The sun., 1908-03-26
MARQUIS DIVIDED TIE M'KEES
GiGLIELHO CAUSED WIFE TO
LEAVE HOME, SAYS LABORI.
Lawyer Tells Of Cipher Code With Imprint
able Words MeKes's Love Letters
Head Money spent on . Fine House
BiE Hotel and Auto Trip Expenses.

special cable DsIpaieh 10 The sun.
PARIS. March 25,-The hearing Of the suit
4 Hart Mckee against his wife and Col.
pa,ter her father. for damages for defama-
ron Of character was resumed in the Civil
Tribunal Of the Seine to-day.
Naltre Labor, counsel for Mckee, oontin-
ung his argument, which was interrupted
ny adjournment on Wednesday last, began
dealing with the time when Mckee left the
villa al Monte Carloln order to 90 to America
and push his first divorce case Labori read
4 code arranged for cabling This code
a, il exists. said Labor, lie partly in the
handwriting Of Mrs, Mckee The indecent
,ars are in the handwriting Of Mckee
labor. continuing, denied that Mckee
.rsw anything about the relations between
lord Rosslyn aud Mrs, Mckee, then Mrs.
Lewis. Mckee knew that Rosslyn had per-
secuted her with his attentions, but he did
not suspect anything further until papers
we're found 10 the house at Varennes.
IAbor read further extracts from
american Western newspapers and ac-
rlsed Mrs. MlcKee's side Of the case Of
inspiring unfair accounts Of last weeks
,rocodings He read a long and most
.a,s,orate letter from Mrs. Mckee TO Nc
Lee and several kilograms in which in
,iecant words were used.
Labor repeated the at atement he had
lofore made that Mckee left the villa at
RocabeIo because Of a communication made
70 him by Mrs. Tevis Before he started
for America they drew mp the code for
rolegams. a copy Of which was in exist
cnce in her handwriting with additions in
NIcKees hand. Labor read many Of the
kilograms exchanged between the couple
.nd one Of thirty letters Mrs, Tevis wrote
70 Mckee between November II and the
end of December. This was dated '0ur
Poudor"
The letter told how mad she was TO see
I'm again and had the word Darling
pIentitully scattered through 1t. II con-
4ined words that, according to Labor,
we're code words which IL was impossible
10 hint at in print The letter was signed
Your Loving Wife, Tom Labor read
also one letter from Mckee to prove that
II was not he that needed the code but she
In another letter she offered to 60 TO New
York, disguised as a chsmbermaid with a
red wig, and remain concealed till his
divorce was complete. Another letter
from her described how she had been in bed
all day
McKee's first divorce, which cost him
Si6O 900, was pronounced on January Q.
He obtained license TO marry Mrs. Tevis
On January Ii. They we're married on
January II ana sailed for Europe on Jan
nary ~.
Labor strenuously and at length denied
rhe stories that the McKees had lived at a
second rate hotel in Paris Their bill for
fifty days had averaged n francs, or $40
day. Labor showed the Judges two
large albums full Of postcards, menus and
hills. the result Of several automobile trips,
as proof Of the good style in which the
couple lived. When they took an apart
ment in Paris it was taken in Mrs. KcKee' 3
name, he paying the rent. Labor quoted
from Paris and Pittsburg newspapers ac-
counts Of the McKees' success in society
rs proof that Mrs. Mckee was then happy.
Ha also produced letters from her mother
and one from her sister thanking Brother
Hart for postcard.
The couple agreed later TO rent house
for twelve years at a rental Of 5000 an
nually they agreed TO spend $4,000 In
decorating it and $4,000 for furniture
The rupture came before they moved into
the house and Mckee paid 5000 to break
the lease and 5000 TO break the furniture
agteement
According to VI. Labori absolute happl-
ness existed between the couple until the
end Of July. He read letter from Mckee
begging his wife to return In Angus, which
contained the words Return for love Of
The baby. Give me another chance. Come,
come, oome' words which LabOri in
dlgantly denied were a confession Of any
wrongdoing. He also read a postal card
n the same period on which Mckee asked
Mrs Mckee 70 return and added 4 am
sorry I am bad Here, NJ, Labor said.
Mckee wrote like little boy.
Coming TO the twenty-seven direct
charges NJ. Labori heatedly repelled the
accusation Of suborning witnesses, de-
claring il was based on the talk Of servants.
Ne bitterly denounced Maitre Barboux's
description Of his client and also the press
campaign, which he declared had driven
his client and his family TO become out
casts from their home and compelled them
% live abroad. Continuing, NJ. Labori
4aid Il am defending an honest man and
his innocent family against a viciouswoman'
Mrs. Mckee is mistaken II she believes
he privileges OF beauty will excuse her
attitude before a French tribunal
VI. Labor described the Marquis Gug-
'emo as meeting Mrs. Mckee in Rome in
,'O3. when he was 20 years old. He fell
desperately in love with her and so became
'he direct cause Of her quitting the house
A. yarennes. Miss Lawlor was visiting
Narennes az that time and she assisted
'tc Marquis and Mrs, Mckee, but later
'e'l-ed 10 help Mckee toward a reconcills-
'on. although the elder Mrs. Mckee be-
leved Miss Lawlor was very friendly with
her family.
W. Labor was especially soomful in re-
rari TO the charge referring 10 the McKees
having thirty-two servants, and he de-
carod that Mrs. Mckee had had only five
turing her married life. He poured further
'oorn on the only three sfhdavits produced.
saving that the cook who complained Of