The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-02
ACTRESS
SUES FOR
$4,000
George Kane Claims She
Was Injured by
Trolley.
NORTH JERSEY RAILWAY
COMPANY DEFENDANT
Plaintiff Denied Witch Pre-
dicted She Would Be Blind
in One Eye.
DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER
HUSBAND IS ALIVE
She Readily Admits Being Forty
two Years Of
Age.
DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER
HUSBAND IS ALIVE


George Kane, formerly an actress on
the vaudeville stage who said that she
had been married but did not know
whether her husband was living or
not, although she was not divorced,
appeared as the plaintiff in the trial
of an action for $4,000 DANA ges before
Judge Heisley and a jury in the Su-
North Jersey Street Railway Company.
Miss Kane is AZ years old and did
not deny 1t on a sharp cross-examina-
ton by Chauncey II. Beasiey, counsel
for the company, although she testified
that she was fine and strong won-
an before the accident on which the
suit was based, and said that she
never had a pain or ache in her life"
though she admitted that she had ruf-
fered from appendicitis
Injured Leaving Car.
Miss Kane, on December II. 1907, was
a passenger on a trolley car and while
trying to aiight at McWhorter and La
fayette streets fell and had three RIBS
broken, hurt her right loot and was
seriously hurt otherwise, SO she said.
Ii was set forth IN the declaration in
the case that she spent s5o0 Tor med.-
cal treatment.
She now conducts boarding house
at 175 Lafayette street and said that
she had twenty-five boarders and one
servant.
"A few minutes after the accident"
~ m.
to swell, and blood came all over me
and l began to scream with pain. Dr.
Wilson was called; he bandaged me all
over and put me in plaster"
Her Name Not Flannaxan.
Miss Kane denied that her maiden
name was Flanagan and that she
was born In Cohoes, N T., but ad-
mitted that her husbands name was
Mozart. She also denied that she had
told her servant, Mary Leonard. just
before the accident that she was tired
of life and was going to get hurt on
a trolley car.
She admitted that she was not quite
as healthy as she had said on the di
rect examination, as she was blind in
one eye.
Didn't a witch tell you that you
would be blind?r she was asked.
Miss Kane laughed and followed UP
with an emphatic mo, SIR
Weren't you also engaged In an ac-
cident suit against the Singer Sewing
Machine Company" she was asked.
She did not deny this either. but did
deny that she had ever said that some
body had put poison in her beer. She
also denied that she had been drinking
on the day of the accident and grew
quite voluble in describing details of
her fall
After DIR. Wilson had testified that
he had treated Miss Kane and that she
showed no sign OF drinking that day,
Miss Nellie Costigan swore that her
limit" was ono glass of beer day
ncir ON stand.
Edward Eiald, ali uncle, of 542 Myrtle
avenue, Brooklyn, then swore that be-
fore the accident Miss Kane was en-
abled to do her housework alone. that
she was not much of q drinlSer, al
though she took beer occasionally.
"Did you ever see her take beer?" he
was asked
Most undoubtedly"
Miss May A. Peters, of Ill West Flf-
teenth street, a demonstrator of face
cream, also Of New York, swore that
before the accident Miss Kane did her
own houseworll
81 saw her several days before the
accident" she testified, "and she said
she never felt better in her life
Miss Peters declared with much posi-
tiyeness that she was not only
'demonstrator OF face creams, but also
everything along that line that sells.
and raised laugh.
''I may have seen her drink beer, but
not much here in Newark, she tesii-
fed.
says She Slipped.
Mrs. Grace Brady. Of a l7errs street
said she never saw Miss kans drink
bere to any marked extent.
In opening his defense Mr.. Beasiey
said that the woman had been suffer-
ing from dropsy and slipped when get .
ting off the cac.
.As soon as the accident occurred
Mr.. Beasley told the jury, "slne began
to manufacture evidence so as TO get
a large verdict We will show through
Mary Leonard that she would renearse
the accident day after day. Unfortu
nately, she was addicted to driHE' an
on the day of the accident she ma
been drinking"