The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-09


JuEGled-ThOse ~Ante-NuDtaI Letters.
Special Cabt D,ipateA 10 TIE Sun.
PARIS. April s.-When the hearing Of
Mrs. Hart A. MoKee's suit for divorce,
combined with her husbands libel suit,
was resumed this morning MAitre Barbour
addressed the Court on behalf Of Mrs.
Mckee. He denied the allegation Of the
other side that she had been guilty Of an
intrigue with the Marquis Guglielmi, say
ing that not the slightest proof had been
advanced Of anything Of the kind. He
charged Maitre labor, counsel for Mckee,
with alternating at later sessions OF the
court charges he had made earlier In the
case. He defended Miss Lawlor, a family
friend Of the McKees, for her refusal TO
help Mckee toward a reconciliation and
scored Alliotti as a man unworthy Of con-
hdence.
Mattre Barbour referred TO an occasion
on which Mckee soolded his wife at bridge
for going a weak no trumper. She refused
TO occupy the same room with him that
night and left the next day. Her reason
for both steps was her health. She was
then suffering. The first thing she did
when she reached Paris was to consult
doctors, who sent her To a private hospital
for three weeks. Meanwhile Mckee went
in an automobile with the Marquis Gug-
lielmi TO Vichy.
labor himself, said Barbour, was en-
harrassed by the definite accusation brought
against Mrs, Mckee as regards Guglielmi
and later tried to replace il by mere in
situations and suspicious. Another dis
graceful act was McKee's attempt TO i'm.
pugn Miss lawlor, a lady Of u%nblemished
character, whom he charged with assist
ing his wife's intrigues with Guglielmi,
Mckee, he said, reached Paris between
8 and 7 in the morning, forced his way past
a servant into Miss lAwlor's bedroom,
and searched it and the servants room for
his wife. frightening Miss lawlor so much
that she removed TO the Hotel Meurice.
Barbour pointed out that four cases
we're before the court. one in which Nine.
Mckee demanded a divorce, two against
her and her father. Col. Baxter. by Mckee
for defamation Of character and one by
Mckee for divorce. Bluff had been intro
duced into the case in the American way,
The Americans we're great people, the
lawyer said, and had many special virtues,
but when they are seeking to make the
most OF their own character or TO destroy
the character Of an adversary il must be
remembered that they resemble the GasconS
Of France.
Maltre Barbour said he found madame's
sincerity when instruoting him in the case
perfect and her explanations clear. her
looks, her manner Of speaking, her dis
position the best that an advocate could
desire, There was absolutely no proof Of
an intrigue between her and the Marquis
Guglielmi. who was McKee's own friend.
On the night Of a fishing excursion Mckee
fell into the water and returned TO the
house to change his trousers and he said
he saw his wife and the Marquis coming
from some thick bushes. Yet neither her
dress nor her hat showed signs Of having
been disarranged by the branches.
Miss Iawlor wrote letters to Allioti. who
was a friend Of Mckee, and AllioH had
supplied copies OF them from memory.
These copies had been produced only as
late as March 8. when Miss Lawlor was in
America and it was impossible TO consult
her as to their correctness, which NJ, Bar
boux said he doubted. Miss lawlor's
action had been due entirely to her desire
to prevent trouble for everybody after
the rupture, while Mckee was metaphor
ically throwing himself at his wife's feet,
promising amendment
Continuing, Maitre Barbour declared
that Mckee was writing 10 Col. Baxter
threatening 10 reveal what would have been
better left unknown unless Mrs. Mckee
returned to him. These threats, the law
yer said, turning TO Labor, 'he has now
carried out through you.
Maitre Barbour succeeded IN riveting the
tribunals attention for a short time by de-
nouncing the charges regarding Lord
Rosslyn, contrasting NJ. Labori's closing
words. that Mckee did not wish to make
any charge against his wife's honor, with
the charge actually made against her in
connection with Lord Rosslyn. He ac-
cused Mckee Of classifying bills paid for Hugh
Tevis, mis- stepson, Thus Mckee charged
500 francs (s6SO 10 the boys account
for a tallor's bill which was only 800 francs
1901. He charged S,O7S francs 0oiS) at a
hotel, when the bill for the whole family
was only 1884 francs 1899 ,sO). He paid
800 francs (1ioOl for an alteration in Hugh's
room and charged the trustees 800 francs
$500.
Maitre Barbour read a long report by an
expert TO prove that the accountants re-
port read by Labor was not accurate, az 1t
included many large sums paid by Mrs.
Mckee which were represented as having
been paid by Mckee. The lawyer ques-
toned the reliability Of all the accounts
nut forward by Mckee. One item Of ti' 900
was said TO have been lost in gambling by
Mrs. Mckee, who never played.
Maitre Barbour took the original copy Of
the notorious code employed by the liti-
giants up to the Judge. Moitre Labor ac-
oompanying him, A long conversation on
this document ensued which did not reach
the audience, but II is believed Barbour
pointed out his reasons for stating that
Mckee had added words 10 the code,
Naitre Barbour concluded by denounc-
I'M Mckee, conduct In publishing his wife's
iatters written before her marriage 10 him,
and declared that however the case may
end II was certain no respectable persons
in his own country would care TO shake
hands with him again.
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