The evening world., 1913-02-05
mrs. A & mrs. K
NAMED BY THE WIFE
Of BANKER BISHOP
Women Other Than Mrs.
Gwathmey Mentioned in
Divorce Suit Papers.
SAYS SHE WAS CHOKED.
Maid SwearS to Hotel Astor
Episode in Which Tall
Blonde Figures.

menoe N New York, Newport ana Lon
don. end Q ''MrA w." also known a.
Mrs. k" are mentioned by Mrs. Abb
gail Hancock Bishop a. causes. add.
tionai to Mrs. Leila Gaines Gwathmey.
which broke up the home of the mill.
ionsirs banker. James Cunningham
Bishop. who = being sued for divorce.
The bankers association with these
initiated women ~ well a. violent At
tasics on herself are described in a
srsat stack Of sf,davits now in the
hands Of Supreme Court Justice Hen
ASsok. They wers filsd by Mrs. Bishop
shronsh her counsel. Louis s. Posnsr.
n support Of her motion for approx.
oAtsly $4,000 . year alimony and the
custody Of her I'VE daughters.
In these afidavits Mrs. Bishop tells
q the 'pollte" method adopted by her
husband Of bestowins financial aid on
Mrs. A." by the secret purchase Of her
paintings on exhibition at a Fifth ave.
nue. art gallery. Some hint of the iden-
tity OF MN. W." Is given in q letter
written by Mary Bishop. the eldest
daughter. in which she refers to Papa
having spent . night at Mrs. Willis's
homo in Long Branch"
GLORY OF EPISODE At THE
HOTEL AsToR.
4 story Of Mr.. Bishops stay at the
Hotel Aston last December with a tail
blonde" who came and left the apart.
ment heavily yelled. and how Mrs.
Bishop played detective to trail her
husband and Mrs. Gwathmey. add in
tsresting chapters.
The affidav!ts were sworn to by Mrs.
Bishop and her witnesses In refutation
Of her husbands charge that she q
habitually addicted to drink and drugs,
and also to support her allegation that
her action for divorce Is based upon facts
which came to her attention in . posi-
the way only quite recently.
Mrs.. Bishop tolls Of an occasion whom
her husband seized her by the neck and
tried to choke her while the Bishops
wero living In the summer OF 1893 at
Ifvlnston-on-th e-Hudson in the Worth
ington House with Gov. Merriam OF
Minnesota and his wife. who Is Mrs.
Bishops sister. as their guesta
Mrs. Bishop then recites how she at
tempted to leave her home one night
by stealth. but was frustr ated and
forcibly dragged into her room by her
husband and a DR.. Lyle. She alleges she
was Kept virtual prisoner six weeks
a. the result Of the efforts Of her hus-
band TO prevent a disclosure of his re-
aatfons with MRS. A." She says that
many hypodermios were administered to
her that night. and that as a result Or.
Pierce Bailey and DR. Charles L. Dana
were called in by Mr.. Bishop on the
theory that she was suffering from hal
eucdnations In charging her husband with
intimacy with Mrs. A."
Wrs. Biahop sailed for Alexandria In
January. 1909. and returned in April.
she imm ediately engaged detectives to
watch her husband after receiving a
letter informing her that Bishop was
frequently In the company Of a blond
woman known as Mrs. W." and as
MRS. H." whose full name Ia we'll
known to the defendant and whom hc
visited at West End. n j.. and at a
residence on West Seventy ninth street,
wAsrs she was known as Mrs. K"
When she demonstrated again. he an
awered that she was suffering from an.
ether Authorization. After a months
separation. she says. her husband came
70 her home and ION his knees begged
me TO forgive him. and actually wept.
swearing that ne loved me devotedly
and admitted that while he had been
in the company of this woman he had
committed no wrong with her.
FoR0AvE, BUT FRESH QUARREL