The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-22

FOOL THIS
POLICEMAN
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kasx a AIghila When He Saw
\, TssilfyIng About
Lingerie

NEW 1Alht AuNN ~AtT HNlN Ndh Nv
question about the face Of Patrol
man Henry Rinenart of the New
York force being red as he gave tes
timony before Supreme Court Jus
tice Ton.pkins In White Plains In
Mrs Eugene Stansiield's suit for q
separation from Samuel d. STAINS
field. wooden expert. The young
policeman was being asked to quail
~ as an expert In lingerie.
He had already told how from an
adjoining flat be BAD Watched a
party In Mrs. Suanstleld's flat ait
200 West Eightyfirst street one
night last nmmer Mrs Stands
field was entertaining several men
and other women and all were
drinking champagne and smoking
cigarettes, said he
Mrs StansfIeld vas dressed in a
light gown, said Itinehart, "a very
light gown, all kinds OF lace Ia front
Ii looked like nightgown."
"Nightgown?' demanded David H
hunt OF counsel for Mrs. Stans-
field.
A Question Of Experience.
Yes, nightgown, replied the
young policeman.
Are you a married MANI asked
the lawyer, severely,
No" said Rlnehart
Have you had any experience by
which you can tell shirt waist from
nightgown?" demanded the at
toruey
Yes
What experience witheringly.
Rinehart moped his blushing cheek
and cleared his throat.
Well he said, Twelve seen
nighties OH forms in dry goods store
windows"
Justice Tompkns ddi not Try lC
suppress the shout OF laughter thai
went up
The policeman had been preceded
on he stand by Sergeant William
| n. Dobbyn also Of the New York
force In whose flat Rinehart had liv
ed He said he had seen Mrs, STAINS
field In the apartment last July and
August.
"One night | was attracted by loud
singing" said the sergeant =
could see from our Kitchen into hei
dining room and | saw Mrs. STAINS
| field, another woman and several
men She was dressed in a light
gown aud was pouing champagne
Everybody was drinking and smok
ing cigarettes and they wefe siagi
.longs-we,I they weren't singing
gospel hymns, that's sure
Tenants Wanted to Sleep.
Evidence next came from the ser
geaht's wife, thus.
They were singing such songs al
When We Were a Couple OF Kids
and Hi lee Hi 10, and | remember
somebody called up the elevator
shaft and yelled Go to bed ard lei
us sleep''H
Frank Huber a grocery clerk. was
called to testify that between July
20 aud August Is Of last year there
had been delivered to the Stansfield
apartments, Is quarts OF champagne.
2 bottles Of Gordon gin, one II ah-
sinthe and 5 OF claret and several
cases of beer
All this was in fetorI BY Stans-
field to his wifes charges of exces
siye drinking, abuse and brutality.
Emphasizing his testimony with
thumps Of his walking stick on the
floor the woolen man denied he ever
had struck his wife or pulled her
hair or yanked out her earrings or
lashed her with a horsewhip
Y may have used bad language
toward her, but | never struck her, z
said he AS for my drinking she
could always drink as much as me.
She always did drink for drink from
a cocktail to a brandy.
A Bracelet VI Pcnitence.
As he was testifying his wife
sometimes laughed at him, some.
times wept sometimes puckered her
lips and indignantly shook her cad
On the witness stand earlier in the
day she asserted that one ime after
abusing her he atoned BY giving her
bracelet
When he placed II On my arm, .
she testified, he told me there we're
times whom he could not control
himself He said that every
time be abused me was to look at
the bracelet and Il would be curse
on him.
Once when she made cocktail for
him and he wanted beer instead. she
said. she instructed the maid to tell
him there was no beer Than ha