The evening world., 1908-10-08
BROTHER
TELLS Of W|FE'S
ACTS WITH GRAY
Led Party Which Broke In On
Accused Couple in
Hotel Room.

The sensational episode in which Mrs.
Jeanette c. Hardy Irwin and John c
Cray an artist decorator We're sur
prised at the Atlantic City Inn. Staten
Island, by Edwin Wilbur Irwin. the
husband. and Capt. Robert f. Ir-
win, the husbands brother. was de-
scribed in detail to-day at the trial of
the Irwin divorce suit before Justice
Marean- in the Brooklyn Supreme Court
Can't Irwin. who is an inspector of
ordnance In the United States Navy.
went on the stand for his brother and
did not spare his sster-inlaw or the
correspondent in any particular. Mrs.
Gray. richly gowned and wearing a flai
from which futtered several maCnifi-
cent ostrich plumes. sat unflinch;ngiv
through the recital Of the testimony.
The CORRESPONDENT was also an auditor
sitting several rows back OF Mrs Ir-
wins seat
The naval officer. whose home Is in
Jenkinstown, Pa, said that in Febru
ary, 1907, his brother has summoned
him 10 Brooklyn and asked him to go
down to the Atlantic City Inn and en-
gage a room. Letters the plaintiff in
the suit had obtained had aroused his
suspicious and informed him OF a pro-
jected visit of his wife and Gray TO the
Staten Island inn.
Capt. lrwin's Testimony.
Accompanied by Harold Parrish, a
business partner of the plaintiff, Capt
Irwin went TO the inn and engaged
Room J. While he and Parrish were in
the room couple entered Room 2. The
witness described what he had heard
going on in the room and scraps Of con-
versation that had iioated to him
through the wall.
His brothers. wife and Gray were in
the room, said Capt. Irwin. and the
plaintiff and four men had trailed them
there. The hus> mis- lour compan-
ions, the witness ana Mr.. Parrish had
forced the door Of the room and broken
in upon Mrs. Irwin and Gray. Gray
was putting on mis- coat.
The witness said that when Mrs. Irwin
aw her husband she fell upon her knees
and cried:
oh, I'D, forgive me- What shall /
do?"
Then the younG woman became hys-
;erical and attempted to strike her hus-
band.
Mir. Parrish had brought Il Kodak wit h
him ana was taking several snapshots
when Gray grappled with him and at
tempted 10 smash the camera Mrs.
lTNm had screamed al sight of the
Kodak and attempted to crawl under the
ned.
Landlord Intervenes.
The artist decorator was lighting the
six ntruders single handed when the
proprietor OF the inn rus"eu upstairs.
waving a revolver. and threatened 10
SaUoj The raiders.
He came at me with the gun" sad
capt Irwin, and ! drew my revolver.
/ told him that II there was going 10
be any shooting | was prepared 10 90
as much as any one" This had served
not only to calm the innkeeper, but in
his haste to get away from the range
Of Capt. Irwln's navy revolver he fell
downstairs.
Gray was nnally caught and held,
while Mr.. Parrish finished taking MS
snapshots. Then the raiding party al
lowed Mrs Irwin and the artist deco
Mrs. Mary Ryan said she was en-
ploYed in tne Irwin mansion at No. 2sl
Clinton street, Brooklyn. as Hoverness
fol two clildren-Olive, six years and.
and wilbur. -four years old. She said
that during 1906 and the early months OF
1907 GRAY had paid frequent calls on
Mrs Irwin. He came very often In the