The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-07
WAITED 10 YEARS 70 BE a WIFE.
Miss Rsiny.s Salt Tor $4,000 Damages
for Fraud Conraitted In 1881.

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for Fraud Conaraitted In 1851.
Hannah Veronica Reilly told q story before
Justice Bischor of tho Supreme Court yester-
day. In an action to recover $4,000 damages,
Of her alleged betrayal by Matthew Sabatcr. q
married man, in 1881 under promise OF mar
rage. As an action for damages for breach OF
promise would DO outlawed, she sued for dam
ages for fraud and deceit, alleging that she had
not discovered the fraud until July, 1924, thir-
teen years after their acquaintance and inti-
macy.
Miss Reilly testified yesterday that the de-
PENDANT was q professor at q college OF dentistry
in Twenty-third street. where she went to nave
her teeth attended to in April, 1881. She was
then 10 years old, and was working for q hair
dresser In Broadway, near Fourteenth street.
Whom she called at tho college Sabater had first
instructed n student to attend to her toeth. but
he afterward took the Job himself. A club
footed student near BY inquired. as she was
about to go, II Sabatcr was a relative. as he
usually left such cases To students.
Sabater asked her when she was leaving IL he
might not call on her to look after her teeth.
She was living with her parents ut 1917 East
Twentieth street. whore he became n visitor
thereafter. He took her TO places Of amusement
and she understood that she was In the position
OF wife to him. He had told her that rs soon as
no got SIS, 900 In cash thoy would 90 through the
form of q marriage and live together. He OK
planned that he had just bought the house at 80
East Twenty first street. and that all he needed
to set up housekeeping with confidence was
$4,000 In cash, which he hoped TO have soon.
She had Como on trips TO Washington. Niagara
Falls. Baltimore. and White sulphur Springs
with him.
While she was driving in Central Park with .
Mrs. Smith and Sabator In 1859 a woman drove
up in another carriage and asked her:
Are you Mrs. Smith ="
Mis-, Reilly said she was not, and the woman
said something to the effect that Sabater should
not be out driving with other women. Miss
Reilly thought the woman must have some
that he had been married, but was divorced.
and that this woman had been GLOWING him
about to cause trouble. Sahater often went with
her TO the houses of her friends. and he intro
duced her at his home, TO his mother. The
mother said something In broken English to tho
effect that she would be happy when her son
married the plaintiff. In July, 1894: Sabater
Kelly for his health. He said on making the
announcement:
II hope you will continue to be the good little
He was to start for Europe In August.
and she went to his house to have her teeth
attended 10 before ho went. The house
was closed. and on making inquiries she
gone away. This was the fret time, she testi-
fed. that she became convinced that for the
previous thirteen years no had deceived her
was a married man all the time.
The plaintiff Is n slender woman who wore
black and showed a melancholy face. Sabater.
statements as she spoke, rarely looking up;
Lawyer Hummel called Sahater as q witness
for the plaintiff. SRbater admitted that he had
written a large bundle of letters which were
shown to him and lotfered in evidence. Tho
Judge reserved decision on admitting them.
The case went over to Monday.