Chicago Examiner from Chicago, Illinois • 3

CHICAGO EXAMINER -TUESDAY JUNE 20 1911 WOMEN FIGHT AT COURTROOM DOOR FOR GLIMPSE OF SEE Who atched Through Uncurtained Windows Blushingly Bares Life in the Cult Temple I MRS STEPHEN BRIDGES LEAVING COURT FATHER TELLS Story of What She Saw in Cult Home Could you see from the apartment where you were into the apartment where See lived A Yes sir Did you ever see Mona Rees in bed? Yes sir It was a single bed Do you remember when Mildred came over there to live? A Why yes She came there in the Summer time How long before Mildred came did you see' Mona in bed? A I do not remember Did you see anybody else in bed there? -Yes See Did you see them get up A Yes First Mona came out and a second later See came out It was about 8 in the morning How were they dressed? A In nightgowns The Leader of Fashionably Groomed Gazes Unmoved at Accuser Threatened by Defense Is Withheld Plot and Persecution Is Charged Was the conversation friendly nnd were you all nmicahle? A Yes (J- Did you ever consent to Mlldted going to live with See? No sir no sir! attorneys here took up the x-aminstion Responding Bridges ilenie 1 he had ever been president of tue bt admitted that Absolute Lite pm! Hit 1 the calling of a physician under some ci-cumstances denied that lie had visited Mildred while she lived with See or that he had turned his daughter out of tl house that he had used bestial language to her that he was drui the night lie gave the police information about tbe fiat that he had to he sent home from the station In a cab by Captain Danner because be was In a state of Asked If he promised 52500 to the society to build a temple he said: told my wife buy a nickel cigar and light it with $2500 in bills and give See the Pressed to state If he promised his wife that if she gave $2500 for this purpose he would give $5000 Bridges said I said double it when I got ready I got ready! I he repeated Attempt to Impeach Girl The defense attempted to prove in cross-examination that Clara Jennings had been greatly befriended by See and Mona and that until she knew them that her clothing had consisted of gunnysacks which was ruled out by Judge Honore Later attorneys attempted to Impeach this witness In direct examination under Burnham Clara Jennings testified: Is your home next to the See flat? A Yes sir On what floor? The second floor On what floor did the defendant Ev-lyn Arthur See live? On the second floor Did you ever see anybody but Se there late at night? A Yes Did you see anybodv else there early in the morning? A Why early in th morning they would come Who? A I know Did you ever see Mona Rees around there? She was always there Could you see from the apartment where you wrere Into the apartment where See lived? A Yes sir From what rooms? A From all tbe bedrooms except the front bedroom You could see from both bedroom across into Sees apartments? A Yes -sir Across the court? A Yes sir How wide was that court way? A You reach over with your baud it is a little farther than that Saw Mona Rees in Bed Did you ever see Mona Rees In bed A Yes sir It was a single bed AJbout when was that? A About two years ago Do you remember when Mildred came over there to live? Why yes she came there in the Summer time How long before Mildred" tame did you see Mona in bed? I do not ic member Did you see anybody else in be 5 there? A Yes See Did you see them get up? e-sir First Mona came out and a secos i later See came out It was about 8 in the morning I was sweeping tbe hall an went to close the window How were they dressed? In night gowns Was Mona living there at the same time Mildred living there? It- sir Well they were there they were supposed to be Did you ever go to their apartment? Yes Saw them there together? A Yes How long have you known of Mr Ideas about religion? A Oh about five or six or seven years I never though it worth my while to remember exactly Does your business keep you in town right along? A Oh I am away about ten months of the year It has keen that way for the past eleven years of my married life How many times did you go to the flat on La Salle avenue A Oh I went about three or four times At that time Mrs See had a cult In which my wife was Interested and I went there with my wife Did you ev er learn from Mrs See anything in regard to the teachings and doctrines of Mr See? Ah he never had any doctrines until after he quit Mrs See four or five years ago Where did he go them? A He went to live with Ida Christiansen on Wright-wood avenue In her house Afterward John Toch came there to live and later Toch and Ida Christiansen got married Did you go to apartment while he lived with Miss Christiansen A Only to the room where they held their meetings Met Mona Rees Did any'body else live there? A Yes Mona Rees When did you first meet Mona Rees? A After she came to Chicago from Oregon How long after she came here did you meet her? A Three weeks Where? A On Van Buren street (with a mammoth wink) In the Whitney Opera House where they had meetings