Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-18
HIS SECOND AFFINITY
"RuzzieIamb" Admits Exist
-enCe of Another Woman.
BOARD PAID AT RESORT
Brought Into Case by Attorney
Mooney, She Is Known as Mrs. c.
MORE MISSIvES ARE READ
Mostly Sweet Nothings on Picture
Postcards, But They Tell of
Burning Love.
MORE MIssIvEs ARE READ

NEW YORK, October 1S.-Under the
stress of a most relentless cross-examina-
ton by Edmund L. Mooney, attorney 70.
Helen Woodruff Smith, another woman
was injected Yesterday into the publ.
plight of Russell G. Griswold. the Rug
zielamb' of the nine-year correspondence
which has been spread before jury i'm
Justice Browns part of the supreme
court for two days. He is suing the
daughter of the late financier and COM
modore OF the New York Yacht Club be-
cause SHE refused to marry him after
she had obtained divorce from Homer
Cummings, once mayor of Stamford,
Conn
Mr.. Mooney was careful to keep the
name of the second woman away from
the jury and spectators. merely referring
to her as Mrs. c. Her existence va
brought out when, picking I'D a COPY of
the formal complaint, he asked "Ruzzie-
lamb if he still insisted that during his
nine years association with Miss Smith
ne hau devoted himself to her alone and
denied himself the compa nionshin Of
other women.
The witness replied that he had Mr..
mooney then handed him slip of paper
ana asked him whether the woman named
on ii had not sent Griswold to a sana-
forum at Water Gap and paid his boa rd
Tor two weeks Also whether she was
not on very friendly terms with the plain
ti1f ana had not accompanied him to the
resort. GriswOld admitted each allega ton
in order.
Were you mixed up in Miss Smiths
divorce from Mayor Cuinmings?"
Not publicly, but privately
How do you mean"
MI Cummings found $50 of my letters
IN his wife'S desk and named meas CO.
respondent Mr.. Cummings, however
gave her the chance TO go to South Da-
kota and get a divorce on the ground of
non-suppOTt, because of her little boy"
Smiling Equanimity Denied.
Mr.. Mooney also directed his attention
to the diamond ring which tire chorus
man had proudly displayed the day before
as his engagement ring. and. elected
Inc admission that it was Christmas
present as we'll as an engagement token.
Ills object in bringing the SUN was also
called into question By this time the
PLAINTIFF smiling equanimitys was pretty
well denied He was also forced to admit
testifyihs falsely when he said he had
destroyed Miss Smiths letters
Hows your carbureterp Mine is filled
with loving thoughts. was the way one
OF Miss Smiths notes to "Ruzzielamb''
read in court. conveying thus "A synonym
for heart action drawn from auto me-
cfldHlcS. IL was sEul one OF many equally
effusiVe. C~t
The session was started off with more
imissives. mostly sweet nothngs on pic
ture postcards. The tenor OF adj is eX-
hibted by the following:
Dear Little RuZzie: ! am living and
thinking, out whether you are living and
! thinking in the same way | would like
to know. Come TO Your
.BRUNHILDE."
Another read:
'RuzSie: Nothing but love. See other
| side On the other, side was written
| ''MGalr."
What does that mean?' asked Lawyer
Gordon of his client, pilloried compla-
Gently in the witness chair
| That means, My dear, always loving
| Ruzzielamb, replied the plaintiff.
! In another note she said she had de-
/ stroyed '.all in demand, What did she
mean?'' asked Mr.. Gordon.
Destroyed Notes for Money.
| 1T meant that she had destroyed all
my notes for money had borrowed OF
her. the chorus man explained
| Griswold's attorney then took up the
relations between the defendants four.
| teen-y ear-old son Pip and ,Iriswold
HE used TO call me Ruzzie and some.
| man. And he wrote to me. too, some
| times Another note was:
| ''Ruzzie-Where in the name of all the
| way from paradise. Come over and joir