Daily Capital Journal

SCHUMANN-HEINK WAS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

Rapp's Hugs and Kisses All Given To Mrs. Kate Dean, Says Deposition of Trained Nurse.

LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS GIVE INTERESTING EVIDENCE

She Was His "Sweet Clover, Aroma and All", "My Incense, My Shrine—I Worship You."

Chicago, June 6.-That she saw William Rapp, Jr., and Mrs. Katherine Dean, the former attired in a bathrobe and the latter in a wrapper, strolling about the Dean apartment, kissing, caressing and hugging one another, was the testimony furnished today by Miss Frances Ashton, a trained nurse who boarded with Mrs. Dean, at today's hearing in Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink's suit for a divorce from Rapp.

Miss Ashton was not personally present in the courtroom, but her evidence, taken in deposition form, was read into the record by Mme. Schumann-Heink's lawyer.

Rapp's and Mrs. Dean's stroll, Miss Ashton continued, ended in the parlor, where they closed the room and remained all night.

Mrs. Dean, said the deposition, addressed Rapp as "Billy" and Rapp called Mrs. Dean "Nonnie"

A number of letters and telegrams were also introduced. One letter from Chicago, signed "Billy", referred to "Nonnie" as "sweet clover" and declared that the writer missed her "aroma in this city of stockyard smells."

The letters' author evidently thought considerably of "aromas" and "sweet clover", for in another letter he said:

"This morning's mail brought me a windfall—three letters from you That apartment of yours is a bugbear and a leaden vault. If it were not for that I could have you with me. You don't know how much I want you, you sentimental little darling. You have won over my sister, too, but who could resist your charms?

"You are sweet clover, aroma and all. I want my sweet clover with me but the aroma isn't here.

"You are my incense, my shrine. I worship you."

Still another letter asserted:

"You are the sum total of all love—all that is lovely in woman."

One of the telegrams addressed to Mrs. Dean was as follows:

"I hereby certify that you are the best girlie ever. Love. Greetings. Billy."

Lillian Schmidt, another roomer at Mrs. Dean's, deposed that she saw Rapp and Mrs. Dean kissing.

"Rapp," said the deposition, "would cook, wash dishes, run household errands, put down linoleum or do any thing else that Mrs. Dean wanted him to do."