Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-20
WHITE DIVORCE
ACTION STARTED
East Orange Physician Accuses
Wife of Undue Familiarity
With Two Men.

Three applications were made at
the very outset of the hearing In the
divorce case of DR.. ]. Louis White,
of East Orange, against his wife,
Anna G. White, by Isador Kalisch,
counsel for the latter. The suit is
being brought by DR.. White through
Hunt & Anderson, attorneys, and In
the suit Robert l. Cunningham and
Robert Bursk are named as cores
pondents.
Mr.. Kalisch said that he had OBJ
tanned information regarding wit
neses in Atlantic City who were alb
solutely essential to the defense, and
as his client was without funds to
bring them here he made application
for the costs of producing them in
court. Mr.. Kalisch's second applica-
ton was for an order to obtain the
deposition of Cunningham. one of the
correspondents named. who he assert
ed was now in West Virginia. His
third application was that he might
be permitted to amend his cross-bill
in certain respects.
All three applications were objected
to by Mr.. Hunt. The court ruled that
the case should proceed and that he
would render a decision on Mr.. Kali
ischs applications later.
DIR. White was the first witness
called. He said he was a practising
physician in East Orange at the pres
emit time and that he had been mar
ried in Paterson in 1885, Two sons
had been born. he said. Robert. now
aged nine, and ]. Louis, jr., who is
FIVE years old The older boy is with
White, while the younger one Is now
in Mrs. Whites custody.
White testified to a conversation he
had with his wife in which she ad
mitted her relations with Bursk and
in which she declared that she had
formerly loved Bursk, but di dnot any
longer. Mr.. Hunt at this point pro-
duced letter, which White declared
he had found among Roberts effects
and which he said was written by
Bursk The letter was addressed TO
Mrs. White as Dear Kid" and was
signed She'll"
On cross-examination by Mr..
Kalisch, Dr. White declared he was
familiar with Bursk's handwriting
because he had seen several other let
tiers which were said to have been
written by him. He admitted never
ever.
White testified as to the finding
of scraps of several letters from
Bursk to Miss White, which he
managed to piece together and which
were produced by Mr.. Hunt. The
letters were sent to general de-
livery in East Orange, were addressed
to Dear Anna" and were signed with
a "B." that he would know until
doomsday," DR.. White declared
Two of the letters he had shown
TO Mrs. White and she admitted they
were written by Bob the witness
averred. She further admitted, ac-
cording to Whites testimony, that
she had been untrue to him and in
I screet with Robert Burck." At
that time she made the proposition
to leave him. but he would not lis
ten to it, DR.. White declared.
Mr.. Kalisch tried to bring out the
fact that the letters had been turned
over to White by a nurse named
Helen Lacey, who, he said, was used
practically as a detective against
Mrs. White, but this line of ques-
tioning was interrupted by the court.
Later White admitted in reply to
Il question Of Mr.. Kalisch's that he
had done a little detective work on
his own part in obtaining the let
ters."
Mrs. White had gone to Atlantic
City following an operation at her
own suggestion, not at his, the doctor
asserted.
George L. Harris, q photographer,
of Orange, was called to identify the
original letters of which he admitted
taking photographs for DR.. White.
Samuel A. Mccormick bore out the
testimony of DR.. Write in reference
to the conversation with Mrs. White
about her relations with Bursk.
Asked by Mr.. Kalisch how he had
happened to be with DR.. White on the
day in question Mccormick said he
had been employed by White to pro-
tect the children I. w. Rourk, who
gave his occupation as a Estate de-,
tective," and said his home was In
Jersey City, told of seeing Mrs. White
at the Iroquois Hotel, Atlantic City,
in April of the past year. At that;
time she was in the company of Miss
Lacey, her nurse.
After that he saw her several times
during the month of April Rourk de-
clared. He admitted that another de-
tective, Charles Whittam. accom-
panied him to Atlantic City.
Rourk then went on to tell how
Mrs. White met Robert G. Bursk and
accompanied him to his hotel, the st.
Clair, where he watched him sign the
register Robert G.. Bursk, Philadel-
phia.
At this juncture Mr. Anderson pro-
duced the register of the ST. Clair
Hotel and identified the signature of
Bursk, of April 10, 1913. Subsequently
he identified signature of Robert
G. Potter as being that of Bursk. He
lad followed Bursk into the hotel on
that occasion, Roark said. Mrs.
White was with Bursk at the time,
the detective added.