The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-01-13
ORGIES OF CAPITAL life
Barred BY SOLON'S WIFE
SCARED DRESSING GOWN AS
EVIDENCE IN DIVORCE CASE
CAUSED COURT TO GASP.
SHE DONNED HER PINK KIMONA
Drinking, Gambling and High Lights
Of Society Revealed in Testimony
By Congressman's Wife. Trunks
Of Liquor on Canal Zone Junket.

OF Society Revealed IN IeSurnony
By Congressman's Wife. Trunks
Of Liquor on Canal Zone Junket.
ALPENA, Mich-An appearance
in person of the scared pink dressing
gown, more about "Jazzbo," little
bit about the handsome hotel clerk, a
roulette wheel and some buckets Of
liquor with pineapples atop them
combined in keeping the audience on
the edge OF its chairs Monday, as the
divorce suit OF Congressman Frank d..
Scott against his wife unrolled like a
speeded-up movie film, vivid picture
Of Washington frivolities.
) After a week of fireworks which,
bursting on all sides, threw a lurid
and often CHASTITY glare over phases OF
Washington social life, the divorce
suit Of Congressman Frank d. Scott
against his wife was today whisked
off the stage by a recess until Mar. 10,
granted to allow Mrs. SCOTS lawyers
TO secure dispositions.
The names OF a number OF other
congressman stirred the court room
when Mrs. Scott took the stand to
testify
Charges Gambling, Drinking.
about the usual amount that might
go OH in any congressman home,
was her definition OF the amount OF
liquor drinking at the home OF SCOTS
friend. Congressman Allen Moore, OF
Monticello, Ill. She charged that
| Moore's guests watched the roulette
wheel and also gambled at cards.
Referring to drinking in Washing
ton Mrs. Scott said: in Washington
every time you turn around it is a
cocktail. We served them to every7
BODY, even to the walters in the ho-
tel. Mr.. Scott used to bring the wait
ers up to our rooms and give them
drinks. Mr.. Scott and did not drink
lot. We kept liquor for our friends. -
Much Liquor on Canal Trip.
Then there was that trip to the
Canal Zone, from which Mrs. Scott
says trunks OF liquor were brought
back.
During the trip everyone played
cards every night and every day and
drank a good deal, )" according to Mrs.
Scott
More OF a movie scenario atmos-
lphere entered into her story as she
told how, once under the tropic palms,
the members of the sedate party OF
visiting congressman were given cards
directing them to the best liquor hous-
es in the Canal Zone But the prob
lem of getting the liquor back to the
United States still confronted Scott.
she said. This was solved, Mrs. Scott
claimed by filling buckets with booze,
placing a layer OF nice pineapples over
the top of them, and bringing the
fruit supply aboard ship, merry as
could be.
Gown Stirs Furry.
There was furry of excitement in
the court room when the pink dress
ing gown emerged from the realm OF
things heard about, but not seen. Con
gresham Scott whirled the dressing
gown, or kimono, into the glare that
beats upon the court, when he alleged
that Captain Sumner, known to Mrs
Scott as "Jazzbo," made midnight
visit to his apartment when he was
out. and that Sumner burned hole
lin the kimono with his cigarette. Mrs
Scott was wearing the kimono, ac-
cording to the congressman.
There was the dressing gown, pink.
Lawyers, with grim faces, surveyed 1t.
None could find the hole until Mrs.
Scott showed them its location. 1t was
hole, as specified, burned, and about
the shape OF a cirgarette end. The eX-
element was intense.
Before court room crowded with
+ Congressman SCOTS constituents and
Others Mrs. Scott put on the garments
to demonstrate that a cigarette hole
burned in it was below the vast and
could not have been caused. as pre-
viouslv testified, while an army officer
embraced her.
Says Garment Is Different.
After the cigarette hole had been
located counsel for Representative
Scott informed the court he and his
client did not believe the garment was
the same which figured in the alleged
episode. 1t was admitted as an exhibit
despite this contention.
1T was $50 p m. when Captain
Sumner came to my apartment and
asked for a drink" Mrs. Scott testi-
fed.
81 gave him one and we sat down,
he with his cigarette in one hand and
a glass in the other. He dropped some
cigarette ashes and asked me to jump
up"
That was that.