The sun., 1891-07-14
THEMAlD DOG,
TIE DUCHESS, THAT Branded APRI.
COTS CAUSED THE UNPLEASANTNEss.

Ics y Question Of veracity between Mile.
Ferriere and tho Duke d'Auxy-Eaoh
| Accuses the Other OF Assault, and the
Maid Has Her Master to Court
1t is q question OF veracity between the
Duke and Duchess DAuxy and the Duchess's
pretty French maid. Michele Fcrriere. Mile.
Ferriere says the Duke assaulted her
| on Sunday evening in his apartments
ut the New York Hotel. and she had
o summons Issued at Jefferson Market yes.
terday for the Duke to appear this morning in
court and answer to the charge. Tho Duke.
on tho contrary. says that he is the one who
was assaulted and that what ho did was all
that any gentleman under the circumstances
would have done.
Mademosello's story Is that the Duke dc.
manded OF her why he had not boen informed
that his wife had bought certain pet dog
after ho had given orders that no moro money
should be spent on dogs. Michele replied. shs
says. that it was not her place to act as spy on
the Duchess. Then tho Duke. according to hee
account. struck and beat her shamefully.
The Duchess gave tho Dukes version
OF the affair to Sun reporter last
evening. Tho maid" she said. went
out at noon and did not return until
half past o'clock. Then she was 80 tight that
she did not know what sho was about ! after
ward learned that during her absence she had
eaten uOZen OEnnuleu AprlcOtb.
AT dinner tho Duke told her to get some
astragnle from the icebox for tho saiad. She
returned with 1t In one hand and a piece OF
cheese In tho other. The Duke told her that
she should have brought the articles upon
Tbore were no saucers.' ehe said. for she
seemed to be IN too stupid condition to know
pointing to ase he sdeboard. @ n'f' sa'' 'n' Da.'
Her only answer was q shruR Of the
When the Duke and his brother Count
Au1y who h hSd s9s at the table With Hs had
aa 90 tSa es ssd
her she ought TO know that herself
Then she we went to my husbands room.
whore he and his brother sat quietly smoking,
and said, didn't do anything that wasns
right mover run the rak Of being
usns s Prsnch i0p phrase ana soh
IN hs vim os ssS
Then the girl few at my husband like Q
done him more injury had he not taken her BY
the shoulders and pushed her with no moro
roughness than was necessary out OF the
the ., Rushsss took her pssy three
Sssf the aSsS set up of
&ns e hs
the evening and packed her trunk. and left at
~ IuIS IuQTuluR.
II took the girl because she came to me
with q recommendation from Mrs. Coleman
bpraytop The It'll herself sid that she
two years but afterward learned
that It was only few weeks. She
half. and during that time has had seven dif-
ferent places: understand that she fed from
her home in Lyons to Paris when she wRssonly
- years old because she had been beaten By
her mother"
The Duchess said that her husband would
not go to court his lawyer having advised him
that 1t was not necessary. as the summons was
not served b, upon bh him & personally The girl
panied by another woman. and had thrown IL
over the transom. The Duchess D'Auxy ac-
lately. but that. she said. had nothing
to. do with tho trouble. IL was
my purse. and so has my husband. and II
wanted tlfty dogs should not 60 to him."