The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-02
POESY OF A BACTERIOLOGIST.
ATTRIBUTED TO DIR. FITZPAT-
RICK IN MRS. SPANN'S SUIT.

one Specimen May Re Homemade but
T,0thcr's TennyyOn-The Lady wants
t---.. ESQ, 900 because Marriage Did Net
FOIIOw-Br says lie Never Promised
The Pocsy Of a Bactcriologlst forms
a part Of the evidence in a $4,000 breach
OF promise suit brought IN the Supreme
Court by Mrs Juliet q. Spann against Dr.
Charles 3. Fitzpatrick, who has bachelor
apartments at the Sydenham, ei6 Madi-
son avenue.
Or. FITZPATRICK Is a well known prac-
titioner, and has been since 1895. an assistant
bacteriologist in the Health Department.
He IL a member OF the Richmond County
Country Club, and Of tho Academy OF
Medicine and the Pathological Society.
He Is said 70 enjoy q substantial income
from his practice.
Mrs. Spann was married on Dec. 10, 1895,
by the Rev. DR.. Littlefeld TO George Garlic
on Spann, lawyer. She was divorced
from him in the August following. The
marriage, It was said at the time, was
bitterly opposed by Spanns family, in
Guiding his brother, a physician with
whom DR.. Fitzpatrick was acquainted.
But after the divorce there was a recon
citation, and, on Nov. II, 1897, the Spanns
were remarked by Dr.. Lttleheld.
IN July, 1892 Spann brought an action
In the city court against Benjamin s. Reed
for the alienation Of his wiie's affections
and had Reed arrested and lodged in Lud-
low Street Jail. Mrs. Spann made an
affidavit in Reeds behalf in that suit, In
which she admitted that she had not been
all she ought TO have been before her second
marriage 10 Spann, but denied that Reed
was in any way guilty Of alternating her
affections She says now that she made
that afidav.. under a mis1pprehension,
but swears that DIR. Fitzpatrick, with whom
she had become acquainted then, cham
pioned her cause IN that suit, and gave her
money TO help Reed get out OF jail. The
Reed suit was dropped, and in February,
1902, Spann died.
In her complaint, drawn by her lawyer,
Alfred Hughes OF 40 Nassau street, Mrs.
Spann now alleges that in May, 1890, while
ehe was living with her family here, DR..
Fitzpatrick promised TO marry her In Octo-
Der, 1900, provided she could get a divorce
meanwhile. In an affidavit she says
further that he offered 20 sperd any amount
OF money, 5000 il necessary, to help her
get a divorce, but she found 1t impossible,
though he font her to Vernon NJ. Davis,
now a Supreme Court Justice, to consult
about legal proceedings against her hus-
band.
After Speln died. she continues, DR..
Fitzpatrick again renewed his promise OF
marriage, in March, 1902. The wedding
was to take place, she says, as soon as her
trousseau could be got ready. but she
waited, and waited, and finally discovered
that the physician was unwilling to make
Der hla. wife, though she alleges. he had
persuaded her 20 live With him.
In Mrs Spann's affidavit she says that
DR.. Fitzpatrick wrote her many poetical
illusions Of an exceedingly anatory oharao-
ter. What he told her he considered his
two best and most appropriate efforts
were his odes entitled, TO Nettie's Kiss, "
and 'To N, The Sleeping Beauty They
run as follows, according TO the copies,
now in Mrs. Spanns possession. which
she says are in the doctors own hand
writing: