New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Wife Insists
Cline Killed
Rival i'm Duel
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meeting with the kitchen Is the dining
room.
"All OF us were here in the reception
ROOM explained Mrs. Cline. "My broth
er Lawrence, who lived here with us;
my seventeen-year-oid brother Charles,
from next door; Miss Thornton, yur-
rillo, Bergen and my husband.
Bergen admitted everything how he
had treated me at Saranac and all. But
he tried to persuade my husband to
forget 1t. He said, You know how
women are, George. All women are--
then he used that vile term. I've been
tunder a doctors care since came
back from Saranac. / don't remember
| everything that happened. I remem-
Der Bergen declaring that he knew he
was rat and q rotten friend, and then
all Of sudden he said, All right, I'll
fight He started up the stairs and
my husband after hin / didn't see
any guns. They must have gotten The
guns up stairs.
Girl Held Her Back
al wanted to prevent more trouble. I
| rushed toward my husband--to stand
between him and danger--and the
Thornton girl grabbed me. She raid:
You are In no condition to interfere
Then she pushed me into chair I'm
not as strong SIS she is. | couldn't
prevent what happened. We listened
There was q scutfiing of feet Furni-
ture was banged about. Then the shot.
I thought my husband had been hit,
! because then Bergen rushed down
remember anything else"
| Mrs. Cline got up from her chair,
moving to the table in the center Of
the room, Strengthened q plaster. orna-
ment containing a spray OF ferns. She
gazed about the disordered living room
/ and said: Hs-e... : ,e'~Sre * ,.tss,
| "That Thornton girl has got to tell
the truth. She knows there was a strug-
gie-,.aa fght-before that shot was
turned to her parents home, where she
| dried her tears on the shoulder of her
little girl, who was crying because her
grandfather had scolded her.
Mrs. Cline's tense declaration that
Miss Thornton would have to tell the
truth referred to the girls declaration
that she had heard the struggle after
the men mounted the stairs. Declaring
Bergen had richly deserved his fate,
| she still persisted in saying that Cline
had forced him to mount the stairs at
-
j fe' Told of Friendship q
Miss Thornton, who lives. switha her
grandparents, Mr.. sand Mrs Robert II.
Harris, at sid West. 13eth Street, told
yesterday of her friendship with 9Ber-
gen and what occurred in the fCIine
home on the night of the killing.
s'I'm not q motion picture actress,"
she said. 81 want that Strengthened
out. I'm aaclerk in private bankers
Office down town. met Bergen two
years ago at the ghome .of a school
friend, who .livedIin 214 Eastg1l5th
friends until few weeks sago. & Then
he began to suspect that / had re-
yealed to Mr.. Cline something about
the intimacy between him and Mrs.
Cline. i met the Clines about three
months ago through Bergen. -sa4 (
Il had very many reasons for4 sus-
pecting that Bergen.was toos friendly
with Mrs. Cline, but one day when !
was visiting there with Bergen crapt
upstairs when they thought they were
alone. Later on Bergen told me he
had been with Mrs. Cline. at Saranac
Lake. So few weeks ago at dance
at Celli's restaurant at Fort Lee told
Cline. wanted him to know what
kind of friend Bergen was. !. al g@.sh
Called to clins's Home
"Cline refused to believe me.a Later
he asked me il would tell my story
before Bergen. / said / would Last
Friday Cline telephoned me and asked
me to come to his home in Edgewater.
He said Bergen was to be there. Ber-
gen was on the same ferryboat, but !
did not speak to him. / don't think he
saw me. lost sight of him when /
got off the boat.
81 took a taxicab to the Cline home.
Mr.. and Mrs Cline were there, with
two brothers of Mrs. Cline, Emil Yur-
rillo and Bergen, who explained when
he arrived after me that he had
stopped to telephone in the drugstore
st the ferry.
After some discussion, filled with
abuse and profanity, and most of
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