Where was Mona living then? Out on Wrightwood avenue with See How long did she live there? A They lived there about a year Where did your daughter Mildred first meet See? A Oh I suppose through the meetings at Mrs house Where did you first see your daughter Mildred with See? A Down In this place where telling you What wras her attitude toward See? A She have anything to do with him Once she spit in his face when I saw her and I was told she did it several times afterward How old was she then? I remember exactly she was in short dresses a little girl about ten or eleven years old How long did you go to meetings? Oh about well several months How many were there? Oh sometimes fifteen sometimes twenty-five or thirty Did you give any money? A Oh I put a dollar or two in the contribution box We all did you know Was your wife present at these meetings? A Yes Did they ever meet any place else besides down on Van Buren street? A Oh yes they met at the corner of North State street and Walton place Daughter Attended Meetings Did you ever go to Miss rooms before she was married? A I never went there but once Did your daughter go to the meetings held at Ida Yes sir your daughter go to school at this time? Yes at the Frapces Parker School a private school What was the subject of discussions? A (in crescendo voice) Getting money! Did he ever say anything particular about it? He announced regularly will put a penalty on every one who belongs to this cult and refuses to support it And then if they do It I will double it Did See ever say anything about living with Mona Rees? He said he could not carry on his work without her Was Mona there at the time? A Yes What did you say? I got up and said that Mona Rees was a young girl ad should not go to live alone with a man especially a married man unless her mother was with her Was any statement made about this by Felicia Rees mother? I think she said anything See said Mona was ordained in the work of the spirit and he said that Felicia was not ordained in the same time with Mona Did See visit you? Yes he came to our apartment twice about that time once when my wife was sick and again when we had a little what you might call Very shortly after Mona went to live with him they moved to Racine avenue Understand Teaching Do you know teachings? A No I understand any of them Did you and your wife go to California in the Fall of 1908 or 1909? A-Yes and we left Mildred in the flat In care of Mrs Wheeler We lived at 1130 Wrightwood avenue Did you take anotner trip in 1910 to Florida? Yes qHow long were you gone? Three weeks Was she at home In the flat with Mrs Wheeler? Yes Did you take another trip? Yes How long were you gone? Three weeks QWas Mildred at home when you returned? A Yes Did you take another trip? Yes I was gone ten days in the latter pait of February and when I qame home Mildred was not at home It was 7:30 in the evening I had a talk with Mrs Wheeler and Mrs Hutchins and then I got a long distance telephone message from Mrs Wheeler I went over to the flat and found Mildred there with Mona and See Did you talk with See? A Yes He said worry about when found her sick in bed Said See all And I said of course all right you dirty and I got a chair and started to hit him and he ran away and got out of sight Then I wbnt to my little girl and said come home with She said can't go to-night too sick go in the So I went out and telephoned to Dr Bishop to go and see her I went away for ten days and when 1 came back tbe sign was on the house Did you telegraph to Florida to your wife to come home? A I did I said is very ill come home at Did she come? A She did after six or seven weeks When the quarantine was lifted did you go over to flat? A Yes Why? A I wanted my girl to come home Did she go Yes for a few short hours then ghe went back to See She never carhe home but twice afterward 0 did Mildred ever come to the house after his mother came home? A Yes BY MAGDA FRANCES WEST HE first tangible procedure in the whole "Absolute Imbroglio came yesterday during the trial of Evelyn Arthur See in Judge Honored court There a curious morbid mob spent the best of the day attempting to learn just how and why two mothers would consent to share what has been said to be their common vice with their young and innocent daughters how a father could connive at this same monstrosity and even support in luxury the despoiler of his home and how if all the charges are true any sane American citizens or wives of citizens could possibly swallow such huge morsels of sacrilegious rot masked under the name of Divine worship All the heat of the -city yesterday seemed focused In the Criminal Court Buildiug Yet all day a curious line of men women and children shabbily dressed and richly attired stood patiently outside the charmed and bailiff guarded circle that pointed the approach to Judge courtroom They could not hear a word that was uttered They could of course see those who were permitted within the courtroom and to these hungry Peris at the gate even