| Show NAME FATHER OF MRS HARRIS Testify Eli Rayner Parent of Illegal Love Child NEW KEW YORK TOnIC March Mrs 4 Mr Eleanor or Elaine Blaino HarrIs II who Is 18 fighting a marriage annulment suit brought by her banker husband hus bus band Beverly D I b Harris Harri took the tho a Itne stand Monday afternoon to deny dony charges charge that she h was WM on onto one e a a notorious character of or the th Mem- Mem Memphis Mem phi Tonn Tenn underworld Ell Eli Rayner of or Memphis Tents Tenn was named as the tho th father of Leo Lee Harris In a deathbed confes slon I slon alon by the girls girl's mother accord accord- accordIng accord lag Ing to testimony gien ghen en today by byI Mrs Corder sister halt of I Mrs Harris Rayner had been ben accused by Hurls Harris of haYing having lived with 1 Mrs harrIs Harrl before her marriage to the banker Rayner previously hail ha that the th girt girl wan n his ward and that he knew her to bo be b a 11 member of the th Mississippi Lee family owners of a river steam steam- steamboat steamboat boat boal line lIno Mrs Irs Harris told a detailed story of her lire life from girlhood a as far faras taras as she sh remembered It bearing out In almost almott ci 1 every cry detail the time testimony testimony mony of her liar aunt Mrs Mn Mr Alice Pace en n by deposition la last t week eek and by bet bei elder sister Ister Mrs Mr Hoha Corder who preceded Mrs harris harrison Harrison on the th stand stana TO IUn Mrs Irs Harris described the court court- court by the tho ban ci el to whom ishom she said she the was Introduced by Con Con- Con grossman McLemore of Texas at Houston leas ie on January 16 15 1915 Mr Ir she also hc declared began an Intensive e campaign to win In her hand In June of ot the same ame scar icar ear they became engaged and the banker urged an an nn Imm immedi- immedi immediate at dl- dl ate marrIage she sh testified d I didn t I tant want scant to marry hIm Mrs Irs continued and and I pleaded with Ith him to wait walt I 1 said lie would ha have haye e to wait at nt Ia least t a ear but out then th n ho he pleaded foi fee sl- sl months and I This had taken place at lit MIneral Minerai Wells ells Teats Te Mrs Mr Irs Harrl Harris said ald At this tIlls time Ume she hc testified she went weal with Mrs Irs Hosea Harris who ho was washer waher her chaperon and not related to the bankel to St Sl Louis and saw sawEli Ell Eli Rayner Haner to whom hom sho das referred ns as Eli Ell throughout her Mrs Ira Corder who pre pre- preceded pre preceded ceded her on em the th wItness s stand had bad said their mother had told her when ding that Rayner a Mem Mom Memphis Memphis gambler gamblr was the father of tt her sl slider ter I I OBJECT CT TO LU Rayner Ryner Mrs Irs Harri Harris said ob- ob objected to bei hel marr Ing a ma man a as old as Hairl but she sho said hc would do a as she he pleased WhIle In St Louis Loul the woman said Harris went to her after w writing riling a a letter s which hIck s vcr cry much upset her sting si ho could not marry her Irr When the banker banke reached St Louis however he h ie- ie his hi pica for immediate marriage she said telling her I If you don t marry ins m now you never will Mrs Harris said ald also ho finally agreed to his hi request and they the went nent out and got cot married on July 21 1915 Then she h said the tet out on a trip through the west Her husband soon oon manifested Jealousy jealous the tb defendant said laid Three Thre weeks week after the wedding wedding- she sh fled he ho her of allow a friend of IsIs his to make lose ove to her Then herThen In 1916 she continued ho told her My My life doesn't suit me one Lets Let's quit In In he pleaded with me m again continued Mrs HarrIs horns Harris finally left her abe he said also tho was seriously iii send send- end Inc ing sending word ord by a physician that he not return Sir So did not see him again sir she said ald until two tw years year lator ChILD Mrs Harris lid s-lid that about the th time tim Raner took hr Iser to a school ner Pasadena Cal in n 1901 1908 she hc discovered she ah was wa born bon out of Sir saId ald before the tho she ah had told this thi to Harris adding adding- that she oh had every over reason to believe Rainer was her father Asked what the th banker r had said sho h replied Ho He told me m he loved unusual H lie said ald Alexander Alxander Ilton was a a lov lose child and told mo of several evral other famous people who were the th same The defendant was as asked if 1 prior to her marriage kh bhe hi hod told Harris she ah was a pure pur and an chaste woman I I made no such uch statement she ho He knew It and an he h know It now Asked It if she h ever had bad relations with Rayner she sho replied I never did and no one on know that better than this thia plaintiffS plaintiff |
