The Washington times., 1922-11-28
At
INSULTS
To WIFE
Mrs. Craham's Mother Says
Lieutenant Refused to Aid
Her in France.

Her in France.
French soldiers insulted Mrs.
Graham while she and her husband,
Lieut.. Lorimer C. Graham, United
States Navy, were travelling in
Europe in 1914 and while visiting
Dijon, France, and the latter did
not make any efforts to protect
his wife, according to testimony
given today by Mrs. Mary d.
Portner, wife Of Oscar Portner,
brother Of Mrs. Humes, before a
jury in Circuit Court No. /, JUS
tice Hitz presiding, in the famous
100000 alienation suit Of Lieut..
Graham against Augustus l..
Humes, wealthy New York lawyer.
Caught In War Pens.
After the return OF Lieutenan,
Graham and his wife from a trip to
Europe witness met them. in At.
lantic City, where she asked Mrs.
Graham about her European visit. 4.
and the latter replied that Il had
been perfectly awful" Describing
MRS. Graham's experiences In Eu.
rope to Mrs. Portner the latter re-
peated them and said: THE war
broke out while they were in Ger.
many. The train on which they
were stopped somewhere In Ger.
| many or Austria, and they (Mr.
and Mrs. Graham) had to get off
ana were In a pen; women on one
| side and men on the other. and
| when the train was made up, nc
Graham). rushed out and rushed
Into the train and paid no attention
to her MRS. Graham). so she was
placed on the resources Of the
family which took care Of her. lie
did not care"
Relating Mrs. Graham's expert.
ences while visiting Dion, France,
In company with her husband, Lieu.
tenant Graham, witness said:
| while at the Dion railroad sta.
tion and waiting for a train. there
were lot Of drunken soldiers, and
one or them dragged her (Mrs. Gra-
ham) by the arm to the bar and
wanted her to take a drink"
| Her husband (Graham) stood
| there, continued witness. land
didn't come to her aid. She MRS.
| Graham) was very nervous and
somebody made a remark and she
began to laugh, and at that one of
these French soldiers put his gun
or something. out the window and
she said that scared her very much.
Then he threw a bottle of water at
her feet which broke. and the only
thing her husband did was to tell
her not to laugh; that she was
bringing all this trouble on herself,
but did nothing to protect her in
any way, :
Testifying as to Graham's con.
duct while witness lived at the
wyoming apartment in 1918, 1914
and 1916. at the time the Grahams
also resided there, Mrs. Portner
said that Graham always acted
very cool toward his wife and was
very indifferent; never sew any af.
fection DISPLAYED" As to Graham's $
conduct toward their child, Valerie,
witness said that the little one
seemed to annoy him." 7
Talked About Himself. q
At the time Graham was oper.
ated upon for appendicitis and Mrs.
Portner called on him, he always
spoke about his operation and
never asked about his wife, accord.
ing to witness, who asked Graham.
Don't you want to know how Elsa
(Mrs. Graham) is?"
To this Graham replied: IT sup.
pose she is Just putting on as
usual" Mrs. Portner said that at
that time Mrs. Graham was seri.
ously Ill. getting over an operation.
| Graham always complained about
the expenses OF keeping a nurse
for Mrs. Graham. testified Mrs.
Portner, and always wanted to
know how much longer they the
nurse, Miss Stewart was needed. !"
| A nurse, whose name was Har.
riet, said Mrs. Portner, one Sun.
day afternoon asked witness to
come to the Graham apartment.
Harriet took Mrs. Portner to where
the refrigerator 10. opening II. "and
there was a part Of small chicken
with q note on Il: Harriet, don't
touch this chicken for your supper.
II Ia for tomorrow's luncheon /"
Harriet told witness she recog-
mixed 0raham's handwriting: that
he writes with his left hand.
Mrs. Portner related Mrs.
0raham's experience during the
| Christmas holidays In 1919 and said
that 0raham had not thought q
his wife o. the childrsn: that there
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