New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-27
Miss Sullivan Paid $500
TO Borrow Infant Is
Minutes.
CALLS STORY OF
MARRIAGE A JOKE
Maid Tells of Her Mistress's Play.
fulness-AnsWer Filed to
"SIeuth's" Suit.

Overcome by combination OF humidity
emotion and a sharp cross-examlnation
Miss Mae A sullivan. who is suing Arthur
7. Hoe. son of the late Robert Hoe. builder
OF printing presses, for s225.0o for breach
OF promise, was compelled TO leave the
witness stand IN the Supreme Court yes
terday until she had recovered her COM
posure. a process which required half an
hour and the use of restoratives.
The collapse OF Miss Sullivan came
when william III. Hamilton, attorney for
Hoe, got her TO admit that about year
after the alleged promise Of Hoe to marry
her she told a friend that she was mar
ried to William A. Burr and that she
had baby. Miss Sullivan said she had
borrowed the infant and paid 500 for the
fifteen-minute loan.
Mirabeau l.. Towns attorney Tor MISS
Sullivan, said that the former telephone
operator was an unsophisticated girl Of
eighteen when she met Hoe and that she
easily yielded 10 his Establishments.
Miss Sullivan said the defendant choked
her into unconsciousness In the Seventh
av. apartment he had furnished for her.
A negro maid who was employed by Miss
Sullivan, told of the plaintiffs childish
actions.
William A. Burr. to whom Miss Sullivan
said she was married. is a brother OF Mrs.
William j. Daley, whose husband is a
cousin OF tho plaintiff. The latter lived
for a time with the Daley family.
1T was only joke" Miss Sullivan tes-
titled 81 just wanted to show the baby
TO Nellie Glassberg because I had told
her that was married to Mr.. Burr,
brother OF Mrs Daley, with whom I was
living. have never been married 10 any
one"
Miss Sullivan was not so composed as
on the previous day, when she was ques-
toned by her own attorney, and she could
not restrain her emotion. Justice Gave
gan was compelled TO declare recess.
Mr.. Towns tried TO keep out of the rec
ord letters written by Miss Sullivan TO
Mrs. Glassberg. but Justice Gavegan adj
rnitted them One OF the letters read.
1--WE expect to go South right after
Christmas l think the latter will do
Bill. the baby and myself very much
good Cheer up. we both have gone
through the same deal. You never know
what the love OF a mother is until you
have had a baby. I only wish | had a
dozen Ike the baby, dear little infant
lamb. Baby joins me in sending his love
to you"
Lola Hodges. who was Miss Sullivan S
maid, said that one day her playful mis-
tress had her stand on a chair and bal
ance herself on one foot while Miss Sulli-
van ate her dinner. Often, said the maid,
the larder Of the Sullivan apartment was
ennptv. but as soon as Mr.. Hoe called
there was plenty OF ready money In the
house. "Once," said the witness, MIR.
Hoe handed me roll OF money amount
ing to 5000. 1t took me long time to
count II. I counted 1t until got tired"
Hoe fled his answer yesterday in tia
Supreme Court to-day TO the suit brought
by William j. Daley fer $4,000 for ser
vices rendered i'm connection with the suit
OF Miss Sullivan. Daley alleges that he
was employed to collect evidence about
Miss Sullivan. lie was TO receive S25,W'
for his work. but only $1,000 has been paid
by Hoe.
Hoe answers that Daley undertook TO
do detective work without having the
license required by law, and that the
agreement, II one ever existed, was illegal
and void, as is any claim arising from the
alleged agreement.