New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-20
BANCROFT WAS A WOOER.
German TypiSt Tells of TaxiCab
Rides in Munich.
JUMPED FROM SPEEDING CAR
lets Call 1t Square; I've Been
Amiss, Too" Maid Testifies
Bancroft Said to Wife.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


philadelphia, Jan. 19.-The pot called the
Kettle black in the Bancroft divorce case
today. when Mrs. Madeline du Pont Ban
croft had the first of her innings in the
case brought against her by her husband,
Iobn Bancroft jr.. in which he denies the
paternity Of their second child and de-
clares that Max Heibler of Munich, is the
father This statement also is corroborated
IN the birth certificate of the child. in which
Max Heibler is named as the father.
Attorneys for Mrs Bancroft fred their
heavy shot at the beginning OF their de-
fence this morning. when they placed upon
the stand Miss Emma Dollinger of Munich,
a stenographer. who had been brought here
nv the defence to testify.
The defence is that If Mrs. Bancroft did
wrong so also did her husband, and as he
did not come into court with clean hands
he had no right to expect anything at the
hands of the court. II is through Miss
DoJinger that the attorneys for Mrs. Ban
croft expect TO reveal the smudge on Ban
croft.
Miss Dollinger. who is an exceptionally
pretty girl Of about twenty, vivacious,
sparltling and not adverse TO admiration.
told Of the taxicab drives with John Ban
croft. jr. According to the testimony that
dribbled through the closed doors of the
courtroom, John Bancroft, jr, was some
thing Of a wooer himself. Miss Dollinger
said he was not what might be called i'm
petuous, but he had a taking manner
She said she knew Mr.. Bancroft, Jr.
"Oh, yes" she remarked as she looked at
the petitioner, who was in the courtroom,
"I know him. and he knows me-"
Then Miss Dollinger told how she became
acquainted with him 1t was in Munich.
He was a nice young man and appeared to
have plenty Of money. He proposed din
ners and little entertainments. She ac-
cepted. Then he suggested automobile
rides, and she went on these.
Did you not know that he was mar
rfed man?" she was asked.
"Oh. not at first" answered Miss Dollin-
ger, but later. after had seen Mrs. Ban
croft. Then I knew"
Girl Jumped from Taxicab.
The first taxicab rides were prosaic in
the extreme, according to the witness. Mr..
Bancroft sat on one side of the machine
and she sat on the other. There were more
rides, and the space between them mar
That ended, she said, by her jump from the
taxicab while It was going at high speed.
why did you jump from the taxicab in
danger Of your Ife?''
Miss Dollinger answered that question,
but she just whispered, and what the an
swer was the attorneys won't tell.
In the cross-examination the attorneys
for Bancroft asked Miss Dolllnger some
very pointed questions regarding herself
and her past, all OF which, II is said she
answered satisfactorily
Following Miss Dollinger on the stand,
the medical experts Of the defence were
called. They were Dts II. W. Howell, j.
II. spruance and W. H. Briggs. DR.. Bar
ton Cook Hirst, Of the University Of Penn
sylvania, also was on the witness stand,
and he fatty contradicted the physicians
for the petitioner. He declared that the
child known as Max Heibler, jr.." from
q medical standpoint, could have been per-
fectly legitimate, and that Mrs. Bancroft
could not say that her husband was not
the father Of the child.
The other physicians declared that the
chances were that Mrs. Bancroft was not
in her right mind when she declared Max
Heibler was the father of her child.
Jennie Toman, the maid in the Bancroft
household, was recalled, and told OF a
quarrel between Mr.. and Mrs. Bancroft,
ir.. two days after the child was born
She said that she heard Bancroft tell MS
wife. Let us call II square. / have been
amiss. too
The testimony was closed late this ar
ternoon. and the court fixed February
&c the date for counsel to exchange orlets
and February as the date upon which the
final briefs must be submitted to the court
It is believed here that the decision VIII
no favorable TO Mrs. Bancroft. This opin'
ion was strengthened by the testimony Of
the pretty German typewriter MISS Dan
niger. - H.,
II was brought out at the triai to-udy
that Mrs. Bancroft is seriously !" CIV
confined TO bed in Phliaoeipiiia no.
,1hare she has been living for several