The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-29
IS LOYAL TO
HER MOTHER
Ida Roth TastifIes In Divorce
Case Brought by Father.
WOULD SHIELD HER MAMMA
Love Letters Ia lnvshs Ink Play a PrsnI.
nsnt Part Ia Suit Of SessTancs Of
Marriage Bond.


girl dressed In pretty white frock
trimmed with blue went upon the witness
stand I'm the supreme court yesterday. her
father and mother being engaged as
principals in suit for an absolute d.
corce, and with the tears running down
her cheeks demurey replied to ques-
tion by counsel:
Yes. / remember telling my papa that
my mamma might have been silly or
foolish. but she had done no wrong"
Justice John Proctor Clarke looked
with establishment upon this precocious
little maiden. who had made one OF the
best child witnesses seen In the supreme
court for many long day.
When released from the stand, however.
childish feeling reasserted itself and little
Ida Roth rushed over TO her mother, and
burying her head upon her shoulder,
sobbed aloud
Isaac Roth a wholesale dealer in novel;
ties, is suing his wife. Julia naming as
correspondent Marius De Zayes. sculp-
tor and portrait painter, with a studio
on Fifth avenue. but who is now said
TO be in Mexico. Letters written In In
visible ink play prominent part In the
trial.
when the trial was resumed Sophie
Knapp, formerly Mrs. Roth's maid.
through whose hands, IL Is alleged the
love letters passed between her mistress
and De Zayes resumed the witness stand
and was subjected TO a severe cross
examination Twice Mrs. Knapp tainted
and had 10 be taken from the court
room.
Mrs. Knapp stuck TO her story that De
Zayes had been frequent visitor at the
Roth fiat In Brook avenue, Bronx, at
times when Mr. Roth was away from
home He visited Mrs. Roth, she said,
sometimes as frequently as three times a
day Mrs. Knapp also told the jury that
Mrs. Roth used 10 rap on the steam pipes
In the bathroom In order TO summon DE
Zayes, who occupied an apartment on the
lower floor of the house.
AS TO the letter written in invisible ink,
Mrs Knapp swore positively IL was sent
to her by Mrs. Roth TO give TO De Zayes
and that she Identified II by certain
marks and the fact that 1t began. Dear
Heart
After Mrs Frances Dahlberg. rela'
tive OF Mrs. Knapp, had testified foi
the defense little Ida Roth was called
Her mother smiled and nodded at the
little witness across the counsel table
On her father. who sat just below her
the child did not bestow glance
Brushing back her long curls she an
swered the questions OF her mother $
lawyer with calmness and delioeration,
She said she had little brother and
little sister and that she knew DE
Zayes and had frequently met him al
her mothers house and had seen him
twice at Patchogue.
Did you ever carry any love letters
from your mamma TO De ZayesY the
little Girl was asked
mo. sir"
did Sophie Knapp ever give you any
letters to carry from your mamma 70
Mr. De Zayes?"
mo. SIR
Lawyer Hugo wintner who is the
counset for Mr. Roth. undertook the
chnd's cross examination, and he asked
her:
"Do YOU remember July and 4. 1901.
and do YOU remember going 10 your
father after a quarrel between him and
your mother and asking him not 10
quarrel any more with mammaY
mo sir" aswered the little girl
sturdily. smiling through her tears al
her mother,
when did you know there was any
suit or between your papa and
mammal
when the case came up" answered
the child with the assurance Of a grown
person ''My mamma told me.
"You knew this was pretty serious
thing against your mother?" inquired
Lawyer Wintper.
The little girls black-stockinged legs
dangled back and forth on the witness
chair. Wiplng away her tears. she lisp
ed. "Yeith. thir"
WOULD SHIELD HER MOTHER.
And YOU wanted to shield your
yes, sir" exclaimed the child. en-;
phatically, before Justice Clarke could
stop her on an objection from the other
F'You heard some quarrels between
papa and mamma; what were tney
Gle said he would leave the house and
would not live with mamma. replied
the diminutivc witness, whimpering.
"Did YOU ever write a letter asking your
father to forgive your mother? was the
"Yes. air. replied the child. unhesi-
what aid he have 10 forgiven"
Because my mamma was sneaking to
"Do YOU remember saying 10 your faith
er that your mamma might have been
silly or foolish. but she had done n'
.Yes' sir" replied the child. She was
excused. and left the stand weeping oit'
srbcn another child witness was called
Marvel Broadzek. fourteen years old
nephew OF Mrs Roth. lie was at ths
Roth cottage In Patchogue when Ds
zayes was alleged to have been n snter,
had never seen De Zsyes there.
Mrs ida Rosenberg. Mrs. Roth's moth
or denied that there had been any I'M
proprieties between her daughter ana Ds
Zpves. and insisted that the sculptor was
a friend Of the family
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