The Washington times., 1912-04-29
TROLLEY KING IS
DEFENDANT IN SUIT
BROUGHT BY WOMAN
An Appeal in Court Dis
closes That Nathan H.
Heft Is Plaintiff.

NEW YORK, April 29-An appeal
from judgment given a year ago by
Supreme Court Justice Erlanger, which
Is now before the appellate division,
has revealed the fact that Col"
Nathan II Heft, Of Bridgeport, Conn,
trolley system builder, is the defendant
In 100000 suit brought by Mrs. Caro-
line j. Taylor, formerly of that city,
promise of marriage
Mrs. Taylor is also the plaintiff in an
action to recover a sum from Mr.. Heft
for. for curing his son, Dr.. G. Stanley
this suit before Justice MacLean in
1908, but the IS, 200 verdict was set aside
on appeal on technical grounds and a
new trial was ordered. The utmost
secrecy has characterized both proceed
ings.
The second trial of the second case
came up before Justice Erlanger and
Jury IN April. 1911; and lasted for six
made. by Heft against Mrs. Taylor lie
besmirched freely the regulations of
some OF her women friends and rela-
+ tiyes. He denied that Mrs. Taylor had
ever cared for or cured his son Stanley,
and alleged that his relations with her
, from before 1899 until 1905 had been i'm
proper. He described the intimacy
his allegations to come from Mrs Tay-
lor and her lawyer, Philip Carpenter, Of
Ill Broadway.
Colonel Tilted Her.
, Mrs. Taylor alleged that she was
asked by Mrs. Frances II. Heft, the
"coloneIs" first wife, and by Heft
himself; to try to cure DR.. Heft Of
the morphine habit. She cured him.
! Mrs. Heft obtained divorce in jan
after Mrs. Heft had left Bridgeport
Hett proposed to her and was ac-
cepted But in December, 1905, he
ardson: Then Mrs. Taylor brought
her suits, which have been carefully
shrouded in mystery ever since.
,"Colonel" Heft was for many years
chief of the electrical department Of
the New Haven railroad. He is a
friend and associate Of Frick, Car
negle, Schwab. and other steel men.
Stamford Street Railway Company,
and has been at the head of the
bridgeport board of trade. the Algon-
Guin Club, and the Democratic club
Trouble between Heft and his first
wife eliminated in the spring of 1902.
after he had given an entertainment at
81, ,is some' =. me 1T M which Mo. Nordica sang
iof $o,OOO The banquet was in honor OF
henry c. Frick, John Fritz and John
= NJ. Hail, president of the New York and
Boston Railroad Company.
Names Correspondent.
Mrs. Heft in her divorce suit named
Mrs. William Adams, of Wilkesbarre.
Pa as correspondent. She alleged her
husband often had registered in hotels
with this woman or other women as
'Mr. n:sd Mrs. William Adams"
Heft testified he had registered with
Mrs. Taylor in Atlantic ity, Washing
ton: Philadelphia, and this city as ''Nr
and Mrs William, Adams. Wilkes
woman named by the first Mrs. Heft.
Mrs. Taylor is about fifty years old.
Her husband Ambrose Taylor, OF
with friends in Brooklyn, but when she
brought her suits she lived at 1i6 East
Forty-sixth street.
Mrs. Taylor testified that before she
January 1899, she was asked by Mr..
Heft to take Stanley with her.
They wanted to get rid Of niu, I
ss% Mrs ThSy %sySS SGudnF hey All ad s%
about his condition previous to that,
and said he was taking morphine
and they couldn't do anything with
Stayed s Wt st rdng G 5oSse Fs Wien
got back to Bridgeport Mr.. Heft eX-
pressed his gratitude to me. He told
me the boy was the sorrow of his life:
that his mother did not know what to
do with him. She agreed to let STAN
ley board with me.
'fle dldn do anything, only lie
around. A person that is doped don't
do much, you know, but sit around
and lie around. They nod their heads
and doze off: perhaps spill things and
that sort of thing. That's what ! saw
him do. He was up nights all the
while and going to sleep with lighted
cigarettes, and occasionally burning
holes i'm the bed clothes or wherever
ha happened to be. He never went to
bed like normal person. and I had
always to go up to his room to see that
everything was all right, for fear he
would turn on the gas"
After a long charge by the court
the jury found in favor of Colonel
Heft Mr.. Carpenter, in his appeal, ar
gued that Justice Erlanger had charged
In favor of Colonel Heft and had ex-
cluded evidence which should have
haan allowed