The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-27
WIFE BLAMES MISS WAUGH
BIT DIDN'T MEAN PART or
HER AFFTDAJIT
which says Her Husband Told Her He
Had Had a Quarrel with Miss waugh
on the Night the Latter Was Assaulted
Husband sued for separation Too

Husband sued for separation Too
In an affidavit filed yesterday in the
suit which Mrs. Irene Piper Of $40 Ninety
second street, Brooklyn. is bringing
against Agnes Waugh, the nineteen year
old Bay Ridge girl who was cruelty beaten
and assaulted near her home at 43s Eighty
third street. Brooklyn, on October II.
is the statement that on the night when
Miss Waugh was assaulted Piper told
his wife that he had had "a little quarrel
with her Miss Waugh and had struck
her in the face" and that more recently
Piper has said that she Miss Waugh
would never make any trouble for him
and that could do whatever pleased.
Mrs Piper charges Miss Waugh with
alternating her husbands affections She
is also suing her husband for a separ alton.
The statement in the affidavit concern
ing a quarrel between Piper and Miss
Waugh was taken as point strongly
in favor of Frank Brach -the man with
the big hands" who was identified by
Miss Waugh as her assssilant and who
is now out on bail pending trial on the
charge Of assulting her. Martin p. Lynch.
a lawyer with an Office at 387 Fulton street.
represented Brach in the police court
hearings and now represents Mrs Piper
in the action against Mise Waugh
Mrs Piper. however. said Yesterday
that in spite of the wording of the affidavit
made to Lawyer Lynch she had no in
tention Of intimating that 1t was her hus-
band who attacked Miss Waugh. Such
parts of the affidavit as served TO give
that impression were absolutely false
That's a lie.- was the way she put il
when the parts of the affidavit bearing
on her husbands alleged confession of
trouble with Miss Waugh were read to
her Mrs Piper said that she had signed
the affidavit without reading il and that
a bad mistake had been made
Piper was the first man the police look ed
up when the attack upon Miss Waugh
was reported at the Fort Hamilton police
station He convinced the detectives
at once that he was not the man they
wanted When he was informed OF the
affidavit made by his wife he went at
once to the police station to see If the
detectives wanted him He was told
that they didn't
Piper said that his wife had been misled
into the belief that he was too attentive
to Miss Waugh. He had known the lat
ter. ne said. because ne work for her
father at times. helping Mr. Waugh with
his automobile and acting as his chauffeur
The trouble had come to a head when
Mrs Piper found four postal cards ar-
parently written by Miss Waugh
These postal cards form the basis OF
the SUIT in which Mrs Piper asks for
$?5 OnO tor the alienation of her husbands
| an aff
Waugh had recovered from the assault
and was visiting in Rhinebeck, y Y
I Those which have been made public are
as follows
NOVEMBER a, 1911 Mother and arrived
here safe We we're three hours on the train
as II was delayed in poughkeepse Saw a
car outside the door this morning and it
looked like the Moon. Thought you had
made the journey over night Let me know
/ how Bay Ridge is g-tt iEg along ApSEs
| NOVEMBER :. iall.-This is where the
| fellow lives that sells the ginger ale and this
! Is where you ought to live Joke. Oh please
excuse me, | believe you have resigned,
/ have you not2 | have ust returned from
voting SO thought would mail you postal.
| All the city folks are in town to-day and |
was looking for you. but failed 20 ind vou
Have not heard the Chariot Race since |
saw Won last Once IN while | imagine
! ! hear II. j. WACGH.
NOVEMBER n DEAF FKrD PIPER
received your two postas and vas pleased
TO hear from you. received letter from
grandma to-day and she told me about the
woman in Bay Ridge Who lost So do not
| sympathize with her one bit for | 81 III have
the red eyes and mother has to put the drops
in yokel No. | do not feel sorry for her,
poor thing an old lady. am having
nice time and my eyes are clearing slow.
Mother and jusr came in from n walk and
! Oh II | only had some Of that cream cake
YOU bought me when was sick suppose
YOU and pa have the car all repainted and
overhauled by this time. Sincerely
AGNES
| Mrs. Piper objected particularly to the
part about the cream cake. He never
| bought cream cake for me or his child"
she said
The affidavit also recites that Piper
, described as "a chauffeur and piano
| player was frequent visitor at the
Waugh home and that he sta ted that he
! did not care what became Of me or the
child that he thought more II the Waugh
girl than me. IL contains the statement
that Piper, after threatening to take the
| little girl. Mildred who is years old,
away from her mother. carried the child
to the home Of w Thornton Hains in
Eighty street, BROOKLYN.
Hams is the brother Of Peter e. Hams.
William f.. Annis Mr. Hams said yes
terday that Piper was his brothers 5 chauf
teur when Piper was a private in Capt.
! Hams company at Fort Hamilton.
Agnes Waugh was out Of town yes
terdav, but her father said that he ex-
pected her back last night, as he had sent
for her to come home Mr. Waugh said
| that he had absolute confidence in Piper
and thought that the suit in which Miss
Waugh is named was "a put up Job"
He said that the postal cards were written
| as much to him as to Piper since they
were working together nearly every day
and that Piper had shown them TO him
when they were received He said that
he knew that Mrs. Piper had objected to
her husband coming to the Waugh home
and tina he had told Piper he'd better stay
away Piper had replied, Mr. Waugh
said, that il he didn't come there he d
go somewhere else. so it didn't make any
difference.