The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-30
LAST STRAW WAS
ACALL|NC0RDEAL
MRS. BASSETT SAYS THAT THE
SUSPICIOUS OF HER HUS-
BAND CAUSED PARTING.
SHIELDED PASTOR HUNT
And Says That She Still Loves No
One But Bassett---Defendan in
Sensational Divorce Case
Has Her Inning.

Washington, Nov. 29.--It was Mrs
Fanny Rice Bassetts turn in Equity
court today, and she entered an EN-
phatic denial of the charges preferred
against her by Charles c. Bassett, OF
the United States Geological Survey,
in his suit for divorce, in which Rev,
e. Lawrence Hunt, formerly Wash
| ington clergyman, is named as core.
spondent. She caps her disclaimer
with this assertion
Il have not in my own mind, for
mulated anything that | could call
love, nor would | have anything in
mind, anything OF that kind toward
any man while am still the wife OF
another"
Mrs. Bassetts testimony was in
the form of deposition, and was
read by her counsel, and 1t was calcu-
lated to refute the allegations of her
husband that she and Hunt enter
tanned too much affection for each
other Mrs. Bassett says she decided
after Bassett went away for his sum
mer's work in the spring of 1904
that she would never live with him
again and that she departed from this
city permanently the last week of DC
tober, 1904. She wrote to Bassett
while he was away, just the same as
she always did.
Wrote to Hunt.
Concerning the Atlantic City epi.
sode, which has figured prominently
in the case, she said that during her
stay In Atlantic City she went to New
York once for day, and that she
wrote and asked Hunt to come and
stay with the children while she was
away, which he did, and he spent the
night at the Gibson House.
Il presume he occupied the room
which he engaged for his mother at
the Gibson House." she said. in reply
to further question. Mrs Hunt has
been unable to come to Atlantic City,
as she expected, because Of ollness."
In her testimony the occurrence in
City was characterized as
"the last straw" and Mrs. Bassett
declared that, after the interview be
tween herself, her husband and Mr..
Fairchild in Atlantic City. she de-
termined that never again would Mr.,
Bassett have chance to disgrace
here and her children before the
world.
The cross-examination of Mrs. Ba1
,ett showed that she refused to state
whether the defendant, Hunt, had
toward her support since
The left Washington, or whether Hunt |
laid her bills at the Johns Hopkins |
hospital or during her stay at At |
antic City. The deposition indicated |
hat Mrs. Bassett had been closely |
Questioned regarding he r where
Ibouts on the occasion when she was |
lbsent from the house during her |
,ist in New York.
Her Trips Scrutinized.
Her replies were to the effect that |
,he was away probably two or three |
imes; that she stayed day and a |
hight at the Hastings; that she was
It Far Rockaway over night at a |
,oard ng house on a business trip
vent one day and came back the |
lext; that she stayed over night at |
lewburg at a boarding house. Those |
hree were the only places that she |
vas when away from her cousins !
louse over night that she recalled.
Mrs. Bassett was asked whv she
lid not inform her husband Of the |
act that the child Lawrence was
,orn, and answered Because it was
ione of his business. He had forfeited
III right TO know anything about my
elf or my children
She declared that while she was
II at the hospital Hun, did not assist
Ter from or to bed or to attire herself
,r disrobe She did say that during
he waiting period at the hospital
iuni came to see her and vas very
lind to her. bringing her books and
iolping her to pass away the time.