The Washington times., 1920-04-22
Miss Phillips In Tears at Heart
Balm Trial Tells Of
Romance.

| Loan, at Teaneck.
| 1T was on a motor trip that we
took the family on Easter sunday
OF last year that he proposed to
me for the first time" she said.
"We motored to Asbury' Park.
When he proposed, ] did not accept
him. ! was not sure i loved him.
He was very persistent, and said
he was going to teach me to love
him.
| "Well, he did. and on June
last / promised to marry him.
The engagement was informally
| announced to all OF my friends,
and the neighbors gave parties
for us. The marriage was to take
| place last October. but on July
things went wrong. few days
later be broke the engagement"
Quoted BnIsnc.
In the letters to Miss Phipps, which
she read on the witness stand.
Smith called her Honey Girl" and
inclosed "13. 3.000. 900 kisses" He also
quoted Balzac TO her and told her Of
his dreams.
In February Miss Phipps and Smith
reached a tentative agreement In
connection with the heart balm suit,
according to which Smith was to pay
her S3,825.
however, when Smith insisted that
the Van Loans discontinue an action
for damages brought against him In
connection with the dispute and they
refused to do so.
PitiIessIy yCross-Exsmined.
Miss Phipps was pitilessly cross
examined by former Prosecutor Will
lam b. Gourley, of Passaic county, In
an EFFORT to prove to the jury that she
had called Smith a boob" and had
told girl friends that all she wanted
Of him was his money. but the young
woman vigorously denied these state
ments. She also denied that her con-
duct with young men friends In New
Rochelle would have given her former
fance cause for breaking their en-
gagement.
"Did you ever show a letter to a
girl friend In which you called Smith
a 'boob?'" she was asked.
"No." she replied.
Did you ever tell a girl friend that
all you wanted from Smith was a dia-
mond ring. and that you did not care
for himT
mo"
did you ever exhibit a box OF let
ferent men?'
NO"
The young woman also denied that
she had ever referred to her aunt,
Mrs. Van Loan, as vampire" She
dignantly denied that she ever told
anyone that a young man in New
Rochelle had been closely associated
with her.
Mr.. Gourley then asked:
IL -. 49,
you did not care for Smith because
did?" .....
II never did" she replied.
1t was not brought out who Dick"
Mrs. Ruess told OF an automobile
ride taken by her, Miss Phipps, Mr..
Smith and a naval ensign known as
Harold, Mrs. Ruess went on.
81 asked Lillian If she did not want
TO sit with Mr.. Smith, and she an
swered me, No: he is boob He
doesn't even know how to kiss"
.vampire" and "Grafter."
The hearers laughed. Mrs. Ruess
continued:
81 asked her what she thought
about Smith. She said she didn't
want to marry him, as she was in
terested in somebody else. She said
her aunt, Mrs. Irving d. Van Loan,
and IL Mrs. Van Loan continued to
insist she would run away. She said
Mrs. Van Loan is nothing but vam-
pire, and he is a CRATER"
Miss Phipps told her, Mrs. Ruess
testified, that she loved the naval en-
sign, Harold.
On cross-examination Mrs. Reuss
denied that she had ever been in an
insane asylum, but admitted she had
once been in an observation ward.
Miss Phipp's counsel, Mr.. McDermott,
asked:
ere-Matteawan?"
"No! Do look like a crook? You
do!-
"Did you shoot your flrst husband7"
"No: he died on Blackwells Island
Of consumption"
She Wanted to Save Hin.
why did you want to help SMITH"
II wanted to save him Lillian has
cleaned over a dozen men she told
me about, and as I liked him and
thought he was decent chap,
didn't want the same thing 10 happen
to him"
"Did you ever attempt to break into
the Van Loan home to steal letters
Smith wrote to Lillian"
"No."
II think you did"
you lie, you lie, you lie!' scream.
cd Mrs. Ruess.
Judge Butter hammered with his
gavel. Mrs Ruess was excused from
the stand.
Smith, the defendant, was called.
He was asked " he had really fallen
in love with Miss Phipps. He an
swered:
81 believe so. but love is hard TO
define"
when did you first ask her to be-
come engaged to your"
1T was in May that I asked her.
and IL took her until June to decide"
He said Miss Phipps once referred
TO her uncle, Mr.. Van Loan, as "a
chicken chaser" Smith went on:
II told her that didn't know what
the expression meant, and she told mo