The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-30
BISHOP CASE GOES
ON DESPITE HOLIDAY
Justice Goff issues nprcrc-
drntcd Order i'm the >u-
prcme Court.
WORE MAIDS TESTIFY
"a, Mrs. Gwathmey> Photo
graph Is That Of Woman
With Mr.. Bishop.

Gertrude Ciird rd the iuaid a. the Hotel
Aston who testified IN Mrs James Cunning
nam Bishops suit for divorce that sh- was
sure she -iw Mr. Bishop and Mrs Leila
: Gaines Gwathmev. 'h- correspondent.
! IN d room At the ilotel Asjor Oh TWO oc-
! cassion- last fall. was not shaken under
! lcross-eXa,nination 10y Henry W idit
t,etor. Suprame Court Justice Con YES
! terdav \ cool, al the Bishop farm n
: Ne.tchest-r county said sh" heard the
defendant call Mrs Gwaihmev dear
: when the Two wen, 10 ,he farm last April
10 look up witnesses IN he divorce SUIT
! On the other hand Edgar j. Moore.
ca shier Of the Hotel As'or SAID MIR Bishop
was not the man who paid for the rooms
used bv "Dr and Mrs j { Baer Of Phia-
deiphia and laid he had never seen Mr.
| Bishop before Justice Gon announced
that he would hold court to-day and on
saturday II necessary because the ca 80
mus, be finished before Monday. when he
takes the bench In the Criminal Branch OF
! he Supreme touri 20 try Sergt Duty
| Attaches Of the court house could not
remember Yesterday thai "A divorce trA.
had ever been held on a legal holiday before
! Although Justice Coz had issued orders
that only those persons under subpoena
could be admitted 10 the court room
there were 40 many witnesses hat the room
was too small and the largest room in the
| puidiug vas made Use CT.
Maid sticks TO story.
| In eros s-eXsmining the Astor maid
Mr. Taft remarked thai she was rather
| hazv at to the two occasions when she
!
mev in a suite al the hotel and asked how
she vas 80 sure the visits were two weeks
apart
| because those were the only two times
| had occasion TO go 20 the particular
\ room and those wer- the thinS- ] saw
| Mr. B,shop In tn. room with the woman.
said Miss Girard Tn. woman was in
her nightdres. Will hey hair hanging
down her back
! Asked a. 70 the color Of the ba,hrooe
she said NJ Bishop wore she Id she
thought il had been OF A light gray color.
! but II had been washed 80 much /, was
almost white
If the hotel register should show thai
Or and Mrs ! c Raer' we're hot there
twice in November, would that influence
you al all:
Not al all l don't know anything
abou, IN. regi-t.rs downstairs | saw
| tIl'4A 'pN'''i'7' A'" o'' h'''' e''bN
liz"
How do YOU know the man YOU saw
was Mr. Bishop
Il heard YOU refer IS him a. Mr. Bishop
didn't know his name. but know ne was
the man | saw
Handing th. witness the Photograph
Of Mrs Gwath hmey. Nr. Taft asked II she
ever saw Mrs Gwathmev with her hair
done up
NO. but hat is the woman | saw.
y, -
Of her eyes. but ! do know the color of
her hair II is ii real hight blond, The
first tim. saw the pic' ure said II was the
woman IN The rghidress IN room 272
with Mr.. Bishop.
George Gordon Battle. couusel for Mrs
Gwathmey. took the witness IN hand
after Mr. TAFT had concluded and asked
questions concerning her Identification
OF the Photograph ami the arrangement
Of the articles III the room hu' the maid
persisted in her testimony.
Telephone slip. Idcutta-d.
Frances Riley telephone operator al
IN. Astor. identified telephone slips Of
December IL last showing that calls from
the rooms occupied 10y DR. and Mrs j
& baer' had been sen, To MI. Bishops
place Of business and the Hotel Gotham
| where Mrs. GwatLmey lives She also
ident fled a slip of December IS showing
the same connections, The calls being
sent both il the morning and the evening
| The Hotel .Astor cashier identified his
record Of the charges 10 DR. Baer.' and
said that four of the bills were pa TO
him personally.
We're they paid by Mr. Bishop sitting
here" asked Mr.. Jerome. counsel for Mrs
J Bishop
No. don remember tha, he pa id any
bills" Cashier Moore said that Oh the
various visits Of DR.. Baer" he had one
or two pieces Of hand baggage and on one
occasion a trunk
) Mrs Eliza beth Tibbs cook AZ the Bishop
, form a. iork' own Heights said that Mr.
Bishop cam. TO III. farm on April II with
"a wornan he addressed az "DeaI She
-aid she didn' then know VINO the woman
was, but after looking az the photograph
of Mrs GwathMev she said she was he
woman She. ~ 4 tre housekeeper told
her the couple had been In bedroom in
the house While they were there Mrs
Bishop called the house on the phone,
and the witness heard the defendant say
To Mrs Gwathmev. She II he sitter you
tomorrow
HousrL--p~r quit Her job.
She said she left the Bishop farm on
May 10 because the manager Mr Steer
told her II any one asked her questions
, about Mr.. Bishop TO say she didn' I know
the man. Then she decided 10 leave
\ didn't think things were going righ,
az the farm" she said After we left
my husband and ] Went down 10 Mr.
p,et ~, =.