The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
RICH SOCIALIST THE DEFENDANT
 IN GIRLS SUIT
William English Walling of Stamford Sued for $100,- 900 for Breach of Promise Pretty Hebrew Girl Says
 Millionaire Posed As Sin gle Man and Made Love
 to Her.


 William English Walling, member of the millionaire colony at Stamford, and a noted advocate of the cause of revolutionary Socialism, is defending himself in New York in a breach of promise suit for s100,000, brought by Anna Berthe Grunspan, pretty girl who yesterday told the court a piti- full and dramatic story concerning her relations with Walling, who, she said, feigned love for her and posed as a single man.
 Walling is disciple of the J. G.. Phelps Stokes millionaire school Of So- cialism. During the recent state cam paign he aroused a storm of wrath among the Connecticut Socialists by printing an attack upon Robert Hunt er the Socialist candidate for Gov ernor. Walling is a leading exponent of the revolutionary" school of So- cialism, wh' ch is opposed to the work of Robert Hunter, Victor Berger and other practical men in the Socialist party.
 walling's accuser told her story be- fore a jury yesterday afternoon in Justice Giergerich's branch of the New York Supreme court.
 Miss Grunspan's story was staged at the outset in Paris, where she and
 
 moved after her father, a sculptor had died in Warsaw, Poland.
 Arthur M. Wfckwire, Miss Grun- spans counsel, told how Grunspan's death had left the widow with four sons and little girl to support. One boy died, two others were taken by an uncle and Mrs. Grunspan went to Paris with her daughter and her youngest son, Maurice.
 There the mother made a scanty lfv- ing. Anna, through friends, was plac- ed in boarding school. She left it when sixteen or seventeen to work in a department store.
 Of her life after that Miss. Grun- span, in the witness chair, told sirn- pie, unaffected story. She Is twenty three years old, she said, and lives at No. 245 East Thirtieth street. Leav- ing the Paris store one night with Blanche Ia Blanc, a friend. who had been governess in Russ1ase she met Walling, she said.
 @He spoke to me and I repulsed him. she went on. "IIe asked, Are you not Hebrew?', I replied. Yes s'Then he cried, oh, so great is now my pleasure. I am. oh, very fond of Hebrew ladies. They are the brightest and prettiest ladies in the world! And he gave me his card, which read, MT. William English WaWng, University Settlement, New York
 '.He seemed so kind and gentle that I thought it no harm to let him walk home with me. Ills asked me a great. deal about myself and told me he was a eocialist-that he always as- sociated with working people.
 we got to know each other so we'll that evening that we took little ride over the Fete de Neuilly, like Coney Island, only smaller. He spent lot of money there and I remonstrated with him. But he just laughed and told me there was whole lot more where that came from.
 Mother and brother and I were liv- ing at No. 34 Quai de PHotel de Vile. but so modestly that I was asham- ed to take MT. Wal1ing in. But we met again and again. He said he liked me because I was the most inter- esting and the incest girl he had ever met. I could talk to him about any or whatever he wish ed. And then too, Judge, was very patient with his so awful French.
 ''One night he took me to the thea tre. On the way home in our f1acre, he told me. I interested him most of any girl in the world. Then he made love to me. He kissed my hands. and and he kissed by lips.''
 Here the little witness wept.
 "Then he told me how much he 1ov- ed me, and asked me to marry him in a few months,'' she continued. "I consented. Then he made me stop work. He wouldn't even let me go down to the store and tell my em- ployer that I had stopped working. He said he would pay me my wages until We were married. When I pro- tested, he said 1t was criminal for him to let me work when he had so much money.
 "A few weeks after this he induc- ed me to run away to Poland to get my brothers without my mothers knowledge. I loved him so I did just as he asked me. In Berlin we stopped at the Centarle Hotel. The night we arrived he came into my room, threw his arms about me passionately and cried, "call me Big Brother or Lit tie Papa Then he kissed me and kissed me as if his whole heart were in his kissing.
 "He would not leave my room.'
 Her voice became almost inaudible as she whispered further laccusa- ton.
 "The next day." she continued, Eve crossed the Russian frontier and went on to Warsaw. There we found my brothers and I introduced MT. Walfng as my fiance. He told them that the thought of marrying me made him the happiest fellow on earth. But when we started back he said he couldn't go with us, because he was Social ist and he feared the Russians would cast him in jail.
 Come with me? I cried. I will beg the captain at the frontier to let my brothers pass out. MT. WalHng came along at last.
 "At the frontier I entered the guard
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