New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-11
Defendant Not Present.

Now and then OReilly put in an objec-
ton declaring that the examination was
taking too wide a scope. Or. Peck was not
present at the examination
1t was about September "a, 1905. the plain
tiff said in her complaint. that Professor
Peck proposed to her, about ten days after
she learned that his wife had obtained a
divorce. Asked whether that was not
rather soon after the divorce she said: Il
idealized Professor Peck. and I thought
that if he believed it to be right It must
b. So
After describing her friendship with DR.
Peck, Miss Quinn said, in answer TO a
question: 81 don't think it was proper to
be engaged TO me and go and marry an
other woman.
And in this connection the witness said
Il supposed he was gentleman, but it
turns out he not
Miss Quinn said she did not hear OF DR..
Feck's second marriage for some time after
il took place, and when she talked to him
about it he said. according to her testi-
mOny, that he had entered into the mar
riage on impulse. that he married be
cause he needed a housekeeper, and that
he still loved heR CMiss QUINN.
The examination began with a series of
Questions regarding the places where Miss
Quinn had been employed Counsel for the
defendant also wanted to know some of
the places where the plaintiff had lived.
Miss Quinn did not remember the ad-
dresses.
She remembered that she had lived in
Lenox avenue. Did you live alone%'
asked the lawyer. "Oh, no." replied Miss
Quinn; with my family-my mother and
my brother"
1t was possible. said Miss Quinn. that
she lived in West 134th street. This adj
dress, il is said. will figure in the trial
Describes Work for Peck.
Telling of the work that she did for
Professor Peck. the witness said that the
defendant was writing a series of articles
under the name Of Rafford Pike.
He told me-" said Miss Quinn. that
they were such that he could not put his
own name to them. He dictated those
articles to me. He also reviewed books
and dictated the literary criticisms
never did any stenographic work, despite
the fact that DR. Peck recommended me
very highly as stenographer. l took
them directly on the typewriter"
Then Mr.. Francis wanted to know about
the places where Miss Quinn had dined.
He mentioned some of a rather unsavory
reputation, but she didn't remember them.
she said She had luncheon at the Cadillac
with DR.. Peck one day, but didn't have
any wine. Then Mr.. Francis wanted TO
know if she smoked cigarettes.
II never came nearer to them than DR..
Peck's smoke" she said
Then Mr.. OReilly suddenly insisted that
he saw detective in the interest of the
defendant In the room. Mr.. Francis de-
MED that he had any detective there. and
the incidtnt passed OFF. but O'Reilly OBJ
iected that the examination WAS going too
far and said it was a fishing expedition.
Miss Quinn said that only she and Dr.
Peck were in the room when he proposed
She did not receive an engagement ring
from him. she said, but ne did give her a
bracelet which she still had. She knew
before she became engaged that the de-
PENDANT was married. but he had told her
that DE and his wife were not living to-
eether He acted like a bachelor" said
the witness
when he told me-" she said. after
asked him. that he was married. he told
me that IL he had not been married he
would have proposed TO me. In no one OF
his letters did he ask me To marry him
directly. though he intimated it"
She had not regarded him as under any
obligation 10 marry her until he proposed
on September 10 she said She regarded
the correspondence with Or Peck before
his divorce az entirely innocent, she said.