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Show DIVORCE CASE Georgette de la Plante Asks: Supreme Court to Reopen Reed Case (By International News Service.) NEW YORK July 3. Georgette de la Plante, modiste, whose whop has I been f reciuc-ntcd by the wealthiest women wo-men Of fashion, has asked the Supreme- court here to reonen the Daniel Reld divorce case which resulted last February In a decree for Mrs. Mai -garot Carrier Rcld and in testimony I made Mme. di la Plant the co-re-I spondent In a sensational manner, Mme dc La Plante claims that She never had a hane. during tho trial to enter an objection or denial to any of tho charges which Involved her good name and reputation and asks that the case be reopened that she might do so. Mme. do la Plante was said In testimony tes-timony given by tho Held servants to have had relations with Mr Reld. These Statements now are emphatically emphatical-ly denied by the modiste. The Frenchwoman a brunette, slight and vivacious talked with a reporter re-porter in the office of her counsel. Mme. do la Plante said: 'The first I knew that I had been 1 so shamefully aspersed was when I j read In the newspapers of February 26 that Mrs Reld s servants had tes-I tes-I tlfied against me. I was never named as co-respondent in the divorce suit j and so, of course, I had no notice that I I had any Interest In it Otherwise, you may he sure I would have been represented In court. "I am absolutely Innocent of any wrongdoing and I want the court to give nip a rhanco to set myself right before tho world I have no words I to tell you how I suffered when I read I the newspapers nnd saw that I bad I been accused The damage to my I good name and reputation seems Irreparable." Irre-parable." I On the trial Tlllle Olson. Amanda, Gunnison, Mrs. Hold's personal maid, and Yli Sandstrom, a waitress In the Reld household, testified that Mine, de la Planto assumed -Mrs. Reid's place in tho household during Christmas week In 101S Mrs. Reld had gun.- to Atlantic r't Miss Olsen said Mme. de la Plante entered Mrs. Reid's suite and ordered water drawn for a bath. Then she told Amand 1 Ouhnison to bring her some of Mrs. Reid's llnfi l according to testimony Yi1 EfctDd-strom EfctDd-strom said Mme. de la Plante slept in Mrs. Reid's bed. Mrs Rold's maid testified that oik-day oik-day Mme. de la Plante complained of feeling ill When a physician wn.s suggested Mmo. de lu Plante said, sol the witness testified: "No. call Mr. Reid." When Mr. Reid came in wearing al dreealng gown, the witness said. Mme. I r le la Planto began laughing and later In his lap. Mme. de la Plante mentioned this H testimony and denounced the ser-vants. ser-vants. She said the household em- H I ployee all hated her because Mr?. H Reld had asked her to institute some H discipline below stairs H She said she found the servants wearing low-necked gowns and H qucttlsh hosiery and footwear and she H ! recommended black taffeta gowns H I buttoned up to the chin . The unl- H 1 form gowns were ordered, but the servants said they wouldn't wear them. Tin n de , loped the violent antipathy in "that Frenchwoman," us they colli .1 MM her, according to Mme. dc- la Plante. 1 H In an affidavit Mme. do la Plante I said she wne a frequent guest for luncheon and dinner with the R. Ids. H She wn.s always treated n.s a friend, she J declared. She had no intimation that any charges were to bo made against H I her because of the visit of Christmas H j week. 1913 As late as October, 1919, Mme. de la Plante said she visited Mrs. Reld at the Hotel Vanderbilt. tak- H I Ing model? with her. Mrs. Reid was H must ordial and made n largo pur- H cha ind other articles. JH Mine, dc la Plante said a prominent society woman first brought Mrs. Reld H into her shop in September, 1919. She. made some purchases and thereafter H I became a constant visitor and regular H I patron. She manifested a friendship H for the modiste and made her many H small gifts. Mrs. Reid gave her fre- Muent invitations to visit tho Fifth avenue home, and one day brought In H her husband, Daniel G. Reid, and In- H troduced him After that, Mme de la H Plante says, she often lunched and H dined at the house, with the Re Ids. H Mrs Reid told her, she said, that H nothing would please her more than to have Mme. de la Plante with her, H constantly as a companion, to help hef H run the house and aid In entertain- ing guests. A few weeks before Christmas, 191 S, she says Mrs. Reld H told her she had planned a vacation to Atlantl City nnd she sought her to run the Fifth avenue household for H the week Mme. do In i'lante said H she had intended to take a trip to H France, but postponed It and obliged H 00 mm |