New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-18
Ex.Mayor Cummings Got Letters
to "Brunnhi|de," He TeStlfieS.
ANOTHER WOMAN IN CASE
Sent Man to Rest Cure and Gave
Him Presents, the Testl-
mony Shows.

sad tale and his reams of love notes to
prove TO a jury that he was entitled 10 re-
cover $1,000 from Miss Helen Woodrun
Smith. an heiress and the divorced wife OF
former Mayor Cummings of Stamford
Conn. for breaking her promise TO make
him her husband.
Perhaps he was a hit nervous WINE Eu-
mund J.. Mooney subjected him to cross
examination. and once in while set MN
up straight with question something HNe
this after Griswold said Miss smith was
the only women he went with during the
supposed courtship. How about the name
OF the woman on this slip Of paper that
hand YOU? Did YOU go with her ana
cid she give you a horse and wagon!
you have no right TO bring that lazy
,nto this case" he shouted. at the same
time shaking a finger at Mr.. mooney
ror the most part Griswold was quite
calm. his answers often producing sneeI
or a smile on the face Of Miss Smith the
defendant
ne never realized that the torrent OF
.rdoarirr letters with which Miss Smith
eooded him was in the nature of pas
time as she told him when he tired 10
hold her TO her promise TO marry, and ne
r.a1lv took her seriously. When counsel
asLc1 him why he tried to make Miss
Smith the ageressor In the lovemakInS he
said. II have not meant to create that I'M
uression. loved her. and made love 10
her as much as she did TO me-
Caused Divorce, Griswod Said.
Grisuold said he just could not resist
the defendant. he also told about more
than hundred letters which he had Writ
fen n his 'Brunnhilde, which fell mo u'e
hands Of her husband, Mr.. Cummings LOT
She still was wife when the courtSlhp
benan. Griswold said Cummings then gave
his wife the choice of GoinS I" SIOUX
Falls. :. d. to get a divorce or OF aho"ihs
him 70 bring divorce against her. men
toninG Griswold. ii
Jacoh Gordon continued his readlhs OF
sbrade Of letters written by Miss omith
- her "Ruzzieamb." Altogether there |
were two hundred of them; in none was
there definite mention OF marriage
The nearest she came to this was when
she signed herself, Yours to the vanish
10 point Helen Both were sentimental
90 the extreme. and Miss Smith once in
d,lged m poetrv in her pot-pourri OF en- |
dearment. She wrote
Wen take the boat
1c a land remote,
There TO 1--we or die.
COUNSEL for Griswold tried 10 introduce
,cn,e photographs Of Miss Smith and Girls
void taken together. but Justice Brown !
sustained the objection of Miss Smiths
lawyer.
one Of the pictures showed them as
por,so and Juliet. although Romeo did not
uear the costume that set off the original
Ron,eo's figure to such advantage. Grls-
vold explained Helen thought it would be
cute u she and / were taken as Romeo and
Juliet
In answering a question as 10 what his
friends have said since they learned of his |
being Tilted he said: They said l was a
fool 10 let her get away with it
Tells How He Suffered.
II certainly have suffered. ne said when
his lawyer asked him If he had suffered IN |
mind since his separation from Miss Smith |
After confding his suffering to the crowded |
courtroom the plaintiff rested his case, and |
Mr.. Mooney took up the cross-cXamina- /
ton. He asked Griswold about having re-
signed Job in bank to 60 to the home
of the then Mrs Cummings TO live and rest
his ewes The lawyer asked: DO you
mean 10 say that the defendant who was
then married. asked you 70 come TO her
home 10 live
Il do" replied Grisvold.
GrswoId had said he was to do odd Jobs
about the house.
How did YOU enter the house to do your
ohoreso" asked counsel
BY the back door said Griswold, some |
what rufied.
Did YOU always 60 in the back door,"
~rTrs -fertnN
81 as to avoid meeting her husband or the |
commodore" The commodore was Miss !
Smiths father James y. Smith, former |
president Of the Stock Exchange
Then YOU went to that house q guilty
man, didn't you?"
Yes. / was guilty man; but I tried TO
sion her. TO advise her; but soon | fell
desperately in love with her. and then did
no, try TO stop her from processing her
love for me-
She was my first love" said Grswold.
mo was a youth Of about eighteen years
when he first met Miss Smith. He said
she kept his letters and he kept hers and
denied that he had ever said he had de-
stroved her letters. Then read that 10
yourself" said Mr. Mooney handing Girls
void letter Tho witness stammered
after reading the letter, and said he was
mistaken and could explain IT,
Never mind. sir" said the attorney.
you will have a chance later to do lot
OF explaining.
did YOU ever take this ladys CORE
spondence Seriously
Il certainly did She may have been
fooling. but II was the real thing with me.
BRINGS in Another Woman.
Mr. Gordon objected to having another
woman brought into the case. Mr.. Mooney
said that he wanted 10 show that while
Griswold was going with Miss Smith he
also was going with another woman, and
was receiving presents from her.
Justice Brown overruled the objection,
and Mr. Mooney brought out that the other
woman had sent Griswold 10 a sanatorium
for a rest and paid his board for two
weeks and that she, 100, went 10 the sana-
forum at the same time.
Counsel asked Griswold ~ II were not
true that Miss Smith had nicknamed him
..siegfried" because she wanted him TO
emulate the high standard Of moral purity
&c, bv the character Of Teutonic legendry.
Crjswold said that he believed that was so.
Following this admission the witness
acknowledged that his kisses for Miss
smith were clandestinel Griswold also ad
mitted that he gave the letters from Miss
Smith 10 a newspaper for publication. He
.X-T. ha CgNd