The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
Miss Won Lindau Asks
$4,000 From Galbraith.
Promised To Pay For Her
Music al Studies in Europe.
After Her Arrival at Berlin No
Money Came AS He Agreed.

New York, May 6.-The defendant IL
Judge William A. Galbraith, an intimate
friend of Matthew Stanley Quay, the
renowned Pennsylvania Boss. The
plaintiff is LouiseVon LIndau, once pop
ular actress. The amount claimed is
500, 900.
Judge Galbraith is "a married man. the
father of a family pillar of society, a
shining light in politics. His age is sixty,
and he lives in Erie. Miss Won Lindau
is sorrowful creature, broken in health,
an inmate of the Baker Rose Sanitarium,
at Cornwall on the Hudson.
The story as recited by George r..
Phoebus, Miss Won Lindau's counsel, sug-
gests the famous Belasco- Fairbank suit.
only there Is more tragedy than comedy
woven into IL. And there Is no character
corresponding to that of David Bclasco.
Mr.. Phoebus presented the facts 10 Judge
Smyth in the Supreme Court yesterday,
and His Honor ordered that the service oi
the summons on Judge. .Galbraith be made
by publication, inasmuch as he is resi-
dent of another state-Pennsylvania.
Louise Won Lindau's story. of her rela-
tions with Judge Galbraith date back C.
1891, when, she says he induced her to
leave the stage and go 60 Europe for musi-
cal and dramatic study at his expense,
the agreement being that when she had
completed her course he should exploit her
on the American boards IA a star Of the
first magnitude. The amount named as
having Deen promised by the Judge for
her annual expenses in Europe is $40, 600.
Ii was after her arrival in Berlin with
So 900 worth of jewels and an unusually
valuable stage wardrobe that Miss Won
lindanis vnIIhlRs hpUnn AlfhnIInb
Judge Galbraith had paid the expenses of
the voyage, she waited in vain for the
promised monthly rcmittances from Erie,
Penn. In her anxiety and alarm the
actress pledged all her valuables to meet
current expenses, and raise the where
withal TO return To her native land, but
on reaching Havre she met with an ac-
cident and broke both her legs.
While "a patient in "A Havre hospital one
Of the surgeons, DIR. Javret asked her to
marry him. In her perplexity she con-
iided in the American Consul, Oscar r..
Mllliams-- -at-her- request si7--aHt-a n
cablegram To Judge Galbraith, telling
him that if he would forward $1,000 for
the release of his protege's effects, she
would renounce all claims upon him.
The Judges acceptance of this offer
was to be signified by means of the code
word delay, and sure enough, there
came back n cablegram saying, Delay. "
Thereupon Miss Won Lindau made prepa-
rations Co wed the gallant surgeon, and
the consul redeemed her property, bur
held 1t pending the arrival of the Penn
sylvania cash.
No money arrived, however, according
10 Attorney Phoebus, and Mr.. Williams
put the articles in storage, where they
are still. Miss Non-Lindau broke her
engagement with the doctor returned To
America and made many attempts to
obtain some satisfaction from Judge
Galbrath, but without success, she says.
In her extremity she contracted the
morphine habit and made more than one
appearance in the police.courts
1t is alleged that Judge Fairbanks has
attempted To compromise some of the
debts Miss Won Lindau contracted on the
strength of his letters during her short
stay In Europe.