The evening world., 1894-03-08
SUES BARTONY
Lawyer 0fenbaoh Wants $4,000
for Alleged False Arrest.
Outgrowth Of the Riding-M Masters
Divorce Suit.
He Says tho Attorney Threatened
Him with Bodily Injury.

Count" Aurel Bartonyi, formerly
Vice-President of the Belmont Riding
Academy. later an instructor In the Cen
trail Park Riding Academy and at pres
ent private riding instructor for many OF
New York's ~fashionables. who has fig
ured prominently in the courts In d.
vorce proceedings, Is defendant in a suit
now on trial before Judge Mccarthy in
a III. OF the City Court.
The suit is brought against the
Count" by Lawyer Julius Orenbach. OF
liz Broadway, to recover 700 damages
for false arrest and imprisonment and
1900 for malicious prosecution.
Offenbach vas formerly counsel for
Mrs. Hattie Bartonyi In some OF her d.
vorce proceedings or the litigation grow
ing out of them.
In his complaint he alleges that on
June 10, 1888. while he was riding horse
back In Central Park, he was arrested
without cause at the Fifty-ninth street
entrance OF the Park at Bartonyi's insti-
CATION, and taken to the police station.
IN his answer. Bartonyi admits having
Offenbach arrested. but alleges 1t was
justifable.
He swears that on the lay mentioned
he was riding In the Park In an open
victoria, and that Ofenbach rode be-
side the carriage, insulted him and
threatened to strike him with his rid
ing whip.
a short time before he had broken his
leg which was at that time in a plaster
cast. He. therefore. being unable to de-
fend himself from bodily injury, had Of
fenbach arrested. He denies the charge
of malicious prosecution.
Lawyer Abraham Levy. of the Pulitzer
Building. is counsel for BartonyI and
ASS slant District-Attorney Weilman
c!nducts the case for the plaintiff.
me suit on trial to-day is the out
growth OF a bitter feeling growing out OF
Count. Bartonyi and his wife were
married March 80, 1891. She obtained a
divorce from him December 10, 1899, on
Mrs Bartonyi applied to Judge McAdam,
OF the Superior Court, to have the decree
OF divorce set aside. on the ground of
fraud and c~onnivance.
She alleged that she had obtained the
dlVorce on evidence furnished her by
her husband. That he had agreed. II
she would secure the divorce, to remarry
ner as soon as he had become reconclled
with his parents. who are wealthy peonIe
In Austria.
Bsrtonyi denied his divorced wife'saue-
cations, Tie sdll ne mel her shortly af-
ter MS arrival in this country in 1889
she represented 10 him that she was a
widow with 5000 a year income. he said,
and that she accompanied him TO Europe
n 1880. lie assumed the title OF Count"
to please her.
They quarrelled and he returned here.
She followed mir later, and after they
mad up the quarrel. according 10 mis-
story. ne drank with her for several
days. When he became sober, she
showed lin a marriage certificate, say
ing they had been married.
They again went to Europe and again
quaIrelled. Mrs. Bartonyi returned to
America. md Bartonyi alleges that when
he returned he found his wife occupying
his apartments with the Baron de Madas,
He left her, and in August. 1892, al
her urgent solicitation, so he alleges. he
met her and she induced him to drink a
glass OF wine, He says that after drink
ing the wine he almost Immediately be-
came unconscious and knew nothing
more until he wok neXt morning and
found himself occupying the same apart
ment with his wife. She tainted him
with the fact that he had thereby lost
his legal right 10 bring an action for
divorce against her.
Judge McAdam denied the woman's
motion to set aside the decree.