The evening world., 1904-02-19
Jury Will Now Decide if the Loss
Of His Spouse and Son Was
Worth $4,000 to A. Royal
Guest. ,aEss
BOTH MEN HAVE MONEY
IN GREAT BIG AMOUNTS.
The First Real Trouble Came
When Clarence L. Lowther
Wanted to Give a Prize Tennis
Cup to the Other Woman.

The case OF A. Royal Guest. who Is
suing his bosom friend and crony. Clar-
ence l.. Lowther. for ST. 100 on n charge
OF stealing his wife n s~ix-year-old
son Royal Guest. IL on trial before Jus
tice Forbes, who came down from Cam
astota TO try the case in Part XIII. OF
the Supreme Court. where Gen. James
r. O'Beirne administers the solemn bath
OF the law to every witness.
incidentally. the incidents and ncci-
dents which led up TO a decree OF sepa-
ration In Justice Maddox's court.
Brooklyn, for Mrs. Mary l.. Lowther,
with $3.50 monthly alimony. from Clar-
ence j.. Lowther, and the appointment
OF Charles II. Hodge as receiver to take
charge OF Mr.. Lowther's real estate
and he inherited n lot OF 1t from his
ancestors-collect the rents and thus
secure Mrs. Lowther's alimony. will be
revealed.
This was last March. n 1t was
quickly followed by A.. Royal Guests
action against Lowther for 10000 dam
ages for alternating the affections OF his
wife. who was Miss Helen Llmbeck. OF
an old Jersey City Heights family when
he married her. Aug, 10. 1891.
Both Are Coal Men.
Guest, like Lowther. Is in the coal
business on ii large scale, he and his
brother. Frank b.. Guest. owning the
business of Guest q Co, founded In
1913. many years before either OF them
was born.
Lowther had been married only five
years to. Mary l.. Rogers, daughter OF
Lewis II. Rogers, OF No. 2H Hancock
street. Brooklyn. and n belle In Brook
lyn's Bedford district society. when she
secured her decree.
He is twenty-eight years old and A.
Royal Guest is two or three years
older, but both look like mere strip
lings. These wealthy boy coal mag
mates were bosom friends until they
undertook TO take their respective wives
into the bund. Lowther told Mrs.
Guest that II he won a certain golden
cup he was about TO contend for In IA
tennis tournament he would give 1t to
her. That aroused MIR. Guests jealousy.
Other things followed until finally an
open rupture resulted.
Lowther Accused in Court.
1t took forty minutes to get n jury.
MIR. Guest lawyer excused bachelors
n coal dealers. and Mr.. Warren, for
Lowther. didn't want hackmen or men
who We're opposed to divorce.
Counsel for Guest told tho jury that
he should show that Lowther deliber-
ately set himself about stealing away
Guests wife, and that he succeeded In
january, 1908. and had coaxed her TO
leave her husband. her nome and her
siN-ycar-oid child. n that they had
been travelling about all over the coun-
try under assume names. That. in
order TO win her affection away from
her husband, he had systematically pois-
oned her mind by telling her stories to
make her believe. her husband was UNI
faithful to her. and that he at the last
"stampeded' her away.
Mr.. Mallory predicted that Lowther
world not show his face In this trial.
I'm disahnse your mind of that at
Mr.. Mallory said Lowther had had a
man employ q woman detective 10
tempt Guest, visit his office and hire
a fiat into which to invelgle Guest. to
give the appearance of relations upon
which Mrs. Guest might sue for n d.
vorce.
II shalt certainly prove this II Clar-
ence Lowther dares to appear here"
said the lawyer.
Hell he here and give you a chance"
muttered Mr.. Warren.
Guest His own witness.
A. ROYAL Guest was his own first wit
ness. lie said he had been married
twelve years when his wife left him.
Jan. 10, 1906.
When did your wife first meet Clar-
ence l.. Lowther?" Mr.. Maloney asked
In the spring of 1902 we were at
luncheon at q restaurant. He was there.
] introduced him. He suggested that we
lunch together. and after the lunch and
when | was about to return to my
office my wife said she must go down
To Best,s, in Twenty-third street. Low
thcr said he was going that way and
asked II he might ride dow with her.
| got home ~ 40. my wife at GO. with
parcels from Best's."
Mr.. Guest identified the photograph OF
Mrs. Guest and Mr.. Lowther from
which The Evening World $ pictures
were made. He took them himself in
wife's neck was given to her by Low
Their said Guest. W. had n party OF
new bangle bracelet. h asked them
all to give her friendship Eelrts to hang
upon 1t. Most OF them sent them. but
Lowther didn't. Instead. he sent her
next day this golden heart locket. two
inches across. and the chain"
Lowther became one OF many parties
in which were Mr., and Mrs. Guests.
but lac always was alone, and explained
that his wife was delicate and unable
to accompany him. He turned up al
on the way back to New York, and
found 1t convenient TO come back to
New York az the train with them.
The last time ] saw Lowther was at
phi iNSNuuIdhN, WHEN ne tele-
phoned me to meet him there. we
were not friendy then.
shortly before this he had mentioned
a woman named 'Corrinne,' with whom
he had been friendly, to my wife as
my friend, n aroused suspicious of
me in her mine | had heard of n.
went to the restaurant, not to lunch
with him. but TO ask what he meant
by telling my wife had visited this
woman in her Fffty-frst street nat.
He said he had been taken by surprise,
and that was the first thing that came
into his, mind to say. J told him ne
had lied n that l wanted nothing
tember. 1902. / nave never seen him
since" ~