The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-10
ARTIST ENTERS INTO
GLASS DIVORCE SUIT
Associate Of Robert w. Chanler
Figures in Reopened Case
Of Importer.
WIFE NOW HAS A DECREE
Two Weeks After Award. Hus-
band Says, He Trapped Her
and Georges Chreticn.

Papers filed in the suprenr, Court veg.
terday alIege that just two weeks after
jury before Supreme Court Justice Err
LANCER gave n verdict for a divorce in
a suit by Mrs. Fannie Glass against Err.
nest II. Glass, a wealthy importer NJ
drlicacics at East Forty-sixtb stree,
q raidine party led by Glass discovered
his wife IN an apartment ut 400 Was,
Forty ninth street with Georges Cbret, m.
m artist. associated with Robert w.
Chanier at IA East Nineteenth stree,
end having an income of $40, 900 n year
from Chanler
The raid was made on April 22 last
about midnight. 1t is alleged that efforts
by the Sheriff to find Chretlen subse-
quen;ly were unsuccessful and that he
Jeff New York on the French steamer
Rochambenu on April 25. 1t is alleged
that Mrs. Glass followed ten DAYS later
on the steamship France, and that her
departure indicates that she has aban-
doned her case against her husband.
Under an order of Supreme Court JUS
tee Lehman counsel for Glass filed yes
terday supplemental answer to the
wife's suit for divorce In which Glass
charged that since October 10 last. dur
ing which time his wifes suit against him
vas awaiting trial, she was living as the
wife OF Chretien in the West Forty
ninth street apartment II Mrs. Glass
takes no further action TO enforce her
verdict from the jury before Justice
Erlanger the proceedings will be an
nulled and GLASS; counterclaim against
her will then be tried.
In her suit against her husband Mrs.
Glass named Miss Blanche Matthew. his
hookkeeper and cashier. Her evidence
showed that Miss Matthew had lived in
the same apartment with Glass after his
wife left him. but Glass insisted that he
vas merely acting as guardian for Miss
Natthleu. because her father on his DEATH
bed asked him to protect her.
The verdict OF the jury In favor OF Mrs
Glass was surprise to the defendant
and he AT once engaged n detective agency
10 aid In obtaining evidence against Mrs
Glass before she could obtain her final
decree OF divorce. The results OF the
search are told in affidavits submitted to
Justice Lehman on the motion for permis-
son To file supplementary answer.
A. Il. +. Hildreth, superintendent of the
apartment house at 800 West Forty n
street, said that in October last a woman
selected apartment 704. stating that she
wanted her husband to see IL before she
a
showed him card on which was printed
Georges Chretien. Chanler Studios. III
Els. Nineteenth street" The man said he
would take the apartment but wanted 1t
only six months because he and his wife
would go to Europe In the spring The
couple took the apartment and occupied
/; continuously until April "a last. Hill
dreth said.
George V. Klein a triend Of Glass. who
was member OF the raid!ng party on
the night of April 20. said they entered
the apartment about midnight
The said Georges Chretien struck Glass.
the defendant" said Klein. '"rhe woman.
Fannie Glass. cried out In French, 1T Is
the police and the said Georges Chretien
replied to her in the same language, with
which language deponent is thoroughly
convyrsaut. 'Tais toll &c nest pas lie
pol.ce,' which being Translated into Eng
fish means. BE quiet 1t Is not the
police"
Other members OF the raidng party
made affidavits corroborating the state
ments OF Klein,