Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-09
KYRLE BELLEW DON'T KNOW.
Some Sensational Testimony in the
Carter Divorce Case.
EVEN THE sUzzARos WEARY.
The Evidence Hardly Up to Their
Vicious Craving-The Actor I'm
Doubt About Some Inn
portant Matters.


CuIcAgo MAY S.-fSpecial Telegram to
THE BEE. Lawyer Mills read Kyrle Bel
LEWIS cross-oxamination, this morning, in an
intensely dramatic style. 1t was sparring for
points between him and his cross examiner.
The English actor denied having
breakfasted with Mrs. Carter. The ques-
tions brought 1t out that Mrs. Carter had
told fib. She had said in her direct testi-
mony that she had not sent a note to Kyrle
Bellew, from the steamer on which she re-
turned from Europe.
"Wno brought you the notel Wasn't it
the maidl"
~ don't know. l don't notice maids"
"Nor maidens eitherr
"Not more than other mems" and so on.
Mr. Bellew says that at one of the Del
monco dinner parties, one Of the Blaine
boys, he couldn't remember whether 1T was
Walker or Emmons, was present.
The audience was beginning to get very
tired when suddenly point was reached
where the questions and answers were once
more very interesting. Bellew was asked
II he had given lessons to Maria Harris, of
London; he said he had ana that she was an
actress.
Then came the query: "Dd you ever give
instructions TO Mrs. Woodgate"
Here the witness became angry. THAT
hotly ~ decline TO answer questions touch
ing my relations with Mrs. Woodgate"
nDo you know Eva Sothern!" This seems
to have made Mr.. Bellew furious and he de-
clincd to answer.
The objection made by Mrs. Carter's coun-
sci to admitting this testimony as to the
moral character of the most noted core
spondent OF the case, summoned as witness
for the oratrix, brought up quite legal tilt.
Judge Jameson thought the witness had not
been sufficiently instructed, and that he need
not answer those searching questions, unless
he wanted to, and ruled out all this interest
ing reading once, but finally 1t got in by some
hocus pocus.
Then the question was asked Mr.. Bellew il
he ever had any children. He said he did
not know. Yesterday he denied having been
father.
The next question was: "Did you ever rec
ogpize q child as yours!' This was fought
over and finally ruled out.
ado you know Mrs. Van Voorheesl" That
got MIR. Bellew angry, and he thought it was
shame that all his acquaintances should be
dragged into a divorce case. After some
further sparrng as to who else he had in
structed, Belew said he had taught Mrs.
James Brown Potter the part Of CLEOPATRA"
in q cottage in Hennequeville, France, with
the assistance of Mrs. Dallas Glynn, of
England, an expert i'll such matters.
"Were you married in 1882
"Yesn
''Did your wife get divorces"
mo, / divorced her; that is as different as
striking and being struck"
"Were you ever a correspondent in di-
vorce caseP'
''Never in my life"
On the redirect and ecross-eXamination,
much alleged spicy testimony was ruled out
by Judge Jameson, to the disappointment of
the expectant "buZZards,n as the audience
has finally come to be called. 1t is said that
in the suppressed testimony Bellew admitted
that he had maintained intimate relations
with Eva Sothern, but did not know
whether he was the father of her child He
paid for it's support, however. He denied il
licit relations with Mrs. Woodgate, Mrs.
Van Voorhees, or Mrs. Potter.
The next deposition was that of E. G. Gil
more, manager of Niblo's Garden theater,
and the Academy of Music, New York. Mrs.
Carter had asked him to manage her, as he
was at that time managing Mrs. Langtry.
She told him that she was studying with
Kyrle Belew, but MIR. Gilmore didn't want
to take the risk of taking hold OF a star un-
less he was assured of success. John M.
Otter, manager of the Colonnade hotel, New
York made another deposition regarding the
stay of Bellew and Mrs. Carter at his hotel,
but there was nothing startlingly new in it.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. Dudley. mother
OF the plaintiff, was recalled and stated that
at the Cooperstown hotel Mrs. Carter's room
opened into hers, and that Mr.. Pearce could
not have stood at the door of the room and
conversed without being seen or heard by
the witness.