The sun., 1899-01-28
lPALMISTS, HIS DEFENCE.
rrFErD THE MIND, HE SAYS, OF
WEE. VINO WOW ASKS DIT0RCE

~ u.r side Mrs. Macy Says Her Hush and
uss Had Many Children by Other Women
TeIIs of n Scene at His Law ONCE and
sew, He Confessed His Shortcomings
IN opposIng q motion OF Villa M. Macy for
.ounssl foe and alimony before Justice Glider
Lave Of the Supreme Court yesterday. Crom-
Ali a. Macy. q lawyer. uteed that divorce pro-
,.sd,pes had been brought against him as the
s.,ult OF the unsettling OF the mind Of his wife
Nv palmists. clairvoyants, and other seekers
,n,o ,o.called mysterious sciences" She mar
lad him twenty-five years ago and they have
,h,ss children. She declares that he has many
thar children and accuses him OF intimacy
,-,,b seyeral women. mostly married. She asks
aka week alimony and places the income OF
h,r husband at from 10000 to $12. 900 year.
Mrs Macy averred that her husband had
onen confessed to her hia relations with other
.omen. After finding a note from q woman
r,,kine an appointment with her husband she
savs she went to his private of1ce and saw
voman entering with large bouquet OF flow-
A., Mrs. Macy followed the woman and found
,be flowers in vase and nor husband and the
woman standing together claspinE each others
hands while gazing at each other In an affec-
,Ionate way. At her solicitation her husband
had the woman shown out OF the ONCE. Mrs.
N.cy's affidavit continues:
,..sed 10 me that he had known the woman for
many years and that he had maintained Inn
proper relations with her ever since she was
,ounr woman: that she came to his office
nndsr the pretext OF paying bills when there
vrre none TO pay: that in the confession the
d.fendant made to deponent ho admitted that
be had represented himself to another woman
as single man that afterward. whom she dis;
covered that he was not. she made dreadful
time, and that she had by him. as she alleges.
Mrs. Macy says her husband told her he gave
The woman with the daughter plain gold ring
,0 40 she could show 1t and say she was married
This This plaintiff. said W.. G; Thompson; I IA at
tsan SsHa King King Solomon himself, she i. Possessed
The father Of two children born to woman In
Brooklyn who is the wife OF reputable physi-
CLAN The husband d has made an n afidSyit am de- de-
no children. She, is insanely jealous OF her hus
band and has insisted that he give up all women
taEe divorce cases. She has visited paImists,
them them to, east horossopes 60 Of her nus, H
sSnd aes wh h fake ons She She
employed palmist to 20 to Brooklyn and read
GS Ssr Rb husband IN has had two children This palm.
ist reported that the lines on the ,,woman's
hand proved aaav that wss e the sAd aSeP Rae .6s
sent 10 London and had some one cast the
horoscopes Of her husband and another woman
Tor the purpose OF ascertaining whether her
husband was the father OF any children born to
Mr. THOMPSON handed to the Court bundle
OF fifty letters. which. he said. would show that
the plaintiffs mind was unbalanced. In, one;
counsel said. she declared that she never loved
her husband during the twenty-five years Of
their married life. and we're It not for their
him like a snake"
A. d. Daley. for the plaintiff. said that. while
his client had peculiarities. she was not insane.
He said she was wronged woman. and a man
OF standing had assured him that her cause
was Just and her charges true. II she visited
palmists and others. counsel said. she had been
Induced to do so by her husband
What explanation does your client make OF
the charge that a woman whom the. evidence
shows never had children had two children by
the defendant ?" asked Mr. Thompson.
Her explanation" said Mr.. Daley. "is that
the woman did have the two children and that
they are being supported elsewhere"
Mr. Thompson said the Court would see from
the papers that the plaintiffs charges were hal
iucinations and that she would have to admit
that she received most OF her information from
fortune tellers.
motion.