Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
K|SS-N|FE SUES;
PREMIUM IS PUT
ON ST0RK 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" Hall, put a premium on
the presence of the stork in his house,
it 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 he
and the broker had been on many
convivial expeditions together when
their wives were not along.
According to Mr.. Wagner, if BABY
girl arrived at Mr.. Halls home ne
was to have given his wife $4,000;
if a 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 dia-
monds. sometimes, it was testified
paving as high as 100000 for a gem.
one witness said she knew he had
Maid 100000 for one diamond, which,
she testified. he had tried unsuccess-
fully to sell to George Gould at the
time the 9atter's daugnter-wss~n1ar :
ried to Lord Decies.
Mrs. Hall wore pleasant smlle
when she took the stand. She SAID
she had first been married in 1887 TO
William j. Everson, who disappeare
six wears afterward and she obtained
a divorce in 1906. She was intro
duced to Mr.. Hall when she was
stenographer in law office in the
snring 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 and was
very attentive. In June Of that year.
she testified. ME- Hall proposed a trip
70 Old Point Comfort Va, and she
went with him for a weeks stay AT
tbo+ resort. In scarcely audible
voice Mrs. Hall said it was there that
the relations began that culhinated
in a common law marriage.
Kiss a Marriage Ceremony.
Regarding this incident, she sald
she and Mr.. Hall lived together as
"NIr and ;. eve son" in one or two
r,laces after their return from OLD
Point Comfort and that finally he be-
gan to talk about a permanent home
A house was purchased, but before
tbev moved into it, Mrs. Hall says
she told Mr., Hall they ought TO De
married.
"He agreed with me" she testified
"and then told him l would ho'
move unless it was as his wife. When
he heard this, Mr.. Hall crossed the
room 70 where I was standing. nut
bis arms around my neck and kissed
mo and said: There, that is just the
same a : if we were man and wife l
renlied, Yes: 4 understand that is
So"
Wanted younger Woman"
Mrs Grace Dempsey, Of New
Brighton. wife Of a lawyer. who has
known Mrs. Hall for twenty years
was the star witness for the wife.
He told me. the witness said, MS
wife was getting too old and that he
wanted a younger woman, whom he
o,uld carry around with him. He
asked me il had ever heard that
Mrs Hall was not a good woman. /
told him I certainly had not, He
then. said ne would make 1t worth
while to anyone who would testify
against Mrs Hall If you will testi-
~ against her, he said to me, I will
make you a present Of $500 told
him I would not perjure 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 Society's Building by fire that
he had a safety deposit box in the
vaults OF the building containing Sc
curlties and jewels worth s25Oo0O.
A certificate showing the adoption
OF a child named Vivian Alderman
was introduced In court IN il Mr.
Hall signed his name as "the adult
husband Of Emma l. Hall"
TN case was continued