The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-22
A WOMAN AT THE PHONE.
MIR. SANFORD SURE TT WASN'T mrs
HIFE'S TOICE.

she says Nt WAS onn Nhe message NNe
that ne Couia Find Her at the sang
CIcw" and Get Evidence Tor Divorce.
walter s. Sanford. manager Of Niblo's The
atre. explained before Judge McAdam of the
Superior Court yesterday his position In the
proceeding by which his wife, Mary Dowd San
ford, says he got q divorce from her by fraud
upon the Court last March. She says that she
allowed herself by agreement with her husband
TO be caught with hired correspondent. A num-
Der Of theatrical persons were present to hear
the outcome Of the case.
Mr.. Sanford said that he never saw the old
woman, Mrs. Annie p. Clark twho says she in
troduccd tho correspondent, Edmund Kimball
TO Mrs. Sanford. until he saw her in court. lie
had never requested that any correspondent be
hired. but from information he had received
about two years ago he believed that his wife,
from whom he had been separated four years,
was net leading q proper life. One DIR. Ramus,
who knew her, had offered TO get evidence
against Mrs. Sanford. On the information he
had thus obtained he had followed his wife on
several occasions, but without success.
He was sure that Mrs. Sanford had not tele-
phoned him on the night of March 3. on which
she was caught with Kimball at the st. Cloud
Hotel. to the effect that he could get his evil
dcnce that night at that hotel. IL was not her
voice. lie did not know who telcphoned to him
but IL was a woman, and II might have been
q Mrs. Hall. who was acting In the matter at the
request OF DIR. Ramus. He did not know where
Mrs. Hall now Is, or DIR. Hamus, either. Sanford
said that he. George l.. Harrison, his book
keeper. and Daniel Kelly had watched the house
of his wife at 2O5 West Twentieth street from a
cab on the night Of March l, two days before
the st. Cloud incident. He denied that he was
there by previous arrangement with his wife,
and also denied her statement that he had sig
nailed to her from the cab with q handkerchief.
On rrtaking the stand Mrs. Sanford said that
she had offered to give him a divorce and he wa;
watching her, she was In the bahama Islands
@ r5 S9T h ii n &C. sna 9i tnss thsT Sospifn ihe s Tss a aais
that DIR. Ramus was an adventurer. and. that
she had given him accommodations in her house
because he had threatened that IL she did not do
SO he would tell her husband that lie had been
intimate with her. DR.. Ramus, she declared,
him that she had a husband already. She de-
clared that DIR. Ramus also said to her:
Are you foolish enough not to know that
your husband has conspired with others TO get a
d dive. . sri irGm q You Go:b amd INA thst Hail hs h sm wl.9 a6 n,n
win. and Jane Newcoinbe =" i"
She said sanford had told her she could have
their child before the divorce suit. He said,
Lawyer Edmund Price said incidentally, that
his client. Mr.. Sanford, has the child In a con-
Mother Superior that the child must be taken
away, owing TO the scandal caused, by the case.
out, and said he did not want either parent to
80 speak of the child.
George l.. Harrison, bookkeeper at Niblo's
Theatre. testified that he was asked to go TO the
st. Cloud Hotel on March 3 by Mr.. Sanford. He
was not told for what purpose until after he got
there. He heard Mr.. Sanford tell the clerk
that his wife had n room there with some man,
and asked II he could go up stairs. The clerk
would not permit IL. The witness told about
seeing Mrs. Sanford and Kimball. whom he did
not know, come down in the elevator.
John A. Leahy, advertising agent of Niblo's,
who also went to the hotel that night, gave cor
roboratiye evidence; Meanwhile Lawyer Der.
nard Traitel. counsel for Mrs. Sanford, had kept
pronouncing the name of the hotel as II IL were
spelled Sang Clew, and at this stage, when he
mentioned II again, Judge McAdam broke In
with:
why do you call the hotel Sang Clew. coun-
SELF II isn't Clew. IL Is Cloud. Chew spells
Clew. and Cloud spells Cloud"
" But IL Is pronounced Clew In French" per.
sisted counsel.
Lets have 1t In the American way. II You
went to NiblO's you wouldn't want to hear the
girls sing, Wait till the clews roll by"
Joseph Feeland. treasurer at Niblo's, also told
of his visit to the st. Cloud that nigh. In much
the same way as the others had done.
Sarah A. Good. who, with her sister, has a
the night before March l last Mrs. Sanford told
her that her husband was gong to get n divorce
from her. and that a cab would be near by with
SANFORD and his witnesses the next night, and a
handkerchief would be waved as a signal. The
next night she saw the cab with three men IN IL,
and some one who looked like Sanford waved q
handkerchief. She was not sure what night IL
Chief Croker was struck near her house with a
bottle.
The Judge took the papers and reserved de-
cision.