The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-14
DIVORCE WAITING
ON ADVERTISEMENT
HOTEL REGISTER WANTED AS
EVIDENCE CANNOT NOW
BE FOUND.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13,--The suit of
Edward s. Dudley. of Camden, Phil
adelphia and New York, against his
wife, Marie Muiock Dudley. for d.
vorce, which has been pending in the
New Jersey Chancery court for many
months. being delayed because OF the
difficulty of getting witnesses and tes-
timony, had another hearing. the first
in a number of weeks, before Vice
Chancellor Stevenson In Jersey City
today. The couple have been sepa-
rated since May 20, 1905. The hear
ing today was for the purpose OF
reading into the record dispositions
taken in Washington and Phiiadei-
phia since the last hearing.
Martin Conboy, who Is associated
with James w. Carpenter as counsel
for Mrs. Dudley, informed the vice.
chancellor that they had been unable
to obtain the registery of hotel in
Washington by means of which they
hoped to show that Dudley, in the
company of woman, had visited the
hotel. The register was missing. An
unsigned letter had suggested to them
that something might result IL they
advertised for the book in the Wash
ingten Star They had followed this
suggestion. and there was now cor
respondence going on which he hoped
might result in bringing the missing
book to light In view of this the
whole Washington matter was laid
over. 1t viii come up probably on
February Goth. f.
Frank Brightly, a lawyer of Phil
adelphia, made the principal deposit
ton read. He deposed that in the
fall of 1904 and the spring of 1905 he
frequently saw Mrs Dudley in the
company of lawyer named Henry
Fl. Beckman. in various fashionable
hotels and eating places in Manhat-
tan. On those occasions Mrs. Dudley
was usually hilarious Brightly ex-
planned that at that time he was not
married. and that he liked to go to
such places to study those who visited
them. He recalled one time that he
saw Mrs. Dudley in Rector's, SO he
said, when she was in very hilarious
state. Then she flew into a rage and
smashed dishes and cut up awfully
The head waiter told him she had
been there since o'clock. and they
did not know what to do with her
After time she was induced to leave
the place.
In June of 1906 he met Beckman in
Paris. and went with him In an auto
mobile to a hotel where they met Mrs.
she Shave Went out WAs with them parng i the
ride Mrs Dudley became angry and
quarrelied with Beckman, and when
Beckman said he was going to London
in the morning. the woman replied she
was going also.
subsequently, Mrs. Dudley engaged
him to bring an action for divorce on
her part. She agreed to pay two thou
sand dollars which she did not pay. SO
he withdrew from the case. and sued
her for the two thousand dollars.
Henry Coombs. a~watchman, EN-
ployed at the Camden place of the
Dudleys. told tales, in his deposition,
about Dudley being locked out of his
own house similar to those which had
been related by other witnesses at
previous hearings, when the home life
of the couple was being recounted.
Louise Hurst, who deposed she was
thirty seven years old, and was born
in France deposed she had been in Mrs.
Dudley's employ as maid, and now lived
at 1925 jefferson street, Philadelphia.
She deposed that while employed by
Mrs. Dudley they visited New York
and stopped at hotels. She alleged that
on various days Mrs. Dudley would be
dressed by her in the late afternoon
and then leave the hotel and would
not return until the next afternoon
She roid of seeing Mrs Dudley's bed
undisturbed as late as noon on mum =
her of days when she went out the
night or afternoon before.