Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-03

with the lieutenant and the Iieuten-
ant got drunk with him. True, he
very foolishly wrote notes to Mrs.
Naylor which contained endearing
terms, but l say that whatever the
conduct was between these two 1t
was not indicative of anything more
than conditions thrust upon Mrs.
Naylor 1t pointed no way to what
1t Is charged happened later in New
York, and cannot be considered Sc
riously in connection with the lieu-
tenants baseless accusations against
his wife"
It was in September. 1910, a few
years after their marriage, when
Lieutenant Naylor was stationed in
this city as a recruiting officer, that
he met O'Bryan, whom he had not
seen for more than year on the
street and, it Is declared, invited him
to visit them in their home here. A
few days later O'Bryan called in re-
Spouse to the invitation and offered
to take Lieutenant Naylor and HE
wife to accompany him to see one of
the worlds championship baseball
games to be played at the Polo
Grounds in New York city.
The lieutenant expressed his regret
that his duties would prevent him
from going to see the game, but, is
said to have encouraged his wife to
accompany O'Bryan to the game. II
was on this visit to New York with
O'Bryan that the alleged episode &C.
CURED at a hotel in that city on
which Lieutenant Naylor based his
suit for divorce. Upon returning to
her home that evening Mrs. Naylor
claims she found herself deserted by
her husband, who took their two chill
dren with him.
In referring to this, Mr. Scott said
that Lieutenant Naylor had entered
West Point from Germantown, Pa,
where his wealthy aunt has her home,
and it was some time before Mrs
Naylor discovered that her husband
had taken the children to the home of
this aunt. The manifest purpose, the
lawyer said, was for the lieutenant
to claim Philadelphia as his legal
domicile; and, when some time later
Mrs Naylor, who was abandoned
without money or friends, made her
way to that city in search of her chill
dren, she was served with the papers
in the divorce suit.
Mr.. Scott argued that all the cir
cumstances Of the case plainly indi-
Gated that the marriage of Lieutenant
Mayor to this poor and obscure girl
from the West had not met with the
approval of his wealthy relations. and
the divorce suit was a conspiracy TO
cast her off from the family He then
referred to the testimony Of the pri-
vate detectives whom the lieutenant
had employed TO shadow his wife and
o. Bryan on their trip to New York.
where the mere incident of their stop
ping in hotel to obtain refreshments.
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charged, was seized upon as circum-
stance on which the hired spies"
built up the case on which the di-
vorce suit was founded.
He referred the court to the severe
criticism of the testimony of the
private detectives by Judge Patterson
in his report as master in the case
and who pronounced it as unworthy
Of credence, and reported in favor Of
the lieutenants suit for divorce being
dismissed.
The courts attention was directed
to the testimony Of the clerk of the
New York hotel who declared that he
knew O'Bryan was not the man that
signed the register at the time In
question, as the guest was a much
larger man than the correspondent.
A waiter who had served O'Bryan and
Mrs. Naylor in a sea food house on
the same day identified the couple as
being present in the restaurant at a
time when according to the detec-
tiYes, they were occupying the same
apartment in the hotel nearby. The
waiter recalled the visit of the couple
to his place because of the order they
gave "for lobster and green peas" a
combination that "only country jays
would order.