The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-12
FOR CARMICHAEL,
MRS. LAWSON SCORNFULLY DE.
MES HIS TESTIMONY.
Never Threw Her Pocketbook At Hfm-H
h Had He Would Have Q IL Up
and Nun Away-Says Her Husband Cut
Her LIP in q Dark Spot in the street.

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She Had He wouId Have Picked IL Up
INT Nun Away-Says Her Husband Cut
Her Lip in q Dark Spot in the street.
The trial Of the suit of William M. Law
son against Lena l.. Lawson for an absolute
divorce was continued before Supreme
Court Justice Garretson In Brooklyn yester-
day. The defendant occupied the witness
stand all day.
In response to Questions asked by her
counsel she said that ever since the last
trial, In which she came out victorious,
she had been followed by detectives In the
employ Of her husband. They had so an
noyed her that she complained to Mr.. Law
sons father, who had advised her to have
the detectives arrested II they spoke to her.
Her husband, she said, was wealthy now
but wa only earning s2S a week when
they were married. She was then ques-
toned concerning Allen Carmichael, one
Of the correspondents, who had testified
against her. She said she last employed
Carmichael at O. q week to take care OF her
two children and protect them from the
Detectives, who she was afraid might kid
nap them. She denied that Carmichael slept
In her house or that she was ever In Car
michael's room in the Clarendon Hotel, and,
amid sobs, she said she had never treated
him In an affectionate or familiar manner.
She denied positively that che had ever
struck Carmichael on the head with a beer
bottle or had stabbed him with q pair Of
scissors, or sven scratched his face.
aDid you ever throw his clothes, cuffs
and collars into the street," she was asked.
sNo, sir, she replied. \ was never in his
ROOM
did you ever throw your pooketbook at
him and out his lip?"
would have grabbed the pooketbook and
run away"
She denied that she had ever smoked
cigarettes in the presence Of her children.
did Carmichael ever tell you that he
loved your
did any one else ever tell you they
yes, SIR she said, and the tears came
to her eyes, "my children. They often tell
did you ever tell Carmichael that you
and sni,t SYKES dssor stayed ssTse IN s the Kan sane va house ds.d II
together and that he was madly In love
with you and that one night Sykes carried
you in his arms9"
Newer" said Mrs. Lawson, rising In her
place to emphasize her denial.
Mrs. Lawson denied that she had ever
referred to Carmichael as 'Uncle Larry
or -Uncle Ally"
did you ever go home with POUR lip
cut7' she was asked.
Il did. It was on a Christmas eve,'
she said.
sWho gave you the cut lipi'
sThe man to whom 1 am married.
"WAere did IL happenf'
at Bedford avenue and Bergen street,
In o dark spot
SWhat did you do2"
what did I de2 Why, ] screamed, and
a policeman came up and l wanted him
to arrest Mr.. lawson"
She said that while she was discussing
the matter with the policeman her hus-
band ran away and she was escorted home
to her boarding house by a clerk OF a drug
store where she went to get something for
her nerve
Mrs. Lawson was then taken in hand
by Lawyer Field, her husbands counsel.
Nothing nav was obtained in the cross
examination. At times Mrs. Lawson got
angry at questions Mr.. Field asked her,
but by applying smelling salts frequently
aha managed 10 answer the questions.
Several times she seemed about TO faint.
The uass WIN Be continued nsxt Monday.