The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-31
Noted Leonard Case up at Louis
vile.
The Chaperone Claims the Young
Lady Was Extrav.
agant.
AN INTERESTING RECITAL

Judge Muir ct Louisville has taken
under submission the case of Mrs. l..
V. II. Cowling against 8. N. Leon.
ard for 5000. which the plaintiff claims
that the defendants daughter, Miss
Sarah Leonard, of Eddyville. Ky,
expended above money allowed by her
father to cover expenses Of trip to
Europe as . member of party chaper
oned by the plaintiff.
Mr.. Leonard has put in q counter.
claim for $500, which he holds is the
amount Mrs. Cowling allowed his
daughter to expend above allowance,
aud which he had to make good.
Mrs. Cowling was ON the stand in
rebuttal to the allegations of Mr.,
Leouard's depositions. She denied
that there was any specific arrange.
ment that Miss Leonard's trip should
not cost more than about $1,000. bat
said that the amount to BE- spent in
any travel always depended on the
personality of the traveller. :" Halt
the pleasure Of foreign travel. she de-
clsred, was the purchase Of souvenirs.
Mrs. Cowling in her testimony re-
lated the circumstances of Miss Leon
ards joining the party, and also told
of the trip.
The young woman was at that time
not quite seventeen years OF age. Az
ter sailing from New York one Of Miss
Lmeonard's first extravagancios &C
cording to Mrs. Cowling, was II desire
to get into her trunks, which vete in
the forward hold, every day. "She
liked to DRESS" said Mrs. Cowling,
land to got her dinner gowns it cost
81 or 90 every time II was necessary
to move the trunks out where she
could get at them" Friction appears
to have developed in the party at Lon
don. Mrs. Cowling testified that Miss
Leonard insisted ON saying things Of
fensive to the rest Of the party. "whcn
hat worn 10y any merlber Of the par.
ty did not suit her sne would make
remarks" said the witness. 1--WE
came to an understanding at London.
however. told her very plainly that
her unkind remarks in my presence
would have to cease. Miss Leonard
became indignant and csbled her faith
er, though don't know to what effect.
From that time forw ard her manner
toward me was cool. Things grew
worse after we left England and trav-
eled through Holland and Belgium.
At Berlin she demanded another chap.
erone. She said the other members
of the party did not travel to suit her
1 told her that IL was impossible TO
furnish her with another chaperone,
but would let her have a courier when
we arrived at Venice"
Mrs. Cowling explained that in Ita-
ly Miss Leonard and Miss Newman,
another member Of the party, Travelled
with a courier. The courier, Mrs.
Cowling said, was a man about for
ty-fivc years Of age, whom she knew
we'll and who was highly recon-
meuded. Miss Leonard" said Mrs
Cowling, received $500, from her
father, with which she said she wished
to buy clothes in Paris. She told me
she was going to make her debut in
st. Louis the following fall The
young ladies went on to Paris &C
oompanied by the courier. and when ]
arrived Miss Leonard had spent all
the money scnt her by her father, be-
sides $3.50 which she had had charged
to the hotel. This was compelled to
pay before we could leave the place.
In London she paid s25 for hand
bag"