New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-23
TIRE BLOWS OUT;
POLICE CALLED
People Thought Halleran
Divorce Case Feud Had
Broken Out.
EVIDENCE IS TAKEN
IN COUNTER SUIT
Witness Testifies Wife Had Told
Her Connolly Threw Her
Kisses Over Phone.

Two reports that sounded like pistol
shots shook the windows Of the room ia
which Justice Kclby ia trying the suit
OF Mrs. Sarah q. Hallcran for divorce
against her husband. Aioysius 6 Hal
leran. in the Queens County courthouse,
Long Island CITY. last evening just be-
fore the trial adjourned. Many spectators
feared that the feud between the four
Haleran brothers and their friends and
the followers OF President Maurice +.
Connolly brother-in-law to Mrs. Halleran,
named as correspondent by Aloysius G.
Halleran in q counter suit against Mrs.
Halleran. had reached a crisis. There
was a dash for the front Of the court
house. and i'm the excitement some one
shouted: Look out for the gunner
\ hurry-up call was telephoned TO Lieu
tenant James Uackett at th" lth Il.
police station. about ten blocks away
from the courthouse. and he ordered out
the reserves and the detective force
When they got 20 the courthouse the
excitement was all over. II was learned
that just as the argument In the corridors
was at its height. Magistrate Harry Nil
ler's automobile IN front OF tho court
house had backfired and the first report
had been followed by the explosion Of
tire.
This was the third day Of the trial. AT
the morning session the young woman
who has figured In the suit as "Pyro,' a
demonstrators OF an alcohol stove, was
- Il. lat
ing his denial OF misconduct with Miss
Hatch or any other woman halleran
was shown two letters which i is al
legged were sent him by Miss Hatch, and
he reluctantly admitted that he recog-
nzed her handwriting. lie denied receiv-
ing the letters. however, despite the fact
that the envelopes I'm when they were
sent were also produced.
one Of the letters. written from the
Richmond Hotel. North Adams. Mass
was dated May :. 1918. Among other
things. the writer said
Il could not meet YOU in New York. as
YOU wrote. as would not have time 70 get
there and back think Of you every day
and would love TO see you. Goodby. YOU
old dear. With love. GERTRCDE'
At the ouening of the afternoon session
evidence was taken in the counter suit
Instituted 10y Aloysius g. Halleran. IN
which he named his brother-in-iaw.
Maurice T. Connolly. az correspondent.
Mrs. Katheryn II. Brewster. who lived
next door TO the house then occupied by
the Hallerans, testified that on Sunday
night March .. 1913, q week following
the separation Of the Hallerans. about !
o'clock at night an automobile containing
d chauffeur and man and a woman
drove up TO the front OF the IIalleran
house The man and woman got out. and
after rapping on the front door the man
took of his overcoat and hat and, hand
ing them 10 the woman. climbed 10 one OF
the posts 10 the roof Of the porch. There
he forced omen one Of the upper windows
and emerged later from the front door.
wearing an overcoat and hat he had
nut on I'm the house Mrs. Brewster testi-
fed she recognized the man who climbed
the porch post as President Connolly ana
the woman as Mrs. Halleran
Mrs Brewster also testified that once.
when Mrs. Halleran's telephone was ont
Of order. she used the telephone IN the
Brewster house and was talking 10 some
one she called Daddy In her CONVEX
sation she told the person at the other
end not TO come TO her house, as her hus
band was At nome. She afterward told
the Brewster family that President Con-
molly was telephoning her and that he
had been drinking and was throwing her
kisses over the telephone. She said they
all called him Daddy because OF his
little girl. other members of Mrs. Brew
stcrs household gave similar testimony.
Joseph Cleary. Of Flushing. testified
that late one night he saw dark form
leave the Hallcran home. and that on fol-
lowing il some distance he recognized
President Connolly The Connolly forces
will have their inning to-day. when they
promise 10 riddle tho Hallcran testimony