Evening star., 1935-05-16
MISS FLICK TAKES
STAND IN DEFENSE
Buffers Lawyer Quizzes Her
on Relations With So
ciety Matron.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Miss Mar
got Flick's relations with a Boston
society matron were the object OF
questioning today as Miss Flick testi-
fed in defense against her former
buffers 100000 SANDER suit against
her and her mother, Mrs. Henrietta
Flick, of Lenox, Mass. and New York
The society matrons name Was Mrs
Louis Shaw, who, Miss Flick testi-
fed, visited her two or three times
each Summer.
DO you recall when you enter
tanned her in the drawing room be-
fore the fireplace?" Bernard Sander
attorney for William Lawrence Gra-
ham, the suing butler, asked her.
II always entertained her in the
drawing ROOM" she replied.
do you recall you and she to-
Rether there before the fireplace on
one occasion when Graham served you
cocktails"
HE might have"
Was a Dear Friend.
Mrs. Shaw was one of your dear
1rlenQS, WdSH SIlc!
YES"
You we're accustomed to show af-
fectior, to Mrs. Shaw. were you not?'
II was very fond of her"
Were you accustomed to kissing
here"
II have, on occasion"
I'm daytime?"
IT don't recall any occasion for kiss
ing her in the daytime"
We'll now. will you tell this jury
that you waive any privilege to permit
this former butler of yours to tell what
he saw on the occasion that he served
you before the fireplace in the draw
ing room of your home?"
Objections Sustained.
Henry Uterhart, attorney for the
Flicks, leaped to his feet with vigorous
objections and the court Immediately
sustained him.
Graham is suing the Flicks on the
ground that he lost his bride and his
professional reputation when the
Flicks discharged him with the accu-
sation that he had entered Miss Flick's
bed room without knocking while she
was in sleeping pajamas,
He alleged the affair drove him tC
drink. The defense retorted that he
was already more gay than efficient
and one of the defense exhibits was
picture of him in a group of men, halt
of whom were dressed as women.
Were you ever at masquerade
party?" Sander asked Miss Flick.
Yes" she replied, at the Beauz
Arts Ball"
Were you ever dressed as man?'
mo. not that 1 recall"
The attorney had previously shown
her a picture of herself dressed ir
slacks, polo shirt and jacket. She
said it was taken while she was on hel
way for swim, and she denied II
was her favorite picture.
Asked If Picture Shocked Her.
The picture showing the butler ir
the midst of men dressed as womer
was handed to her.
DO you see anything in that that
shocks you in any way?" Sander
asked.
Before she could answer. Uterhart
the question was improper.
Sander persisted.
Did you attach any importance to
this picture?" he asked.
Over the court room there doomed
the stentorian voice of Supreme Court
Justice Philip McCook
Il will not have my ruling violated, u
and his hands slapped the bench.
Sander thereupon turned his ques.
tioning to the night of a buffet party
at the Flick's New York apartment
Immediately preceding the morning OF
the bed room incident out of which
the alleged SANDER grew.
Some Played Poker.
What did the guests do at the
party?" he asked.
Some talked" she replied. "Some
played poker"
Did you drink too much?"
Certainly not" she flared at the
attorney.
Did you see Graham take any
drinks?"
II wasn't in a position to see. I
know that I rang for him, but that
he didn't appear. He didn't appear
at all after 1920 that night
Miss Flick left the stand after
saying she had no fear of Graham
during the bed room episode. but that
the effect on her was one of extreme
annoyance, and that she thought him
tactless and indiscreet.