The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-31
Jap BUTLER SEES
4 STRANGE THINGS IN
GLASS ON TABLE
Husband Asserts Wife Had At
finity and She Says He
Had One, Too.

divorce action between George Sa1ton
Barber and Mrs. Bernice Barber it,
developed that real life for once ap-
preached the ingenuity OF the movies.
Testimony was given by japanese
butler that he had seen Mrs. Barber
kissing and embracing another man by
a reflection in a table glass.
1t did not appear how much weight
Justice Cohalan gave the glass as a
transBlitter of evidence when he denied
Mrs. BARRIERS application for 5000
counsel fee and 800 q week alimony
pending the trial Of her own divorce
suit The proceedings have been going
on for more than year with minor
strains from a third suit involved.
First Suit in August, 1915.
The first suit was started in August,
1915, by Mrs. Barber, who said she lett
BARRIERS home in April OF that year be
cause he had come home drunk every
night for 1--WE years and also accused
him Of relations with Miss. Mary SIN
gleton, a stenographer in the United
States arsenal at PicaGnny q. y. Bar
Der denied this.
Later Barber, who is a nephewSo OF the
late Mrs. William Mckinley, brought a
counter suit, injecting an alleged offer
from Mrs Barber to return as his Wife,
provided his mother staked her TO $50
900 pin money
Barber asserted that the accusations
against Miss Singleton and himself
we're trunped up as part Of q plot Dy
Mrs. Barberto be freed from him So
4 she could enjoy life With Charles ~
Gelssenhainer.
Claims Wife Has Affinity.
In March, 1915, the husband says,
when he and his Wife had been mar
4 Red nine years, Geiss enhatner was tn=
\ troduced to Mrs. Barber and her affec-
\ ton began 10 wander, Geissenhatner,
according to BARRIERS affidavit, hired q
.E2costly automobile and every morning
while Barber was away would Walt
with the limousine around the corneF
from his apartment;
Mrs. Barber. the afIidayit recites,
\ would pass the time away igr shopping
\ and later pick up Gicissenhainer, with
whom she would have luncheon.
Among the gifts from Geissenhatncr
Ito Mrs Barber which her husband
mentions was a saddle horse, and his
#story continues that Willie she was
/ being taught to ride in Central, park
i GeisSenhainer rode near enough 5ln
\ the motor car to catch her Is she fell
on .
The car. with curtains drawn. also
\ figures in Barber.S account Of visits
j TO a road house near Jamaica. where
4 he said his Wife and GcissenhatneI
were known as mir. and Mrs. Taylor.
Says Wife Left Home.
Then in April Of last year, says Mi
Barber, his wife departed from then
n large home at Succasunna, ~. ", which
he had bought for her for $4,000. T.
live in three rooms and AN litchenettf
at "a West Eli ty-ninth street, Barber
said the reason was GeissenhaineF
who visited there frequently, and citec
the table glass as part Of his authority
This table glass was under the par
ticular care OF John X. G. Ghtnen dur.
ing the TWO weeks he was employed az
butler. After telling of Geissenhainer':
visits and several little breakfast
iserycd in the bedroom the Japanes'
Remarked. On one occasion i serves
them cocktails while they We're bot
Intoxicated. and Charlie acclfs etl Mrs
/ Barber of being Irish NH
w AT another time Charlie, AS ~
4 \ Japanese says Geissenhainel wa.
known to him. vas betrayed BY tn
glassware The butler was in anothe
room, when he says he saw Mrs. Bar
be rand her companion, Charlie. kiss
ing and hlIgging in the dining room.
From where he stood the Japanes
[ declared he could perceive this b
mean " itie reelection in the tabl
glass,