The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-23
May Chastise Horribly
Sweet Boy, Engineer
Harper IntimateS.
DEFAMATION SUIT
IS NOW THREATENED
Miss" Smith May Be Defendant
in Second Case, GTiSwold
Intimates.

NEW YORK, July Z3-If not coGee
and pistols for two. II viii at least be
epithets and uppercuts when William
Harper. 3 young Brooklyn engineer
meets -RuzZieIarn5" GrisWold, whO IS
suing Helen EOodrun Smith. DBctUr-
esque Stamford millionaire and divorcoe,
for 5000 for breach OF promise Of mar
rage
.-Ruzzie-' and his mamma Mrs Vim
cent. Of Rowayton. Conn have asserted
that "8runhHde-s-' love for --S5eETTied-'
cooled after young Harper came round
though the Brooklyn engineer ignores
that part Of the talk. he cannot restrain
his anger when the name Of Gr1swoid
is mentioned and when he views the
distress that the suit has caused Miss
Smith
In her presence at Lincoln LOdse,
Harper Chead and shoulders taller sban
'.RuzzieIarnb," BY the way) clenched MS
fist. threw back his shoulders, and said
IT he doesn't suffer for this when I
see him, then my name isn't Harper
A man who would resort 10 what he
has is not = man a. al
Talk Of Encounter
The Stamford heiress cast a pleased
glance al her staTwarJ young champion
Then she laughed
You wouldn't really hurt the poor
bov. William she asked, and her eyes
twinkIed as she continued i honestly
you'd hate 10 see you get after him. II
would really be too bad You know he
isn't the strongest little boy IN tne
s,BrunhiIde-s" eyes opened wide in
mock pleading
"a man is not z gentleman who would
take the action he has against a woman
no matter what the conditions were
BIT 'RuzZieIamb, standing IN the
ofTiCe of his LAWYER, Jacob Gordon, IN
The New York Life Insurance building
earlier in the DAY had been red n the
face and hot with indignation though
he did not serve I'D any Ldld a IA Reno
for Mr. Harper to ponder His utter
aueas chiefly TeSsUed to Helen Of STAN
far6 and the scaldinE epiLnets she mad
flung al him through the MEDIUM OF me
197 Threatens Another Suit
Il tel YOU what" he said IF she
keeps OF calling me all these nasty
names and 1ries 10 throw aspersiCrs on
my mother and Family. she's going 10
find herself with another suit on her
hands suit cor defamation and SIAN
der. She has called ne a blackHaller
and a begga- and has given il out that
I took money from her
she is SAYING that she viii put me IN
Jail Wei, I'm not going TO be scared
or bIufed out" and the young man
taurnped his fst On his lawyers desk
I've cot a legitimate suit against her
for making 2 fool Of me from 5OylOOc,
for promising 70 be my VIE and then
irving 10 toss me aside when her WhlTl
changed. If YOU can call II e, wnlIu v hen
q woman writes such letters as she did
TO ne and constantly sought my society
as she did for nearly ten years
she calls me oeSEar and lnIerS
that I was always there Tor a 1anCOuJ
Of crumbs from hST purse GO SCI
some money from her but earned
every cent OF IL, except the $50 got
when I left the hospital And I gave
her my note for that She has It vet
She wanted TO give II back 10 me- but
I wouldn't take IL
The day after I found out the turn
things had taken-that had been sup
planted by another man while / was IN
the hospical-that's the day she wanted
10 give me back the note and wouldn't
If I hadn't got sick and had TO go
TO the hospital all this wouldn't have
happened. and | guess wed ..- have been
wish we were beCause-because well-
even after all the fierce things shes
called me. # she'd ask me 70 forgive
yet yet" ~
Abandoned Studies For Her
~she SAYS I was only her proteser"
resumed Sweet Boy" chat she paid
for my musical education and Just had
ne around TO amUse her guests She
never paid a cent for my musical edu-
cation never took q lesson after the
time I met her 7 abandoned studies.
with everything else, after I met her
And I never amused her guests with
nv music I would never have had the
nerve to Try If she had asked ne She
had performers up there that were IA
nous ] never pretended 10 90 any
more than pick cut 2, little TaEC1me and
such stuff. and the only times I ever
sang were with her and her little boy
when we were alone together
s-If I was only a tprotege- and q beg
gar at her home. I started N rather
oddly in those caDacIles; sneereq
dear, I'll Ruzzie-' The first day i
met her II was with my mother She
made big eyes at me and admit was
thrilled through and through Ihen
she urged me to call. and the very hrSt
day called she got tender with me
Horribly Sweet Boy.
oh she said, Tn 50 glad you've
come. I hardly hoped you would But
haven't been able TO forget you.
thought when saw you,
what a sweet boy Oh, what a too
horribly sweet boy but Of course. I
knew you'd never care for me. because
Tn too Old Wen. she lusL carried me
I vas telling her how she had thrilled
ne when she looked into my eyes and
well she began calling ne RUZzIe'
that very day and I began calling her
Helen
IF I was Just a thing around her
house asserted the Horribly sweet
young man. Its queer that she should
have singled ne out 10 make ne such
gifts as these
re held out his hand revealing on the
little finger a sold gypsy rms containing
three gocd-sized diamonds Then he
voiEted ar his scarf In il glittered q
S1or5 with beak, less and tail set with
diamonds and a wing OF pale, smooth
jade
Mrs Vincent issued from Rowayton a
statement denying that Miss Smith had
ever lent her money or that she had
ever frnporIuned the Stamford woman
for such loans. Mrs. Vincent blamed
Harper for the quarrel between her
son and Miss Smith She denied that
her son was ever IN a Iuratic asylum or