Evening journal., 1913-12-31
DENIES LOVE
NOTES TO WIFE
OF SEA CAPTAIN

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Dec ST.
IT, Harper Jacdcn. No. 1905 MT YER
non street. who has been sued for
$4,000 in an alienation suit insti-
tuted by Ralph ID. Mcgee. a sea cap
tain, denied today that he ever wrote
love letters 10 Mrs Mcgee.
Mrs Mcgee and ! are merely warm
friends he explained eve have
been friends for six years. She is
pure, lovely girl, and is fine as silk.
This suit Is an unjustidablc outrage"
Mr.. Jardcn is a wine salesman. and
is. TO use his own words, "a grcss
NidoWer" Mrs Mcgee Is about
twenty-fuur years old. and pretty
She and her husband had an apart
ment at Forty-Third street and Ches-
ter avenue
In the suit which Captain Mcgee
started Monday before Judge Martin,
he said he had returned unexpected
~ from voyage to find Mr.. lardeu
leaving By the fire escape after a
hight visit to Mrs. Mcgee.
THAT" ssid Mr.. Jarden, "is ab,-
surd. How could I have left by the
FIRE escape when there wasn't any?
The apartment was on the first floor
Mir. Jarden ha been quoted as saying
that he cou'd not have climbed down
q fire escape because he had a wood
en- leg.
"a wooden leg" he cried "How
ridicul ous. Certainly have no
wooden leg. The thing is absurd
Mr. Jarden admitted that he was in
the apartment on the night OF the
captains return He left by the back
way as the captain entered the front.
Mrs. Mcgee had asked him to. he ex
planned
You see" he explained. ~ think
she believed her brother-in-law Rob-
crt. was at the door Robert had met
me az the apartment before. and Mrs.
Mcgee reasoned, 7 imagine. that Rob-
; ert would think It queer to find me
there again 50 soon.
But there wasn't any running
away left the apartment the way
2 was told TO go And it isn't true
that Mrs Mcgee was In her night
clothes. She WAS dressed for the
street and had her hat on.
Mr.. Jardon said that he had gone
ont to take dinner with her that even
ing lie often went TO the apartment,
he explained. but generally he added.
there were other persons present.
"She had her friends and relatives
there TO meet me several times said
Mr. Jarden II thought had made q
hit with them. ] WIS sort OF enter
tuiner for them.
Mrs. Mcgee got lonely sometimes
and craved companionship, and SO she
often had her friends around her.
But was alone with her in the apart
ment only once or twice"
Mr.. Jarden went on to say that he
had been dear friend" OF Mrs.
Mcgee before she was married He
never met the Captain, however. until
recently. he explained.
Mrs Megee's husband came in TO
see me only week rgo." said Mr..
Jarden "He shook hands with me
and so far as was concerned tho
whole affair was at an end.
/ Mr.. Jarden said that he had taken
/ Mrs Mcgee to his mothers home
several times, 81 wouldn't have done
/ that If she hadn't been a mighty nice,
pure girl. would i2n he asked
CAS- 10 those supposed love letters.
pursued Mr.. Jarden, that's ali rot. 7
wrote TO Mrs Mcgee certainly. but
no s'ushy stuff They were merely
/ letters from one friend to another
! Mr. Jarden says he Intends TO make
"A bitter fight TO defend his ropu'a-
ton and that OF Mrs. Mcgee.
81 have three Of the best lawyers
ia the city to help me-" he said. Mr..
Jarden left his Office early iu the
morning and Is said TO have gone TO
New York
Mrs. Mcgee has left her apartment
and is said TO have gone to New York.
Captain Mcgee was stopping at the
Colonadc Hotel. but he left there yes
terday. lie said he had found fifty
love letters in his wife's mud, and
that these would be introduced as
fcyidencc.