The sun., 1916-11-29
NOVELETTE,
IN RECORD AT LAST
Notes Telling Of Tortures Of
Marriage Also introduced
in Evidence.
NIETZSCHE LOOMS AGAIN
Importer Says He Turned
Against Wife After Read
ing Her Writings.

Besides getting into the court record
finally the original manuscript Of that
rare work. Justice" written by Mrs.
Asia O'Connor Asche. and 80 far limited
to an edition Of one copy. Gustav Lanse.
Jr.. chief counsel for Herman T. Asche
In h separation suit. introduced in evil
dence before Supreme Court Justice CO.
halan yesterday a composition which
might seem to the defence and to other
students Of Ascheana to contain the
germ or bacillus idea Of the novelette,.
This effusion. a series Of jottings, was
dated April .. 1916. several months be-
fore the so-called confession Of which.
In the minds Of some who are interested
In the Asche school Of literature. It
stands for an Original source" Mrs.
Asche. while on the stand in rebuttal.
Identified the handwriting as hers. M
the incomplete bit Of Ascheana was then
submitted by Attorney LANCE. with moth
ing on II to indicate whether 1t was a
letter. a cubist transcription OF a mood,
or part Of a larger opus masnus.
"Brain n TurmoiI."
1t read In part:
Truly my brain Is In turmoil. I try
to think and my min wanders of on
some raGtime air. There Ii but one point
remaining clear to me. This marriage
10 as great an injustice to him as to me.
I amt put II through. 1t Is rash and l
tried-with every nerve a u I've tried to
make the best of II, but I'm tortured by
memories OF happy hours with youthful
associates. My former citation over the
most trivial Of successes and now-the
very thought makes me CULVER with
dread-nothing to look forward to but to
muse a man"
The heroine OF Mrs. Asche's novelette,.
II was pointed out. wants to retire from
her marriage with a man who has nothing
to his name but money. and signs for one
Of the companions Of her youth. which
seems to have e~vaporated after six weeks
Of married life. TIL new addition to
bellies lettres was written during the hon
eymoon Of the Asches In Asheville, ". c..
and Is on paper bearing the letterhead OF
the New Battery Park Hotel there. ex-
hibiting another characteristic OF this
author. who wrote Justice on the sta
tionery of the Standish Arms apartment
house.
Novelette, 1ntrOdaced.
When trial Of the suit was resumed
yesterday Lorlys Elton Rogers. chief
counsel for Mrs. Asche. questioned the
defendant concerning an affidavit by him
to which Justice" was Joined. and there
by opened the way for the introduction
Of the novelette,. which Justice Cohalar
had ruled out before for legal rather
than other reasons.
The importer then testified that he
had turned against his wife after read
Ing the novelette,. not through aversion
to it's literary qualities. but because II
convinced him he was the victim OF q
designing woman" Even after she had
left his home at 40 Riverside Drive or
May S he loved her, according to his ties
timony. and asked her In "A letter to re-
turn TO him. pointing out TO her that she
was "a pathological and physical incom'
pctent."
Though this failed to bring her bach
he still believed. he said. that she was
under the influence OF her mother. Mrs
Helga O'Connor. and OF tn,