known Moe five years. He's a brother of Sol Bloom. I've no wu! for him. You see, this is tho fact— be had a little something on me, and @o I had to tolerate him, you know. He's followed me around from one t to another, no matter where I oved. He'd always find me out. “{ was sitting in the dining room it evening, and the room was & little darkened. Mr. Bloom was in he bathroom. I was expecting my sister—she's about the build of Mrs. Bluom. So when Mrs. Bloom came to the door my maid let her ip, sot Bnowing. I thought she was my sis- too, until she spoke. ‘Where's Mr. Bloom Former District Attorney William Travers Jerome resumed the stand for cross-examination to-day when the trial of Edith St. Clair, actress, for perjury, went on before Justice Davis in the Supreme Court. A judgment for $22,500 was ob- tained against A. L. Erlanger of Klaw & Erlanger, theatrical managers, by Miss St. Clair about two years ago. She alleged that the firm agreed to pay her $75 a week for life. Later, however, she repudiated her testi- mony, saying it had been arranged by her then counsel, Max D. Steuer, whereupon the verdict was set aside and the Bar Association investigated the charges. This time Miss St. Clair told the Bar Association committee that Max Steuer had not arranged her testimony. Two indictments against the actress for perjury were the out- come. Mr. Jerome, who was counsel for Erlanger, was cross-examined to-day St. Clair. The actress, accompanied by @ friend, Mrs. Helden, sat at the extreme end of the counsel table and never took her eyes from Mr. Jerome's face as he answered the quick-fire questions of Mr. Slade. Q. Up to the time the last affidavit | was drawn your relations with Miss St. Clair were very friendly, were they not? A. Yes. I believed she had done @ rarely courageous thing and I ad-| mired her for it. | Q. But when she refused to aign the last paper you asked for her in- dictment, didn’t you? A. I did not. Mr. Slad retort to this answer was a reading from Mr. Jerome's tes- timony before Justice Holt, in which he stated he had advised Assistant Diatrict Attorney Manley to indict the actress. Referring to Mr. Jerome's tes- timony before Justice Holt, Mr. Blade read answers to questions then asked showing that he (Jerome) had hs ene sought to obtain for Miss St, Clair like that, and, do you know, she be simad Brom TSloteneay' Ser per ok me so by surprise that I sald|" Q “anon, so long as Miss St. Clair m sure, I don't know!’ And there}. 5 wining to make affidavits satis- his hat and coat right on tne/ 0° +415 to you, you were willing she hould escape prosecution for perjury? A. It is not correct to assume that I was employing the processes of crim- inal law to make Miss St. Clair give only statements which would be gat- isfactory to me. I did ask for her ‘indictment three months after she refused to sign the fourth affidavit, ut this was not connected in any way with her refusa! to sign. Mr, Jerome denied he drew up for Miss St. Clair's signature a more voluminous affidavit than the one she first signed in repudiation of her tes- timony as to the $75 payment, in or- der to get at the substance of her re- traction before she had @ “change of heart.” Jerome said he had drawn up a new aftiduvit for the purpose of get- ting all his information and exclud- ing things which might be disputed in case of a motion for a new trial. The first affidavit, the witness stated, contained allegations inst Max Steuer which he, Jerome, be omitted from the second affidavit. Miss St. Clair signed three affida- vits in all. A fourth was drawn but not signed. Miss St. Clair will take the stand Monday or Tuesday, ttorney of record, Alfred Frankenthaler, said to- “She will be the first witness called in_her own behalf. When Miss St. Clair returned to court after the noon recess she was visible physical distress. + leaned heavily upon the arm of M | Seiden ang sank with obvious relief Poet Left Over 941,906, g ae . Frankenthaler said she had col- @AKLAND, Cal, Dec. ‘ore lapsed during recess and FMilier, the Rom. ies yin] left) a restaurant near th Court House. feal 996, . Who was Misa sides cash and other » accordll attorney before she placed Inventory Oled bh re ty Yrs Obie her irs in the hands of Max ‘ter, Juanita, are the followed Mr. Jerome on the 3. ith that she sees the hat, too. She bbed it up and tore It to pieces and u the pieces on the floor, Oo-oh, it she was awful—pos-i-tive-ly! n she picked up that claret decan- from the table and tried to brain with it, Then secky, my maid, pled with her and took the decan- from her and put it back on th je. She eaid: ‘Don’t you dare hurt * Then Mrs, Bloom took some- out of her muff wrapped in er. I never'thought what it might rp. She saw it “Ob, Mr. Mr, B.,, come quick! Your wife's @ pistol!’ She grabbed the gun called to mi Sh m and gral the pistol and pushed her to- the door, and Becky and I— @ treasure—just pushed them out into the hall Then we the door, eo let out @ shriek that you could a block. Bi all the ry thing Don't you she ought to be punished—a nan who'll do a thing like that? ‘ou don’t know how relieved I now that the whole is out, even if it does make a dal for a time. Ill be rid of Not that I care for Moe om, but I think that woman ould be punished. Don't you?” oe i oe er Don’t Let Your Stomach pat Trouble You Pitien you foul micoahle, re doves, have 0 bed tes in the mowth, costed frequent headaches a sure t stomach, |i ears ee mente are eels naretieraadh csansion oF ene on “LAX The Delicious Laxative Chocolate One 10c box of Ex-Lax is enough to convince you, Got it at your drug store today, 0c, 25¢ and 50c, RE EVENING WORLD, . pA husband's earnings. cumulate a bank pleases. TRRRSRALL was on deposit $618. “I regret to say that |So if the Wife Cannot Enjoy the Saving of Money| the Law Encourages Her to Spend It in Extrava- gantly Foolish Ways—Lucille Pugh, Woman Lawyer, Thinks There Should Be a Fair Partnership. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A wife has no legal right to any savings she may make from her If she wears remodelled clothes instead of new ones; by Benjamin Slade, counsel for Miss/i¢ she denies herself theatre tickets and candy; if sl ‘ " labor take the place of a second maid or, perhaps, of any maid at all; if with all manner of self-denial and hard work and careful planning she manages to ac- every penny, even against her will, and spend it as he Didn't he earn the money? that, if he had had charge of it, the entire amount would have been spent piecemeal, as quickly as it was! earned, cannot be taken under consideration by the majesty of the law. This illuminating instance of man-made justice | has just been on view in the Brooklyn courts. or a display of new winter fugs will be so likely to incite an era of riotous spending among wives as a simple perusal of the decision in the case of Charles S. Montgomery jr. against Mrs. Emma Lee Montgomery. The evidence showed that years ago the Montgomerys started a joint bank account, Every week the wife saved a part of the money her husband gave her for the household uses, and deposited it. Last November there Then there occurred a quatre] and when Montgomery tried to draw the money he discovered his wife had stopped payment. Even Supreme Court Justice Blackmar apologized for the interpretation of the law which he was compelled to make, and according to which the bank account was delared to be Montgomery's property. ft a cedhaseinnaliee es. “THEORETICALLY SHE MIGHT AS WELL SPEND ALL ShE Caw AS THE Law PROVIDES NO WKENTWE To SAVE BUCKLE PUGH makes her own balance—her husband can draw’ out The small fact SAYS CHART HEAD TOK GTS MAE TOTS PAUPERS Witness Charges Municipal Lodging House Superintend- ent Confiscated Clothing. I doubt if tango lessons This ta the judletal decision: How William Whiting, former “parpay, DECEMBER 19, 191° ‘THE SOLUTION OF WOULD BE A DEFINITE ARTICLE OP PARTNERSHIP BEFORE SavingsMadeby WifefromHubby’sAllowance |SAN{A AT WHEEL \NOLAWTO Belong to Him as the Law Now Provides Justices Heard the Cases That Fast. |WIFE TELLS OF RAID. 7 SWE Acts aS ws AGONT IW WANDUING THE MONGY THE PROBLEM | Kin of Larry Delmour In- volved in One of the Do- mestic Tragedies. One hundred and seven maritally | unfortunate wives and husbands—the wives, as usual, in the majority—did their Christmas shopping early in the Supreme Court to-day. Six Justices, in the role of Santa Claus, distributed divorce and separation decrees to all who could prove they were entitled to them. Justice Whitaker, aitting tn Part ILL, Special Term, acted as presiding Santa Claus and apportioned the suits, all of which were undefended, to various other parts. Justice Guy took twenty and others went to Jus- tices Blanchard, Goff, Gavegan, Er- langer and Taylor, The calendar was bulky that Justice Whitaker, de- he fact he was busy with other cases, was forced to keep @ score in his own court, The crowd was so dense when the call of the calendar was begun in Part Ill, that Justice Whitaker was obliged to send for an extra court of- ficer to keep the anxious divorce plaintiffa in check and prevent their knocking down the orass railings that separated them from the bench, Bev- eral women were bumped and jostied severely until the double doors on the east aide of the roum were