New-York tribune., 1920-12-02
W omen Defend
Mrs. Hancock i'm
Separation Suit
Affidavits of Mesdames Hay.
Gait, Boswell, Cleveland
and Moors Attest Good
Character of Doctors Wife
Abandoned, She Charges
Public Rebukes i'm Hotel
Alleged by Defendant;
Gets Temporary Alimony

Dr. Eugenia G. Hancock, who lives at
the Hotel lie Marquis, presented an i'm
posing collection of affidavits to Justice
Giegerich yesterday in contradiction of
statements made about her by Dr.
Charles R. Hancock, who is suing her
marriage and for an injunction to re-
strain his wife from circulating de-.
rogatory stories about him.
The affidavits included those Of Mary
Garrett Hay, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, Mrs. Helen Varick Boswell and
Miss Mary B. Cleveland. All of the e
and several others testified to the good
character of Mrs. Hancock.
She Alleges Abandonment
Mrs. Hancock's own story is that her
husband abandoned her in September
last while they were living at the
Hotel lie Marquis, and that since then
has devoted much Of his time to Miss
bolton. for whom, his wife alleged he
expressed his affection. This alleged
abandonment followed long series of
public rebukes administered by DR..
Hancock to his wife, according to her.
Most of these took the form of threats
to leave his wife, it is alleged, and
we're spoken in the hearing of other
diners in the hotel restaurant.
Mrs. Moors, wife of the Rev DR..
George N'leb Moors, pastor of the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist Church, said in an
aff1davit that she heard Dr. Hancock
say to his wife: Il don't intend to
stand you any longer. Some day am
going to get rid of you, and it is not
very far off either
Mrs. Moors said she believed DR..
Hancock was under the influence of
liquor at the time. Mrs. Hancock
quoted her husband as saying at an
other time: 81 came damn near giving
you dose Of cyanide Of potassium
ana putting you out of business"
An Abstainer, He Saws
IN connection with the assertion that
Dr Hancock was intoxicated, he de.
med TINS and asserted that he was
total abstalner. Against this defense,
hcwever, was placed the statement of
a clerk at the Hotel lie MARQUIS. DR.
hancock treated the clerk for influenza
and prescribed brandy for the patient
Inc clerk said in an aifidavit that every
time Dr.. Hancock called on him the
N'~' "OAiu dSh IOI Urlnn OF
the brandy.
Mrs. Hancock told of calling on DR.
John A. Wyeth with her domestic
troubles. The Hancock couple were
married in the Wyeth home. Or Wycth
told Mrs. Hancock, she says, that she
was too fine woman to have any-
thing to do with DR.. Hancock.
;. Mrs. Hancock said: "Our married
ne III was ideally happy until September,
1918, and did everything | could to
ana my husband in his profession At
his request | discontinued nv own
practice, and was devotng all my
time to our home"
The wife added that she was COM
PEELED to undergo an operation in the
German Hospital, Phiadeph;4 While
she was there she ..cceived uanv af
'actlonate letters from her husband.
put when she returned home, she said
ms conduct toward her had changed
and he treated her with ind ference
Mrs. Hancock is native Of Santa
Rosa, Calf. She had been divorced
Lefore she became the wife of DR.
nahcocK. She was Hysician-,n-c charge
OF the children's clinic of tie New
YORK Dlspensary when she met her
present husband. Justice c:eyer;ch
yesterday awarded Mrs. Hancock si25
month allmony, perding trial of the
action '''e