The Washington times., 1923-10-22

Or. Kicking Testifies Miss
Hewlett Could Not Suffer
As She Says She Did.

DIR. D. Percy Hickling, alienist,
today testified before jury in
Circuit Court No. 1, Chief Justice
Mccoy presiding, that an unmar-
ried lady, thirty-two years Of age,
did not suffer the humiliation and
damages, mental and physical,
which Miss Emily J. Hewlett, Of
zoos Third street northeast, in
her suit for $4,000 damages
against Edward Beecher Dean,
wealthy real estate operator Of
1894 G street northwest, for
alleged assault, is alleged to have
suffered.
Attorney Submits Question.
Miss Hewlett says she went to
Deans office, July last, at s
o'clock in the evening, in answer to
an advertisement, and that Dean as
saulted her.
Attorney T. Morris Wampler, APP
pearing for Dean, submitted the fol-
lowing hypothetical question to DR..
Hickling, who replied in the mega
tive to each OF the points, thus cate
gorically denying the claims ad-
vanced by Miss Hewlett.
Suppose the lady about whom we
are inquiring was asked into a rear
office" read Mr.. Wampler, land sat
in & chair Immediately alongside Of,
and touching another chair in which
the gentleman sat; suppose the gen.
tleman leaned halfway over the
chair in which the lady was sitting,
SO that the lady had to lean back to
| get out of the way of his shoulder;
that the gentleman said, Are you
alone?' the lady answering, Yes
the gentleman inquiring If she was
married, to which she replied No
"Thereupon the gentleman said"
continued Attorney Wampler,
We'll, my dear, you have missed
the best in life.' The lady then in
| quired what salary was paid, where
upon she was asked how much she
wanted, and she replied, One hun
| dred dollars a month"; and the gen.
tleman said, Why, certainly and
he changed his position in the chair
and crossed his two legs, placing
them against the legs OF the lady.
| Thereupon, the gentleman in.
quired of the lady how she would
like a nice apartment, stating that
| he could let her have an elegant
one, that he had them all over
town, and that he could let her
have all the money she saked for
that all he wanted was a little pet
ting. little love- his body was
against or touching the body OF
the lady; that she was in the room
with the gentleman three or four
minutes and left the building and
boarded a street car Immediately
in front Of the entrance; that al
no time did the lady make any
outcry or an exclamation Of any
kind"
DIR. HicEying's Reply.
DR.. Hickling was asked whether
he thought under these circum.
stances the lady would he com
PEELED to remain III bed three days
having her meals in bed and unable
to get out of bed; to have medical
attention from July to October
1928: would be unable to work on
October IS, 1923, and would be in
capacitated from work. and would
have to spend great deal OF
money for medicine"
| To all the questions DR.. Hickline
answered with an emphatic Nor
He did not think that the lady, on
account of these facts. could have
become horribly nauseated" or
have cried so much that she hurt
her eyes.
The lady in question as a result
of her experience as related in
the hypothetical question, according
to DIR. Hickling, could not have
"a whole lot of trouble with her
heart and suffer snIothering sen
sation. and stay awake at night"
While the question was being
read, Miss Hewlett, who occupied
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