Evening star., 1921-12-01
FURTHER EVIDENCE
|NAL|ENAT|ON CASE
Witnesses Testify That
Graham Neglected Wife
Previous to Divorce.

Testimony tending to show that
Lieut.. Lorimer c. Graham, u. S. N.
admitted that he had neglected and
been his fault that she obtained a
divorce from him. was given today at
the trial of the half-million-dollar
alienation suit against A. L. Humes,
New York lawyer, now the husband
of Mrs Elsa Portner Graham Humes.
The evidence came from Mrs. Har-
riet L. Stewart. who said she had
been the wife OF Joseph o. Graham,
brother of the naval officer.
Mrs. Humes' Brother TeStifies.
Oscar c. Portner. brother of Mrs.
Graham -Humes. was also witness
eoday. He told of finding his sister
Elsa sobbing Historically on the
evening of her wedding day and en-
nouncing her intention to have the
marriage annulled. She was diSSuad-
ed from this course by one of her
sisters, he stated. He said Lieut.. Ora
ham had little affection for the chill
dren and neglected his wife.
Mrs. Stewart said Lieut.. Graham
told her his wife had secured divorce
from him and he regretted it very
much. He declared his wife had been
very kind to him, she testified and
that it was his fault she had divorced
him.
Dispositions were read today from
Jerome Van Derwerker and II. e.
Rawlings, lawyers. of Reno, New, and
Thomas B. Ramsey, a police sergeant,
who served Lieut.. Graham with the
summons in the divorce proceedings at
Reno. Mr.. Van Derwecker said Mrs.
Graham had complained that her hus-
band treated her and the children
cruelty.
Recalls Reno Incident.
Police Sergenat Ramsey was acting
as a guard to Mrs. Graham at Reno
and heard the conversation between
the Grahams on the occasion of the
visit of Lieut.. Graham. He said the
officer told his wife he had come to
take her back east. She declined to
go and upbraided him, asserting that
he had never provided for her, had
treated her cruelty and kept COM
pany with another woman when she
knew about it.
Graham denied the charges, the
witness said, but the wife asserted
that he knew she was telling the
truth.
Continuing his testimony. Oliver c.
Portner, brother-in-law of Lieut..
Graham, told a number of incidents
of the relations of Lieut.. Graham and
his wife, and also of his own obser-
vations of the officer.
Attorney D. T. Wright was cross
examining the witness when this re-
port closed.
Servants Deposition Read.
Among the depositions read yester-
day afternoon by Attorney Wilton J.
Lambert for the defense was one from
Ida Armstrong, formerly a servant in
the home of Mrs. Mary b. Glennan.
wife of a banker of Norfolk, Va, with
whom the defense claims Lieut..
Graham was intimate. Mrs. Glennan's 8
husband has sued the naval officer
for 10000 damages for alleged aliena-
tion of the wife's affections. Lieut..
Graham on the witness stand denied
that there had been any undue in
timacy between him and Mrs Glennan
and characterized as false and baseless
the charges contained in the suit of
her husband.
Ida Armstrong testified to many
visits of the naval officer to the Glen
nan home in Norfolk in the absence
of the banker and said she would be
sent to take the children for a walk,
leaving the officer and Mrs. Glennan
alone. She also told Of the visit of
Graham to the home OF the parents
of Mrs Glennan at Princeton, N. j.,
and said she received instructions to
put extra touches to the dinner that
night and to arrange the guest room
for the accommodation Of Lieut..
Graham. She gave evidence as to
the condition of the rooms on the
following morning.