The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-07
EARLE is ASSAILED BY
HIS EX-WIFE'S RELATIVES
Trial of Artist for Kidnapping His Son Begins at
Romorantn, France-fle Says He's More
Famous Than Roosevelt

The Judge asked Earle IL he denl,sl using
violence to Julia kuttner, his second wife,
in 1910. Earle denied the statement.
When Earle. during his testimony. said
he had not met Miss Herman until he
had left his third wife the Judge asked
him why they had lived together. Earle
answered filppantiy. For the sake Of
economy" The audience laughed.
Earle testified that he had an agree
ment with Mime. F1schbacher which al
lowed him tn see the boy Harold. but he
had torn II up and was therefore obliged
to resort to forcible measures. He said
he used false name and false beard be-
cause the newspapers had prosecuted him
to great extent He added:
You know what the press IL In the
United States. Look how they treat Col.
Roosevelt and President Wilson"
Earle Tells cf His Fame.
The Public Prosecutor here suggested
that Earle was hardly as famous as these
men. To this Earle replied "On the
contrary. I am better known. Ny af
unity phrase Is known wherever English
Is spoken"
and he often interrupted the court. II
said: II had twenty reasons for kid.
mapping the boy. l love him better than
anything on earth"
Earle said the hoy slept with Miss
Herman because Norway Is NO cold"
This caused an outburst of laughter He
said he had taught the boy to call Miss
Herman mother and had explained -
him certain physiological facts because
at is an American fathers duty to
tell his son such things rather than
have him learn them from his school
| mates"
Earle admitted that he had slnackei
HIS son once
Another of his twenty reasons for kid
mapping the boy was that he was i'll
drssssed III hammered and underfed.
Mia Herman Testiaes,
Miss Herman was then called Ia the
witness chair. She was dressed In black
and wore a black hat with "A red flower
She was very pale, and her handsome. sad
eyes were downcast She gave her pro.
fession rs n pianist She testified that she
knew all about Earl. when she met him
She denied the existence of plot to kid
nap the boy. She said she went to see
the boy with Earle and the latter was so
unhappy that she helped him kdnap his
son. She said; Harold never saw us
QUARREL Mr.. Earle once threw my mum
at the window, but only In joke.
Ma!tre Botten. lawyer for the Fisch-
bachers, commenced his address with sar-
casms about Earle as an American gen
tleman with flower In his buttonhoie
He said il Earle represented a type he
(the lawyer) would prefer to be-
bourgeois.
Counsel for the Fischbachers discussed
the legal points OF the case. but, he said
as Earle had admitted the kidnapping the
| only question was who should be the
guardian Of the boy. He recounted Earie's
| history, saying he had illtreated Nine
Fischbacher during their honeymoon In
Egypt. He said that Earle after meeting
Miss Kuttner. who became his second
wife. wrote a forty page letter to the
Frschbachers In which he said he and his
| wife and Miss Kuttner might be happy
! II Nine Fischbacher was only reasonable.
a statement with which Miss Kuttner
seemed to agree as she wrote
I'VE should be IA trinity OF love-"
| The lawyer said that when EarleA
marriage to Miss Kuttner was annulled
the artist again wrote to the Fisch-
bachers. He said: THE eyes Of my soul
are now opened. Harold shall he my
heir" Ho visited the Fischbachers. but
| his former wife refused to see him and
he returned TO the United States. "Why"'
asked the lawyer and answering his own
question. replied: because there was
| another woman"
The case. Il 10 expected. will be finished
OH Saturday.