The Washington times., 1916-01-01
Ayers She Told Him Not to Come
Home One Night, as She Was
Entertaining Mr.. Colt.
MAID TELLS OF HIS LOVE
AuthoreSS Lost Her Affection
With His Money and Fine
Things, Lawyer TestifieS.

NEW YORK, Jan. January.
1910. she Mrs. Rena Cary SheffieldD
told me that she was going to invite
Mr.. Colt to come TO the house Don't
you come home tonight or during the
night she said to me.
''I asked her the reason for this
and she said. oh. only want to have
a little adventure, "
So testified Justus Sheffield at the
proceedings which have grown out
of the efforts of himself and his wife
to obtain divorces in the Chancery
Court in Jersey city.
Mr.. Sheffield also told how in 1918
he had whipped his son. Nelson, now
dead for misbehavior. Mrs. Sheffield
during the recital buried her face In
a handkerchief and wept for the first
Il did not nag Mrs. Sheffield" Mr..
bench, before which Vice Chancellor
Lewis sat, at his wife. II did not
oriticise her. l may have charged
her with being stupid but never
said that she was unfaithful 1 mere
ly. did not like to have her loving
Mrs. Sheffield, looked steadily at her
husband as he made these state
ments. She was still dressed In black
velvet, with small round black hat
and patent leather shoes.
How to Quench Soul Thirst.
Back OF her sat the spectators with
copies of her book THE Golden Hol-
low" held open in their laps waiting
for further reference to 1t. She had
already admitted that Barbara the
heroine. was herself. and that Mac"
the hero, was her husband. and that
many of the events described were
taken from her own matrimonial eX-
periences.
Imagination" she writes in the book,
lis the golden hollow. the drinking pool
in the wilderness. where tho cravings OF
ones soul go to quench their thirst.
I'm April. 1918. was living In Japa-
neSe boarding house in West Thirty
eighth street." Mr.. Sheffield continued.
at a. m. one day was aroused by a
Japanese servant who said that my wife
was waiting to see me.
II put on a bathrobe and awaited her
arrival. No sooner had she come to the
dor than she yelled:
"'Justus Sheffield. I'm here to tell you
that I want between S2,4OC and $500
year and q divorce. II you oppose me
win start by sending letters to your
friends. showing. your real character
IT was not afraid" the witness eX-
planned. ''I told her to go ahead"
eegpopding to another GO question by by
1t was true that he had been friendly
with Christie Mcdonald. the actress.
ana that he had been to the opera with
"pid it cost you anything" Mr.. Lane
asked.
NO" was the answer. Christie Nc
Donald is professional woman and
she receives tickets gratis"
Lost More Than His Money.
Mr.. Sheffield. who since his Eradua-
tion from Harvard. has won notorlety
by his defense of /. w. w. members
IL II
Gus charges. told how he lost his money
in 1909. Until then. he said. he main
tained seven servants and had Venetian
carved beds and doors to match IN his
home in Short Hills. N. j. 1t was after
beds and things like that that Mrs. Shef-
field lost her affection for him. he indi-
In June, 19lo," Mr. Sheffield said,
my wife and the two children were
at the Hotel Mohican, in New London,
Conn. After they had been there two
or three days l called up on the tele-
phone. The clerk said, Mrs. Shelf
field has just stepped out.
II called up thirty-odd times between
noon and midnight, and received thirty
odd replies, She has just stepped out
Il then decided to investigate, took
train and went to New London and
arrived there at 3 a. m. went to
the clerk and asked him to be admitted
to Mrs. Shefheld's room.
he reIuSed because he said that
Mrs. Sheffield had said that no infor-
nation should be given out about her
and that no entrance should be al
lowed to her room.
Il then asked where the children
were, and he refused to tell me. /
finally got a policeman. and then the
clerk told me that my wife had left
early with Barbara Che daughter).
and that she wouldn't be back that
night. You see how she was trying to
keen the children fTnn1
After describing how he met his wife
at the deathbed of their son Nelson,
Mr.. Sheffield said:
II never laid hands on her except in
affection"
In telling. how his wifes alleged in
terest IN other men was first called to
his attention. he sail:
- came home late one night Gin
191g) Cnd went upstaiTs and found my
wife with Charles Samuels, a lawyer.
The hrst mans name l heard men
toned was Colt"
Miss Victoria Thien. for two years
q goVerness In the Sheffield home was
the first witness for Sheffield She
was questioned by Mr.. Lane as fol-
flows:
Q. What was Mr.. snefheId's atti-
tude toward his wife" A. He was very
lie was always kissing Mrs Sheffield.
He made fuss over her every time she
came near him. Why, Mr.. Lane. IL he
was toICSu " 70 10 me cry on DuSl-
ness the telephone was tinkalinkirg all
the time-he calling her and she calling
him.
A keen, comely woman with close
cropped boyish dark hair sprinkled
with gray, and brown eyes almost as
sparkling as those of Mrs. Sheffield was
until yesterday one OF the mysterious
figures In the divorce miX-up Of the
Sheffelds. She,was always in the court
room, and her green stockings twinkled
frequently on trips between her seat
and Sheffield's chair at the counsel ta-
BILE. She walked arm in arm with him
during intermissions.
1t developed that she is Miss Grace
Potter. an investigator employed by
Sheffield.