The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
MR.. QUAY'S FRIEND SUED.
An Actress Demands $4,000 From
Judge Galbraith.

New York, May 6.-Judge William A.
Galbraith, an intimate friend of Matthew
Stanley Quay, is defendant in a suit for
$50 ,oo0, brought ny Louise Won Lindau,
once popular actress. Judge Galbraith is
a married man, the father of a family, "a pill
lar Of society, shining light in politics.
His age is sixty, and he lives in Erie. Miss
Won Iindau is sorrowful creature, broken
in health, an inmate of the Baker-Rose
SaEitariun, at Cornwall-on-the Hudson.
The story as recited by George r.
Phoebus. Miss Won Lindau's counsel, sug-
gests the famous Relasco-Fairbank suit,
only there S more tragedy than comedy
woven into it. and there is no character
corresponding to that of David Belasco.
Mr.. Phoebus presented the facts to Judge
Smyth in the supreme court yesterday,
and bis honor ordered that the service
ofthesummonso on Judge Galbraith be made
by publication, inasmucb as lie is u resi-
dent of another State-Pennsylvania.
Louise Won Lindau's story of her rela-
tons with Judge Galbraith date back TO
1891. when, she says, he induced her TO
leave the stage and go to Europe for
musical and dramatic study at bis expense,
the agreement being that when She had
completed her course he would exploit
her on tie American boards as a star Of
the first magnitude.
Tne amount named as having been prom
iSed by the Judge for her annual expenses
in Europe is $40, 900. 1t was after her AZ
rival in Berlin with $1,000 worth OF
Jewels and an unusually valuable stage
wardrobe that Miss Won Lindau's troubles
began Although Judge Galbraith had aid
the expenses of the voyage, her counsel
saws, she waited in vain for the promised
monthly remittances from Erie, Pa. In her
anxiety and alarm, the actress pledged all
her vainableS TO meet current expenses
and raise the wherewithal to return I'd her
native land. but on reaching Havre she
met with an accident and broke both her
legs.
While a patient in a Hayre hospital one
of the surgeons, DR.. Javret, asked her Id
marry him, In her perple kitty she coniided
in the American consul, Oscar +. VIII
Jams who at her request, sent a cable
gram to Judge Galbraith, telling him tl'at
if ne would forward $1,000 for the le-
lease of his protege's fects, she would
renouuce all claims upon him.
The judges accepta ace OF this offer was
to be sigliried by means of the code word
delay and. sure enough, there came back
a cablepram saying Delay" Thereupon
Miss Voa Lindau made preparations to wed
the gallant rgeol .aad the consul redeemed
her property, but held it prnding tle arrival
Of the Pennsylvanian' cash.
Nc money arrived, however, according to
Attorney Phoebus, and Mr.. Williams put
the articles in storage, where they are still.
Miss Voa Lindau broke her engagementw with
the doctor. returned to America and made
many attempts TO obtain some Satisfacu III
from Judge Galbraith, but without success,
she saws. In her extremity she contracted
the morphine habit ald made more than one
appearance in the police courts.
II is alleged that Judge Galbraith has
attempted 10 compromise some OF the debts
Miss Voa Lndau Z bntTacte ed on the strength
Of his letters during her short stay in
Europe.