The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-08
END OF HALL
 DIVORCE NEAR Jimmy Beales' Wife Insists Her Jimmy Was Not
 Intoxicated The Night He Saw Mrs. Hall to Her Home = Judge Wheeler Takes the
 Papers

1
 Wheeler Takes the Papers
 | Arguments in the divorce suit of | Virginia Whiting Hall of New York
 against her husband Louis R. Hall, a | Wall street broker were begun this I afternoon in the Superior Court before 1 Judge Ralph Wheeler. The case has | been one of the most bitterly contest | ed divorce suits. The wife brought i while the husband entered cross | complaint of infidelity, naming Heintz | Girdley of E1mira, N. r., and James | A. G. Beales of Greenwich as core | spondents. The hearing has furnish | ed a grist of evidence, some of which has been unfit to print. With the ex- l amining of the last witness this morn | ing, the hearing came to an end, with the exception of the arguments, after which the court will take the papers. Though Jimmy Beales, one of the CO., respondents named has been present in court during the trial he has never been called as witness, though his wife, was examined this morning. Mrs. Beales told about the time Mir. Beales had gone home with Mrs. Hall, when one of the Hall servants had stated Beales was intoxicated. Mrs. Beales said that Mrs. Hall was at her home for supper that evening, and that she received call over the phone from MT. Hall to be home at g o'clock. MT. Beales left with Mrs. Hall in the lat ter's carriage about S:30 o'clock and re- hour later. If MT. Beales was drunk at the time, she would never have sent him home with Mrs. Hall. There was quite little furry of laughter when Mrs. Beales was ques- tioned about the evening at the Hall home while the servants were at a dance at Rye. Mrs. Beales said that she and her husband had been asked to come to Mrs. Halls home that ev-
 ening as the servants would be away and MT. Hall would not be home till quite late. There was nothing im- proper about their visit, nor was MT. Beales drunk on that occasion. A friend of Halls had testified that he passed the Hall home late that even ing and heard the voice of Jimmy Beales, he knew him well singing 'I Won't Get Home Till Morning and How Dry I Am" The voice was not a sober one.
 You say MT. Beales did not take anything that evening"" asked Attor- ney Kenealy.
 INT. Beales took nothing" was the response.
 Did he not have Welsh rarebit? ?"
 "He may have. we made some."
 ''Is there not beer in Welsh rare bit ?"
 "You can't make it without beer"
 Did you hear your husband sing ing those two songs mentioned?"
 T did not.''
 "Heve you heard them sung?''s
 'I have. but I don't know the words"
 There are not many words to either" returned MT. Kenealy. Does your husband sing?'
 e'He does not. He may attempt to, but he can never carry the air. You would never recognize the tune."
 Mrs Beales said that her husband has no business. and has not been ern- ployed for the past five years. Prior to that time he was with the New York contractors who had the contract for removing the garbage and ashes in that city. She was a neighbor of the Halls and called back and forth many times a week. Tn all of the time she had observed nothing improper about the friendship which existed between her husband and Mrs. Hall. Tn speak ing about Mrs. Halls waists, Mrs. sleeves shorter than elbow length. Mrs. Hall had said she did not, as she was ashamed to show her arms which were all black and blue from i'll treat ment from her husband. Mrs Hall had often complained to Mrs. Beales, the latter said. about pains in her back, which were brought on by being hit with a. shoe by MT. Hall.
 Those letters written by Heintz Gridley to Mrs. Hall were admitted as evidence during the hearing yes terday afternoon. The letters were 4<1~ lz-v AI- T. L. read by counsel for each side. Att torney Cummings, counsel for Mrs. Hall protested the admission of the epistles, passing his objection that they were written in 1904 when Mrs. Hall was living under her maiden name, to the defendant, and that her hus- band had been living with his wife in happiness after the finding of the let ters, thus condoing what acts of in- discretion may have been alleged.
 Defendant Hall was on the stand had no suspicious against Beales and Mrs. Hall until week after his wife left him when he went to the Gra- hams, former servants, to get evil dence to defend the suit which Mrs. Hall had started against him. It was told him that he named BeaIes as a in his cross-comp1aint.
 Under cross examination Hall said he burned his wife's diaries, because in one of them there was an allusion to himself which stated that "she did not love him and that she had made | a mistake" Hall admitted that he the Gridley letters not exact l ly as club over Mrs. Halls head but flor just what they are being used for now"
 Frederick Beltz, a New York law yer, distant relative of the defend l ant, was also called during the after l noon, stating that he knew Hall from | the day the latter was born, and had | been close to him all his life. He | never saw him drunk, nor did he ever | smell liquor. The witness was quite | emphatic in letting the court know | there was no liquor in his house, ''No, sir," he said. "I'm a blue rib bon man. There is nothing doing. I'm perhaps a bit rabid on the sub- ject I've never drank a drop of 1 iuuor in my life"
 Mir Beltz stated under cross examination that ginger the pet 1 name by which Mrs. Hall was known among her friends, had spoken to him several times about Louis drinking habits. He had told her that she should apply for a conservator over 1er husband.
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