The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-12-26
COCK TAILS
AND KISSES
Sensational Testimony in the
Dr.. White Divorce
Suit Today.
MRS. EATOH'S SURPRISE PARTY
One Witness Taken Sharply
to Task BY Vice Chancel-
lor Pitney.

Inere was crowded room in Vice
chancellor Pitney's chambers today be-
cause OF the sensational anticipations in
the testimony of the divorce suit brought
by DR.. George Wallis White. Of the
Heights, against his wife, Mrs. Annie
May Wheatland White The ladies' pre-
dominated and they were not disappoint-
ed when Miss Maggie Donnelly told OF
the doing at a certain surprise party
which the doctor attended at the fiat OF
Mrs. Julia Eaton, who Mrs. White says
is too intimate with her husband.
Marching up San Juan Hill needed less
courage than was required of witness
to walk to the witness chair and endure
the battery of scornful, whitening, indig-
nant glances from the opposing factions.
Such contemptuous sizing up of cos
tunes was never seen in that court be-
fore and the Vice Chancellor appeared to
enjoy the fun.
Miss Donnelly said that at the party in
kossuth street the doctor appeared and
paid no attention to anybody else but the
fascinating Mrs. Eaton That lady sat
near the doctor and his counsel, ex-Judge
Robert s. Hudspeth, when this testimony
came out.
What did the doctor do?' asked Col.
2. Ward for Mrs. White.
He sat on Julia's lap and kept on kiss
ing her.
Mrs. Eaton flushed and scornfully
smiled while Mrs. White and her friends
were triumphant.
What else?'
"Oh, he mixed the cocktails" said Miss
Maggie, opening her jacket to display
more properly its gorgeous lining.
did you drink any of them?v
81 don't touch that stuff said Maggie
and everybody laughed
Mrs. Soyer, of No. 161a Harrison avenue
came next, and she said that she was
visiting Mrs. Eaton one day when the
doctor called. He opened the front door
and gently tapped on the parlor door
Mrs. Eaton, she said, asked her to leave
the room and the doctor stayed for over
an hour. He appeared to be perfectly al
| home there and Mrs Eaton carelessly
called him sSweetie'' and Sweetheart. 2
The Vice Chancellor looked at the witness
steadily for moment and then sharply
said
"Do I understand you to say that yor
I continued VlSluuS tHe Edlou WoIndH dItel
| this? Please explain this. You are ap
parently a respectable woman and yot
must have thought such conduct i'm
proper
The witness turned red and murmured
something about minding her own bust
ness. Then Judge Hudspeth extracted
from the witness that her daughter wa
fourteen years. old and she had been mar
ried three Years and the father of ths
child was a man named Shubort, now
! dead These admissions were made by
the woman smiling all the while. This
enraged the lawyer, who said
..You think this is very funny, DOM
you?"
Then Mrs. Ella Prime, of No. II Tuers
avenue, had to pass a bad quarter of al
hour when Lawyer Hudspeth proceeded ts
dive into the doings of the surprise party
at which she also had been present ane
where cocktails and kisses formed an I'M
portant part. More testimony was taker
on the same line and when the proceed
| ings were adjourned the Vice Chancellor
looked bored and quickly made his escape