New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-04
MRS. BULL TELLS STORY
OF THAT $4,000 DEAL
On Stand in Jefferson Market
Court Testifies in QuaIey-
Harvey Hearing.
IN CONFLICT WITH M'lNTYRE
Denounces as Outrage That Law
yer for Defence Should Drag
Her from Sickbed-she
Didn't Know Corbett.

Mrs. William T. Bull went on the stand
in the jefferson Market court. at the
hearing of John A Qualey and Harvey
! W. Corbett on the charge that they had
obtained $4,000 from Mrs. Bull by mis-
representations concerning the Mag
nesia-Asbestos Company. of which
Qualey Is president and Corbett secre-
! tary and treasurer.
Mrs. Bull came into the magistrates
chambers for the afternoon hearing
armed with a fan. a glass. a small piece
| of ice and bottle of mineral water In
the morning she had had a telephone
| conversation with John F. Mcintyre,
counsel for the prisoners. from which
! Mr.. Mcintyre had retired purple and
perspiring, and she had begun the morn
Ing session by denouncing it is an out
| rage that Mr.. Mcintyre should drag her
out of a sickbed to come to court and
! testify.
She began the afternoon session by
smiling graciously on Mr.. Mcintyre and
seeking a place for her chair where he
could best hear her. But the day wound
up with the battle flags flying. Mrs.
Bull sat with her elbows planted on the
! table, TRANSMITTING with her eye the
aroused Mcintyre, who demanded
answers to his questions. But Mrs.
! Bull replied in curt, hard sentences.
Cross Examination Starts Trouble.
1t was the cross examination that
started the trouble.
| Madam" Mr. Mcintyre began, may
| 1 ask your age?"
| There was an instant objection by
! Charles L. Craig, attorney for Mrs. Bull.
| Then Mr.. Mcintyre explained:
Il want to show that you are not an
| unsophisticated woman, not an ingenue,
| but that you are a woman of consider
| able experience, and what might i'm
press a youthful person would not i'm
press YOU
Mrs. Bull pushed aside her glass and
mineral water, forgot her fan. and
pierced Mr.. Mcintyre with a scornful
eye She waived aside his questions and
| flirted her hand contemptuously a t him,
while he demanded courtesy.
Madam he said. Il will treat you as
a gentleman should a lady if you will be
| so good as to remember that / am
gentleman"
| The examination was then re-
volving about the question whether Mrs.
Bull had made certain statements to
! Sheriff Anthony. of Newport, in regard
to Qualey and Corbett being officers of
| the magneSia company.
DO you know Sheriff Anthony. of
Newport County. r. I.?'' Mr.. Mcintyre
| asked.
Il know him." Mrs Bull replied
Did you ask him to lodge a complaint
against the defendants in Rhode ISL
and?" was the next question
! Mrs. Bull did not get chance to reply
to this question, Her lawyer was on his
| feet at once with an objection.
Mr. Mcintyre Persistent.
There are certain statements made in
the complaint sworn to in Rhode ISL
and" said Mr. Mcintyre. and l want
to find OUT
| Il telephoned TO my attorneys. who
are United States District Attorney
! Charles A. Wilson. of Providence who
! is guardian of my son, and Judge John
| G. Burke, Of Newport. l telephoned to
| General Wilson and he came right over"
| said Mrs. Bull.
Did you send for both of them?' Mr..
| Mcintyre asked.
Both Of them" Mrs. Bull replied with
! a wave of her hand
Don't lift your hand at me- Mr.. Nc
! Intyre warned. Did you tell Sheriff
Anthony
Il never saw him." Mrs. Bull inter-
rupted There's no use asking me I
| rever saw him"
Did you tell Sheriff Anthony" Mr..
Mcintyre repeated, that Qualey and
! Corbett were not members of this com
pany?"
L never said that to anybody in Rhode
| Island" Mrs. Bull said. 1T was not I'M
| til | got here / decline to answer
! Mr.. Mcintyre returned to the charge,
and after listening to the beginning of
| his question. Mrs. Bull interrupted again
IF you will put your question more
| lucidly." she said, Il may be bile to
| answer it
| It was then 4 o'clock and Magistrate
| Krotel stopped the examination of Mrs.
| Bull to say that it was his last day in
| the jefferson Market court, and as he
| had considerable unfinished business to
| attend to he would adjourn the hearing
to to-day in the Harlem court. While
| the lawyers and the judges We're discuss
| ing the hour at which the hearing should
! be resumed Mrs. Bull asked Magistrate
| krotel:
May ! interrupt for a minute?"
| Certainly" said the magistrate.
| Il never saw Mr.. Corbett in Rhode
| Island" said Mrs. Bull. 1T was not I'M
| til T.
Mr. Craig stopped her explanation
| there. and the hour for the hearing to-
day was fixed at 3 o'clock.
The beginning of Mr. McIntyre's cross
| examination related to when Mrs.
| Bull first met Corbett. She said that
she never saw him in Rhode Island. and
| that Corbett was not present when she