opened and the crowd allowed to file in that way. ‘Satice Whitaker set aside the cases on his regular calendar long enough to allow pretty, auburn-baired Mrs. Lenora Seymour of No. 166 West Eighty-third Street, to tell about her marriage to and subsequent untiapp! ness with Morton H. Seymour, young automobile salesman. “Mrs, Seymour, William H. Dorsey and I went to the apartment at No. 148 West Ninety-fifth Street on the night of June 30 last,” testified Harry C. Leslie, a detective. “We had heard that Seymour was eoeupy ing rtment there with @ Mra. Sh ‘| knocked on the door and Mr, Sey- mour, wearing pajamas, opened it, gainer sight of bis wife, he ex- ai 18 Disobey Court; Are Seised. For violating a mandate of Suprem Court Justice Benedict forbidding strikers to accost or otherwise annoy employees of certain shoe factories, eighteen men were arrested In Brooklyn yésterday. Most of the arrests were made in the Williamsburg and Bast New York sections. anges for fifty of the employees. Mr. Whiting confiscated that box. He made orangeade out of it and sent it upstairs to the social gatherings. Ot course, the inen were sore.” The witness than temporarily} switched to Sigmund Simons, asslat- ant superintendent of the lodging house. “Sunons was very brutal,” he sald. “L saw him unmercifully beat and kick poor unfortunates, who came in for a night's lodging, because they didn’t jump at bis commands. Any of the men so treated are supposed to be mental defectives, whose brains don't operate as quickly mot gives his commands. Simons often ime punched these unfortunates all over Perk «4-1 0 Nora! Waet are you doing t! “Dorsey and I ¢ried to foree our way into the room and a young woman who stood behind Seymour He rage us away and place. While I was employed at the Municipal Lodging House, I handed up to Mrs, Whiting four pairs of shoes, which were donations for the inmates. I believe the shoes were just Mrs. Whiting’s size. “On another occasion I screamed. OF DIVORCE MILL; | TAMER FOR ESCABE ONE A MINUTE} OF THEATRE LIOR ir law has not reached the pol ing that property which is the joint result of the earn! husband and the economies of the wife is their joint property. No matter how careful and prudent the wife may be, and no matter if such prudence is really the cause of the accu lly belonged to the has! if the money origi tion of savings, ind it is still his, unless the evidence shows a gift to his wife.” Isn't it a positive invitation to buy a new hat, instead of hoarding the few dollars left over weekly or monthly from settlimg the household accounts? And doesn’t it emphasize the advisability of the wife's acquir- ing a husband-proof bank account by paid work outside the home? NEW YORK’S BUSIEST PORTIA GIVES AN OPINION. I showed the account of the case, with the decision, to one of the bus est and most successful of New York's Portias, Miss Lucille Pugh, who has offices at No. 68 William Street. In the six years since this young South- ern woman graduated from the law department of New York University I fancy she has had more actual court. work than almost any other prac- titioner of her sex in the city. Asa woman and as a member of the bar she is doubly competent to judge the case of the wife who has no share in the money she saves, “Legally, there’s no question about Judge Blackmar's decisions she ad- mitted, "It couldn't be reversed. All case is to contend that in saving the money he earned his wife was acting as hie agent, and that the money is and always has been his property. “As a matter of common sense logic, however, it is essentially unfair that a woman who has worked and saved and denied herself in order to put away a little fund should have to yield up all rights in it to her hus- band. Left to himselff he prob- ably wouldn’t save a cent. Aman ki the front it, e ink account. Then je own her share if Miss Pugh sat just across from me, at her crowded yet orderly flat- topped desk. She is a slight young person, with sparkling blue-grey eyes, a clear, healthily flushed skin and warm-looking brown hair, parted boyishly on one side. The boyish ap- pearance is enhanced by her costum: which consists of a severely tailored \coat and v of heavy cloth, linen collar and puff tie fini: @ stiffy starched shirt, and a cloth skirt that is short and close-fitting. But she has an entirely brand of sachet! WOMAN'S SALVATION [8 ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE, ‘he only sure way," she continued thoughtfully, ‘fur the married woman without property to acquire a bank IN account which no one but herself can! 4 | touch ts for ber to go to work and the husband needs to do in such