The evening world., 1894-03-08
SUED COUNT BARTONyI
Lawyer 0ffenbach Wanted $4,000
for Alleged False Arrest,
He Gets a Verdict Of $500 Against
the Riding Master.
Outgrowth of the Sensational
hi, orce Case.

Count Aurel B%artonyi. 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 fa~shionables, who has fig
ured prominently In the courts in di-
vorce proceedings. was defendant In n
suit before Judge Mccarthy in Part III.
of the City Court.
The uit was brought against the
''Count" by Lawyer julius Offenbach. OF
lis Broadway, to recover 5000 damages
for false arrest and imprisonment and
5000 for malicious prosecution.
After the evidence was all in the jury
gave n verdict In. Lawyer O~fteuOuch's
favor for $500.
Ofenbach was 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 Is. 1893. 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
j%ustifiable.
He swears that on the lay mentioned
he was riding in the Park In an open
Victoria, and that Offenbach 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
catt. 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 Wellman
c,nducts The case for the plalntln.
The suit on trial to-day is the out
growth of a bitter feeling growing out OF
Mrs. Bartonyis divorce proceedings.
Bartonyi and his wife were
married March 80. 1891. She obtained a
statutory. grounds. June % of that year
Mrs. Bartonyi applied to Judge McAdnm,
Of the Superior Court, to have the decree
OF divorce set aside. on the ground OF
She alleged that she had obtained the
divorce on evidence furnished her by
neT HusDHTu. nat ne mad agreed. II
she would secure the divorce, to remnr TRY
ner az soon as he had become reconCile1
with his parents. who are wealthy people
In Austria.
Bartonyi denied his divorced wifc'snle-
cations. He said he met her shortly M.
ter his arrival In this country in 1889
She represented to him that she was n
widow with 5000 a year income, he said
and that she accompanied him to Europe
n 1890. He assume the title OF "count'
to please her.
They quarrelled and he returned here
She followed him later. and after the,
made up the quarrel. according Ia nj.
story, he frank with her for seyera
days. When he became sober, sna
showed him n marriage certificate, say.
Ing they had been married.
They again went to Europe and agair
quarrelled. Mrs. Bartonyi returned t.
America, End Bartonyi alleges tina whcr
he returned he found his wife occupyinl
his apartments with the Baron de Aiadas
He left her. and in August. 1882, a,
her urgent solicitation, so he alleges, h,
met her and she induced him to drink q
glass of wine. He says that after drink
Ing the wine he almost Immediately be
came unconscious n knew nothint
more until he awoke c morning an,
found himself occupying the same apart
ment with his wife. She tainted hin
with the fact that he had thereby los
his legal right to bring an action 70
divorce against her.
Judge McAdam denied the woman
motion to set aside the decree.