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Show ding, Mr. Sterling gave her $20,000, ut at the end of 1907, her husband as in financial difficulties and eho 1 xnded him the entire amount bask. 6he now had nothing. This case throughout haa been notable, not-able, even among divorce cases, for Its extreme outspokenness, hut the women wom-en from the audience have sat through the hearings without wincing. Today, however, the questions were so intimately in-timately delicate that counsel would not proceed until every woman had been cleared out of court. MRS. STERLING MAKES EMPHATIC DENIALS Edlnburg, Feb. 1. Interest In the Sterling cross suits for divorce aa revived today when Mi's. Sterling began be-gan her defense against her husband's charges that she had misconducted herself with Lord Northland. Mrs. Sterling wa3 Clara Elizabeth Taylor, an American show girl, before her marriage to John Alexander Sterling. Ster-ling. The accused wife several times was overcome with tears, and her denials de-nials of the charges against her were most emphatic. .She characterized many of the assertions of the husband's hus-band's lawyers as villainous lies, and she replied to the allegation that she had been seen kissing Lord Northland on tho stairs, by saying that she was not a housmald. She admitted that she had been indiscreet and silly, but she averred that there had been absolutely ab-solutely no improper relations between herself and Lord Northland. She accused Mrs. Atherton of Intrigue In-trigue to throw her in company with Lord Northland so she could monopolize monopo-lize Mr. Sterling to herself. Mrs. Sterling said, among other things, that at tho time of her wed- |