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SPENT $4,000
BUT HE GAVE NO
KISS, SAYS HOE
Tells, i'm Trial of Miss Sulli-
vans Suit, of Scatter
ing Money.
PAID CASH IN FEAR
Asserts He Gave Large Sums
to Prevent Stories Reach
ing Mother.
he ACTED AS SAMARITAN
Assures Jury Costly Friendship
Was Marked by Strict
Propricty.
he ACTED AS SAMARITAN

printing press manufacturer and heir to
about 100000 from his fathers estate,
held the witness stand most OF the day
yesterday before Supreme Court Justice
Gavegan and n jury in telling of his rela-
tons with Miss Mae A. Sullivan, who Is
suing him for s225,oOo damages for
breach of promise.
Mr.. Hoe declared that between Septem-
Der, 1911. and June. 1913. the date when
he made his last payments to Miss sulli-
van and her associates. his income was
s263.000, and he spent s232.000.
Mr.. Hoes attorney. William II. Hamil-
ton. estimated that the chance meeting
with Miss sullivan on a rainy night, when
she had no umbrella, cost him s42. 900.
or this amount. Mr.. Hoe testified that he
gave Miss Sullivan from $4,000 to
$4,000 personally. and to Charles L
Stade. at whose home Miss Sullivan was
living. Hoe said he gave $4,000.
Hoe said that he gave $1,000 to William
"A. Burr, who later became Miss Sullivans
lance William II. Daley. Miss Sulli-
vans cousin. got $4,000 from Hoe before
Miss Sullivan brought her suit. and drew
$4,000 more afterward for selling his
knowledge of her cousins private life TO
the attorneys for Hoe after the suit was
brought. lie is now suing for $4,000
more.
Hoe and his attorney said that prac-
ucaily the entire amount he gave up to
MISS Sullivan and the others was hush
money TO keep the knowledge of his
affair with Miss Sullivan from his mother
and his wife.
During part Of the day and an entire
evening session of court Hoe was cross
examined by Mirabeau Towns counsel
Tor Miss Sullivan He stuck to his story
that he was merely good samaritan to
Miss Sullivan and her former friend Mrs.
Dorothy Brannigan Camplon, and insisted
tnat while he gave Miss Sullivan many
thousands of dollers he did IL merely be-
cause she was poor girl out of work.
His wife. Mrs. Evelyn Perry Hoe, knew
oil about what he was doing, he said.
He asserted that the largest sum of
money he ever gave Miss Sullivan at one
time was $4,000.
Mr.. Hoe was called to the stand in his
own defence after John J. sullivan, a
lawyer and uncle OF Miss Sullivan. had
testified that he never heard OF her en-
Bdgement to Hoe, or TO Pye. or Morlarity.
whose names have been mentioned in the
case. He said that Miss Sullivsn's par
ents. now dead. did everything they could
for her and that her home life was 'of
the purest." He said he contributed TO
Hoe Tells of First Meeting.
When Hoe tool; the chair he was told
20 give in his own way his story OF his
meeting with Miss Sullivan. He said he
met her and her chum. then Miss Bran
nigan. In Twenty-third street. some
where between Broadway and Second
avenue. As IL was a drizzly night and
abe girls had no umbrella he offered them
r,t hat uvtf IN
were then in the Adirondgcks with his
mother. This admission brought smiles
from some OF the spectators and jurymen.
~ said / would meet the girls the next
evening and did meet them somewhere
downtown ut subway station near
enough for US to walk TO the Cafe Boule-
ward" said Mr.. Hoe. I'VE had supper
there and at supper told the girls my
true name and gave them slip OF
paper with my name. business address
and telephone number on II. Miss Sulli-
van gave me her name as May Smith and
the other girl, then Miss Brannigan, told
me her true name.
mo money passed at our first dinner
mt the Cafe boulevard Without trying to
recall at which meeting II was. l re-
snember that after / met the girls two or
three times by appointment they said they
were going down to Wanamaker's to buy
some furniture TO fix up an apartment. l
volunteered 10 go along anu ntlp tHeIn
/ did go and paid for the furniture. I
think | paid only between $500 and $500.
although one witness said II was 1900"
Miss Sullivan said that Hoe paid $4,000
and Mrs. Campion. testifying for Hoe,
said the amount was 800.
Hoe admitted that he often gave Miss
Sullivan small sums OF money. such as
$40 or $50, and that when she was living
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Stade she
asked him to pose as her uncle and give
her $4,000, and he did so. Later Stade
came to him and got $4,000 on his own ac-
count.
$4,000 TO stade, Says Hoe.
~ paid more than $4,000 in all to
Stade when Miss Sullivan was living with
Mr. and Mrs Stade In apartments at 500
Cathedral Parkway" said Hoe. He also
said that he took some porteres that his
mother wasn't using to the apartment for
the two girls because they had use for
them. He added that he didn't know Miss
Sulivans right name until after she had
salling ont with Miss Brannigan and the
latter told him. He denied Miss Sullivan's
story that he made an attack on her
when she was alone In the Seventh ave-
rue apartment.
Ibid you ever choke her as she has
testified
81 never did"
'Du you ever try 10 KISS or embrace
EerT
mo, there is no truth in such state
ments."
Hoe denied that he ever gave Miss Sui
Ivan diamond ring which she said was
on engagement ring ond which she said
she had 10 pawn for s1,70O because Hoe
: wouldn't give her money to pay her cred
!.ors.
Quieted wife After Discovery.
Asked about the occasion when Miss
Sullivan phoned nj his house and his wife
answered the call, Hoe said:
Mrs. Hoe was very much upset when
tolu her about Miss Sullivan. I quieted
her by telling her that Miss Sullivan and
her chum would soon be at work and that
! would not bother with trying TO help
them any more"
When did YOU give Miss Sullivan the
FIRST large sum Of money!"
when she was going to live with the
stades on Cathedral Parkway She
wanted me to give her some money and
pass myself OFF as her uncle. ] called to
SEQ her at the SHADES and while they were