A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK. April 16.
Guests at Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill’s coming-out ball who wrecked a millionaire's 30-room mansion on Long Island, were supplied with 384 bottles of champagne, four cases of scotch, four cases of bourbon and four cases of gin, the debutante’s step-father told a court yesterday. “Was it all consumed?” asked the assistant district attorney, Mr Theodore Jaffe. “Not completely,” Mr Donald Leas replied. He was giving evidence at the trial of five of the guests accused of damage.
Mr Leas rented the mansion near his own estate from Mr Robert Malloy Harriss, for 500 dollars to accommodate male guests. Few guests slept. They took a rock ’n roll band from the deb party to continue the ball at the mansion, causing over £2OOO worth of damage, police said. Miss Weatherill, a department store heiress, said when she visited the mansion at 7.15 a.m. on September 1, she saw guests dancing on the mantelpiece and swinging from a chandelier.
One guest crashed to the floor with a chandelier in his hands, she said. Apart from the broken chandelier and the cracked mantelpiece, about 1000 windows were smashed and furniture was strewn over the beach and in the surf.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30419, 18 April 1964, Page 16
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