Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-09-30
ACTOR HUSBAND
LOTHARIO, AYERS
ACCUSED WIDOW
Mrs. Seaton. on Stand, Tells !
of His Affairs With Sew
eraI Women.

HACKENSACK, Sept 30.-The do
nestle troubles that split the home Of
Frederick r. Seaton, the actor, were
related on the stand yesterday after
noon by his widow, Mrs. Alice L. Sea-
ton, who is charged with numbering
him on August IS last at their home
in Bogota.
In February of this year both Mr..
and Mrs. Seaton went to Washington,
occupying two rooms at a hotel. While
there May Hopkins, an actress, called
to visit them. She stayed about an
hour, Mr.. Seaton eseorting her down
the hall as far as the elevator. There, I
Mrs. Seaton said, she saw him throN3
his arms around her neck and kissV
her.
She said no. mention was made Of
this by her until they arrived back
in Bogota in June. He was angry and
swore at her when she mentioned II,
but finally made a full confession to
her OF his conduct with Miss Hop
kins.
In July she said she went to Atg ;
lantic City and from there to BrilPs
Hotel and the Strathmore Hotel in
Philadelphia, where she found addi-
tional evidences of her husbands In
fidelity. At the Strathmore she found
her husband registered with a woman
as Mr.. and Mrs. Seaton.
Early in July, Mrs. Seaton said they
went to New York to get some jew
elrv they had left in-the safe Of a
friend. Turning the jewelry over to
her husband, she said, she did not see
1t again until her arrival home and
them she found a diamond ring miss
ing. She accused him OF having taken
it and told him she believed he had
given the ring to Miss Hopkins.
Getting down to the date of Seaton's
death she said she rose at $3.50 o 'c(oclT
but Seaton did not get up until ah1I
10 O'Clock. She said. her head acflyDs
and Seaton insisted upon her driitEsl
some whiskey. He pushed her EMPl
chair in the Kitchen and threat&f Z
that il she didn't drink II he WOW
pour 1t down her throat.
Mrs. Seaton said the trouble hegaI =,
the morning of the death of her hu4L
band by their starting to talk about
the divorce suit she was to bring
He was greatly excited over it, and
said it would ruin him to have the
suit brought. He told her that IL she
brought it he would kill himself She
became excited, and he gave her four
drinks of whiskey and some tablets.
After that her mind was blank and
she heard no shooting. She stuck
to her story through grilling cross
examination.
Prosecutor Wright made Mrs. Sea-
ton admit that ii was fact that her
husband once instituted divorce. pro-
ceedings against her, but she met this
with the reply: 1t was during my
absence in California and he charged
me with desertion, which was abso-
lutely false, and when If filed a counter
suit charging him with infidelity his
proceedings soon stopped"
Ins all she admitted taking four
glasses of whiskey, probably of two
fingers'. each and another capsule.
AT the time he offered her the last
drink and capsule she said she. was
Sitting in a. large rocker nears tihe {
window IN the living room. In teli-,
ing this she wept bitterly and be-
tween her sobs said: f
II am ashamed to admit. was
drunk. AS
On being questioned by her counsel
she said: ese -
II remembered nothing afterwards
did you hear the shots fired2''
mo, sir; L did not hear the shots
fired. The last remember was whey
l took the last drink"
Prosecutor Wright could not shake
Mrs. Seaton's testimony as to her
condition at the time of the shooting
and she insisted no one could have \
seen her In the doorway to the bassl
porch at the time of the shooting
because she was helplessly intoxi
Gated &.
You say that your husband was
much excited about your Threatened
divorce suit because 1t would ruin
his stage career?' asked Prosecutor
Wright.
"That was what he said. replied
AIRS. Seaton.
Don't you know that divorces
never injure prominent actors, but
seems to aid them?"
Il know nothing along that line.
I'm simply telling what he said.
Don't you know that Nat Good
win, Lillian, Russell and De Wolf
Hopper have been divorced several
times and are still headliners in the
Theatrical business2" continued The
prosecutor.
II have paid little or no attention
to them" psplied the accused woman
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