The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-20
THE SOUND OF KISSES UNSEEN
ADMITTED rs EVIDENCE IN men
DIVORCE SUIT.
Annie Summer, lille Loses Separation suit.
and Trial Of Her Husbands SHIT
for an Absolute Divorce Goes On
NOung StrattOn Sits In Her Shadow.

Tho suit of Nancy Rich, who was the
actress Annie Summerville of Dixey =
'Adons' company. for separation from
aer hlisba nd, William l.. Rich, diamond
ouyer for Black, Starr 4 Frost, was thrown
out of court yesterday by Justice Scott,
who remarked that he couldn't recall any
separation suit backed up with so little evil
1ence.
The husbands countersuit for absolute
divorce was then begun. Frank Stratton,
The very young-looking correspondent,
Princeton graduate, sat behind Mr.. Rich
and was completely screened from the
Jury by her athletic figure and the big
black veil that hung from tho broad brim
Of her hat like canopy.
Stratnon was fanlied by Miss Edna. a
daughter of Mrs. Rich by former h'is-
hand Mrs Rich was first married to an
actor named Chapman. Miss Edna has
Jet black hair and eyes, her lips, n rich red,
are motto cahly full and her nose is retiring
Mrs Rich, on the other hand has red hair
thin lips and long sharp nose, The
defence win he that Stratton never called
to see Mrs. Rich but that he was counting
Miss Edna.
On the witness stand in tn" separation
suit Rich admitted, on crosseNnmnation,
that on Sept Is last he addressed his wife
III
they had quarrelled three days before;
What did you quarrel about" asked her
lawyer. NJ. .,..,....
out on the porch alone with Stra'ton unti
after midnight. She said that she could
no longer act as my wife. and told me that
I had been drunk thirteen years before on
the night our son Willie was born he
also told me to go to bed and keep. still
She slept with her daughter that night.
nv q
wife. You have killed mo as completely as
any one can?
Il meant that she had broken my heart
and tina was mnditating suicide.
Didn't you sell your w'fc7 500 ear
Yes, after / had bought a thousand
dollar pair for her.
When quest oned again by his own
lawyer. Rich said,
AT the breakfast table one morning
NV wife said to me, az you were any kind
of a man and had any affection for me
Won would go out and create evidence on
which / could get "A divorce. told her
that il she wanted evidence of that sort
she would have to go out and make 1t her
self.
"Did you want her to do that"
No but I wouldn't stop her if she was
low enough TO want to do it.
Justice Scott then directed the jury to
find a verdict for the husband
William j. Horsford, Jr.. an accountant
for the New York Life Insurance Com
many, was the first witness for the husband
in the divorce suit,
II once tried, he testified. 70 nav" Mrs.
Rich break an engagement with Stratton,
;,,t she told ~ that she wouldn't offend
Stra,ton for hundred me" like Rich. Sh"
also told me that if her husband would not
furnish the evidence for her to get divorce
she would bring a charge against him which
he wouldn't dare face in open court, that
she would disgrace him and driv" him ont
OF business Then she added that sh"
thought. Mr.. Rich would do everything she
asked because he was weak-knecd."
The witness said that he had surrendered
TO Mr.. Rich some of the letters which he had
received from Mrs. Rich, Lawyer Humnel:
for Mrs. Rich, asked him il he considered
himself a gentleman. Mr. Horsford said
that he did and that he had surrendered