Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-27
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BRIDE HAD KISSES
FOR A STRANGER
Chauffeur Testifies He Saw
Her Lips Meet Those of
His Employer.

NEW YORK, June 2S.-When Ed
ward v. Gambler, cashier of the Mer-
chants Exchange National Bank, was
called to testify in his wife's suit for
separation and his counter-suit for an
nulment, all necks in Supreme Court
were craned to catch a closer view of
the man, who. according to both his
own account and that of his wife, had
gone through a loveless honeymoon trip
through Europe.
The witness said he was now living at
Summit. N. ]. He met his wife for the
first time in 1903 in Rutherford, N. j..
being introduced to her by her mother.
Mrs. Russell. After the marriage and
before he left with his wife on the
loveless honeymoon, Gambler said his
father-in-law came to him and impart-
ed some information about his daugh-
ter's health. This information, Gam
bier said, made me very considerate
of her."
Gambler repeatedly used the term
the lady" when referring to his wife.
He said at an Atlantic City hotel she
ordered him out of their apartments.
Leaving Atlantic City, Gambler testi-
fed that he and his wife returned to
New York and spent some time at. a
hotel where her parents were staying.
They left the city after a couple of days
and she accompanied them to the sta
ton. When he asked If he might ac-
oapananxr tho nartN she urhaa1pd about
and said:
Cant I see my parents alone?'
"And you stayed behind?" asked Mr..
Littleton.
II stayed behind" replied Gambler.
ranged to meet him at Tiffany's after
leaving her parents. Three days later
they sailed for Europe on the Lorraine.
He said that she never manifested the
slightest regard for him.
Gamblers examination at this point
was cut off by the adjournment of
court and will be continued today.
The ~"Unknown Man.,
The name of the man with whom
Mrs. Gambler is accused of taking
automobile rides, on which ardent
kisses were exchanged, and which was
carefully concealed by counsel In the
case, came out yesterday through a
witness, who said:
Mr.. Sickler-I mean Mr.. Blank"
Augustus Van Wyck, counse for
Mrs. Gambler, referred several times
to "the man of the suppressed name"
Chauffeur Brewster, who formerly
worked for 'the man of the suppressed
name" told of Mrs. Gamblers rides
through e park with his employer.
He said he was ordered last fall to
allow her to use his employers car as
much as she desired. He told of oc-
casions on which he had observed hug
ging and kissing between his employer
and Mrs. Gambler on motor trips, and
once, he said, his employer lost his hat
while kissing Mrs. Gambler, These ex-
cursions, he testified, occurred last Oc-
tobor, jus after Mrs. Gambler had re-
turned from her loveless honeymoon in
Europe.
Joseph w. Peck, night Waterman at
the Great Northern Hotel, said hat in
October Mrs. Gambler had received
different men al the hotel. On one
occasion, he said. he ordered a man
out of the open doorway of Mrs. Gam
bier's room between Q and 3 O'Clock
in the morn.--g. He did this, he said,
on the orders of the night clerk.
Mrs. Hannah P. Adams. of Belfast,
Me-, was on the stand to repeat her
story, given previously in a deposition
and later excluded from the evidence,
that Mrs. Gambler had told her she
did not love her husband. but married
him merely because she wanted to live
in New York.
During her occupancy of the stand,
Mrs. Gambler denied the allegations
as to her rides with MIR. Blank" She
said her favorite car game was bridge
and he husbands Solitaire
The trial was continued today.