The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-21
Third Suit for Divorce by Mil.
lionaire Lawson CoIIapses
at Brooklyn.
PERJURY is NOW CHARGED
PLAINTIFF HAS NAMED EiGH.
TEEN YEAR OLD YOUNGSTER
AS REsPoNDENT-so
AGHAST AT DETAILS.
Publishers Pressl

Publishers Pressl
New York. Nov. 2o.-Paralleled by
the famous Hartje case which recent
ly threatened 10 disrupt Pittsburs
high society. is that of Mrs. William
NJ. Lawson. of Brooklyn, whose hus-
band has unsuccessfully sued her
three times for divorce. the last case
collapsing yesterday through the adj
allegations of counsel for Mrs. Law
son are to be believed. Edmund l..
Mooney, attorney for Lena Lawrence
Lawson, went before District Attor-
ney Clarke, of Queens county to-
night and informed him that he had
absolutely conclusive proof that ten
persons who testified at the former
trials committed perjury and that
they did SO because they were we'll
paid for it,
Had Picked Her Up.
grhe Lawson divorce trial has at
tracted much attention in the cSliet
city of churches. William Nj. Law
son is millionaire jute manufact-
urer and about year ago he first
brought suit against his wife for abb
solute divorce, naming as corespon-
dent an Is year old boy. Allen STAN
ley Carmichael. Carmichael proved
the chief witness against the woman,
he testified that he had picked her
up through Irritation on the street
of her household after she had separ-
ated from her husband He swore
to having had illicit relations with
Mrs Lawson in her home and In a
hotel in Brooklyn. Other witnesses
gave testimony which was intended
to corrOborate the correspondents
story, but Mrs. Lawson, taking the
stand in her own defense, swore that
her husband had conspired to get rid
of her and denied IN toto all OF the
stories told against her on the wit
ness stand Nine of the twelve jury
men in the first trial believed Mrs.
the divorce and the jury was finally
discharged. The same evidence came
out at the second trial, the youthful
correspondent unblushingly endeavor-
ing to swear away the good name of
the fair defendant-she is one of the
best looking women that has appear
ed in Brooklyn divorce case in sew
eral years. AS on the first trial, the
second resulted in hung jury. The
third trial was begun this week and
had not extended very far until it
was positively priven to the salts
faction of Supreme Court Justice
Marean, that Lee Haimewich, a wit
ness for the plaintiff who testified to
seeing Mrs. Lawson and young Car
michael in a room in the Clarendon
hotel, had committed perjury The
court Immediately ordered a juror
Haiemwich was arrested for perjury
and is now confined in the Adams
street jail, awaiting the acton of
the grand jury.
Were Drilled by Plaintiff.
Edmund L. Mooney, counsel for
Mrs. Lawson. after investigating the
case, announces that he is going TO
have all of the conspirators punished.
He alleges that he is in a position to
prove that ten persons of those SO
far testified against Mrs. Lawson. in
young Carmichael. fatty per-
jured themselves. According to his
story all of the witnesses whose eyi-
dence he holds was manufactured,
were kept at summer resorts along
the Long Island shore for weeks at
the expense of Lawson, that thA
were thoroughly drilled in the stories
they were expected to tell on the wit
ness stand by member of the Kings
county bar, whose name Mooney is
keeping secret. and that for months
past all of these witnesses have been
drawing a stated weekly stipend from
he millionaire jute manufacturer
The allegations in the case have
stirred the Kings county bar to its
,enter and it is reported tonight that
special grand jury is to be asked
or TO investigate the charges.
Mrs. Lawson Makes Statement.
A reporter of the Publishers Press
saw Mrs. Lawson in her
home tonight and asked her
egarding a report that she would re-
use TO defend the suit further on the
round that she had no funds with
which to proceed. She said:
THAT is not SO. Although there is
monstrous conspiracy against me
vhich has for its object the dragging
+ my good namesfn the dirt, I will
OF rest until I have cleared myself.
IT. Lawson would kill me to get rid
I me IL it were not for the penalty OF
he law, and he himself is part OF this
igantic conspiracy to besmirch me.
was a servant: nothing
lse and / will yet be exonerated.r
An effort is to be made TO have the
aSo <a f, trial for yfo fourth tiyr,o