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IN EXPERT At kEYH0L[S
Female Detective Enlivens
The Baumann Divorce
Case.
SAYS DEFENDANT BEAT HER CHILD
Mrs. Baumann Denies All the
Female Hawkshaws
Charges.
SAYS DEFENDANT BEAT HER CHILD

A woman detective was the principal
witness at the hearing In the Baumann
case yesterday afternoon. 1t appears that
she worked up most of the evidence
which DR.. Louis Baumapn has included
in his answer to his wife Letitia's bill for
maintenance and support. DR.. Baumann
charges his wife with being a drunkard
and yesterday afternoon he put this fe-
male HaWkshaw on the witness stand to
prove It.
The detective is Mrs. Harriet A.. Carr.
She is a large. shapely woman, with
screwy eyes, a sandy complexion and
light hair. She appeared, while testifying,
to be proud of her achievements in her
chosen profession. Her husband, who
says he is a real estate dealer at Amster-
dam avenue and E~ighty-irst street, was
in court. From his appearance one would
judge that he might. be a valuable aid
to his wife in her business. He is a tall,
slim man, with a heavy brown NOUS
tache. He wears eyeglasses, behind
which are a pair of restless eyes which
are constantly shifting their gaze.
This pair swore to many things which
they saw Mrs. Baumann do. Mrs. Carr
was hired by DR.. Baumann when Mrs.
fBaumann was living with her daughter
in a fiat. No. 1858 York street. Mrs. Carr
was in the employ of DR.. Baumapn for
nearly two months. Her compensation
was So a day. For that amount she listen
ed at key holes. peeked through elevator
shafts, Swallowed MRS. uma through
the streets and did numerous other things,
all with a view of securing evidence
She was a good witness and told her story
without hesitation. When she first went
on the ease" she hired apartments in
the house No. 357 York street, directly
opposite those of Mrs. Baumann. She
remained there a month and then secured
apartments in the same house with her
subject being lucky enough to get on
the same floor. n luckier still to have a
dumb waiter shaft between her rooms and
those of Mrs. Baumann.
She remained there another month.
When she was in the house opposite
she saw Somebody. chasing something
around the table in the front ROOM. She
could not say positively that it was Mrs.
Baumann beating the child. While work
ing for DR.. Baumann Mrs. Carr assumed
the name of MARITIME. Question by law
yer William Corbin, counsel for DR.: Bau-
mann, Mrs. Carr told her story. She
said: u saw Mrs. Baumann under the In
fuence Of liquor several times. Once1I
saw her in Blume's grocery store. She
mad a little girls hat on, and wore an old
dress She looked very s~lovenly and had
no corsets on. i did not think at first
that 1t could be the same woman l saw
the day before dressed in fine clothes, sc
walked around her until l was sure II
was her. She showed plainly that she
was intoxicated
Did YOU ever. know of her beating the
child" asked lawyer. 9Corbin.
Yes replied the witness, "the little
girl came home from school OF noon time
I'M wanted her lunch. Her mother was
intoxicated and told her She couldn't both,
er to get 1t for her. l was at the dumb
ed. The little girl made some reply, and
her mother said don't you know better
than to answer me back like that? She
began to beat her, 1 should judge tina
she hit her about the head and neck. Thu
little girl began to cry and said, oh
mamma, you hurt me. Her mother told
her she was a nuisance and the pest OF
her life and sent her off to school
My husband was taking unch with me
that day, and he heard it too Fknew the
woman was drunk by the way she talk
ed. One evening she came home at 1914
o'clock and cursed the child because she
slammed the door. She was out every
| night with the child. One morning SHE
did not return until 1874 o'clock.
MIS- GdTf IOlQ now Sn6 saw an Ole
man take a pail of beer to Mrs. Baumanr
every morning as soon as the little. cir
had left for school. She also told of fol
lowing Mrs. Baumann one rainy day anc
seeing her barter with a man to get hel
a pail of beer from a ~neighboring saloon
lAMr.aACarr testified to the beating incident
as he heard it through the dumb waiter
shaft.
When Mrs. Baumann took the stan6
| later in rebuttal she denied ever beating
her daughter. She explained the pail in
cident. She said that Mr.. Miller, the mar
a sick wife. and she made soup for her
| The soup was carried to the invalid il
the pail. Mr.. Miller had gone for beef
once when he was visiting her, but as fol
taking It TO her every day, he never did
Hugh Miller testified himself that he tool
the beer to Mrs, Baumann five times.
Another interesting witness who testi
fed yesterday afternoon. was Mrs. Johr
Quincy Adams, who lived in the sam
house with Mrs. Baumann, in Fifth stree
and moved when she did to No. S0S forl
street. Her speciality was listening at thu
air shaft. Through the air shaft, she al
| legged, she heard Mrs. Baumann use Gus.
words, and say very many interesting
things, especially when her husband wa:
visiting her. Mrs. Baumann visited Mrs
Adams a number of times. While visit
ing her, Mrs. Adams testified, Mrs. Bau
mann frequently bfmoaned the fact tina
she had a child, saying that if she was rit
Of her little girl she could have SOM
pleasure in life. This was always SAT-
in the presence of the child. Mrs. Adam,
never saw Mrs. Baumann drunk in Fiftl
street, but she did in York street. Whel
drunk, witness said. Mrs. Baumann woult
talk of her troubles, repeating her state
ments again and again. Mrs. Adams ad
mftted that her child was well kept. Sh'
once saw Mrs. slap her daugh
ter on the face. Several other witnesseI
were called. including Mrs. Adams. The,
testified to much the same thing. A mum
Der Of Mrs. Baumann's witnesses wer'
called in rebuttal and testified that sh'
was always too good, to the child. Mis-
Wildwood testified to having seen DR.
Baumann force his daughter to drinl
beer. The case will be continued on Ma,