The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-10
NEW YORK DIVORCE PLOT.
More Arrests Expected in the Net
ropoIitan Conspiracy

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! NEW YORK. Nov. I0.-More arrests are
| expected hourly in the conspiracy to obtain
fraudulent divorces which was unearthed
yesterday. when three arrests we're made.
The district attorney has now il his pos
session evidence which duplicates many
more persons and which shows that pro-
fessionaI perjurers have for at least a year
been working undiscovered It is said that
he has information that IN that time thirty
or forty bogus divorces have been obtained
The discoveries viii involve not only those
who took advantage OF the fraudulent meas
ures OF severing their matrimonial bonds.
but viii also seriously affect many who,
not knowing OF the manner IN which the
divorces were obtained, have contracted
second marriages The affair is likely TO
lead 70 the amending Of the divorce law
so that such frauds will be impossible.
Henry Zeimer, the lawyer. and Prank
Wilson" who were arrested yesterday
spent last night liz the Tombs in default
Of 5000 bail. They are still protesting
their innocence. Mary II. Tompkins who
was taken into custody at the same time
is in the House Of Detention. She has
made a statement which duplicates sew
eraI persons.
It was learned today that Zeimer, the
alleged chief conspiratcr, who, it is said.
has been practicing law and working his
scheme in this city, for years, is not
lawyer at all as far as the records show.
Wilson and the Tompkins woman appear
10 have been his tools. The woman ap-
peared as private detective or correspond
ent in a case as the eXigencieS of the sit
uaticn demanded. She eheerfuIly swore to
all manner Of degrading things about her
self when she appeared as correspondent.
In other cases she appeared as dress
maker living in the house occupied by Y o.
wen defendants and swore to anything re-
quired Of her regarding these women In
most Of the cases. it is asserted, persons
sued for divorce did not even know that
suits had been brought Zeimer would
put dummy lawyers TO defend in the ac-
tions as undefeRded cases cannot go be-
fore the referee. and Zeimer's cases were
all referee cases.
II was Amos G. Russell. a stenographer
who gave the first information that led
to the disclosing of the plot Russell took
testimony last July in the divorce case
OF Hopper vs.. Hopper before a referee.
In this case Zeimer was counsel for Mrs
Hopper, the plaintiff, and a lawyer who
did not appear entered an answer for the
defendant denying the wrongdoing. A
woman testified that she had accompanied
/ Hopper TO 2 hotel and man who said
saw the two in room together. Justice
| Giegerich granted a decree.
Zeimer appeared in the Supreme Court
! last September and asked that a referee
| be appointed in the divorce suit of William
l. Parsons against Bertha Parsons. Rus
sell. the stenographer. was called in TO take
| testimony To his surprise he found that
Henry Fisher. who swore that he had
been intimate with Mrs. Parsons, was the
! J. H. Holden who testified in the Hopper
! case. Fisher swore that he had been in
I innate with Mrs Parsons in her fat at
/ 5S West SIxty-sixth Street. Russell went to
Justice Scott who consulted with his asso-
ciates, and an investigation showed that
there was no fat at 3S West Sixty-sixth
Street; that the building there was a
stable.
Zeimer's record was then looked up. II
was found that he made a business of di-
vorces, and that in all his cases a man
! and woman were the witnesses If the
husband was suing the wife. the man was
the correspondent and the woman the wit
ness and vice versa
Assistant District Attorney Cnger. who
has charge Of the case said today that
Zeimer and Wilson would be arraigned be-
fore Recorder Gon on Monday Mr.. Unger
said he had reason to believe that there
were divorce frauds in Brooklyn as well
as in New York