The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-30
MARRIED LIFE
ONE Wild PARTY.
INMAN TELLS
Tobacco Heir Still on Stand
as S25O,OO0 Divorce
Trial Nears End.
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BIZ United Press
RENO, New, March 3O.-Recital
of the private life of Helene Patton
Inman, an Indiana minister's
daughter who married a New York
millionaire AMI now wants a di-
vorce plus $250,000, drew near a
finale today with her husband,
Walker P. Inman, still on the stand.
Inman, who also seeks to get the
cjvorce in his name, has been on
the stand two full days, answering
a barrage of questions about the
most intimate details of his family
life. He appeared weary of telling
about the endless round of parties,
situations in which Mrs. Inmar ap-
parently was compromised and Ii
quor esCapades IF his pretty wife.
Nevertheless, he told them in
greatest detail From his testimony
life in the Inman household was
one round of reVelry
Sailor Carried Wife
Inman referred more often Fri
day to John Steele, vaudeville sing
er, and Mill Hardy, former sailor
and later captain of his yacht, than
he did to any other of the many
correspondents listed in his COM
plant.
He repeated that he encouraged
his wife to go with friends but at
the same time had told her "she
ought to know better than to go
with the servants"
1nman related many quarrels over
her companionShip with Steele. He
said he had once gone to Kokomo.
Ind, and tried to persuade his
Wlfe's father, minister, to in
tervene in his behalf in an effort
to break the relations with Steele.
Mrs. Inman had nurse during a
visit in Florida and had to be car
RED up and down stairs, he con-
tinued.
Did Hardy sometimes carry her?''
Mrs. Inman'S attorney wanted to
know.
Yes" Inman replied.
Did you?"
1 don't think so. I think tried
once but could not make such a
good job of it."
Hired Detective
On another occasion. he said,
during a cruise up the Hudson river.
the yacht was anchored off
Kingston and Mrs. Inman dis
appeared with Hardy. They returned
intoxicated, he claimed.
Inman described dictaphone in
stalled in his Wife's bedroom as a
crude affair" and he said he
listened over it himself rather than
call in detectives.
But. he said, when he was sleep
Ing on the yacht in New York har-
Dor he hired one set of detectives
to watch Inman and another set to
trail Hardy.
L thought that when 1 left her
alone she would hang herself" he
said, explaining he meant by the
use of the words hang herself" that
he could obtain evidence for a
divorce.
you would say the real basis of
all your unhappy situation was
liquor?" he was asked, and, replied
in the affirmative.
Liquor Always in House
yet from the time of first knowl-
edge that your home was being
broken up until the final separation
you never kept liquor out of the
house,"
That is true" the witness ad-
mitted
The lawyer then inquired if his
wife ever asked him to stop drink
ing.
NO, she didn't mind my drink
ing and said it didn't seem to affect
me a bit" Inman answered. Once
1 did stop for several days, but she
said it made me cross and finally
declared take a drink and be your
self"
Inman described himself as one
OF those fortunate individuals" who
know when they have had enough
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