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shs says that they Lived Together asa he
Iatroduees her ~ His WIFe.

| she says that they Lived Together asd He
Iutroduees I1er ~ HIs wIFe.
Tho curtain roee on another act in the
| Iederer-Nevcou,b elopement scandal yester-
day. This time the scene was laid In the ex-
animation room Of the Tombs Police Court
whore George W. Lederer was arraisned on
charge Of abandonment preferred By Clara
Chester or Binns, who claims that che was his
wife when he was married recently to Fiorine
eldest daughter OF Richard s. Newcombo, Esq.
The examination was before Justice Hogan.
Mise Chester's witnesses. all OF whom had at
various times ornamented the vaudeville
stage, both in this country and In England
were Milly Price. formerly OF Roster Blnl's
and now with Rice and Munro's My Aunt
Bridget Company;" Kate Talbot, who is better
known as Ginger" and Flora Chester, sister
OF the complainant. While Clara Chester was
being examined the trio sat in the judges
private room smoking cigarettes and drinking
sarsaparilla because they couldn't get beer.
Occasionally "GinRer" would relieve the
monotony By turning toe for the benefit OF
her companions. Ginger" dances with Her
mann's vsudevilleR
Clara Chester, or Mrs. Lederer. was called to
the stand first In substance the witness said:
my name is Clara Lederer i have always
been known as Clara Chester, except when I
was baby. Then my name was Clara Binns.
was still q baby when went on the stage
and took the name OF Chester. 1 am 20 years
a SDs ES n e ~ upSs @ fsaR e
manager. During .ThanksgivIng, week, last
metz me to TS 70 home me with him one nGht after the
performance and refused Then he said he
ESua tUo Ilats ffe e e set Minister he said that
our marriage would be perfectly legal u we we
Just agreed to regard ourselves as married and
iivad t00athnr and wife Il ICOl900to0
to do as he wished, and after that lived with
him as his wife until month ago. stopping at
which was introduced as Mrs. Lederer.. Now
1expeot to become mother. and am without
The com plainant then identified dozen let
tsEs as having been written t2 her her by Leder%sT.
Lederer" In Lederer's handwriting. These let
ene @ 81, them brought along with it 100000
Miss Chester was very frank in admitting
that she was not such pure young thing when
mate acauaintance With one CHARLES Barrett
In r. ENGLAND and Joseph Tennyson and VII
been intimate With a man named jimmie Ray.
bad repyte while Lederer was away IN Europe
SSe tRat what she Rad dcne beof
her marriage did not matter. anyway. As the
complainant made this statement Abe HUM
And that is good law; too" o."",,.,
Alter MISS Cnester nau nnIsneu 1er testl-
House testified that Lederer had lived there
with IT. the eomplainant as his wife; ~ r,.o
Talbot whocorroborated the testimony already
given. and swore to tho fact that she, had seen
letter written by Lederer to the clerk at the
Coleman House. IN which he said: Give tho
y wife the key 9
Are YOU w not in NJ debt p as Eed Price.
with this case case Snapped ns Mi Ginger Gin % So' ~ ~
w nt frnr
vaudeville company" continued the lawyer.
Really. that Is none Of your business"
her friend CLARA as Mrs: Lederer:
When Ginger" had finished the star wit
ness Of the y case AS r. took her place: The young
without blush. and when, told to salute tho
official stenographer.
How old are you ?" asked Lawyer Price.
she laughed and every % one I else laughed. too. s
The witness proceeded to tell what she knew |
about the case in her own way.
,rsp9 sra sSS n9t long ago went to call on
door / found that It was locked. This sur |
grised me, because us girls always leave our |
% are ons on shs and
opened the door for me. It was Lederer. and |
said. What does all this mean p and he re-
oh It's al right Glare is my wife, We
Frank Harvey was the last witness sum- |
moned... He Is treasurer OF Herrmann's |
ya1devtlle company and knew that Iederer |
Mr.. Hummel rested the case for the COM
platnant at this point. and the court adjourned |
until Wednesday morning at $50. None OF tho |
Newcombes were In court yesterday.