The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-15
HOLDS. ADELE BLOOD
ENTITLED TO DIVORCE
Referees Decision Upsets Find
ing in Case Of Miss julie
Power.
TESTIMONY SETS RECORD

,Jcl. Blood. the actress. is entitled to
divorce from Edwards Davis, actor
s,5 former clergyman. under a referees
mort lust completed by Frederick G.
ia,buseher. appointed in the Supreme
Cour to hear the case.
1-his became known yesterday when
,r,r-, r. Bradbury attorney for Miss
Mood flied notice that he would apply
60 Justice Greenbaum January Is Tor
.,,erm,tlon Of the report. which finds
,,a, the countercharges against Miss
,,icod we're not proved. II Is expected
iI.-r,,u l., Roth, counsel for Davis.
,,i oprose the confirmation of the re.
49,, and ask that additional testimony
!. taken on the ground OF newly dis
covered evidence.
rbs c,sn has hcen before Referee
,,,hus.her moro than n year.. For
i,rg time Tia Sample. who has become
,ovn as ''the man of mystery, was
,o,yh, I'm order that he might DO ques-
.,cred concerning his motives In SPEND
60, small fortune gathering evidence
IN behalf Of Miss Blood and ouilding up
Aiy,r,e case for Frederick Esmelton
u.,ant A stpgee manager. against his
~, T,,e rowe. leading woman for
,,,Is In The kingdom OF Destiny and
,.,-..popdeut in Miss Blood's suit.
Tho name OF Gov Earle Brewer OF
,,.,,,s,n,i was brought into the case
,sc,u.o sample was known as repre-
,sp,atiy, OF Gov. Brewer. but the MAS
,.ss,rf Executive proved subsequently
,r,' ne had no knowledge OF the case.
80. ,,,p SOC, 900 words OF testimony
have been taken before the releIee. anu
a., ,bis respsct the suit has established
record. ,.,, ro,,or,
,,A, ,giirst Mrs. Bryant as corespon-
don't d, the Davis case, his rulings VIII
,nss. tine findings Of Henry A. Forster'
I, ,eree In the 81 yant case, VINO mas once
o,,,,,e,deL n divorce for Bryant but
.,osc rcpo.t was sent back for further
,'rs,dsr.tlon pending the decision OF
rs,sree T.cubuscher. The latter com
,t,,elv d.scredlts witnesses VINO Fold OF
4 sleeping car episode IN "n'Sh D"f -
"a r,ls rover Mrs Bryant we're IN
n,.L nm which testimony Referee
,,o-,,.r has decided against the defend
49,. /, tho Bryant case. /; Is prooaple
a., pr,,nt case will have to he insti-
,,,od again and that the charges against
Mics power will ne based on the cohduct
,ysch ,he has been found guilty In the
Davis cas-. ,..,. -,,o,..s
.tat Miss Blood relied chlehy tnS
s'sAning car episode to win her case anu
.n,. noint. They were Sample, VINO tes-
,s.A no was "A detective for Governor
p.svsr. Norman +. Boyesen. VINO sald
bo was author OF the Red Saunuers
stories and a nephew OF HJalmar hJorth
rovesen. and Louis c. Jencks, stage car
re1ter for Davis. ,
Mr. Leubuscher finds from the eN'nehce
that Sample was the hacker or MISS bIoou
Il, unsuccessful theatrical enterprises anu
,b.t Governor Brewer had no connection
r.',b the case, while JenclIs Admittedly
b,d a rrudge against Davis and sofa OUT
On his wife. The referee says BoyeseD
never wrote any magazine stories anu
describes him as wearing borrowed NJ
erary plumes." The referee believes tne
Trio are not 90 be believed. even u"ue'
o,,h and rejects all their testimony
Tbe charge on which the referee hnds
D,vls guilty was regarded as OF so lit
tla inheritance by the defendant thdt no
effort was made to dtsprove II, nut II Is
b,.ld 10 be conclusive by the referee Inc
finding is based on the testimony OF
JuIus Pierre David. landlord OF the Hote
Lafayette in ST. Louis, who told OF DAVIS
and Miss Power occupying ADJOINING
yooms IN May. 1918. A colored chamber
maid said she saw Davis in Miss Powers
The referee says that during she trla
Davis and Miss Power had ADJOINING
rooms in the Hotel Flanders IN tals Guy
One OF five correspondents named by
Davis I'm his counter charges was Edward
J Mackey. vaudeville performer u
:. .xnerted Attorney Roth. for Davis, vii
ask reheariug OF the case because he has
jus, learned that in a suit for separation
brought against Mackey by Mrs. EIois'
Nlqckev In New Jersey, he was accused
a. leaving his wife for Miss Blood an'
tic Court OF Errors and Appeals OF New
jersey has awarded Mrs. Mackey sub
stantal al mony.
BEFORE h. went on the stage Davis wa
plstor Of the Metropolitan Tabernacle II
san Francisco.