The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-13
CROWD BATTLES TO SEE
~r. MRS. FOSS IN HER KIMONO
Famous Garment, Rent and All,
Shown on Owner in Justice
DOnnelly's Court.

The hint that fiIckered from the Poss
divorce case on Thursday night that the
hearing yesterday would be no place for
a ministers son may have deferred young
persons with theological bringing up. but
II certainly attracted to Justice Dom
nelly's court the sclons OF the sinful.
They hammered In droves ut the court
room door, struggling In the sticky heat
with such persistence and determination
ms are seldom observed save at worlds
series baseball games. Those who came
early and sprnted successfully for the
seats In the little trial room Of the gu
preme Court could have sold their chairs
for So or even 90. But they would have
ecorned decker. They mopped their
brows and breathed hard through four
hours OF Lawyer ABE Levy's cross exam
nation OF Mrs. LILLIAN X. Poss, confident
that before the day was over they would
have thriller to talk over at cocktail
time.
The hint that pinned them to their
chairs was the intimation from George
Gordon Battle. counsel for Mrs Poss, that
before the day was over he would place
his client on the stand clothed exactly
as she was on the night OF February 23,
when her husband. Frank r. Poss, vice.
president of the Detroit Baseball Club.
broke Into her apartment at 1871 River
side Drive at the head OF flock OF pri-
vate detectives and found her with Percy
NJ Thorn. president OF the Manufacturers
Coal and Utilities Company. Now when
you remember that the plaintiffs wit
nesses testified that Mrs Poss was receiv-
ing mat evening In little silk shirt,
SILK knickers. boomers, unmentionables
or whatever else the bifurcated garment
was. sllk stockings. cute little house clip
pers and = Japanese kmono OF birds
egg blue embroidered with green and
silver chrysanthemums and wistaria, you
viii have notion OF why seats In Jus
tice Donnelly's court were harder to grab
yesterday than seats at the Polo Grounds
when the McGraws are getting ready to
take a beating from the Connlemacks.
Curiosity, Obi nv, No.
OF course nobody was there for the
Not soul. As Bert williams says No
body. What they wanted to satisfy them
saves about was how far a lady could
go and still be a lady and whether or not
Mr.. Poss was justified In shouting. just
before he landed on Mrs. Poss. Boys.
see how she entertains her friends" or
words to that effect, AS Abe Levy says
Well. they went away unsatisfied. with
honest doubts uneliminated and with
their innocent zest for sociological infor-
nation unappeased. Unless, as the 1u-
rors must do, you make up your mind from
the evidence just how much or how little
Mrs. Poss was wearing under that flow
ing kimono you'll carry puZ1lement to
your grave. II is now known positively
that she wore the kimono
AT 2:bb Il. NJ, Just before Mr. Battle
was ready to submit to the jury In this
double barrelled case evidence intended
to show that Mr.. Poss was guilty OF mis-
conduct sufficient TO Justify a divorce de-
cree for Mrs Poss. Mr.. Battle Informed
the court that he was ready to exhibit
Mrs. Poss in the celebrated kimono. The
lady. who !s middle aged and stout but
SIN possessed of considerable pulchritude.
bobbed to her feet smilingly. Her ready
lands went to black satchel which had
~os'ed upon the counsel table. She had 1t
omen In snck and partly withdrew
from II a garment which seemed at FIRST
glance to be "a blue and gold nightie. She
was ready to don II then and there. but
Justice Donnelly shook his head. He In
dicated that the dignity of the court
won'd best be preserved II Mrs. Poes
Withdrew to private room while she
slipped into the blue and gold thing.
Costumes Challenge Sunlight.
She went brisNly toward me anteroom
trailing hehird her cloud OF blue and
gold. Eyes followed her. taking In every
detail Of her fashionable cos ume. The
case has been running for DAYS. but
Mrs. Poss never has appeared twice In
the same dress. Yesterday she challenged
the sunlight. The description OF her cos
tune. Il may he remarked. Is furnished
by the lady herself.
She wore a Paris suit, a Caillot model
deep blue in color and of light weight
The coa- was cut short and revealed the
modish panniers Her hat was Rus
sian turban OF gi'stsning black straw dec
Grated with two erect plunes which cost
two birds OF paradise their young lives
Her purnns were OF satin and were I'LL
greed with gold. She displayed diamond
earnings almost as large az the prisms
which depend from chandeliers. and they