The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-22
Attorneys End Arg u
ment and Submit
Suit to Court.
BITTER EPITHETS
ARE FREEL Y USED
Reputation of Both Husband and
Wife Assailed-George Q. Ten
ncy Called an Unnecessary
Liar-Counsel Allow
ance to Be Argued
Later.

After two days OF brilliant battle OF
wits, the argument In the now famous
Tcnney divorce proceedings was con-
cludcd late yesterday afternoon, ana
the case submitted 10 Judge Grinnau,
OF The Chanccry Court. together With
4 briefs and a mass OF depositions \
motion for an allowance to Mrs Ten
hcE counsel was continued for argu-
ment at a later time
The greater part OF the dag was
taken UP by l.. o. Wcndcnburg. conn
sci for George O Tcnncy, president
OF the Atlantic Bitulthic Company, VINO
answered his wife's suit for separation
and alinony with AN application fo..
absolute divorce. Mr.. Wcndenburg
took UP SECTION hy section the argu-
fnent made by William L. royal, at
iorncy for Mrs. Emma 5 Tcnncy on
the preceding day Tile garment
which Mr. i;oydll had fashioned. aScrlD-
m, .r whatsoever Things are pnre 20 Mrs
Tcnney and perjury and inNdciity 10
hcr husband was rnfashioned BY Mr..
Wcndenhurg. who pictured Mrs Ten
mes as woman who had failed from
i"r pedestal OF purity. and her IN
jured husband as one who could now
look only 10 the law for rclicf. For
Il closing statement MIR. Royall de-
common liar, his son n-lnw and CHIEF
witness AS n gambler and :irunitard
anu MS negro sc rvant as Il pcrjurcd.
brute
Mnjor Gordon Not called
Alr Wendcnbuis resumed his argu-
mont yesterday tiiorninS wien CONT
convened, taking up the dcpositionA
whlcl. described Mrs Tcnncys rcin-
tons With Major l.. G. Gordon. nud in
curing Why Major Gordon had not
himself been rullcd upon TO tcsiify
nsscrilne that Major Gordon had re-
fused 20 descend 10 perjury and that
Mrs Tcnuey dreaded that he might
tel the truth Mr.. Wcndeitburg lana
Hnecia! emphasis on u trip Major Cor
don made 10 iichno,id in Jtinc lgDa
Winn he IS said 10 nave urged Mrs
Tcnnc% 70 settle tic case ami avoid
me notor!cty and scandal OF diyorce
proceedings
Mr Wendcnburg denied that Major
Gordon's mind WAS deraneed, but as
serted that on this particular occasion
he was drunk, and said that Mrs
Tenney had told him he was drunk,
ana that she would sec him tic nest
day. He returned The next day, still
drunk. according 10 counsel, ana .irs.
Tcnney again urged him 10 give an
aihdavit relieving her OF any blame in
connection with tEelr relations sir
Wcndenburg asserted that She urged
MN TO lie like a gentleman, as King
Edward did. when examined as :, CO.
respondent"
advised to Commit Suicide.
According to MI WcndcnburE. Till
man Bunch told Major Gordon that If
he could not testify without being
tangled up by tho lawyers. no had
better disappear. and tina, Subsequent
IS Bunch wrote to Major Gordon TO
disappear or commit suicide" Mrs
Tenney denied that Bunch had writ
ten any such letter With her knowl-
edge or consent
They tell us that the major is an
imbec!le," said Mr.. Wendenburg. that
his reason has been unseated by these
charges. Can anything be more dis
graceful than for n refined woman to
advise the self-murdcr of an imbecile?"
lie discussed at some length an al
legged scene at Spartanburg when
Major Gordon was a guest at the
house, taking Mrs. Tenney's statement
that she had become i'll from Clipped
beef instead of whiskey. ana thai she
tainted in the hallway.
AIR. Wendcnburg Went on 10 saw that
Major Gordon had an amazing knacll
Of turning up wherever the Tonneys
nVed-at Decatur. Chattanooga, in New
ork, on Pullman cars, in Spartanburn.
X and In Richmond. Condolences. he as
. a.
plain these meetings, most OF which
were when George Q. Tcnncv vns
away from home
Mr. WcndenburE resumed n fter tI,a.
dinner recess, taking up the dcposi-
lions which relate to John Coodenour,,
Tyler. formerly manager Of the C;aintv
Theatre in this city, and now or Bal
tlmore Counsel then took IN state
nlcnts TO show that George Q. Tenney,
nyy,i, g1l
tlnued stay IN Atlanta. employed a do
tectivc to find what she was doing
report from this detective mailed 10
MIN at Spartanburg was opened by
MISS Ienney. and scnt by her to her
mother with a letter stating that
whatever happens you can trust mo
to help YOU"
Outrageous, Says WcndcnburE,
1T was outrageous" shouted AR
Wcndenburg, that any mother shom,I
60 use fifteen year old girl to stay
at home and intercept letters and spy
on her fathers movements. 1t shows
Mrs. Tcnney to be fit neither Tor Wife
hood nor motherhood. who was cycn
then demanding of Tenncy n protcc
ton she was not capable OF appre
ciating."
so, Some 2, Of the arguments for Mrs. Ten
ized as miraculous tales thinner than
Watar.' and emphasis was nlnced o,,
evidence intended TO show that cxccnt
III the matter OF the divorce, Mr.. Ten.
ne ,s, had 1 always been a kind and con-
tcr's welfare: The effort Of Mrs Tenncy
to make capital out OLA letter said 10
have been addressed to y. O. Tearncy,''
and opened by Tcnncy by mistake, and
returned, and which later fell into
Mrs. Tcnncy's hands. and was found to
be from q woman IN Roanoke and OF a
compromising character, was charac-
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