New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-11-12
RHINELANDER IS
! TESTIFYING TODAY
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when they were in vault ana no"
leave them for a minute and come
back to md them gone"
The Rhlnclander counsel table
Immediately became scene oil con-
rernalion. Mills remarked thht
Jacobs probably left them IN ms
office. Attorneys said II tho letters
were not found the plain'llts case
might be weakened
Among the letters are some that
caused the presiding Judge TO an
nounce that all young people would
be barred from the court ROOM
Felt Rather Trisky
A sentence in one letter INTRO
duced. read: "Well, sweetheart no"
did YOU get home after such a WiIa
excitement with me-"
Asked to explain, the suing
bridegroom said; why l believe
that was the night we went 10 a
cabaret with some friends and haa
a few drinks and began to feel Well
rather risky"
Another letter said You nave
treated me like a sister, ana Leon
ard, dear, shall never forget ~
RhInelander. suffering, testlneh
tbat a month after this was written
Alice Jones, as she then was, tola
him she was going to spend the
night at a hotel IN New York ana
that It took him 20 minutes to per
.nade her TO let him Join her.
Returned 10 the Girl
.T never had an experience IKE
that before" he testified. His rela-
tions with the girl were Interrupted
shortly thereafter by an agent OF MS
fathers, Then began a two year $
tour, which included a long stay at
A. ranch school in Arizona twice ne
ssnaped his guardians and returned
to the girl, he testified, on receiving
word from her that she was ILL., Az
this stage OF his testimony court
recessed. :
ONLY once did Rhinelander speak
sharply. That was when he was ask
I'd about the letters read In court
Monday In which Mrs. Rhlnelander
snoke OF intimate details OF thelr
lifs 81 did not deliver them per-
sonally into the hands OF my law
vers," he said. II left them IN Inc
house" ,
I'VE found them" interjected
Isaac NJ. Mills, his counsel, and the
examination continued along other
lines.
Met Her By Chance
Young Rhlnelander told OF no"
he became acquainted by chance
with Grace Jones and how he met
Alice later through her sister IN
September, 1921, when he was IL
wears old. He told how the friend
shin ripened, until he was calling
m his future wife at least fouf
times a week.
Let Him Stay with Her
One night, he testified, they wen
TO New York to see pay anu t''
learned that Alice was to spend IN
night at the Hotel Marie Antoinet'e
AZ asked her II l might &C
company her" he said. she re
fused at first. but after some per
suasion she agreed"
They registered at the hotel un
der the name of "Mr. and Mrs
James Smith of Rye" he said an'
then remained at the hotel for
week. In 1922 they again went Il
the same hotel registered under th'
same name and stayed two weeks
Lawyers Intcrfered
It was while on this latter triI
that a lawyer Of Philip Rhineland
or. his father, discovered the coupl'
and took young Rhlnolander to Al
lantic City. Ten days later, he SAID
he got a telegram saying Alice wa
IN and he returned to see her II
New Rochelle,
He identified many letters he ha'
received from his wife IN "hlcl
she expressed her love for him.
Justice Mills produced the frs
letter, written by Alice almost
month after their first meeting Of