The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-25
LAURA BIGGAR
 ANSWERS SUIT
ACTRESS DENIES ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS FOR WHICH MRS. HENDRICKS, DIVORCED WIFE OF DOCTOR, ASKS $1OO,OOO.

New York, Jan. 25.-One more chap ter in the career of the actress. Laura Biggar, will begin with the suit to be tried this week in the Supreme Court of Kings county for s100,O0 brought against her by Agnes Mary Hendrick for alternating the affections of Mrs. Hendricks now divorced husband, Dr. Charles c. Hendricks.
 This trial will close the episode of the notorious contest for the estate of the Pittsburg theatrical manager, Henry M. Bennett, one of Laura Big gar's husbands, which resulted in the trial of herself, Dr. Hendricks, and a Justice of the Peace of Jersey City for conspiracy to get possession of the Bennett fortune. That suit, tried in 1903, in Freehold, N. J., was tried with sensational evidence.
 The conditions on which the suit for alienation are based are so closely in- terwoven with that trial that Mrs. Hendrick, now living at 93 Carroll street, Brooklyn, tells both stories in her affidavit.
 She married the doctor she says, in Hoboken, in November, 1894. She di- vorced him in 1906, naming Laura Big gar as correspondent.
 Until 1902. as she tells it, her hus- band loved her very much. He had 5000 a year income, and she lived with him and their five children hap oily in Jersey City.
 Not long after that the doctor sent her with her children to visit her mother in Brooklyn. He was tending smallpox patients, he said, and the children could not safely be about. When she returned he was not there. She telegraphed him of an event that was about to happen and he paid no heed. Her child was born, and though she telegraphed again. the father sent The child died in two months, and still her husband did not come.
 "When the child was lying dead in the house and there was crape on the door," says Mrs. Hendricks, 'T was sitting at my window and saw my husband pass with Laura Biggar."
 The affidavit relates that Dr. Hen for corspiring to defraud the heirs of H. M. Bennett by pretending Laura Biggar was Bennett's lawful wife.
 She goes on to tell how she called on her husband in jail first on his re- quest, as she says always hoping to the second floor of the jail and in- troduced her to Laura Biggar. She says: 1T merely stood and looked at her and was unable to say a word"
 She tells of a later visit when the Biggar woman was out on bail, but "came into the jail, and had some roses pinned to her breast. In my presence she took one and pinned it to my husbands coat. Then she put her arms around him and kissed him. and took his face between her hands and caressed him, and I was unable to say a word, but merely cried"
 Then Laura Biggar was acquitted, her husband and the Jersey Justice convicted. Pending appeal her hus- band was released on bail, and she met him by appointment in the Metropole rathskeller in Manhattan. He was with Laura Biggar, and said that he didn't want either her or the children, and to trouble him no more.
 Hendricks was finally acquitted, and Mrs. Hendricks got her divorce and went to live in Brooklyn.
 Later came word that Laura Biggar, who had more than one husband be- fore Bennett, had married Hendricks. At all events. they ran together The Albuquerque (New Mexico) Sun in 190S-9 That got into difficulties and she went to live in Los Angeles. Tn her deposition she denies alternating Dr. Hendricks affections or damaging g Mrs. Hendricks in any way. The last heard of the pair he was suing her for $20O, 1000 for medical services.