New-York tribune., 1921-06-25
Wife of Chew
Not I'm L ralld,
. Says Film Man
Was Acting in Pictures at
Time of Husbands AL.
legged Check Deals, He
Swears al Army Trial
Tells Of Other Woman
jules Larveti Testifies He
Saw Captain With Some
One Else in Two Hotels

The contention that Marjorie Blanche
Chew, wife of Captain Beverly Gray
son Chew, the army officer on trial at
Governors Island for forgery and i'm
personation of fellow officers, was not
with her husband at the times the of
fenses charged were committed, was
supported yesterday by three different
witnesses. They testified that Mrs.
Chew was then at the home Of her
brother In Richmond, Va. One Of the
manager, of 1547 Broadway, identified
Mrs. Chew as Jean II. Sothern. q vaude-
willie and motion picture actress, who
had been under mis- personal manage
ment for the last five years.
Larvett's identification and his ac-
count of business transactions with
Mrs Chew during the time her hus-
band and "another woman" were said
to have been passing worthless checks
In this city, Baltimore and Washington
were the surprise which William E..
Leahy, civilian counsel for Chew, had
previously promised he would spring.
Courtroom Again Cleared
Detailed cross-examination of the
witness by Captain Thomas l.. Heffer-
,, nan, trial judge advocate, and by men,
bers of the court became so severe at
one point during the testimony that it
was necessary to clear the courtroom
in order to establish whether or not
the questions shot at the witness were
of the kind to incriminate or degrade.
The court finally ruled they were not
and the trial proceeded
Larvett had refused to give the
names of productions in which Mrs.
peared under his management. He
likewise had refused to give the names
of the producers or theatrical enter
prises with which he and Mrs. Chew
had done business. After the court
had sustained the prosecution, how
ever, the witness said Mrs. Chew had
been starred in "The Girl from Vir-
gina" and "The June Bride" and that
both pictures had been made by the
Colorgraph Motion Picture Company,
of Leadville, Col. He was the owner
of the film concern, he said, which
does not now exist.
Much Of the ss-examination con-
cerned checks, several of them OF. large
denominations, which Larvett testified
he had made out to Mrs. Chew as Jean
H. Sothern, in payment of salary and
royalties covering the last year of his
contract with her.
Tells of Another Woman
Mr.. Larvett also testified that he
had seen woman with Captain Chew
when the latter was stopping at the
Hotel Emerson, in Baltimore, in Octo-
ber, 1920, and at the Hotel Astor here,
in the same month, who was not the
real Mrs. Chew, although when he first
caught sight of the couple he thought
the woman was the officers wife.
Douglas S. Brannan, station master
at Richmond, Va, and a brother of
Mrs. Chew, testified that Mrs. Chew
was at his home there during Septem-
Der, October and the first part of No
vember of last year, except for three
or four days which he recalled she
had spent in New Haven and New
York.
His sister, he said, had been beaten
by her husband until she was in such
a condition that she did not wish to
appear on the street.
Brannan's testimony was corroborated
by William A. Toler, chief of the bu-
reau of Identification of the Richmond
Police Department, a cousin of Mrs.
Chew.
The court adjourned to Monday.