The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-04
MRS. WARNER GAY,
SAYS FATHER -IN-LAW
Sugar Refiner Tells Of Kick
ing Correspondent Out of
the Party.
SHOW GIRLS RAID TALE
She Declares HOlbrOok cal
ways Acted Like a Gentle
man Should" at Inn.

Charles VI. Warner, head or the
Warner Sugar Refining Company and
a member of the war time Sugar
Board, went on the witness stand be-
fore Justice Scudder and Jury in the
Supreme Court at Mineola yesterday
and ADDED the Anal touch Of liveliness
to the evidence that has been pro-
duced at the trial OF his sons divorce
action against Mrs. Louise @. warner
The elder Warner testified that
Charles Blaine Warner, his son. was
Ill last June and compelled to rest In
n sanitarium. Mrs. Warner stayed at
the Warner place at Kensington,
Great Neck. where the elder Warner
always lived during the summer with
his son and daughter-in- The
younger Warner. he testified. occupied
his New York apartment In the win
tiers.
While his son still was in the san
itarium, Mr.. Warner testified. his
daughter-in-la telephoned and asked
him to go to dinner at her home. He
promised he would but was held later
than he expected at a business con-
ference in New Jersey. That made
it necessary for him. according to his
testimony, to call the younger Mrs
Warner on the telephone and tell her
he could not keep the dinner engage
ment.
House Was All Lit Up.
Circumstances were altered a little
later and Mr.. Warner said he did run
down to Kensington. He found the
house a1ight and his daughter in law
acting as hostess to a house party OF
considerable size. He looked around
for his sons wife, but she was in the
shadows" he said, and when she did
finally emerge where he could get q
good view of her she was accompanied
by Harry F. Holbrook. a member OF
the New York Athletic Club, who has
been named as correspondent.
She came up to me and introduced
him." Mr.. Warner testified. II said
Yes, have heard OF him. and
grabbed him by tho throat, then
kicked him of the porch and told him
II he ever came back again wourd
kill him."
i left the house soon after that. -
Mr.. Warner continued. Later 7 saw
my daughter-in-law In my apartment
In Manhattan and told her had heard
she sad spent tho day Of the Red
Cross parade in Holbrook's apartment
She denied IT."
Thereafter Mr.. Warner testified to
the part he had in the raid on an
apartment where Mrs. Warner, Jr..
vas found at Goshen Inn Labor Dav,
He told OF the apartment being broken
No haA IL
ter-!n-law and Holbrook there. II was
then. as previously testified, that Mrs.
Warner stepped up to the father-in-
law and said, II arm sorry, daddy; don't
tell Blaine. Kiss me. daddy"
Liquor Bills Were HEAVY.
Soon after that Mr.. Warner testi-
fed. his daughter-in-law wanted
money. While Charles Blaine Warner
was away, he said. he gave the sons
wife $4,000. II paid many OF her
bills" he added. "and there were some
pretty stiff ones for liquor" Under
cross-examinatlon the elder Warner
said he objected 20 some of the gowns
he had seen his daughter-in-law wear
In her home at Kens.ngton. One In
particular he said. was q transparent
costume, the same she wore the night
OF the raid at Goshen Inn.
The other side OF the raid story came
from Mrs. May Tickling, 500 West
18TH street, who insisted upon being
classed as a showgirl and not a chorus
girl, because. she said, she didn't dance
She just wore pretty clothes. cut decol-
lete. Ex-Judge Isaac Oeland, Mr.
Warmers lawyer, wanted to know II
they weren't cut low, and she an
swered afflrmat!vely. And then he
wanted 10 know II they were cut high
from the bottom" and she said no
indeed, for she wore a train.
Mrs. Tickling insisted Mrs. Warner
was In her room when the raid was
made and that Holbrook was occupy
ing an adjoining room. When the
door crashed" she testified Mrs
Warner was standing in the door near
the bathroom. which divided II from
Holhrook's room" She said the raiders
rushed in and forced Mrs. Warner
into the room with Holbrook and
closed the door behind them. She said
then the elder Warner came into the
room and Mrs. Warner told him she
was innocent, and the father-in-law
said he knew 1t, but the case looked
bad Mrs. Fickling testified she never
had seen any improper acts between
Mrs. Warner and the correspondent.
He always acted like gentleman
should" she said.
1ne case probably will be concluded
to-day,