The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-02

out OF the room she said she would jump
out OF the window unless I told them
was her uncle. Fearing a scene I did tell
Mr.. and Mrs Stade I was Miss Sullivan's
uncle. Soon after that she said people
we're beginning to talk about her and
wanted $4,000. SO I gave II to her."
What explanation did she made for
asking such large sunni
II don't remember. She told me had
better tell the truth to the Stades. l told
her she had better leave them. took
sick and was compelled to go South then
and when I returned met Miss sullivan
on the street and she told me she had left
the Stades.
soon after that I saw Stade in his
Office at so Liberty street and he told me
he was surprised to know l wasn't Miss
Sullivan's uncle. He said he had had n
great deal of trouble with her and that
he would never have consented for her to
be In the house IL he hadn't supposed she
was my niece.
Then Gave stade $4,000.
II asked him IL could do anything for
him and he said he needed some money
80 arranged to give him $4,000. He was
to, help me In putting through a real es-
tate deal"
NV ioiiVNiib itNNtl. WTitttH 10 ftOt ny
Miss sullivan In December. 1912. from the
apartment at 420 Riverside Drive, which
was fitted up with Hoes money. WAS iden-
tilted by Hoe and was offered In evidence:
my DEAREST: For Gods sake be sure
to come up on Tuesday. II you don't
VIII get Into lot of trouble Mr.. s.
claims he Will have to have a lot OF money
on Tuesday or he will start fire going.
/ am nearly crazy when l think OF tho
way have treated him and he turned out
so mean. l am crazy over the matter. l
Will have TO pay the - by Tuesday.
On his cross-examlnation by Lawyer
Towns Mr. Hoe made these declarations:
II never promised to marry her at any
time or place.
IT never suggested or thought, as she
has testified. of divorcing my wife and
marrying her.
81 never kissed or embraced her
Il was weak enough to be overborne
by her talk OF exposure. My motive In
paying money to keep the . eatened ex-
posure quiet was to prev At my aged
mother from hearing of H. TO proect my
wife and family. and to keep my own
name out OF the matter"
Smile Irritates Lawyer.
Mr. Hoe was so composed during the
attack directed against him by Lawyer
Towns that the latter on one occasion
said: stop smiling at me-" Mr.. Towns
made repeated references in his ques-
lions to his client as this little girl with
the three curls down her back" but WIN.
lam II. Hamilton. Hoes attorney. had the
references to the three curls" stricken
from the record.
Didn't your wife nag you when you
told her about helping this little girl.
Miss Sullvan7' asked Lawyer Towns
"She did not" replied Hoe calmly.
while his wife smiled approvingly. "She
talked about what I had told her and
said she didn't approve OF It,"
Hoe denied that he ever took Miss
sullivan to the theatre or that he ate or
drank In her apartment, took her to any
dinner party. or ever rode In an auto
with her except once for about three
minutes.
Il drank nothing intoxicating myself
and never asked her TO drink anything
in my life" said Hoe.
Hoe also denied that he induced Mrs.
Dorothy Brannigan Campion to become
his witness by giving her $4,000.
When court opened yesterday Lawyer
Towns tried to induce Justice Gavegan to
recall Mrs. Hoe to the stand 50 that he
could question her concerning certain
birth records he had obtained showing
that she was the daughter of man ex.
hibited as a Giving skeleton
Court Shields Mrs. Hoe.
The court announced with some em-
phasls that Mrs. Hoe would not be re-
called for that purpose.
One OF the first witnesses called yester-
day for the defence was Jennie McGrane.
telephone operator in the Schuyler Arms
apartment house. who said that in March,
1918. Miss Sullivan told her she was en-
gagged to william A. Burr.
she showed me some embroidery that
she said she was making for their new
home" testified Miss McGrane. Her
fance called to see her occasionally and
for that reason she told me OF her en-
gagement."
william Lynch. night Waterman at the
Schuyler Arms. who was called by the de-
fence, said that on one occasion Burr did
not come down by IL 80 O'Clock, as re-
quired by the rules OF the house, and
Lynch tclephoned a reminder of the rules.
Burr then left. Lynch said.