Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-02-05

HER DAILY DRINKS.
She Wants Separation From Banker
and $4,000 Alimony-Her Husband
Urges Objections.

Wits flleQ WITH supreme COurC JuSLlce
Hendricks by James Cunningham
Bishop, banker, in answer to his wife's
suit for divorce and alimony, ap
proximating $4,000 a year have been
made public, revealing the line of the
bankers defense. In the affidavit
three neurologists, a trained nurse.
and butcher formerly employed by
the Bishops tell of large quantities
of alcohol consumed by Mrs. Bishop in
the form of whiskey, rye and Scotch
and cocktail
Dr.. J. Ramsay Hunt, associate pro-
fessor of nervous diseases, swore in
his affidavit that Mrs. Bishops con-
dition was such in April. 1910, that
it was found necessary to have four
trained nurses in charge of her and to
keep her locked in her apartments.
Another affidavit was that of DR..
Pearce Bailey, consulting physician
for the Manhattan State Hospital for
the Insane, who, with DR.. Charles L..
Dana, was called into consultation
on Mrs. Bishops case, according to
the afIidavits on May 81, 1910.
an view of Mrs. Bishops excite
ment and her violence" he 'swore, land
n view of her charges of cruelty
and infidelity against her husband, for
none Of which charges could i find
reasonable basis in fact, Dr.. Dana and
l. on December %, 1908, signed the
medical certificate for special COM
mitment to st. Vincent's Retreat, at
Harrison, N. Y. This institution has a
special charter for the reception of
women whose minds have become un-
balanced through ineb,iety."
DR.. Dana said in his affidavit he had
heen informed that Mrs. Bishop drank
twelve bottles of beer a day, be-
sides gin and cocktails.
Dr.. Dana also swore that in his pres
ence Mrs. Bishop had spoken bitterly
IF Certain lady" to whom she re-
fered as a "blackmailer." Further on
n his affidavit he said Mrs. Bishop
had told him her husband was trying
TO get her to sell her stock in a
water company to get her "more in
his power, and that Miss Morrow,
the trained nurse who went to Egypt
with her in 1909, had entered into an
agreement with Mr.. Bishop to look for
signs of mental disorder while trav-
cling with her.
Edith Morris, the nurse descrb-
cd in her afidavits alleged hallucina-
tions of which Mrs. Bishop was the
victim. She saw imaginary people
in the room, according to the nurse,
and would beat the walls with shoe
.rees while calling to them.
James P. Munroe, the butler, told in
his affidavit of serving drinks secret
ly to Mrs. Bishop, sometimes advanc-
ing the money for bottled goods from
his own pocket. Prior to the time the
four nurses were engaged, he swore
she had been drinking as much as a
bottle of whiskey a day.
"I left Mrs. Bishop in the fall Of
1910. l came back again shortly be.
fore her daughters went to Europe
She was drinking a great deal at thai
time, and during the summer. She die
not drink as much whiskey then but
drank Martini cocktails. Sometime.
she would drink as many as fourteen
or fifteen cocktails day.
"When she returned to New Yorl
she continued to drink, but dranl
principally rye whiskey. l remembe'
in April, 1912, when Mrs. Bishop
cracked the panel on MIR. Bishop:
room. I had served to Mrs. Bishol
a great deal of rye whiskey on tina
day"