Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-20
TELLS ABOUT FAMILY JARS
Young Woman's Visits to House
Started Trouble.
WELLINGT0N's PART IN CASE
Respondent Makes General Denial of
Husbands Charges Connecting
Her Name With That Of His.


BALTIMORE, December 19-The Rev
DR.. r. s. COPELAND, the Episcopal min
lister against whom DR.. P. B. Wilson has
entered suit for $4,000 damages, was the
principal witness today III the Wilson di-
vorce case.
He appeared for the defense and his
testimony went to show that a Miss
Davis, from whom Wilson rented his
house, frequently visited the doctor and
caused trouble between him and his wife.
He said that DR.. Wilson had told him all
about the trouble with his wife and about
the charges that had been made coupling
his name with that of Miss Davis. and
that DR.. COPELAND said he advised him to
keep Miss Davis away from the house.
''Dr. Wilson told me he would do So"
continued DR.. COPELAND. but subsequent
ly Mrs. Wilson called on me and told
me Miss Davis continued to go there
This made me very indignant. as / told
DR.. Wilson I would not continue to be
his friend unless her visits ceased. so
wrote DR.. Wilson a pretty stiff note on
the subject. This caused the only mis-
understanding that, so far as know,
has ever arisen between us.
Could Not Prevent Woman's Calls.
II saw later the persons whose names
Mrs. Wilson had given me as witnesses.
and they told me that Miss Davis had
not been visiting the place. then called
on DR.. Wilson. and he told me that as
Miss Davis owned the house he could not
prevent her coming there. and as he as
sured me the relations between them We're
those of old friends and were entirely In
nocent, l again became his friend. and
that friendship has continued without in
terruption from that day to this.
MIR. Cotton, counsel for Mrs. Wilson,
here broke in with:
You are the defendant in a suit for
$4,000 brought by Dr.. Wilson. and yet
you tell the judge that you are. so far
as you know, on terms of perfect friend
ship with him.
II do. I haven't the slightest idea why
it was brought nor what it is about"
"Was it brought because you were eX-
pected to be witness in this divorce
case?''
Before the minister could reply Thomas
Weeks. DR.. Wilson's lawyer. was on his
feet.
II object and protest against such an
insinuation," he shouted. Il am counsel for
DR.. Wilson in that suit and it Is a re-
Election upon my professional reputation
to say it was brought because DIR. Coup
land was expected to testify - this case"
Mr.. Cotton disavowed any intention of
rejecting upon Mr.. Weeks. and the Incl
dent was dropped. Nobody knows yet, SO
far as any evidence in the divorce case
or any statements by those interested is
concerned, what that damage suit is
about.
Respondent on the Stand.
Mrs. Tolitha V. Wilson. the respondent
in the case. was the next witness. An
sewering questions by Mr.. Cotton, she
entered a general denial Of the charges
made by her husband connecting her
name with that of ex-senator Wellington
Her relations with the senator were those
Of friend. nothing more, she said. She
branded as a falsehood the statement that
around her at the Druid Hill avenue res
idence.
Next came DR.. Roherback, Mrs. Will
sons father. He said he was Senator
Wellington's friend.
DR.. Wilson's story that DIR. Roherback
came to his house few days after the
birth Of his child and made admissions
during an angry TRADE connecting Mrs.
Wilson's name with that of Senator We'll
lington was declared an "untruth'' by
DIR. Roherback.
DIR. Roherback admitted that Senator
Wellington had often helped him out
financially.
'why. right now If should be pressed
for money all I'd have to do would be to
telegraph him and he'd let me have
81 600"
"Oh. is that So Now, why does he
give money like this?''
Because he has a friendly feeling to-
ward me-
Dir. Roherback also admitted that Sena-
tor Wellington paid part of his daughters
school expenses.