this crumb from the salacious feast inside "as a meal in itself After the session had ad-fjourned the ratios of the uuallowed Iswarmed iuto the courtroom They questioned here See had sat fingered the table (across which counsel had poured its unending questions and arguments and objections For a while it eveji seemed as If the relic hunters might get in their work and new courtroom fittiugs from box to bench be an additional nec' -ary item oi expense AH to i and young girls "ho had been resti ed 10111 hearing lust "hat Clara Jem mas seen across the area-war ixtiuiu the flat in which she made her houm and tLm apartment where lived the uiv-tcri ms haudsoue man and the two inning young giiis and exactly wfca 8rcpe 1 Bridges had found in that same 'he night he failed to bring niuti with him his little daughter were i among the who rushed in whence the rf wise were departing Gowio'J ss li for a Reception Some of these women were gowned as tor an elaborate reception They came In expensive frocks of Irish lace topped iy huge picture hats with sweeping Humes with silk petticoats rustling and ib 1 eels toppling as they minced across he floor Grandmothers were there too bent-shouldered old women with worried eyes and scores of spinsters For womanly modesty these courtroom arpies might have found a profitable pro-otype in Judge Honore The court vorked yesterday like a mother In the en-leavor to keep the atmosphere untainted vy testimony When appellations such as rould provoke fierce brawls in the most ribald quarters were quoted in evidence tbe court tried to huny such statements through to get them out of the way to Seven hear them ith closed eyes and his followers not one atom of compassion seems outwardly discernible The charges practically assert that members of are beleagured with the devil himself And on this basis it is to view the in all his pomps and orks and orgies to get a short range squint at a mortal bottomless pit that nine-tenths of the public Is curious The claim is made that there is sex in Perhaps this is true sales of fresh beef In Chicago for the week ending Saturday June 17th averaged 8 36 cents per pound ner was named by attorney as a prime conspirator in wnt was dubbed a most infamous and police On plea that he was entitled at least one person I want in here with Judge Honore suggested that If Captain Danner make his exit Evelyn Arthur See go with the Captain The defense passed up the argumenj and Bridges took the stand Burham began his direct examination Immediate after the five-minute recess you know Evlyn Arthur came the question Bridges concentrated the contumely of his soul in the look he cast on See The Revealer of Absolute Life regarded Mildred's father steadiyl and dispassionately should say I answered Bridges with emphasis And then with attorneys objecting to every utterance Burnham peppered out his remaining questions like a volley of grape shot And Bridges embracing Judge Honore with a glance that said my friends Judge what took his own time answering How long 'have you known See A Oh nbout five or six or seven years Where first did you meet him? A In his wife's lesidence ou La Salle avenue Was he living with hls wife? Saturday as a bolt to rend the city In twain Two witnesses testified yesterday One was Stephen Bridges father of the seventeen year-old Mildred Bridges for whose abduction and the contributing to her delinquency See Is now on trial The other was Clara Jennings the young girl a year senior who with her foster parents the Krauses occupied the flat across the yard-wide court from the domicile of See Mona Rees and Mildred Bridges at 2541 Racine avenue Both witnesses were proffered by the state Although unspecified os to page and section portions of published book Life on with its excerpts from Book of ere passed upon yesterday as permissible evidence by the court So were letters written by Stephen II Bridges to his wife Lucille Bridges and his daughter Mildred Bridges These rvere brought In by the defense os was also a jdat of the Krause apartment and of its duplicate that of the home of For the first time in the history of the litigation ngainst See Mona Rees was absent Her mother Felicia Blake Rees also was among the missing Mrs Bridges charming In an exquisite lingerie gown of pink arrived shmtly before her daughter Mildred in brown and lavender who was In the custody of Mrs Bessie Cliugen Mildred and Mrs Bridges sat In the east anteroom and directly opposite them were Miss Laura Ebel officer of the Juvenile Protective Association nnd Miss Denise Herendeeu an intimate fiiend of Mrs Agnes Chester See The defense strong in its own oblec-tlons began a process of elimination trying to have Julius Geweke attorney for Mrs See put out of the courtroom Failing to have Geweke ordered out by the court attorney subpoenaed him as' a witness Presumption exists that the defense will attempt to show that Geweke directed the raid on the flat 2541 Racine avenue nen the safe of was plundered and did so as an employe of the