a/{ j earn the money. I am a firm believer in the economically independent wife And the reason why the average man 80 opposes her Is because, consciously Fag Peleg Grid he knows that he er in his pow mies the pocketbook.” meet aven't you found in ie sional experience that moat of the trouble between husband and wife is due to money?” I asked. ‘Mont of it, yes,” she sail succinct- ly. “Sometimes the dissension crops out in one direction, sometimes in other, but the root fs usually mo: “That is why # think it would be an excellent idea if every young man and woman planning to marry were to draw up defin- ite articles of partnership before the wedding day. Of course, they are usually in euch a estate that money is the ‘est they get to it is when they emile beatifi- cally and murmur, ‘Everything | have is youre: ven the mi rvice says ‘With all m worldly goode | thee endo ) Bu it re that anything of the sort AP ReNe, after marriage.” Yhat do you think would be a r division of the f | ad gulted, family income? “If the wife gives up her tim energy to administering the fone ae should have half of what her hus- band earns. She's as important a partner in the matrimonial firm as he. If both are wage-earners, then it seems to me fair that each should contribute @ proportionately equal amount to the joint expenses of the household, and of course have per- sonal use of what was left over. “Both husband and wife suffer from the ttl T f the fruit an may be defr: of her years of saving, a case you have shown mi other instance the man may by overwork to unjust demands poverty. “go the men contend that they give too much, and the women that they don't get enough, There ought to he a more definite and equitable ar- rangement. As to this Instance you have called to my attention, I agree that it will hardly tend to induce economy In wives, —_———<—-- NDAR FREE, 1015 CAL preacher and social worker and now superintendent of the Municipal Lodg- ing House, suddenly became a gour- met and an epicure, demanding a dif- ferent kind of cereal for each morning in the week; how he made his suite of rooms the scene of many continu- ous family gatherings of relatives near and far—all at the expense of the city; how four pair of shves seut by charitable persons to the lodging house found their wav to Mra, Whit- ing’s dainty feet; how Superintendent Whiting sniffed at prime meat that experts said was in the Al class, and finally bow ninety-nine nighties of lodging house inmates disappeared in one night, was testified to to-day by Walter J. Sloan, a former employe, at the State Civil Service investiga- tion of various city departments. “There was a shortage of night- | gowns for the inmates,” testified Sloan. “I bought twenty-five dozen and distributed twelve dozen the night of the purchase, I was shocked to learn ninety-nine gowns were missing in the morning, I got no satisfaction from Supt. Whiting. He ordered me out of his office.” “Tell us about Supt. Mos! “One room was good enough for Mr, York, the former superintend- ent,” testified Sloan, “But Whiting Father-in-law Whiting a coat vest, which had also been sent by charitable persons for the paupers. On another occasion I handed over four pairs of blankets from the lodg- ing house to Mr. Whiting. Hoe was going camping, I believe. The blan- kets also were donations.” Sloan told of going back for a $38 check after quitting his job. “L met Assistant Superintendent Simons,” sald Sloan, “and he wanted to cash the check for mo and take out $15 1 owed Whiting. T told him I could manage my own affairs, whereupon he punched me in the eye, lacking it, thumped me in the nose and face until I bled all over and didn’t let up until he had landed about fifteen blows.” epeamennaatiiesscon onus WOMAN'S SCREAM PUTS TWO THIEVES TO FLIGHT Second Hits Her and Attempts to | borough elevated station of the sub- Whiting’s | way system at Intervale Avenue and family,” urged Investigator Frank | East One Hundred and Si«ty-third As Mra. Sophie Koszak of No. 526 Morris Avenue was leaving the Inter- Street, the Bronx, to-day, a man at tho foot of the stairway made a grat for her handbag, which contained $40 His movement was awkward and Mrs has five rooms and bath, He bas @| Koszak had time to get a firm grip wite and two children, @ nurse and} on the bag and scream. a father-in-law who live with him.