The evening world., 1914-03-18
DAUGHIER DENIES
lOvEFOR MOTHER
77:ELATTER WEEPS
Beatrice Katz, Is, Tells Court
Childhood Show of Affec-
ton Was Formally.
THE JUSTICE rs AMAZED.
Judge in the Separation Suit
Shows Dismay at Girls
Strange Attitude.
THE JUSTICE IS AMAZED,

.. etrce kstx. q sixteen. y ear old
WaAeish l.ish School girl tossed hsr
had on the witness stand in Justice
B'anohard's Court to-day and declared
mat she had not loved her mother
s'ncs she was seven years old. When
she kissed and Rugged her mother. a.
child and young woman, she said.
she did so merely as q matter OF
respsct not Of love"
The attitude Of the girl, who vss
Handsomely attirsd In blue gown and
white polo coat and helmet hat, was
emphasized during her testimony. Her
mother. Mrs. Hannah KATE, who IN
suing the girls father, Henry w.
kats. a wealthy Broadway merchant.
fer separation, sat within a few feet
OF the child. Miss Katz pronounced
Gates she says) sazed frisidly at her
mother. who sat quietly sobbing in a
chair near the jury box.
The girl 10 one OF the four Katz
children who have been in more than
twenty schools In ten years because
OF the wransle over their CUSTODY
hetween father and mother. Miss
kats was called In connection with
ths mothers claim that the father
poisoned the minds Of her children
against her. Another daughter. Flor
encs. was waiting in court to testify.
still another. Sybil, is married and
the boy, LEROY. 4. In school.
ADMITS HER MorHCR. BUT De.
MES LOVE.
You know this woman Ia your
mother. Bestrice?" asked the lawyer,
''Oh. yes" returned the girl. und,s-
turbed.
And YOU still have a child's love
for tho mother who bore it;"
mo. sir"
you mean that you have not a
particle Of love for your MOTHER"
Not the slightest. SIR" returned
the daughter. promptly and with evil
dent defiance.
Mrs. Katz turned her chair about
until her back was TO her husband.
Che sazed out the window into
Broadway. As the tears rolled down
her cheeks her daughter continued to
assert that she had lost all love for
her since the mother placed her in an
Asylum In Philadelphia when she was
seven years old.
but your mother told you she had
no money and that your father would
sead her none and that she was COM
psllsd TO send you there. didn't she?"
''Yss; she said all Of that. but did
~ believe her"
but you wrote to her. called her
peareot Mamma and when she
dasns to - you in school you kissed
her and placed your arms about her
nsck. didn't your"
SNOW OF AFFECTION WAS ONLY
RgSpgcT, she SAYS.
Yes. certainly. but did 20 simply
- Grow my rsspect for her"
WY hare you lost all love for
your mothsrf''
"1scauss abs spoke III Of my faith.
-, and because she never showed me
tAs love that mother should. She
tso9 the schoolmasters where We at
tsoded classes about her domestic
a3Airs. She said father was running
scout with other women and all that.
- know. embarrassed VI greatly"
Justice Blanchard. who has heard
moro than ten thousand separation
suits. wiped his forehead ana sat
hack In his chair in perplexity.
The witness then declared that In.
sepad Of poisoning his chlldren's
1llnds against his wife. the father
aoeually told them to love and write
70 thoir mother.
He always told mo to write to her
bat ] did not obey" she said.
Nfs. Kats charges that her hus-
hand abandoned her several years