The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-11
MRS. LEMP is
MUCH FATIGUED
Sensational Photograph is
Ruled Out. N
The Evidence Shows Lemp 20 BE a
Very Strenuous Sort OF Hus.
band.
CHAUFFEUR GIVES TESTIMONY

st. Louis, Feb. 11.-Traces that
she had spent a sleepless night were
apparent about the eyes of Mrs. Lii
liam Handlan Lemp, wife of william
]. Lemp. Jr., the millionaire whom
/ she Is suing for divorce, allimony and
custody of her child, when she took
the stand. During the hour and a
half she was on the stand she APP
peared very nervous. in great con.
trast to her calm, collected demeanor
of the day before.
Hundreds of people gathered early
about the court house before the trial
lbegun and a special detail of police
to preserve order was necessary. In
the throngs women fought with men
to gain admittance. BY 1 o'clock
hundreds filled the corridors OF the
court house and thousands lined aj-
Joining sidewalks, all around the
court house square. waiting to gain a
glimpse of Mrs. Lefnp on her way to
luncheon.
The day was taken up following
the conclusion of the testimony of
Mrs. Lemp with the examination of
servants. who corroborated various
charges of indignities made by Mrs.
Lemp. Mrs. Lena Corey, former
laundress in the Lemp home, testi-
fed that Lemp entertained women
unknown to her in the house while
Mrs. Lemp was out of the city. She
also testified that she had seen a
strange woman in the bath room.
The court overruled further ques-
tons regarding the photograph show
ing Mrs. Lemp smoking a cigarette
saying further explanations were not
material. Regarding the assault said
to have been made upon her in the
bath room by Lemp, Mrs. Lemp said
she told no one of IL for shame.
She testified that her husband fired
his revolver in his room; that during
the summer of 1908. while she was at
the Chicago Beach hotel, Lemp un-
Iexpectedly appeared one night, going
to her room and without speaking
aside clothes in the wardrobe and
looked into the bath room; that Lemp
denied her the use of his automobile:
that during the summer of 1903,
when Lemp alleges her sister. Bella,
visited their home against his wishes
the sister was attending school in
Washington; that she did not know
the true nature OF the ante-nuptial
agreement which she signed, and
Lemp gave their child a copy of Puck
in which appeared picture deroga-
tory OF the Catholic church.
A former chauffeur testified to hav-
ling driven LemP with other women
to summer parks, as we'll as to his
home; that on one occasion he drove
Lemp to a place near Laclede and
Garrison avenue, near the home of
Mrs. Howard. a newspaper woman,
and that the next day the first story
in which Mrs. Lemp was referred to
as the Lavender Lady" appeared.
Other former servants in the Lemp
household testified to Mrs. Lemp's
devotion to her husband and child:
that combings of women's hair were
found in the rooms at the Lemp
home during Mrs. Lemp's absence
and that women were heard to sing
Treat Us All Alike Baby" in the
Lemp home.
The deposition of Gustav ID.
Schmidt. assistant manager of the
81. Regis hotel, New York, was in
troduced, the substance of which was
that Mrs. Lemp always conducted
herself properly during her visit to a
Palm Beach hotel. where he was
clerk; he admitted spending an after
noon with her at a baseball game and
was interested in her and was the
first to inform her that a detective
was shadowing her.