HEIRESS' NEW CHARGES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 13

HEIRESS' NEW CHARGES

GOSSIP ABOUT MOTHER "FORCED TO LEAVE" NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Fresh revelations are promised in the suit lor £103,000 damages which Miss Anne Cooper Hewitt, the heiress, is bringing against her mother, Mrs. McCarter, and three doctors. Miss Hewitt alleges that at her mother's orders an operation was performed upon her to prevent her from bearing children. Miss Hewitt's lawyer alleges that her father's death in Palis in 1921 was marked by mysterious circumstances. .Miss Sarah Kelly, the nurse who attended Mr. Hewitt at too time of his death, has been discovered here and was interviewed to-day. She declared her staunch support for Ibe girl's cause, and promised to supply ".sensational" evidence in an affidavit which is now being prepared. She asserted that Mrs. MeCarter had tried to ruin her good name after Mr. Hewitt R death by bringing charges of theft against her. Or. these charges Miss Kelly actually served nine months in the Tombs prison in New York. Later, in Paris, she sued her former employer for £50.000 damages for slander, but the case never reached court.

Mr. William Breslin, Mrs. MeCarter s lawyer, to-day said that assertions that Mr." Hewitt died any but a natural death were ridiculous and unfounded. "My client," he said, "would like it known that at her request Lord Dawsou of Penn visited Paris before her husband's death there, and operated upon him at the American Hospital. Mrs. MeCarter suggests that Lord Dawson s connection with the ease should dispose of any attempt to hint, at foul play." • MOTHER'S SKANIIL'U.S DRESS Another affidavit published to-day in San Francisco by Miss Hewitt's counsel denies the allegations of her mother that she was llightv and flirtatious. It asserts that, on the contrary, the girl was forced to leave a. Philadelphia school be cans.' of gossip aroused by the past conduit of her mother.

"Her notorious past," .Miss Hewitt added, "haired me from any gooil or fashionable schools. At. one of them widespread discussion was aroused by the publication in a Sunday newspaper of a picture showing my mother dressed in nothing hut scashells."

A claim iiled in the Court of Chancery of New Jersey yesterday by -Mrs. MrCarter against the estate of her former husband claims that, the cost of the sterilisation operation was £llOO. The cost of the girl's convalescence is given as £ISCO.