The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-14
COURT REBUKES CARMICHAEL.
WITNESS OBJECTS TO HAVING HIS
WIFE,s NAME BROUGHT Nv.
The Court speaks of His Impudent Enront.
cry I'm Laytns bare a Lisson-Reason
He Turned Agalnst Mrs. Lawson Wa
Tha she Ruined Him NJ the Age of n.


Allan Stanley Carmichael, the boy Do
respondent in the divorce suit brought by
William NJ. Lawson, the millionaire jute
manufacturer, against Lena Lawrence Law
son, was on the stand all day yesterday in
Part i. Of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn,
and with the same air Of ~self-conidence
which characterized his appearance on
Monday told Of his relations with Mrs.
Lawson, frequently smiling sarcastioally
at her counsel, who was oross-examining
him. He said that at the time Mrs. Law
son lived in Union street, in order TO make
it appear that he did not stay in the house
all night, he went out the front Loo early
in the morning and then rang the basement
door bell and was let in by the servant.
They had a quarrel, and on one occasion
Mrs. Lawson struck him on the head with
q bottle Of beer and on another threw a
pair of SCISSORS at him. These occurrences
took place in the Clarendon Hotel. and the
beer bottle episode was the cause of Mrs.
Lswson's being asked to leave the place.
Lawyer Mooney managed, after consider
able trouble, to get the witness to admit
that he had once been arrested for stealing
articles from a grocer. He said that he had
pleaded guilty and that sentence was sus-
pended, which TO his mind meant acquittal.
He made this admission only after he had
denied that he had ever been arrested.
Lawyer Mooney tried to ascertain some
thing about the wife Of the witness, but
Carmichael, with an air of injury, objected
to having his wife brought into the pro-
ceedings. Again and again Lawyer Mooney
tried to ascertain whom Carmichael had
unarrtaI md tnaN "a 1f&an Carrn,nhaal oh
jected to this line OF questions, and at last
appealed to Justice Msrean, who appeared
disguised with the whole proceeding. In
response TO Carmichael's objections jus
tioe Maresn expressed astonishment. and
said: =
"A man who with brutal frankness and
impudent efrontery has no c~ompunction
in laying bare the ~scandalous details Of his
liaison with a married woman takes an en-
tirely different attitude when IL becomes n
question Of his own family affairs"
He then. however, denied the right TO
bring Carmichael's wife into the on
troversy.
After much questioning as to the details
of his conduct with Mrs. Lawson, Lawyer
Mooney asked the witness why he had gone
to Buffalo.
Because you and your detectives had so
bounded me in Brooklyn that l could secure
employment nowhere. and | have no doubt
that after his trial ] will not he able to Sc
cure employment in any part OF this State
What mad you come here to tell of your
relations with Mrs. Lawson?" asked Lawyer
Mooney.
Because she ruined me when ! was but
II years old" said Carmichael, "and has
made me an outcast from my family and
friends"
The witness said that Just before and also
during the first trial OF the suit he and
Mrs. Lawson sat in the parlor of the Union
street house until I O'Clock in the morning
holding hands. He said it was 30 cold
that he had 20 wear his coat. He had
promised TO aid Mrs. Lawson in fighting the
divorce.
DO you think that was a way of helping
her when you sat in the parlor until 1 A. NJ.
holding hands," asked counsel.
"0h," said Carmichael. "the servant was
out and no one could see us. and what was
not seen could not injure her.
did any one ever see you come out Of the
Union street house at that early hour Of the
morning. he was asked. \
Yes replied the witness. the milkmsn
saw me 20 often that he got sore eyes
The case is still IN.