Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 1 | Declares He Never Deceived the Girl

DECLARES HE 1KB 0ECEIQ1E CI Socialist Walling Tells His Version Ver-sion of the Gi'unspau Entanglement Entangle-ment on "Witness Stand. MATRIMONY NOT INTENDED Interesting Testimony in the Now Famous $100,000 Breach of Promise Suit. NEW YORK. March 1. William English Eng-lish Walling, Socialist and writer, testified testi-fied in his own defense at a night session ses-sion of tho hearing of tho $100,000 breach of promise suit brought against him by Annette Bcrtlio Gruuspan. Ho testified that he first met the plaintiff, on the Champs Klyssce in Paris In June. J005. "I was walking with a friend," Walling said, "and we saw two young women walking along. I s;iid to one, 'My friend tmnlcs ho knows you.' Wc talked about tho way Parisian men met and talked with women on the streets at night. Finally Fin-ally we took a cab lo an amusement place a cheap sort of Coney island." "What took place in tho cab?" he was asked. "The same sort of talk about the streets of Paris. She put her head on my shoulder on tho way home." Walling said he met. Miss Grunspan again in a few days and they became quite friendly on the third meeting. They wcro together frccfucnily after that. Ilo denied giving her a ring or any token of engagement. "Toward tho end of Juno she told riie sho could live nicely on I wo hundred i runes a momn, ami ll 1 would give ner that aim would not have to work," Walling Wall-ing continued. Takes tho Girl to Kussia. "On June SO there were mnssacrcs in Russia and 1 wanted to know what was going on. It was decided that she should go along, as phu had brothers there from whom she had not. heard for several months. "I went (o the embassy and got tho passports for myself and wife. Tliey asked me if I was married and I found myself gelling into deep water. 1 said yes. and they a;ked my wife's name. 1 said Anna Bert he." Walling tcslilied that ho and Miss Gruuspan aifjo lived together in Berlin and Switzerland. There was no talk of matrimony. There was a nouioinent, Walling declared, whpn they separated In Switzerland, lie thought it "was a very square oni." The next meeting was in Paris in June, lfiOU. Walling's ilaiu-o. Miss Strunskv. to whom he said lie had shown .Miss Grunspan'u letters, was with him. There was a scene and Miss Grunspan cried and said she was going to drown herself. Denies Deceiving Her. "Did you ever deceive her in anv way 7" asked his counsel. "I don't think I ever said or did anv-thing anv-thing that, deceived her live minutes." Walling answered, "I think sho understood under-stood purlectly all our relations at tho time wo wcro together." Three foreign attorneys wcro brought Into tho case today to explain Euronean ideas upon breach or promise suits. Thev said that courts in I heir countries looked with disfavor upon such suits. Counsel for tho defenso contended that If Miss Grunspan's action would not ho maintaini'i In Preuc'h. German and Russian Rus-sian courltt, he- tult sihoultl not be entertained enter-tained here