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Show ADMIRAL FIGURES 1 DIVORCE TIL Sensational Allegations Made by Millionaire Against Naval Leader. REDWOOD CITY", Cal.. Nov. 11. Son- j satlonal nllopatlonn involving Hoar Ad-nilrul Ad-nilrul TliomuH Phelps. IT. K. retired, were contained In the cross ebniplalrk of John J. Moore, read . In court here today j In connection with the suit of Lillian L. Mooro for divorce. The Moores ai-c prominent prom-inent socially iicro and In Ban Francisco, thr husband beinp rated u millionaire- Mrs. Moore Hied suit for divorce October Octo-ber 17, alleplrip Jnlldellty and cruelty, hive days later Moore tiled a crota com-plhinl, com-plhinl, Hllcging cruelty- In the cross complaint com-plaint "a man named Phelps of the United Slates navy" was mentioned, but It was not until thc case came up for trial before Superior Judge Buck today that a more direct reference to a "distinguished "dis-tinguished admiral" was made. After the court proceedings near Admiral Phelps admitted that ho was the man named Phelps" referred to. but declined to discuss tho case other than to assert that there had boon nothing but friendship friend-ship for Mrs. Moore that' warranted linking link-ing his name with tho divorce action. ' The cross complaint of Mooro, read Inlo the record today, eontnhied thc following: fol-lowing: "That before their marriage plaintiff, complained to defendant that a man naun-d Phelps, connected with the United States, navy, was annoying her with his attentions. After marrlnse and some time In the year l0o defendant's notice was again called to this man Phelps because of his attention to plaintiff, und at their homo lu Fairbanks In that year plaintiff admitted to defendant that she and Phelps, before her marriage to defendant, had been lntimnto and admitted that said Phelps wait tho father of two of hor children, chil-dren, born during her former marriage. "As a result of the altercation which followed this confepidon. and without any provocation from defendant, plaintiff secured se-cured a loaded revolver and threatened with It to 1:111 herself." Mrs. Moore look the stand today and made a passlonuto denial of the allegations allega-tions In thc cros.f complaint. "I went on my knccii to my husband," hhc said, "ami sworo by thc body of my dead boy and by my two little gfrls that his accusations were untrue." |