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Show TROUBLES OE ?: MARRIED LIFE j Max Kleist, the Chauffeur Husband of Millionaire Breitung's Daughter, j Tells Story in Court. IS SENT TO MINE p Had to Run After Lighting Dynamite Fuse and Barely Escaped Injury Wife Calls Him Back. New York, April 23 Little and big troubles of married life as Max Kleist, chauffer, found it, were related today to a jury in the federal district court hr 1," I c.i of in hlc milt ;ic:iinl h f :i f h . er-ln-law, Tdward N. Breltung, capl- f tallst of Marquette. Michigan. Kleist r demands $250,000 for the alleged alien- : iatlon of his wife's affections. She was Miss Juliet Breitung, the defend- t ant's daughter. Kleist told today of having been given a place by his father-in-law, who disapproved of the marriage. In the f latter s mine in New Mexico. Among his duties, he testified, he was re- quired to carry dynamite. He had to set it off with a very short fuse T It was only four feet long he said I and consequently had to run fast j ' after lighting it. He barely had time j j to escape, he said. j Two telegrams went into the rec- f ord showing that his wife, who re- jj ' mained in New York when he went E to New Mexico, had summoned him : back east on April 1. 1914. He was told in one message to go to a desig- I Dated hotel in New Rochelle. register under the name of Joe Baker of Bos- j ton and wire her undr that name so j that she would know he had followed I Instructions, The witness said he re- j plied that he would do so It was at this hotel. Kleist said, on cross-examination, that Juliet told him j "it's all off The next day he vis- j Ited her In New York at her request. "She told me she had prepared to receive an annulment paper,'' Kleist j testified. "I told her to go ahead, that I would not stand in the way of her happines." Answering another question. Kleist said Juliet had taught him to smok cigarettes, tilling him "you might as well smoke them, because you'll learn j sometime from me" On re-direct examination Kleist's Counsel endeavored to Introduce a letter let-ter lrom Juliet to Kleist to show that j she had arranged the marriage Judge I Hough ruled It out, s.iying he knew of r'l DO law which prevented a woman asking ask-ing a man to marry her. |