Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
MILLIONAIRE HOE
FIGHTING BREACH
OF PROMISE CASE

New York, May 29.-Whether Miss
Mae A. Sullivan. who is suing Arthur
1ngersoll Hoe for $225,000 damages for
breach OF promise. really hired a baby
for 500 a day and posed as the baby's
mother. as she says. or whether the
child was her w offspring. was the,
question presented to the jury before
Supreme . Justice Gavegan dur
ing the cross examination Of Miss
Sullivan.
The jury got practically no evidence
that the baby was borrowed except
Miss Sullivan's own statements, while
a number of her letters were intro
duced.
Miss Sullivan became historical
when the cross examination by the de-
ndant attorney brought up the
anne OF men to whom it was alleged
she claimed to be engaged or married.
Inc collapse Of Miss Sullivan came
while William II. Hamilton, attorney
Tor Hoe. was questioning the plaintiff,
got her to admit that abou a year at
ter the alleged promise of Hoe to
marry her she told a friend that she
was married to N William A. Burr
and that she had a baby.
Claims Her Innocence.
Miss Sullivan's attorney. Marabeau
L.. Towns. seeks to prove that the
former telephone operator was just an
unsophisticated girl Of 18 when she
met Hoe and that to the ways of the
world she easily yielded to blandish-
ments of the worldly and wealthy man
wnom she now accuses. Miss Sullivan
told OF the defendant choking her in
to Inconsistencies the first night she
entertained HIM aione in the Seventh
avenue apartment that Hoe had fur
nished for her.
MI. Hamilton. attorney for Hoe. o
duced some letters in which Miss Sui
livan referred to "Bill, me and the
baby"
1T was only a joke Miss Sullivan
testified blithely and unhesitatingly.i
liam J. Daley and took it up to Nellie
G~lassberg. ! just wanted to show the
baby to Nellie Glassberg because 1 had
told her that l was married to Mr..
Burr. brother Of Mrs. DALEY, with
% Saea was living; But we didn't
matter was that I was never married to
MIR. Burr and I have never been mar
-ied to anyone"
Says He Proposed 20 Her.
Miss Sullivan described how she met
Hoe on the street n day. He stopped
her. introduced himself and asked to
call. n permitted him to call n
SNS' AS RsOPO0ON ~ xlCI IlO III
accepted him. He then fitted UP an
apartment for her. spending $4,000 for
furniture. On his third visit. she says
he attacked her.
The girl declares hat Hoe gave her
thousands of dollars, abou $1,000 per
week. Hoe was blackmailed out of
thousands OF dollars she says by per-
sons who threatened to expose his dual
life.
He postponed the marriage for
mt nNn nrn 80 -
said. finally .confessing that he was
already married and had a daughter
l year old. He promised to get a d.
vorcc II marry her. the girl Jays.
That was in February. 1913. They
did not meet again until June. In the
gagged to Mr.. Pye. son of a rich man.
ufacturer, and hat when she told Hoe
he created a scene. Pye broke the en-
gagement when he learned of her dis
grace. Later h became engaged to
Alexander ]. Burr, she says. but Hoe
begged her not to marry Burr, renew
ing his promise to get q divorce and
marry her.
Later she declared. Hoe approached
her INC told her that he intended to
have her sent to an asylum. saying that
he had offered Burr SOS. 900 to sign an
affidavit that h was insane. Her
cousin. Mrs. w. j. Daley. she says, was
to sign a similar document.
'Mr. Hoe told me" she said, that he
would rather BAY $1,000 to keep me in
an asylum than $1,000 a week as he
had promised"
Did you love MIR. Hoe?" she was
asked.
Il did and I do now" she replied.
Hoe and his wife, who was the
daughter Of Nine. Charcot. a palmist
at the hearing.