The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-04
SAYS She STOLE HIS DEFENCE,
JOHN q. TNDEREILLS CIRIOI s
CHARGE AGAINST ms WIFE.
She's suing for Limited Dkorcr-ir ~.
Iegcs That she Went 10 Ills Room and
Destroyed Ills Evidence and His ~.
fida,it-IIis New Answer TO Her suit.

,, Destroyed Ills Evidence and His ~.
fida,it-IIis New Answer to Her suit.
Mrs. Grace X. tnderhill, who began an
action last week To obt ain limited divorce
from her husband, John G. Tnderhill. the
real estate broker OF 43j Fifth avenue. was
served yesterday with n summons requir-
ing her to appear before Magistrate Deuel.
in tine West Side police court Tomorrow
morning to answer To a charge Of having
entered her husbands apartments in the
Hotel Navarro on Saturday evening and
distracted from his bureau and trunks
several legal documents. photographs and
letters with which he was preparing to
| contest her suit. The summons is return
able at 10 O'Clock, Just half an hour before
the time for the argument, Of her application
for alimony al the rate of $40 month and
81 900 counsel fees
Mr.. tndcrhill had prepared in tho Office
of his lawyers an affidavit rcplving to his
wife's charges of deI"rtiop and non-sup-
port. Late on saturday afternoon he re-
turned To the Navarro and placed the papers
in his bureau drawer. He then went ont 10
dine. and while he was ont a woman drove
up To the hotel in victoria and registered
as Mr. J. q. Cnderhill She asked the
clerk 10 assign her To her hlsband's rooms.
and on this being done, he SAYS. she sent
down 10 he storcroom for the largest of the
Inderhill trunks, which the husband had
released from the Hotel Manhattan, where
they had been Diet aimed for non pa ymcnt of
Mrs. Underhll'- bills Mrs Undorhll re-
NAMED in her husbands rooms about two
hours and then drove away
Her husband says no saw her in IN" Cafe
Martin with her brother and another man
that evening. and she said To him a. he
bowed
when you get back to the hotel you'll
find the laugh on you
tnderhill says that when he returned 10
his room he found everythin in disorder.
the trunks contents scattered around, his
bureau open and his legal papers missing.
There was also a note addressed 10 him
which, he says, read in part,
Il advise you not 10 make one single move
without letting me know | hold absolutely
every winning card. 80 don't call my band till
you know wha, I've got know Just how
many photos there arr in my trunk, h sid.
the two YOU took out Gk t."
The inevitable wonan's postscript read
that be could leave any word he desired for
his wife al the Waldorf On the floor Law
scraps of torr-up letters. and in another
place were some pages Of the aflidayits
These will he produced in court tomorrow
Inderhill left no word at the Waldorf
but promptly scLt for his counsel and oh
tanned a summons from Magistrate Deuel.
II was served on Mrs Cnd"rhll IN he III =,
of her lawyers yesterday.
nderhlll then set to work to prepare
new affidavits and answers 10 his wif.s
nj mi ,Nlf IN IL = lfs.
Scott tomorrow In his main affidavit
lnderhl!l denies having received $4,000
from &. NJ Schwab in one transaction,
and say his income. instead Of being SIPS
u1 yearly A. his wife asserts, has not been
above 5000 during the past five years.
He says he has lost all his business con
neCtions since he married the plaintiff and
that his income since June -. the date Of
the wedding, has been s5Sj, So far below
the expenses of his office that ne has been
compelled to borrow 81 500 10 carry on his
business.
He denies ever abandoning his wife
and says he never refused Ia support her
and il still willing and dcsirous to live
with and maintain her. Since he returned
from Europ. h" has been unable To lavish
money on her. he saws, as he did when
he. married her last June.
Cnderhil SAYS further hat she used
to tell him Sh" had deposited Si 900 OF her
own money with man to be invested in
Texas securities. H. refuta,on of her
statement that she needs plentiful ali
mony because she was used 10 luxury
before marrying him, he alleges that She
u, 10 to be CHORUS % elrl in pnly's theatres
names of Grace kimbaIl and Georgia Dorlt
kenvon and earning SIC a week.
A. 10 his marriage" he says that man
posing a. detective approached him on
June -. when he had Just been divorced.
and pleaded 50 earnestly that he finally
VinlI,H and narriaH tho Ntni tbaf a
The separation agreement which Mrs
Indorhill embodied in her complaint,
and which he signed, comes in for long
explanation. Vnderhill saws that her
brother and father had threatened him
with violence unless he went to li0 West
Forthwith street, where the paper was
signed He was alarmed by the threats
and suffered much from nervousness
that he resorted TO stimuantS TO quiet
his nerves.
He says tina, when he wont to the Forty
fifth street house he was "too much under
the influence Of liquor TO understand any
thing Il believed did sign some paper.
he adds but did not read it." He asserts
that the agreement was already prepared,
and that his conditio ion was such that he
would have signed anything.
Inderhill Describes his financial con-
dition "a deplorable. He SAYS that his wife
lived eXtravagantly, inducing him 10 bor-
row money, and that all their disputes
~ the Navarro costs him 81 80 a day and
his other expenses are proHort Ionate, He
owes s. ai9 to 'radeSnen and others. in
Guiding debts contracted bv his first wife,
To whom he also owes two months alimony,
or &+n which he SAYS he cannot paw.
Mrs. Cnderhill's counsel, Edwin + Stern,
said last night that Underhill's charge
was without foundation
Mrs Cndcrhill had been living AT the
Manhattan Hotel" he explained "bu,
her trunks were held there for nonpavmcnt
Of her bill. On SATURDAY. Underhill paid
the bill and had his wifcs belongings moved
70 the Hotel NavFrre Then he wrote TO
her. telling her what he had done. and that
he had provided n home for her. He wanted
her to Jet bvgones 10 bvgones and said that
he had acted unwiselv toward her That
letter was written on the advice of counsel
II was Ia be defence TO her suit
Mrs Inderhill went To the hotel on
SATURDAY afternoon and took her trunks
away She wasn't there an hour and did
not steal any letters or papers That
charge j. absdrd
KEPT WEDDING SECRET YEAR.
Daughter Of EN.NlayOr Brush Of Yonkcrs