The evening world., 1913-01-08
MIRROR EVIDENCE
WON'T GIVE HEE|ROF
BARONET DIVORCE
Referee Will Refuse Decree to
Wilkinson, Scion of Dis
singuished English Family.
WIFE DENIES CHARGE.
admits Sharing Rooms With
Boer War Hero, but Explana-
ton Satisfies Referee.


1issst wray Wilkinson. scion Of
distinguished English family and heir
- an uncie's bAronstcy. has been re-
fused divorce. II vas learned to-day.
frem bis bride. Ciarry Claire wiikin-
-. whom he Economically marisd ct
Aobeksn Oct. 10. 1911. after an impstu-
Que courtship on the ocean when on his
Wv from London to look after SOME
aining properties In Mexico.
The cass has been heard IN private be-
fore Judge Herman Joseph, - referee.
oaA 70 b Understood the rsfsrse's rec
eansndation that the complaint b dis
missed will be died with Justice New
burger within . few days.
Hardly less prominent than the plain
ti6 v the correspondent wilkinson
named. Harris Barton. one Of Baden
Powssls chief scouts In the Boer war
81 . D. Q. o. hero who won rsnown
tAreughout England BY his daredevil
Try In carrying messages between Lord
xethuen and Gen. CaFrington In the
thic,rsst Of the south African campaign.
when not following Mars. Barton 10 .
nurse. and Il was in this capacity. wit
nesses say. he appeared before the ref
.>vs and galianuy. defended Mrs. Will
nson's name.
'bio WALL MIRROR THEM
AGENT OF EVIDENCE.
A huge wall mirror which reflected
the interior Of Mrs. wilkinson's West
One Hundred and Twelfth street apart
rnsnts v the basic agent on which the
suit was brought. A bellboy and .
janitress testified to having seen Mrs.
wilkinson and the Boer war despatch
bearer alone In the rooms. he woman
explained that by looking. from an angle
down the hallway into the mirror on
the front wall OF the apartment she had
n full view Of Mrs. Wilklnson's sleepins
room and an alcove In which Barton
slept
Mira Wilkinson. = petite and prepos-
sess!ng woman. hardly out OF her teens.
attacked this testimony by asserting
Barton was her nrst cousin. She ex-
pisined In detail how she and Cousin
Hsrrle happened to- share rooms to-
xether for . brief time between Jan. u
ana March I. 1912. Two months after
hes marriage she says her husband went
10 Chihuahua and left her practically
stranded In New York. She, another
woman and Cousin Harrie had planned
taking an apartment together. but the
other woman defauited, and at the last
moment she asked Harris to come with
her until she made arrangements TO 60
70 relatives in Boston.
CHE FIXED NooM WITH PRIVACY
ron COUSIN hARRiG.
10 relieve any curious person Of even
Oald. Witnesses repeated to-day thax chg
haA painsta,unCy tackled the portisrea
sneloang ths Above to the sides OF the
Wsli and 70 insure perfect privacy for
Cousin Harris she had caught the porti.
oess together in the centre with . safety
oia. The homemade partition sspa.
\SsAsA their soems. she said. ~ Of.
Aively - though . stone wall WERE
~ twssn then.
HrA Wilkinson further made the
<Aaa0o that her husbands parents were
eeea g the attack on her honor. wal
kinson. who also saw ssrvios and was ~
sGlesr In the Beer War. was Engaged u
wol a English nsighbor's daughter b.
fore be met and woosd the wife be hal
eusd. The action for divorce Was teSus
simultaneously with the arrival Of TIN
elder wNkinsons IN America. she seyv.
Numerous letters were introduced b
the accused wife to sustain her CLAIM
that her husbands parents had con
op1rod 20 aid their son 20 ootAan . al
VERGE, One Of these letters, rscsive<
mon the army ofnesr while he was Il
Mexico, told Mrs.. Wilkinson that hi
father came over on legal business
ana his mother socially" About thi
time the fervent love missivss Of tn
youth ceased and In their place cam'
harsh, cruel words Of criticism and die
reepsot.
Nc WROTE EVERY WEEK Tc
ENGLISH eWEETHEART.
Over In En6and. her husband late
wrote, was q girl pining away Tor him
whom he would some day marry. Dur
Ing their brief two months OF wedde'
bias. she says her husband wrote week
iv 20 his English sweetheart. and theI
brutalIy confessed his constancy for tn
other woman when he brought sui
AGAINST her Tor divorce.
wilkinson did not appear q the tris
to face his wife, II was said. He 70
NAMED In Mexico. and forwarded Z
!. his counsel, Robertson Honey. . cert
Ned COPY Of his marriage certihcate