New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-08
'SWEARS TO CANISTER
THREAT FROM LAWYER
Father-in.LaW Says Emanuel
Klein Wanted $4,000 to
Get on the Bench.
TOLD IN SEPARATION SUIT
Charge of Preparing False Affi'
davits Made Against Wom-
ans Attorney by
Two Witnesses.

| The marital troubles Of Mrs. Sadie
| Klein and Emanuel Klein lawyer
were told al length in the Supreme Court
| yesterday in the separation suit whlch
| the wife has brought. Klein is the youns
man whose wife said he had ambitions
to OCCUPY a place on the bench. which he
, thought h. could get II his father-in-law.
julius Miller. would advance $1,000.
Mr. Miller took the stand and said Klein
had told him he was counsel for the
/ Monk" Eastman gang and unless Miller
complied with a request for money lie
would put the gang on his track.
The sensation of the trial on Monday
was the discovery that the letter which
II was ALLEGED Klein wrote about the
nomination for the bench was missing
from the County Clerks Office after the
lawyer had denounced il as forgery.
Another sensation was furnished yeSter-
day. when Abraham Sussmdn, a commits
sioner of deeds. and Hattie Wynehaus.
formerly photographer in the employ
of Joseph Wlkenfeld. attorney for Mr..
Klein. testified that her lawyer had made
false a1idavits in the case. Sussman said
Wilkenfeld had asked him 10 forge sigma
lures To- lcsal papers.
Miss Wynehaus corroborated this tes
timony. She added that Wilkenfeld had
induced Mrs. Klein To sign blank afii-
dayits and then dictated the matter that
was to go in her affidavit abovt her sig
nature The stenographer swore the
L. wyer had done this same thing in an
other suit She said when she left the
employ Of Wilkenfeld he insisted on
keeping her notebooks.
Sussman told of a visit to the home Of
Mr.. Miller. with whom Mrs. Klein was
LIVING. To set her Ia sign an affidavit. and
that she told him she was tired Of sign
ing false afiidatitS Ia answer To the
question as to the contents Of this all
davit Sussman said: 1T contained clab-
crate allegations Of brutality and cruelty
on Klein's part. and told her that Mr.
Wilkenfeld had said IL was most impor-
tant that she sign it, She still refused
and / got Mr.. WiIkenfeld on the wire.
lie told me to insist that she sign
en- the advice of her father Mrs Klein
affixed her signature. Sussmeu said sub
scquently Wilk"nfeld went 10 the office
of the County clerk and withdrew the
affidavit and substituted one that was
not 50 severe in its charges against
Klein. The witness went on To say that
several times Wilkenfeld had asked him
to commit forgery by dlling IN sigma
lures. sayinc Sussindn oJght 10 Dc ready
10 do him q favor, as he had paid for MS
designation a. commissioner Of deeds.
Miss Wynehaus In response To Justice
Hendricks query "DO YOU mean To say
that YOU wrote uut an affidavit that Mrs.
Klein never read before signing siId
| that that was just what she meant.
Klein vent on the stand in his own de-
I fence. He declared he still loved his VIE
and had tIicd TO become re,OnciIcd. lie
Z said his wife had insisted on ling AL
! elevator apartment a carriage anu an Az
/ omobila ana refused To- do any house
fecping SAVING shc was not brought up
as a cook Klein said he had not prac-
: ti,ed law since last December. when ID"
made so. lie is now public accountant.
Justice Hendrick asked every one IN
court TO withdraw. except the "dfiinS
wife and husband. The court talked I"
In, couple in an EFFORT to reconcile them
but without any success.
Klein identified one Frances cohen. who
he said told him $40 had been offered to
/ her TO testify against him.
. The trial will be continued to-day.