The sun., 1912-07-07
DOROTHY TENANTS
HUSBAND PENN|lESS
Robert VI. Cats. in Supplement.
tary Proceedings Admits
His Wife Pays Bills.
FIRST MRS. CATS COMING
Heard ACTRESSES Bridegroom
Was Prosperous and Will De-
mand Her Alim0ny.

nOunCeO Yesterday AIter IL nal Oetn
kept quiet for seven months. spent
several days In the last TWO weeks
undergoing examination in supple
nentsry proceedings 4 japanese
valet who lived with him for two
years got a Judgment last March
AGAINST him for $339.5: and Cats has
no, paid II yet. In his answers to
the questions which the examining
lawyer put to him he explains that
there Is a good reason why.
Miss Tenant. II appears. has lent
him more than $1,000. Moreover. II
is Miss Tenant who pays the bills at
IS. Riverside Drive. where they live,
and It was Miss Tenant who furnished
the rooms. Cats explains that his
business with the Straight Filament
Lamp Company. at 1:5 West Forty
second street. has brought him in about
;??5 In the last three months. These
things appear in his sworn testimony.
Catts's former wife read in the papers
Yesterday morning that Cats not only
rad married but that ne was prosper
Gus. She left Philadelphia last night
for New York with the intention Of
extracting $4,000 from Cats for the sup
port OF their twelve-y year -old daughter.
She says that she will try to keep him
IN this country. and II necessary she
will have him arrested, provided there
il any law that will hold him. Cats
was expecting. so It was said yesterday.
10 go abroad next week.
The valet who got the Judgment
seainst him was Miyake Kama r.
acaN "a in
Court in Brooklyn and the judgment
vas granted on March IL. Baisey says
that he lived with Cats for two years
and that for six months he just about
supported him. He has been trying To
collect his s33s.52. but neither ne nor
his lawyer. Robert NJ. Frank of 81 Will
lam street. has been able to get the
money.
In supplementary proceedings Cats
announced that he had precious little
To pay with. In an examination on
June 2? before Chief Justice O'Dwyer
Of the City Court Cats went into many
details concerning his business connec-
lions.
My business" he said. "is the promo
ton Of anything that appeals to me.
Nothing has appealed to me in the las,
year.
He has a desk room at the Office Of
me Straight F'ilament Lamp Company
and pays nothing for 1t.
They sell lamps II they can" he
said. They try they sometime =
GO and they sometimes don't"
Las, Wednesday. before Judge Lynch
of the City Court. Cats went into more
details. He gave the monthly renta,
s.de Drive and remarked that the pres
ont Mrs. Cats pays every dollar Of the
expense"
Il owe her 1895 for cash borrowed .
he went on. Il borrowed this from her
ABOUT year ago. Nobody owes me any
money. I do not pay any alimony tn
my former wife. ! don't own any real
state. | did own real estate several
ears ago. lost It under foreclosure
! do not own any stocks or bonds or
.ecurtties. I am not insured with any
!fe insurance company"
Speaking Of a trip in Canada a short
time ago. when ne was motoring with
Miss Tenant. he said he got the fare
from the Straight Filament Lamp Com
pany. He went on to say that he had
no bank account with any bank in New
York. but that ne had drawn checks
on a banking house in Wall street
There were not many OF them. perhaps
TWO or three.
The business OF promoting anythins
that appeals to me-" he went on. IL
selling anything that in my judgmen,
IS good thing to sell. do not use
any literature In that business The
only literature ! have IL In my head
do not use any other literature be-
sides that.
Il have no property to pay thi.
Judgment. l own no other propert.
besides my personal belongings, which
designate as wearing apparel. ! dom
own any trunk. ! own three suit
cases. l made no money in Canada
MY business up there was lamps
electric lamps. selling them. l sci
them from 81 up. have not sold one
IN months. When I do sell them
make commission Of 25 per cent. or
the selling price.
"I sold one last some months ago
commission. After that bought tht
Woolworth Building with It,"
Mr. Frank, who was asking him thu
questions to which the foregoing arr
the answers. asked him II he wanted
his last statement to go into the testi
mony.
It's what said. isn't IT," Cats aske,
He went on To say that he owned NJ
'eUclry and the only thing with gold ol
i that he possessed was a watch
which he supposed was worth $50. Al
Tor mis- clothes, ne had about SIN SUITS
tnd he hadn't paid for them.
The man gives me credit for year
ne said The tailor comes from New
Haven and has a business OF makins
clothes for Yale and Princeton students
NO" said Cats. II haven't fur coat
had one last winter. but sold II for $l0C
guess, ] don't own any shares In tn
Straight Filament Lamp Company.
am not an officer in any corporation"
The first Mrs. Cats. who read In tn
papers yesterday morning that Cats ha
made fortune out OF the lamp business
cot on train last night with he
hro'her, Dr. Thomas McWhorter, AM
came to New York. Prior TO her mar
rag" she was Miss Ola McWhorter O
MIlineton, Md. Before she left Phiia
delph!a she told about her marriag
With Cats and what she proposed to sc
from him now.
Cats himself in the course OF hi
examination remarked that he didn'
pay regular alimony to his former wife
u send II TO her just as the splri
, moves me-" he said
Mr., Cats and ! were married nj
Juno 20. 1899" Mrs. Cats said In tn
course of her narrative. I'VE had know
each other only about six months. w
met when he came to our house "A
Nil|ington to solicit orders for picture
," was selling. ] gave him an ordel