Federal Government Secret Service Commission With Geweke gone the defense turned its guns on Captain Max Danner who had come in as a retainer for Assistant State's Attorney Frederic Burnham Captain Dau- But at least since the world has not accepted it would seem that a little whole-souled chivalrous pity might be extended to the women involved Misguided though they may be they feel that in clinging to the teachings of Evelyn Arthur Sec they are merely holding the free-born American right to expei ience religion exactly as one pleases Hub The Brides Gifts to Her Attendants One of the gayest of the pre-nuptial festivities is the luncheon at which the bride-to-be presents her brides -maids with a piece of jewelry to be worn on their brides gowns and then to be kept as a souvenir of the happy occasion Generally this gift takes the form of a brooch a bracelet a sash-pin locket or a La Valliere Every bride wishes the gift she chooses for her maids to reflect her own good taste It must be something far removed from the commonplace beautiful yet girlishly simple We have articles in great variety suited to fill just this need of the prospective bride and our manufacturing department is at her service if she desires to have some original idea or design of her own carried ont PEACOCK DIAMOND PEARL RUBY EMERALD MERCHANTS and MASTERCRAFTSMEN in the PRECIOUS METALS ETC STATE AND ADAMS STS Court Battle Fought Over the Admission of Drending a boomerang from the boasted bomb they threatened to plant so squarely in the path of the prosecution attorney for Evelyn Arthur See and yesterday forbore from furnishing Chicago via Judge Lockwood court with that net ration presaged on Crowd Eager for Sensations Not so the audience on the far side of the railing At each unclean epithet round their lips and eyes spread the same glow that creeps on the face of a waiting expectant child who hears the cry here at and sees the first elephant coming around the corner It was sufficiently grievous in the eyes of the disappointed ones to have See so sit that all they could observe of him was the habitual hunch of his shoulders and the fieavy shock of rapidly graying hair But to have Mildred and Mona and Felicia Rees and Lucile Bridges and Elizabeth kSpeers all absent from the courtroom was their minds a legal crime in itself Information ns to yesterday's whereabouts of Mrs Rees and Mona was eagerly sought for- Mnnv asked but none discovered About noon the report went out that mother and daughter were attempting to discover whether Mrs Agnes Chester Bee ns has been alleged did turn over to the state a cipher-code in which the impounded documents and manuscripts of See are said to have been written Another theory was that they were seek-in the the Callahans had failed to produce Friends of Mrs Rees suggested that per haps obtains in I ah wHI as in those of unspilted and that possibly traditions! domestic sure the detainer Mildred and her mother sat side hr Bide in toe anteroom ai day They chitted In confidential tones and appealed to find mui It enjoyment in eicli companionship Mrs Kiidges left her daughter only during the few' minutes that Mr Bridges came in for a visit with Mildred By odd chance eah had gone to the fcsme bail game Buudav ntfeinoon and Mi Id led laughed hie a six year old to lcaru the coin idem The See rat-e it travail of tiiai is a king most Rite ri Thiongh his minis writings See pivot liuuh upon the necessity qf finding the spark of good which he deriare is latent in all that is evil yet outside of the legal hirelings for See A A-T I ON hints just a few of them Shirts vi th attached or separate soft iars unstarched turnback French cuffs $150 $2 to $550 Bathing suits- a new one-piece model with an over-lapping shirt $300 and $400 in worsteds $150 in cotton Big lots of two-piece worsted suits $2 $250 to $550 Handsome lines of belts at 50c and $1 Wash scaxfs at 25c and 50c Real thread silk hose any color 50c 6 pairs for $275 A LOT of men who are alive to the advantages of style and comfort in shoes are wearing these Selz shoes I sell at $4 Correct style perfect fit exactly right- in every way best shoes for $4 ever seen in a great variety of styles and leathers Vacation time any time is the best time to wear them best buy them beforehand Other good Selz shoes $3 to $6 Selz Royal Blue Stores Northwest corner C'ark and Midison 51-53 Madison near Dearborn 4 Dearborn near Madison Southeast corner Dearborn and Van Buren warranted to Renew youthful color and beauty to RAY II AIR Use only Hair Health Most satisfactory Hair grower dressing Stops BBSS rr Y-air grower dressing Stop HAIR 0 JBM fa 1 dandruff hair failing and scalp nauflr1fcifaaK a a dibeases Covers BALD epoU Don't stain skm or linen Large 60 Cent Bottles at leading druggist New Upright Pianos From $125 upward easy terms of payment New pianos to rent $3 50 upward LYON HEALY Wabash Avenue and Adams $100 Pair FREE Try Them Tf roit hav 11 ft 171 A 1 9 Tisn Hot? 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