The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
SAYS MRS. DIXON
ANSWERED CALL
FOR MRS. ALTON
Sleuth Causes Stir at Hearing
of Domestic Troubles of
Corporation Counsel.
SISTER OF HUSBAND
TELLS OF suspicious
Not Certain She Saw Mrs. Dixon
With Ait0n-SeveraI Named
as Correspondents.
Especial to the Evening star.I

& JERSEY CITY, Jan. 29.-Thonas L.
Carey, a deputy sheriff. of Elizabeth.
ind at times private detective, today
caused something of a sensation when
placed on the stand before Vice Cham
cellor Garrison, in the suit of Cor
peration Counsel Warren Dixon. of
Jersey City, against Elinor Bentley
Dixon. his wife, for the custody of his
children. excluded from the court room
while the case Is on.
According to Carey he went to the
home of Mr.. Dixon, in Elizabeth, and
asked for the '.Missus."
He claimed that the maid asked:
Mrs. Aiton?" He said yes"
Five minutes later. he said. Mrs.
Dixon came downstairs
For the most part the case dra gged
this morning. The court room was
crowded, and shortly before noon there
was prospect of long argument
over whether the court could, in the
advent of the granting of the petition,
give the children to Mr.. Dixon, who
would place one of them with a sister,
Mrs. James Crowe1, of Orange.
The court cut the argument short
could argue at the conclusion of the
case.
Mrs. Dixon was trif1e late this
morning. She came into court look
ing thoroughly at ease. and did not
loose her composure during the morn
ing
In practically all the testimony the
name of Thomas A. Alton, treasurer
of the Alton Machine Company. figured.
He is one of the alleged correspondents.
Alton Not Only Man Named.
A supplementary petition filed last
night names two other men.
Clarence Williams, a messenger boy,
was the first witness called today.
He testified that he delivered one
message to $50 Chiffon street. Eliza
not remember to whom it was directed.
He was followed on the stand by Rob-
ert W. Devine, Elizabeth manager of
the Postal Telegraph Company.
Mr. Devine said that messages dur
ing the present month addressed TO
Alton, had been sent to the Chiffon
street address, and also bill from the
telegraph company to Alton.
Then came Carey with his allegation
that Mrs. Dixon came downstairs when
the maid asked if he wished to see
Mrs. Alton.
He testified that his detective agency
had been hired TO shadow the home of
Mrs Dixon. One night, January 10, he
said that Alton entered the house with
a latch key. On cross examination by
Mr. McCarter Mrs. Dixon's counsel, he
admitted that he had never seen Alton
before but had a description of him.
First he said it was written descrip-
tion. then he said it was verbal.
says He Followed Couple Here.
Edward Kenny testified that he had
once seen Alton enter the house He,
too. had but a description. He also
said he had followed Alton and Mrs.
Dixon to Newark one day.
He said the man with Mrs. Dixon on
the Newark trip was the same man
that entered the house.
Mrs. James Crowel, sister of Mr.
Dixon. said she had seen Mrs. Dixon
with a man, and presumed it was
Alton, but did not know. She said that
Warren, one of the children. had been
in her care and had visited his mother
at weekly intervals. She did NOS know
how often Mr.. Dixon saw the boy. The
child's playnnates, she said were hea
children and her two ne
phews, the children of Mrs. Francis Nc
Coy. another sister.
'If the custody of the child asked
CONTINUED ON second Pnse.l