The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
By RICHARD G. HARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent

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 White Plains, N f, June II - CUP) - Hannah Williams Dempsey gazed steadily at her attorney in supreme court today and denied that she had ever committed adul- tery with Lew Jenkins and Benny Woodall, the prize fight figures with whom Lieut.. Comdr Jack Dempsey alleges she had been intimate.
 Did you ever commit adultery with Benny Woodall?" Donovan asked.
 No" Mrs. Dempsey replied.
 Did you ever commit adultery with Lew Jenkins?"
 NO, of course not"
 Did you ever have intercourse with either?"
 No"
 Mrs. Dempsey denied that she ever hugged or kissed Jenkins in ar automobile which Dempsey'S wit nesses had testified to earlier.
 She said she and her husband had had many quarrels concerning his penchant for going around the house in scanty clothing in the pres enc of their two daughters, Joanne, 8, and Barbara, 6.
 Dempsey frequently had the children in the bathroom when he was taking shower and when she objected, she testified, he told her Don't be silly, they can't see any, thing"
 She said she went to California last November because she was in poor health and also because she hoped "to get into pictures.
 Twisting nervously in the witness chair of supreme court where she and Dempsey are suing each other for divorce, Mrs. Dempsey ire quently shook her dark, shoulder length hair as she continued her story of the beatings-verbal and physical-she alleges Dempsey ad- ministered to her in the belief that she had been unfaithful.
 And on the occasion of the black eye, which occurred in the Scalsdale home the former musical comedy star said, Dempsey had struck her despite her plea for mercy.
 MT Dempsey came in and asked me where the hell I'd been" she said. T told him I had been out with Louise (Mrs. Luise Pukral, her housekeeper). He accused me of being out with man and being drunk. He pushed me down on the bed and doubled up his fist. I said Please, Jack, don't hit me- Then MT. Dempsey hit me-
 Did he say anything?" Mrs. Dempsey's attorney, Gerald Dono- van, asked.
 He said he was going to kick me out of the house."
 Was there any other time he made use of his fists?'
 He very often put his fist under my chin and said Some day I'm go- ing to kill you.'
 Mrs. Dempsey said the former heavyweight champion complained that food bills were too high at their New York city apartment in the summer of 1940 a month before she left him for the first time.
 Dempsey summoned the house. hold servants, she said, and told them, Mrs. Dempsey was crazy and they were not to take any further orders from her, that he would send up food from the restaurant"
 Although he had told her his restaurant was "a gold mine, Dempsey would not give her a reg ular allowance, she had to ask him for money to go to the hairdressers and he closed out all of her charge accounts, Mrs. Dempsey testified.
 Mrs. Dempsey told Donovan that she never had been drunk.
 Were you ever so under the in- fuence of liquor that you were stag gering?" he asked.
 "No."
 She had ended yesterdays testi- mony on these high notes the allegation that Dempsey had once threatened her with gun, hat hurled her into closet one Mothers Day, and had accused her of sleep ing with every man in New York.
 For more than an hour she tolc of her nine years of married life with Dempsey and as Sine recited the events, on which she based hel divorce action, her weeping in- creased.
 She almost had completed hel story and had testified how she told Dempsey she was ashamed he was the father of her two children when she appeared on the verge oi