The evening world., 1913-04-16
HER AGED FATHER
TEST|F|ES AGAINST
ERR|Ne DAUGHTER
Evidence of White-Hairei Old
Man Wins Son-in-Law
>. Divorce.
LOVED CAPT. M'KENNA.'
Tells How His Child Left Hus-
band for Man known as
Jack Rose"
LOVED CAPT. M'KENNA.'

u. Lawrence Schooner Of No. us
HAet Fifty-ninth street. a venerable ng.
IRE with snow white hair and nustache, |
sed eh face scanned with the lines OF
are. born OF htty-nve years Of prac.
'iaing medicine. mounted slowly to the
witness stand before Supreme Court
VAgtice Gheser'ch and told. In a voice
tnat shook with emotion. how he and
his wife had besought thcir daughter, !
Mrs. Matte L. s. Parkhurst. to spare
E them, in their declining days. a public
exposure OF her relations with Capt.
JACK McKenna. known AZ Jack Rose
But sac vas STU bDorn." the aged doc
tor managed 10 explain. so. a. the
fNrest course toward the husband to
whom she's has been welded twenty
three ytars. her, mother and induced
mar to sign this confession OF her re-
'ations Vita the Captain"
The doctor hsaded Justice Gieseric'
typewriter document thu; shook pitt
fully In the I'm. de,:cate old hanI that
held IT,
Or. sehoonore. was the principal Wit.
ness IN the DIVORCE action OF his son.in.
Law. George ". Parkhurst. Secretary Of
the Consolda.ci Gas Company. AZ No |
~ Union Square East. who lives at No |
m Yves; ono Hundred and Eighth !
street. The Parkhursis were married IN |
1880 In Broos;yW Until tho latter part
81 las, year they lived happily.
TELLS HOW PARENTS PLEADED
WITH oAuoHrER.'
Until few months ago." Dr. .
Schoonover continued. the members Of |
our family have held their heads high. |
We have been proud Of our clean lives
and honorable records. What induced !
our daughter. Matte. to shame us all !
l don't know. She began her relations /,
vita Capt. Jack McKenna last fall |
Until the frst Of this year. every time
J cav her. ! begged her to cease her |
mode OF life.
One night in November her mother ,
and went to sec her. Both OF us
pleaded with her--rleaded as IL for our
very lives.
Don't shame us in our last days on
earth, was our plea, but she turned q !
deaf ear to US all through the long |
hour during which We fairly grovelled |
before her.
She said she could never return to
George. We told her she could live |
apart from him II she wished. bu; we
hesousht her to leave the place where |
che WAS living as Mrs McEenna. Fsu; |
her heart was hardened, Your Honor. |,
She would not leave McKenna.
SioNS coNFEesIoN At A FAMILY
COUNCIL.
% On the night Of Dec. ? she came up |
TO Ie'rse's house for the last time. Her |
~ ", her husband, Charles r.
] Ne. an ATTORNEY, who has been |
my lifelong friend, and were there. /,
We ali, bessed her once more to leave |
McKsnna and live decent life ny her. |
cell She declined 10 heed us. Then, as |
tho fairsst thing 10 George. she signed |
this confession Of her love for Capt |
McK<nna
u don't know where Mstue IL living |
now. Ske seems 10 want TO keep out |
OF our way as much as possible, and !
that's only natural, don't you thtnk2" |
None OF the interested parties to the |
suit would tell anything Of Capt. jack |
MoKennR. In Mr., Parkhurst's conf |
plant he is spoken OF as capt. Nc I,
kenna, Known as Jack Rose" hut thev /
declined to clucidate this strange ref. |
erence.
Justice G!eserlch awarded Mr.. Park |
hurst his decree,