Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
K|SS-W|FE SUES;
PREMIUM IS PUT
ON STORK VISIT
Broker Was to Pay $4,000 for
Boy, Half Price for Girl,
She Testifes.
EVERYTHING FOR TWINS
Wall Street Operator Alleged to
Have Become Bored by His
White-Haired Wife.

| NEW YORK, March 14.-Augustus
H. Hall, wholesale druggist and stock
broker, who is known in Wall street
as Gus" Hail. put a premium on
| the presence of the stork in his house,
/ 1t was asserted in Supreme Court,
where Mrs. Emma L. Hall, who says
she is his common law wife, is suing
him for separation. Just how much
| Mr.. Hall thought of the stork was
told by Charles P. Wagner, his one
time boon companion. who said ne
and the broker had been on many
convivial expeditions together when
their wives were not along
According to Mr.. Wagner, if a baby
| girl arrived at Mr.. Halls home he
was to have given his wife $4,000;
if boy arrived the present was to
have been $4,000 and had there been
twins-Mr. Wagner was not prepared
to say what amount the broker would
have handed over, but he intimated 1t
would have been a vast one.
George Gould Didn't Bite.
! Mr.. Hall is a big buyer OF Ola
! monds, sometimes it was testlned,
having as high as 100000 for gem.
One witness said she knew ne had
maid 100000 for one diamond, which,
she testified, he had tried unsuccess-
fully 10 sell to George Gould at the
time the latter's daughter was mar
ried to Lord Decies.
Mrs. Hall wore pleasant smile
when she took the stand. she salo
she had first been married in 1887 to
William ]. Everson, who disappeare1
six wears afterward. and she obtained
a divorce in 1906. She was intro
duced to Mr. Hall when she was a
stenogra pher in a law office IN the
spring of 1898. The introduction came
through Mrs. Helen Bloom, her room
| mate in boarding house.
Mr.. Hall called on her frequently,
she said, took her to the opera ana
other places of amusement ana was
very attentive. In June OF that year
she testified. Mr.. Hall proposed trip
20 Old Point Comfort Va, and spe
went with him for weeks stay al
that resort In q scarcely auolpie
voice. Mrs. Hall said it was there tna'
the relations began that culminate'
in a common law marriage.
! Kiss a Marriage Ceremony
Beparding this incident, she SAID
she and Mr.. Hall lived together as
"N1r and As. Eve-son' in one or two
olaces after their return from Ola
Point Comfort and that finally ne pc
: oop +o talk about a permanent home
A house was purchased, but before
thew moved into it, Mrs. Hail says
she told Mr.. Hall they ought to oe
married.
"He agreed with me" she testified
"and then / told him / would nos
move unless 1t was as his wife. WheA
he heard this, Mr.. Hall crossed the
room TO where l was standlng' put
bis arms around my neck and klssed
mo and said: There, that IS just lhe
1--WE os If we were man and wife, /
renlied. Yes: l understand that is
so. ~
Wanted younger Woman"
Mrs Grace Dempsey, of Ne"
prigbton wife of a lawyer, who has
known Mrs. Hall for twenty years
was the star witness for the VIE
He told me. the witness said, "hls
wife was getting too old and that lie
wanted a younger woman, whom ne
could carry around with him. ne
asted me If | had ever heard that
Mrs Hall was not a good woman. l
told him | certainly had not. lie
then said he would make 1t worth
while TO anyone who would TESTIFY
against Mrs. Hall. If you Will testi-
fv against her. he said to me, l VIII
make you a present of $500 told
him I would not periure myself for
anyone"
Mrs. Dempsey, who is the wife of
Mrs. Halls one-time employer, said
that Mr.. Hall told her just after the
destruction of the Equitable Life AS
surance societys Building by fire that
he had a safety deposit box in The
vaults Of the building containing Sc
curities and jewels worth s25OOOo.
A certificate showing the adoption
of a child named Vivian Alderman
! WAS introduced in court. In 1t Mr..
Hall signed his name AS the adult
| husband of Emma l. Hall.
The case was continued.