The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-04
THE" DIAMOND TOOTH" CASE
". IRTIN TRAGLE ORDERED TO PAP
HIS WIFE So 4 WEEK.

She Is the Daughter of j. II. Carpenter, the
Great Projectile Maker-Her Husband
Charged That She Was Extravagant and
Unfaithful-A Divorce Suit to Follow.
READING. Pa. J1ly 3.-The diamond tooth"
Tragic desertion case wao again before Judge
Ermentrout to-day. Mrs. Ruth Tragic. pre-
| possessing young woman. sued her husband.
w. Irwin Tragic. for desertlon. The wife IA
the daughter of j. II. Carpenter. maker OF the
famous Carpenter steel shells. which largo
plant is now owned by New York par lies on
lower Broadway. Mrs Tragic has one child.
She Is o. petite figure and In court wore a
black tailor made silk skirt white shirt waist
md natty sailor hat. Mr.. Tragic is a travel
ling man selling ropes. The wife swors his
salary was 500 n week. Their one child 10 in
Richmond. Va.
TragUs defence was that his wife was
guilty OF inhdelity and that that was the rea-
son he refuse to live with her They have
been living apart since Easter. The wife in
dignantly denied her husbands charges that
she was guilty OF extravagancs. drunkenness
and inndelity She denied that she had been
away on March IL with man friend that she
had stopped alta certain hotel or that she had
held ont her hand to the hotel clerk and
showed her engagement ring. She also de-
MED having received a gold souvenir spoon
containing the date OF any So called adventure
with any one. When the question OF extrava-
gance was touched upon tho wife's attorney.
W. b. Bechtel. exclaimed;
But don't you wear diamonds In your
teeth?"
Judge Ermentrout put stop TO that feature
OF the examination.
Charlotte Whitman a sister OF ono Of thu
leading City Councilman. testified that while
she was visiting the Tragic homo she saw
young Mrs. Tragic and New York drummer
struggling on the floor; She also testified az
York man at Harrisburg advising him that
me wi,e e2uid not come as her husba9d had
s.hsd ali o%%s n Of ,h, Tragic
Manager Wiliams of the Western Union Tel
egraph COMPANY took the stand and read q
acter. but Mrs Tragic swore she never saw
them them. never sent them and never authorized
Tragic. ''
fled he mailed a letter for the wife to the New
York drummer; apd that Mrs. Tragic had said
che no longer liked her husband. and their sep.
; ;a he had also bought intoxicating drinks
Tragic swore that he had met his wife on a
leading thoroughfare quite drunk and sent her
home In cab and: that he paid $3.50 at one
treated TO- and that Miss Whitman mad told him
OF the wife's conduct.
dominion asked Lawyer Be stad 'noeF your
Guess you think | hypnotzed herr" an
swered Tragic.
:. Yes, with your diamond tooth!" retorted
the LAWYER.
Mrs. Tragic denied all these charges aud
said her husband mad been guilty with cer-
tt2in woman but that she had, forgiven him,
Miss Nellie Kelly denied that Mrs. Tragic had
been In toXicated In the street.
Charles Reeser, Tragls's clerk. testified he
had never said Tragic and ono OF his women
clerks we're intimate Mrs. Tragic recalled.
testified:
I Gid not threaten to blow Miss witman's
brains out. nor threaten to kill her did not
try 10 get Miss Whitman to say that the drum
mer was her friend and not mine never told
nv husband that allowed Miss Whitman to use
my name as she pleased. | never stopped at
the Hotel Hanover in Philadelphia with a gem
tlemau."
When the testimony closed Judge Ermen trout
directed Mr, Tragic to nay 81 a week for tho
suppOrt OF the wife.
Well not express any opinion as to the
merits OF the case the allowance to continue
Tor the present. said the Court. divorce suit