The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-24
DOCTORS NAME IN
ScHWEGLER CASE
Wife Took Mackinaw Physician to
Lunch and Paid Bill, Wit
ness Testifies.

The name OF DR.. Harlan McMullin'
prominent physician In Macklna"
was introduced in the divorce case Oh
Mrs. John H. Schwegler against her
husband, prominent Monroe-aVe'
jeweler, in Judge Murphy's court
Thursday, by Mrs. John Schmidt,
sister-in-law of the plaintiff
According TO Mrs. Schmidt, MRS.
Schwegler, while in charge OF her
husbands store Ia Mackinaw, ire
quently took DIR. McMullin TO lunch,
and always paid the bill. She also
said that In 1908. Mrs. Schweger ana
McMulin went 70 football games In
Ann Arbor. and always alone. she
said that Mr. Schwegler knew that his
wife was with McMullin.
The witness also said that Mrs.
Schwegler and Stewart, the man men
toned In the testimony, "Wednesday
as having occupied IA room next 10
that of Mrs Schwegler. in Mackinaw'
and being forced TO go through her
room 10 enter his own, often went
bowling, and that Mrs. Schwegier
paid the expenses. Mrs. Schmidt tes-
titled that she had heard Mrs. Schweg-
Ter called Mrs. Stewart. but that she
had never heard the plaintiff reproye
any one for addressing her In that
manner.
Attorney Ralph Preston, represent
ing Mrs Schwegler, asked the witness
IL il were not true that McMullin anu
the Schweglers we're friends. and IL
the doctor did not come TO their house.
She replied that she had seen MIN
there one Thanksgiving
Mrs. Schmidt testified that Mrs.
Schwegler also went out with Frank
| McMullin, a brother OF the doctor, and
that she always paid the bills.
The witness told OF being in Mrs.
Schweglers home and hearing her call
| up Miss Burdette, Schwegler's alleged
| AFFINITY" She refused TO repeat the
| language Mrs. Schwegler used in up
braiding the woman, whom she ac-
cused OF being too friendly with her
| husband.
The story OF a dinner in the Wind
sor hotel in Mackinaw given by Mrs.
! Schwegler when DR.. McMullin and
number OF other friends were present
was recited The witness said that a
bartender friend OF Mrs. Schwegler.
! who was employed in a saloon near
| the hotel, furnished the liquor for the
event. She said that the man came
TO the Schwegler store and that Mrs.
Schwegler introduced her 10 him.
When told that Mrs. Schwegler was
going TO give dinner, the man oner-
ed 10 furnish the liquor When asked
the nature OF the liquor. Mrs.
Schmidt replied that il was beer. She
said she did not drink any, but took
water instead, and that all present
laughed at her for taking II.
Mrs Schmidt said that the bartesd,
er stopped In the store every time he
passed. She could not remember his
name She denied that she had asked
Mrs. Schwegler TO introduce her TO
him.
Miss Nellie Burdette was called TO
| the stand shortly before the noon re-
cess. She said that she married VIII
liam l. Apgar in Windsor. June IA.
| 1898, when she was 10 years old. Lat
err he was arrested for bigamy. She
thought her marriage TO him was I'M
lawful and they were remarked again
about Aug. IA, 1901, after he and the
other woman were divorced. She said
she and Apgar were divorced In 1908,
she taking the name OF Miss Burdette.
which was her name before she was
| married.
Miss Burdette testified that she first
met Schwegler when he husband,
about nine years ago, took her into
his store to purchase a Christmas
present for her.
Miss Burdette's former husband
had testified earlier in the trial that
he had seen Schwegler take his wife
to the Temple theater. Miss Burdette
denied this, saying that Schwegler
had never taken her 10 the Temple.
but that the man she was with the
night her husband saw her was Gus
sic Pelton, whose home is in Mt.
Clemens. She said she had been in
Mt Clemens visiting Pelton's rela-
tives. and that he had returned TO De
troit with her. as he was working
here at the time. She said when she
saw her husband I'm the lobby OF the
theater, she went up TO him and told
him that Pelton was taking her to