Evening star., 1909-05-11
BatonN Controlled Her Utter.
Iy, She Declares.
HER EYES ARE OPEN NOW
Daughter of Frank Work Says She
Was Married for Money.
SHE REoPENs DIVORCE SUIT
Declares Consort Tried to Make Her
Get $4,000 Monthly Instead of
$4,000 From Sister.

NEW YORK, May 1l.-Mrs. Frances
Work Burke Roche Batonyi painted her
husband. Aurel Batonyi, the whip. In
black colors in an affidavit she submitted
in the supreme court yesterday In support
of her motion to have opened the judS-
ment of separation that her husband
obtained against her several weeks ago
when she could not muster all her ma
teral witnesses to try her suit for d.
vorce.
She charged, in effect, that the only
reason he married her was to get what
money he could force her to obtain from
her family.
Hypnotized by Husband.
Mrs. Batonyi says she never saw her
husband in a true light until after he
abandoned her. She practically asserts
that Batonyi had her hypnotiEed so
that she could see no wrong In what
ever he did.
During our married life," she asserts
in one paragraph. ''and while Batonyi
was living with me, I was deeply at
tached to him and wholly under his in
fiuence and control. and to such an ex-
tent that / was unable to form any just
judgment as TO his character or con-
duct At many times I was wholly
unable to appreciate the true character
ana erect or the acts l performed under
his fnducement or direction"
She then says that, under this pecu-
liar influence which her husband ex-
erted, she applied to her family. mean
ing her sister and her sisters husband.
for money. Her father was angry at her
because OF her marriage, and Batonyi,
she AYERS, knew that Ii would be use
trying to get money from him. At a
family conference about which her
father knew nothing. she alleges 1t was
| agreed that she should get 5000 q
month. 1t was also arranged that she
and Batonyi should leave the country
and go abroad on this allowance.
Then Came the Quarrel.
This allowance was continued until they
returned from Europe to Newport in Au-
gust. 1907. Then the quarrel came. 1t
was caused she says, by her husband
demanding that she apply to her family
to increase the 5000 monthly allowance
to 5000.
Mrs. Batonyi says her husband well
knew that her father did not know this
allowance was paid to her. and when
he sought to have her obtain the ad-
ditionai 81 900 a month he threatened that
II she did not get 1t he would write to
her father. telling him that she had been
getting 5000 month from the family.
She said Batonyi finally carried out his
| threat in letter purporting to be a re
fusal of any financial aid from the Work
| family.
| Batonyi's version Of the separation was
| that she left him at the behest OF rela-
tives, who were afraid she wuold not
get her share Of her fathers wealth. He
said that he was sincere in his letter to
| her father that he did not want any
financial assistance from her family.
Says He Spares Her.
Il will spare her and hers as much AZ
possible" says Batonyi in his opposing
affidavit. Il still believe that she is the
helpless victim OF a coterie OF people
whom she repeatedly characterized as a
selfish, INSCRIPTIONS crowd and who
are using her as a tool against me to
further their own greedy purposes.
"And even now, when am SO unjust
ly attacked and strongly provoked. will
myself to a denial Of the allegations and
truthful story. For feel that IL were
| to tell the truth. and the whole truth
and all the facts concerning this affair, II
| would bring unnecessary afhiction to the
plaintiff. her children and her family"
In another paragraph Batonyi refers
| vaguely to certain conduct Of Mrs. Ba-
tonyi. He says that "in many respects
her conduct and behavior were such as
this she repeatedly expressed her CRATE
| full appreciation to me both while we
were living together and also afterward."
Mrs Batonyi charges that her husband
has repeatedly asked her to so back to
| him, but she said he did it to save him
self from the consequences of his own
conduct in abandoning her. She said
| that once when he called her up on the
telephone and asked her to go back. he
| threatened that il she did not accede
to his request he would ruin her and
her family and drive them all out OF
| New York
Justice Gildersleeve reserved decision on
the application TO open the default.