New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-07
Kicked Brother-in-Law
Out of House, He Says
in Suit.
SHED TEARS OVER
RECONCILIATION NOTE
Wife, Denying Charges,
Tells of Giving Ex-Hus-
band a Shaking.

Frederick W. Hunter, a lawyer, who
has brought an alienation suit for $780,
900 against John B. Kerfoot, his class
mate and brother-in-law, literary critic
of Life" called the latter viper yes
terday in court. Henry L. Scheuerman,
counsel for Kerfoot, was examining
Hunter on the stand regarding o trip
which he is said to have taken to New
Orleans in the spring of 1914 with
Mrs. Grenner This episode served
later as the grounds for a divorce OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Hunter on evidence
gathered by Kerfoot.
81 told that viper client of yours"
shouted the witness, that if he had q
spark of manhood in him or any sense
OF honor he would have left my home
long before he did"
Guest Departed on Foot.
Kerfoot had arrived late for dinner
one evening at Hunters summer home
in Freehold, when Hunter, as the lat
ter expressed it, kicked him out of his
house.
81 asked him." pursued Hunter.
when he was going to get out, and he
said as soon as possible. Then q few
months later found he had been doing
detective work for my wife and had
secured evidence on which she based
the divorce suit against me-
Kerfoot called at Hunters home once
again after this, according to the evil
dence, and sent in a note asking for q
frank talk" as follows:
"Dear Will: 1t is possible that you
may agree with me in thinking that
thirty years of friendship would be
more worthily closed by q frank talk
than by a silence beneath which doubts
and misconceptions would continue to
tester. If so, will come in.
do not misconstrue me. | have no
excuses to offer and no apologies to
make. acted as | did this spring
1919 deliberately. | was fully con-
scious of the technically dishonora.
bic light in which my course placed
me. Had you not spoken when you
did | would have maintained my atti-
tude to the end of May.
"0n Monday night | was late in COM
ing to dinner, because | had business
in Manhattan.
al love Nan Mrs. Hunter dearly,
but am not in love with her. | had
to choose between seeing her driven to
suicide or acting as | did. and | would
deliberately make the same choice
again. JOHN.
Hunter Sheds Tears.
Hunter shed tears as he read this
note on the stand. He told the negro
servant who handed it to him, he said,
to send Kerfoot away and tell him not
to call again. The following day he
turned the note over TO his counsel.
Mrs. Hunter, as a witness for ker-
foot, described in the afternoon her
marital relations. She decided that
another woman had come into her hus-
bands life, she said, when she found
he was presenting the latter with Jew
elry. On one occasion, at about this
time, he spurned her. she said, when
she sought to kiss him good night. and
on another he told her he had been
to see Hello, Broadway" with a
woman whose name he had promised
not TO tell. -.
"Then | gave him good shaking"
said Mrs. Hunter, smiling.
81 cried a good deal that winter
G9l4," she went on, land Mr. Hunter
said he hoped | was miserable"
She denied she and Kerfoot had
dined on guinea hen breasts and cham
payne IN Hunters absence, but on
pork, which Hunter did not like, in
stead. She denied that Kerfoot kissed
her or had any undue intimacy with
Ter