The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
MISS CAYvAN EXONERATED
She Disproves Allegations in the
Tean Divorce Case.

Teau Divorce Case.
New York, Jan. 9.-Miss Georgia
Cayvan testified Saturday afternoon
before Charles Edgar Mills, the COM
missioner appointed by the supreme
court of Rhode Island to hear testimony
for the respondent in the Teal divorce
suit BY permission Miss CayVan was
questioned in direct examination by her
own lawyer, Henry Melville, who also
placed in evidence letter from A w
Seaman, Mrs. TealrS lawyer printed in
The Sun yesterday. Miss Cayvan's tes-
timony was a complete denial of the
various allegations made by the negro
Thomas jackson, TealPs discharged
valet, and included the statement that
she was in Paris at the time to which
Jackson's statements referred.
w. r. Weeks. Mr.. Teall's counsel, in
whose office the proceedings took place,
said that the progress of the case might
be summed up in the statement that
certain man and woman of New York,
wishing to circumVent the law against
collision in securing divorce, had gone
to Rhode Island and had fallen into the
hands of lawyers. He said that no bill
of particulars had been filed with the
complaint of Mrs. Teall, and that in
consequence certain women OF unim-
peachable integrity had been dragged
into the case: that two of these were
present to refute the malicious and de-
Iberately false testimony of the negro
Jackson. He said that the other side
in the case appeared now to have
thrown the negro overheard and had
endeavored to distort the evidence that
he had given He said the statement
that no immoral relations had been
charged was knowingly false, as the
evidence of Jackson was such as would
defame and beSmirch the character of
any honest woman
Miss Cayvan was then called. She
said that she had been on the stage in
this city for eighteen years, and had
been leading woman in the Lyceum
Theater Stock company from 1887 to
Thanksgiving time, 1894. She had pur-
chased her home at 351 West 12Id street.
on May 1, 1890, and since then had lived
there exclusively, except for two So
5ourns at hotels. She had never lived
in an apartment or tenement house. she
said.s nor ever north of 122d street. She
Went abroad on December 8, 1894, and
returned in October, 1895, when she put
herself under the care of a physician
and did not return to the stage until
september, 1896, when after two weeks
Palmer's, now WaIlack's, theater in
this city On the dates mentioned by
Jackson she was in Paris.
Miss Cayvan said that she met Mr.
TEAL behind the scenes at the Lyceum
theater in 1892 or 1898 and had seen him
at the theater several times afterwarC
She had also met him at other places
on few occasions. The acquaintance
did not continue until 1895. On one oc-
caSlon she drove through Bronx park
with Mr.. Teall in an open trap one Sun
udy AFTERNOON TO inspect some land i'm
proVement Teali had mentioned TO her
In business way They returned to
her home before supper. Mr. Teau. she
SAID, remained for supper party that
night, and had been to her house on two
other occasions, when he drove there
with her and her sister from the the
ater. and all had had supper in the din
ing room. which has a side entrance on
the street. She had never met Mr.. Teal
alone.
Mr.. Melville then read the testimony
of jackson to the effect that he had met
Miss Cayvan at the Grand Central sta
ton and put her into a hack he had
hired, then pulled down the curtains
and walked away while Mr.. TeaH got
into the cab. He asked the witness if
such scene had occurred.
Never" answered Miss Cayvan with
little break in her voice, and an angry
flush on her face.
She also denied specifically that she
mad ever taken supper with Teal at the
Clarendon hotel in Brooklyn. or had
lunched with him near the Long Island
railroad station. She said that Jack
son, to her knowledge, had never en-
tered her house and that she had never
seen him.
Asked about a set of china which