Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-10
IRISH BEAUTY
BREAKS DOWN
TELLING STORY
Court Grants Recess When
Pretty Plaintiff Begs Few
Minutes Rest.
SISTER SOBS WITH HER

May your little Irish heart blossom
out like a cluster Of roses"
This is what Allen Gray. aged Evans
Vile millionaire bachelor, wrote Amy
O'Connor. "the Irish Rose" in a letter Of
coincidence after her mother had d.ed
in London, according to her evidence in
the sensational million-dollar breach
If promise suit being tried before Judge
A B Anderson in federal court here.
The letter was introduced as one 0f
the connecting links in the international
romance which had its happy inception
in England and ended in a doleful drama
In New York City.
Miss O'Connor. emotionally and with
apparent pain of heart, barred the inner
most secrets OF her soul before the ques-
tiontng of her attorney, Eph Inman.
yesterday afternoon.
Often she pressed small handkerchief
to her eye to smother tear.
When she was questioned about the
events, which later necessitated an oper-
alton which. she claims has impaired her
physically, she broke down and sobbed
audibly.
COURT PERMITS HER
TO LEAVE STAND.
The court called a short recess when
the young woman asked If she might
leave the stand for a few minutes"
Gladys O'Connor. her sister, who sits
in court with her. wept as Amy
weakened under the ordeal. She assisted
Amy out into the court corridor and 70
the woman's rest room.
Miss OCounor reiterated how she had
met Gray in London In 1911 short
time after she had graduated from Sa-
cred Heart convent. 1t was a meeting
at the Charing Cross station in Lon
don. Amys sister. Lena, now dead, had
become acQuainted with Gray on boat
journeying from France to England.
Lena was coming home from school She
introduced Amy. who met her at the
station, to Gray and his companion. =
Gen. Wilson Of Wilmington, Del.
Gray dismissed his attentions to Lena
when he saw Amy. He called Miss
OConnor his Irish Rose" she claims.
Friendship fared into love as Gray Wis
tied the O'Connor home
Miss O'Connor again broke down as
reference was made to the death o
her mother.
LOVED HIM AND
BECAME ENGAGED.
She then took the jury over succeeding
events which led to an automobile trip
into France and to Ostend, Belgium. II
hen the war broke out that Gray Is
supposed to have told her to come to
America and he would marry her aud
they would live happily.
"He asked me again the night before
he left for America II l would marry
him" Miss O'Connor says.
Yes. I told him, for I loved him.
she said
She said Gray admitted be was afraid
Dennis Cogan, at that time Irish member
of the British parliament. would attempt
to win her back If she did not come to
America Miss O'COnnor claims she
broke her engagement with the Irish
nobleman when Gray won her heart.
Amy arrived in New York Nov. 16 1914.
She then told how she had been taken to
the Vanderbilt hotel cafe by Gray. There
they chatted of love and marriage she
claims.
Suddenly Miss O'Connor claims Gray
asked her if "she would like to be with
him alone?"
SHE WAS WITH
HIM ALONE.
She said she told him she would like
to, not believing that there was anything
wrong IN his Intentions
Attorney Inman spared the young
woman the pain Of telling all of what is
alleged to have happened in the apart
ment on the fourth floor of 1890 Broad
way, where she charges he overcome her
protest and attacked her
Her life then became one of hope for
her marriage with Gray, she claims, but
was filed with bitter disappointments.
when did you first tell Gray you were
sick?" Miss O'Connor was asked.
II met Gray in Central park New York
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