The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LETTERS
MADAME DISOWNS ONE THAT
EXPERT SAYS SIZE WROTE.

Playwright Husband Relates Piciuresquely
How He Caught Oracle Davidson
and Made Her Cough Up . Check
Gebhard Called - Strange Oyster"
Handwriting Exper kinsley Of Molineux
case fame swore yest erday, at the trial
OF the Hughes divorce suit. that the follow
ing letter was in the normal handwriting
of Mrs. Anges Wheeler Hughes, whose
husband, Rupert Hughes, the sculptor
playwright, is suing her for a divorce Oh
the ground Of her alleged intimacy with
eight named coresL oH.ellls Mrs Hughes,
earlier in the day, had sworn, after much
hesitation, that the letter was not written
by her,
I'm here all by myself. sweetheart. and
| am thinking of you so hard that ! find it
impossible to keep from writing you Just a
little letter to tell you that love you oh.
so much I'm so sorry that ! shall not be
able to you this afternoon or meet your
brother. Will YOU try to be here tomorrow
afternoon early? DO send your brother to a
matinee.
never have had such a happy evening
az last was Hnd a. IW nIrnd am n g9rs to
have another one Just ike it.
! don't think slept two hours last night,
but | don't care. for | thought of you. and
You are so dear and good and gentle and
sweet do SO pray the good Lord TO make
you love me as ! want you to-, Not lust TO
love me becaI!sc YOU are sorry for me. That
would make me sadder than ever. lust
nearly died until could ger up here and talk
very very ro sGH old LADY. sweetReartS
had a rotten tim" last night e the Stones.
How could anything he pleasant after, the
absoIutel, miserable over the thought, of
not seeing YOU to-day. b" good and love
me and get home early tomorrow afternoon.
love you with my whole soul always.
I'm silly to write this 30 tear 1t up
The note was written on semi-mourning
paper, and was prcducel enclosed in an
envelope addressed simply: For Crowell.
One of the correspondents is named David
Crowell Campbell. He took the stand aft or
the EXPERT, and denied that he had ever re-
ceived such letter. He also declared
that he would not perjure himself for the
sake of a woman.
There we're other letters read They
were written by Hughes to his wife about
sixteen months ago. One of them reads in
part
My DEAE CHILE. To-day Il made sioO
in Ave- MINUTES h.Esn to G9lle s ed. IT. bn,
a good chance to sell What viii the People
say" nov, rs Blanche Bates mas just come
under their management If she can be
made to hk. it as well as she used to''it's
hope your letter shows recognition Of
I'm sure i y" once T ssd on a., rgnr
Teddy Please see that she Gets it. for I'm
getting up to my eyebrows III financial trou-
blns =. kiss my sweet El-peth their
daughterl a million times for me-, and don't
keep her away any longer don't want
to grow Indifferent
~ 60 togetnsr "%irk o for my oHe
ing susperse many days Longer II IN h.
last throes Of starvation, \ lIttlg delay
will end # Who'll sS,sitnet, t luck re- re-,
quickly If AT all. la the belief that YOU will
be here. | still sign myself, | hope not for he
last time. your loving. devoted RUPERT.
Another letter rem in par
DEAR GIRLIE. = hotternell to-day nearly
asphyxiona toned Yesterday was busy
dictated till Ba5, then dressed for dinner
dictated boys story. Here ! am mp to the
dine limit they gav" me. almost must
be either getting very tired or going crazy,
for i'm debating an account of a tub race won
by History | giggled like a fool school girl
for ten minutes a.. ,
nne We sat ouu on the terrace. Then an
automobile ride through the pnrl In two
AUTOS three people each then Mtss Munro,,s
apartment tIl A " hearing tirorg" Waters's
on" eve With y sly two side candles for a
Ight and the score in pencil Fortunately
Miss Munro mad clnder in her eye. so We
spent most of the time. soppIGg witch hazel.
Mrs Osborne Crowninshicld and others
were there and finally Freddy Grbhard-a
strange oyster with Gne-hail of his mustache
gray To-day I called on GrncIe Davidson.
just caught her hrs, dry she na has .H been been in
Town for a month. n-arlv; ana she tried To
run. but held her fast till she coughed ny
check.
Hughes is now helping TO get out an en-
cycloI 10 iia and makes s75 week. The
-Ted,lyr Named in the letters is a
boarding house keeper on whom he Hughes
family used TO call for tEeii neals when
ACCORDING to Mrs Hughes there was not
enough At leir home tc Feed ,hen4.
The winding up Of the, "ross-eAamira tior
of Mrs Hughes took ny all Of Vest erday
mornings session and ktnsley and Camp
bell tee flied in he afterl Don. Counsel
for bot sides viii sam up his morning, al d
the case will 60 10 the Jury probably in the
ave inc