| ‘phe would-be highwayman ran east Two or three times a week & sister- |in One Hundred and Sixty third in-law, her husband and their chil-| street and Mrs, Koszak started to dren used to stay over night 4nd) ,urgue him when another man struck maybe several days, Another brother) her in the face and caught hold of | also came around and seemed to en-|the bag. Again Mrs, Kosazuk success- Joy the visits very much fully retained it until her screams | “This social Hfe m the lodging | drove away the second house became too much for me, It opt nee praees oF | bere, J wee began to get on my nerves: Why? a Fox Street a nt house. Because I was at the head of the food supply department for the employees, and the superintenaent’s entertaining was cutting down the rations of the men who did the work about the building. “{ complained, ‘I fOn't give a rap, said Whiting. ‘I am the superinten- Jdent and I como first!" Meanwhile the employees were getting hungrier, “[ couldn't satisfy the superinten- dent in cereals, One morning it was |shot grains, next morning puffed rice, next morning pistolled corn or some- thing like that, and then came soime- ‘thing like shredded or strangled wheat forget thy . fund,’ said Whiting. Tt it of the cash register, This tent dona the lodgin, "One week there was a box of ore The prisoner said wax Philip | | Pinoquo of No. 149 East Ninth Stree land after a little persuasion gave the police the name of his Police warning to wom for pickpockets and do not make @ \ display of a purse or handbag con- taining money Soften the Skin That Housework Hardens Your hands—do they get harsh and daily dishwashing and | old and damp of ind redden? ip it is crying | for—give It VELOGE Apply this pleasant and sure help liberally to fa ind hands on retirin; in 0% row hair—but \the skin. At any not no it smooths and o-~2bo a tube.—Advt., That Is Six Supreme Court}Magistrate Discharges Womam 7) Trainer, Her Assistant and. | Booking Agent. sey Magistrate Bariow in the Harlem Court to-day discharged from cu... the three persons who were atre: charged with allowing lions to loose yesterday afternoon in ¢he Eighty-sixth Street Theatre. He sald he could find no section of the inal law under which to hold i for trial, but that the persons injured in the riot that followed the escape of the lions had good grounds for civil actions, ‘“ 3 The persons arraigned before te Magistrate were Mme, Marie twenty-five years old, of No. Thirty-seventh street; George Hamilton, forty-four years old, of 31 West Sixty-fourth street, booked the act, and Carl A. Turne quist, twenty-eight years old, of No, 643 West One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street, the assistant trainer. .. 7 Policeman Cahill, who arraigned the three prisoners in court, tn! rupted Mme. Andree when she assuring the judge that the were more afraid of the audienés than the audience was of them. “If the lions were so timid,” he @x- claimed, “why didn't you go out into the lobby and bring them back after the crowd was out and the doors closed? Instead of that, you wanted me to go out and bring them in.” “Ah, jo ne comprends pas,” Mme. Andree, with a sweet smile. “Ah,” cried Turnquist, the assistant trainer, “what did you want her to do? Go out and take ‘em by the 13-21 PARK ROW (Park Rew Building) Luncheon Dinner “Dorsey and I made a move to grab him, when he said he was ready for a rough house if we insisted on it, but his wife said she had seen enough, and we left.” Justice Whitaker took the suit un- der advisement after other witnesses had confirmed the detective's t mony. It took Justice Guy just four min- utes and fifty seconds to hear the undefended divorce sult of Mrs, Mar- guerite Delmour againat John M. Delmour, nephew of the late “Whis- pering Larry’ Delmour, the Tam- many politician. Justice Guy took the case under ad- visement. Funeral of F. Democratic Leader To-Morrew. John J. Quinlan, for ten years Super- vising Commissioner of Emigration gf the Port of New York, who died Wednes- day at his home, No. 120 East Eighty- sixth Street, will be buried to-morrow. A requiem high mass will be offered at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Eighty-fourth Street and Park Avenue, Snatch Bag With $40 After and interment, wan bein Holy Bepulehre First Flees. Mr. Quinlan was a ie cratic politica here and was of the Board of Governors of tional Democratic Club, He a warm friend of the late President Cleveland and Mayor William R. Grace. Opposite A Barg onFridayan ain Sale TheNEW MILI. TARY STYLE and many other dainty admirable creations of crepe de satin, lace, & the latest colorings. REGULAR VALUE 85. $7.50 Value BLOUS! Extremely pretty =MAU 398 Fifth Av., bet. 36th & 37th Sts. ANNOUNCE dSaturday, Dec. 18th & 19th 265 “maurice” BLOUSES $9.% “MAURICE” Music of SCOTT'S EMULSION after Its chief barred iy greatest body-building force strengthen the “Tiffany” of “BLOUSES”: yy ay + ES 95 | Valups at RIC ee. i ay