New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-10
STOCK BROKER MUST PAY
WIFE $3.50 EACH MONTH
Award Made in Double Divorce
Action of GrayS, Who Remar-
ried After Reno Parting.
TALES TOLD IN AFFIDAVITS
She Says: He Made 1926, 900
in Year; Knew Bessie Clifford"
Servant: "She Smoked
go Cigarettes a Day"

The marital troubles Of John Boyd
Gray. Of the Stock Exchange firm Of
Fuller g. Gray. and his wife, Mrs. Justine
Sutton Gray, had another prolonged inn
ing in court yesterday. After reading
voluminous affidavits Justice Giegerich
awarded Mrs. Gray $3.50 month alimohy
and counsel fee Of $l,50O.
Gray, who remarked the plaintiff fol-
lowing divorce she obtained In Reno.
insisted his wife should receive only $1,000
year, which sum, 1t appears she
agreed to accept under an agreement
made at the time of the second marriage.
provided she left the brokers' home again.
The action now before the court is one
for divorce filed by Gray. Mrs. Gray has
filed a counter suit, in which she charges
her husbands suit was brought to fore
stall her own.
The names of Bessie Clifford, an act
ress. and Jean Hammerstein are men
toned in the affidavit OF Mrs. Gray. Gray
says the acquaintance was merely casual
in each case.
According TO Mrs. Grays affidavit, her
husband made 1926 600 in less than year
through operating In the stock market
as bear" She said he told her he could
buy all the evidence he required in his
divorce suit Mrs. Gray pleaded with her
husband. she said, TO return TO her, and
she quoted Gray as saying:
Il will put you in the gutter. hate
you, and have for a long time. You
haven't any money. and ! have. How
long could you last? l will buy anything
In the line of evidence that l want. What
can you do?
To this Mrs. Gray said she replied that
her husband would have TO pay her ALI
mony and that she would light back
Gray rejoined, his wife said: You will
never get one cent; will leave the coun-
try first" Then the wife followed her
husband to the Office Of his lawyer and
told the lawyer her opinion of her hus-
band.
Mrs, Gray said her husband left her on
April 49, after their return from Wash
ington, where he had gone to attend a
dinner Of the Gridlron Club.
Gray said ne left his wife because she
tried TO stab him with hatpin in a Pull
man compartment on their way back
from WASHINGTON. When he frustrated
this attack, he said, Mrs Gray tried to
stab herself, but inflicted only a slight
wound.
Effingham Sutton, a brother of Mrs.
Gray, in his affidavit said Gray told him
of meeting Miss Clifford on board a ship
going TO Europe and had visited her In
London. Sutton later went to Europe
and called on Miss Clifford TO ask about
her acquaintance with his brother-in-law
and said she told him that Gray ana
Harry Dater. manager Of one of the
branch offices of Gray's Arm, were two
fine boys"
She told him, he says. about poker
game in her apartment at the Bradford
House. in London, which lasted until a
late hour in the morning. and in which
Gray lost $50
Gray, in his affidavit, denied the charges
OF his wife He said he did hldevfrom her
the fact Of his trip to London. He SAID
he met Miss Clifford on shipboard, but
denied calling on her. AS for Miss Ham
merstein, she was merely casual
acquaintance. ne said to whom he had
lent 800. Mrs Gray found the cancelled
voucher for the check made payable to
Miss Hammerstein
Gray denied the big market pronts
credited 10 him by his wife and said his
firms business was hardly paying ex-
penses and that II present conditions con-
tinued It would be run at loss.
Mary Keane. who was cook in the
Gray household at No. 5S Riverside
Drive, made On affidavit in which she
said Mrs. Gray smoked from fifty to sixty
cigarettes a day. She added that Mrs.
Gray once tried to commit suicide by
Jumping from a window Of her apart
ment, but was restrained by her brother
and a nurse whereupon she tried to
swallow strychnine tablets.