The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-07-03
The Kninel Case

Oeh1S
lantic City in which Mrs. Mae Abrams
and her daughter, Kitty, have been
mentioned, is proving to be quite in
teresting. At the close of Wednesdays
session Kitty had been put through a
strong DISCRIMINATION, and it is
possible that the defence in this trial
will be 'sbiackmail." The suit was
brought on an Indictment which
charged several persons with being
guilty OF conspiracy in order that Mrs.
Knitted might secure a divorce from
| her husband, Charles A. KNITTED.
Kitty seems to have many names as
she has been called Mrs. Alderman,
Miss Murray and Miss Abrams. She
admitted she had been paid large sums
of money, but would not give the ex-
act amount, although she said it might
have reached the sum of $4,000. She
said she was morally certain that the
money was paid by Mrs. Knitted.
Knitted took the stand and told the
story of his connection with the case.
He said the Abrams women had come
to his office in Atlantic City, Kitty re-
manning there and talking with him
while her mother, whom she called
aunt" went with Knittel's partner to
look at apartments. They paid him a
second visit and he made arrangements
to go bathing with Kitty. Later she
called him up and invited him to call
at her apartments. He did so and
while in the room he undressed him
self and was surprised while in that
Icondition by his wife, Miss McGown
and two detectives. The wife demanded
the keys to the house and he dressed
himself and followed his wife TO the
street. There he was accosted by two
young men who told him he was the
victim OF a frameup and that they had
INTENDED to give him warning but
failed because he went to the house by
a different avenue than the one they
were watching. Knitted admitted that
he had been familiar with Kitty while
in bathing.
Phineas Long testified that his aunt
had told him the Abrams women were
plotting against some man, but. did
not know that KNITTED was the fellow
The witness could not explain WHY he
had not gone to the Abrams women
and warned them that he was on to
their game.
Kathryn Alderman, who was the
kitty Murray and the woman in
the ease said she was engaged by At
torney Garrison and Detective Herbert
to get in touch with Knitted and get
him to call on her at her apartment,
compromise him and permit Herbert
and his party to surprise" him so
that Mrs. KNITTED might apply for di-
vorce. She said she objected but was
told that she would be protected. Her
story Tailed exactly with that told
earlier in the day by KNITTED as to how
the meeting occurred and its following
results.
She told of meeting Herbert on the
day following that on which she had
gone bathing with KNITTED, and of her
invitation to the realty broker to visit
her. She testified that she was told
by Garrison and Herbert she had done
good work and they would pay her
$500, which promise was made good
when she called at Garrison's Office
the day following the evening when
Knitted was caught in her bedroom.
She explained that before KNITTED
arrived Herbert, Shaw, Miss Mellow
an and Mrs. Knitted had reached the
house and were in the kitchen when
KNITTED arrived. When she coughed
after Knitted had disrobed they rushed
into the room and Mrs. Knitted had de.
manded the keys to her home, and
KNITTED told his wife that it was the
first time he had been unfaithful tc
her.
Il Then the witness went into detail
I of how she and her mother had beer
visited by DR.. Weinburg, who told
them to get out of town and out oil
the jurisdiction of the court. They
went to Philadelphia, and after they
had been there awhile Weinberg call
ed and told them there were bench
warrants out for them and they had
gone to Albany. From Albany they
went back to Philadelphia, and from
there to Reading, back to Philadel
phia and then to Cleveland. Vein
berg visited them in each place and
brought them money. She also told
the same story told by her mother al
to the statement they signed in Read
ing for Weinberg and of receiving the
} thousand dollars. The first 5000 she
received was paid to her in the office Of
Mr.. Garrison by Miss MCGOWAN, she
said.
After they returned to Philadelphia
: from Cleveland she was arrested ir
Philadelphia and her release was eff
fected by Mr.. Garrison. Later she sale
she and her mother went to the hom,
OF Mr.. Garrison in Pleasantville, wher,
] they stayed two or three DAYS, anC
were there visited by DR.. Weinberg
who wanted her to sign another state
ment and denying she had ever me-
such man as Herbert. She said she
refused to sign that statement. Later
she said, she was promised 1920 by Mr.
Garrison il she would sign statement
| saying she thought KNITTED was q sin
ole aud hot he
J Herbert had nothing to do with hi.
, being found in her apartment. She
said she signed it, but admitted thu
, statement was untrue. She also said
: DIR. Weinberg had urged her to sigr
: another statement, which she refused
| to do, and that the physician had tOlC
J her he had gotten Mrs. Knitted int
! this thing and he would protect her i
J he had to swear her (Kitty's) soul into
hell. She said she was offered S.. OO(
to sign that statement, but had re
| fused.
The witness also testified that Gar
+ rison visited her in Cleveland. tor,
some pages from book of testimony
taken in the KNITTED divorce case an6
i had asked her to swear that certain
things were lies. She also said CARR
son wanted her to swear she had nsve
} met Herbert, and that KNITTED wa
with her from twenty minutes to hal
hour, which, she said, she refused to do
, When cross-examined she was handed
the pages she said Garrison. had given
her and which contained margina
notes in pencil and was asked to pick
out any statement made in pencil by
Mr.. Garrison, which were lies and t.
which she had been asked to testify t.
falsely. She went over them, but failed
to establish wherein any of the state
ments were false or incorrect.
| She admitted that she was MOI
shocked when engaged by Garrison ano
! Herbert, to entrap Knitted at the pros
Ipect OF having a man undress before
her, although she was willing to admit
that it was, perhaps, not Just a ladv
like thing to do. She denied telline
Mrs Clark of her plans to entrap and
compromise Knitted, and also denied
that she had left the back door of hel
/ apartment open in order that she might
further scheme Of blackmail by hay
ing Mrs. Clark, and Claude Clark and
Phineas Long, come into the house
that way in order that they might helr
her in scheme to catch Knitted anc
! blackmail him.
She admitted being paid large sums
of money for staying away from the
jurisdiction of the court and declared
she had been told by both Garrison
and Herbert when they engaged her
that her name would never appear in
the case. She said that it was not un
fill after her arrest in philodolnhio tho,