The evening world., 1893-11-23
my Man Woman &2 2OWord Advt for 10 Ger

sn15y, sePi5y "We .So laughed and chatted pleas
Mr.. Peckham tried next to find out
why, when Miss McGrath wanted a vic
stable in Eighteenth street instead of
near her Harlem home.
.. Well, because ! had very dear
Tend Ts Tbnags lining n %hriyseGoTd spe%i bsys
been there or l may have been down
town shopping. am earning a very
fair allowance as a teacher of music.
g., =" Besides my friend, Ida NJ; Graves,
| had an account at that stable"
Mrs. McGrath- Bates got confused
aEain when asked to exactly bsl bIocate
She couldn't. Then Mr.. Peckham asked
insinuatingly:
ibid YOU receive visits from your
What kind of friends? l did receive
calls there
Gentlemen friends?"
.S,, ."ST,es, perhaps"
Well, no; I have not many gentlemen
friends"
Receive them one at time?'
Lawyer HorwitZ lcapcd to his feet and
protested against this questioning as an
attempt to impute bad character to
the lady.
enter here" he insisted. NO matter
what her character, if she is the wife of
Bates"
Charlie Bates leaning his double chin
on his fat hand, smiled at this PROPOSE
tion of the lawyer for the plaintif, and
the chappies behind him smiled. too.
But Judge Freedman ruled that the
question was proper in Cross-eXamina-
tion.
Don't you receive your gentlemen
friends at your fiat, whore you now re-
side" asked Mr.. Pcckham.
mo, sir" positively
Ihpn Mrs. dtpg went hack to lSSg nd
said she was sure she was with Mr..
Grover in the Central Park restaurant
Oct. 10, 1889, because she was twenty
three years old on the 18th.
We were driving in the Park that
afternoon. We saw mr.. Bates We met
him. He turned around and followed to
the, restaurant, where | was introduced
to him"
"lf you didn't. speak to him how do
you aCcount, for his following you?'"
well, really, If ! was to be called upon
to account for all the performances of
Charlie Bates guess I'd
Charlie smiled again in far way as
the witness fluundered for word TO
end the sentence.
Mrs. Bates denied "emphatically" that
she had gone to house in Lexington
Rates there week after her introduce
ton to him, nor to lO2 West Fifty-second
street, nor to Pickett's Hotel, but sud
denly recalled that she had been to her
mothers furnished-room house in Lex
ington avenue for n few minutes. and
Slt Hd'l SlbpItfi "llll MN lDT tllIlh AT d
road house or to play the piano.
'Once when we came out of IA theatre
we met woman named Banks. with
whom Mr.. Bates had had some trouble:
shoot him, and so he told the coachman
to drive home as fast as he could"
The witness said she understood that a
hotel was q place where one could rent
rooms, while Il road house was only "A
place to stop and rest and get drink
She expressed in a, sweet, girlish voice,
uncertainty as to whether she and Bates
rented room at one of the places vis-
tied.
Then. when Mr.. Pcckham asked her
to explain her confession tnat she had
not had many gentlemen friends the past
two years, she warbled, unaffectedly:
Because Mr. Bates was so Jealous. He
wanted me all to himself"
Mr.. Peckhsm handed mp lons letter
her handwriting.
that she thought it was.
other letters took the same course,
the lawyers, growing because of this
woman's Indulgence in their inevitable
the hotel known as "Thc Widows" a
one Hundred and Sixteenth street road
house. but in one of the letters she had
Widows as she was 'in dire disgrac ce
at home again" She thought the letter
was written before the alleged mar
rage, but couldn't remember what her
disgrace was.
"Ycs. went to the widows alone.
and If you want to know the reason
why, it was because my folks cmphati-
Cally and imperatively objected to Mr..
Rates's calling to see me at my house
so many times a day, at all hours. and
in all kinds Of cpuiraCes. He came
sometimes with four horses and a brake,
sometimes with a tandem and all that.
and he created a great furorc and OK
Citement i'm that quiet nciShhorhood The
whole noighbcrhood was set to talking
about it,"