The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-17
DIVORCE EVIDENCE
OBTAINED ON BOAT
Charges Of Collision Raised
by Wife Are Denied by DR..
George A. Powers.
LED BY LURE OF STAGE

Charges that a divorce obtained on
October Is last In New York county by
Dr. George A. Powers OF 3S3 Park place.
Brooklyn. was collusivc were made be-
fore Supreme Court Justice Whitaker
yesterday by Mrs. MadEe Crosby Powers
in asking the court to set aside the de.
cree M permit her to defend the action.
Anidavits nied by Dr. Powers and others
In opposition 20 the application caused
Justice whitaker TO deny II.
Mrs. Powers. who IL now living with
her parents at 500 Lenox road. Brook.
Ign. said In her affidavit that she was
married to DR.. Powers In Hoboken OH
January II. 1914, and that prior TO the
bringing OF the divorce suit was
compelled to leave him because he struck
and choked her without cause. made ap-
polntments with various young women
and barely a " her enough TO eat
no pleasure whatsoever" although his
income from his practice was $4,000 a
year.
The defendant sale that because OF her
husbands treatment she was anxious to
be freed from him and upon his oner TO
pay all the expenses and Civ her $1O q
week alimony she consented TO FURNISH
the evidence. Pursuant to plans made
by her husband, she said. she bought .
ticket to Albany on the steamer Berk-
shire on August "a last. using for mis-
purpose SEQ sent TO her BY her husband
through his friend Hiram W. Smith.
who was on the boat.
Mrs. Powers said she made the ttlp
with a gentleman known to the plain
tiff and gave her husband ana smith
the number of the stateroom she would
occupy. Smith and the other witness
occupied a stateroom near by. N sad
that when she retired the man who was
with her left her. and IN tho return trip
she was accompanied by a woman friend.
She asserted that although she was
guilty OF no act upon which a divorce
could be granted she gave her wedding
ring to Smith with the request that he
give II 20 the PLAINTIFF with my compli-
ments, which he agreed to o.
Mrs. Powers aid that after furnishing
the evidence she tried TO induce her hus-
band to support her. but he refused TO
keep his agreement and was COM
PEELED TO seek shelter from strangers.
When she rang him up and asked for
money he told her she would have to
come to the house and get II. She said
she did so and remained all night with
her husband a week after the divorce
papers had been served on his promise TO
give her sls the following morning.
Then he sent her away with only IS.
The defendant said she is only 20
years old and entirely ignorant OF court
lieved she should be influenced by her
husbands advice. She asserted that al
though she and her husband were both
residents of Kings county he brought
the divorce suit in New York to avoid
~notorietv.
In his replying affidavit DR.. Powers
said that after his marriage his wife
49, L. IL
and private life BY her temper. language
and actions. He said his wife left him
last April and in order TO crafty her
wish to go on the stage he rented a
studio for her in Carnegie Hall. lie
then discovered that a man named Swing.
who Vas correspondent in the divorce
case, was visiting her and he persuaded
her tn return home on July 30. She
left again on August ? and wen TO live
at 80 West N~inety-irst street. where
Swing visited her. and finally move to
81 Riverside Drive. where she lived until
she returned home 10 her parents In
October. She took tho stage name of
Jean Crosby. Dr. Powers. who is 81
years old. denied his wife's charges Of
cruelty n attentions to other women
and said he devoted all his time 10 build
ing up his practise.
Dr, Powers said the charges OF collu.
s'A''' WIZ nc allu pdiA VI Il Stlltll
on her part TO get money out OF me-"
A week after he sued her she wrote that
she was sorry she was leading such a
life. and at her request ne met her at
10 j. NJ. AZ the Flathusi avenue station
OF the Long Island Railroad. Swing was
with her and when Dr. Powers tried TO
persuade her TO give him up she laughed.
Dr. Powers then demanded la Swing
keep away from his wife. Words fol
lowed, said DIR. Powers. with the re-
suit that ! struck Swing and he struck
mo with a heavy instrument. cutting
my eye"
DIR. Powers said that while he wa
visiting Il hospital his wife went to his
HON and retired. lie then slept in his
office all night. he said. He asserted
his wifi" was mo- ignorant OF divorce
proceedings because she got a decree In
1918 from John craig in KINGS county,
and accompanied the detectives when
they got the evidence,
Hiram W. Smith and Edmund Red
mund employees of the sherman Ma.
tiona' Bank, who got the evidence
against Mrs. Powers, mad afidayits
denying collision.