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COUNTY PARSON DESCRIBES GAY WEDDING PARTY
WHEN BONSAL EMBARKED ON "SEA OF MATRIMONY"
Churchman Testifies After Ceremony And Blessing"
One Member Fell Upon Knees And
Mumbled Prayer.
Admission by Mrs. Catherine Jenkins Bonsai that considerable drink-
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red gown, with red cloth
beaded bag to match, was unaffected |^««^!romraiT
by the proceedings, and except when j A Wg% of sympathy swept the
under interrogation on the witness courtroom as the elderly, dignified
stand in her own behalf seemed to and self-possessed father of young
take little interest in the case. | Bonsai took the stand. As each
The big moment of interest in the successive incident was related the morning following the marriage day came when Bonsai's father, sympathetic attitude of the onlook- said: Leigh Bonsai, Sr., prominent Roland ers grew. Park resident, took the stand and j The father>s testimony was given
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CaP^rfen Dandy of the 200 block of East Lafayette avenue told of a visit from Leigh Bonsai, Jr., onBrtie
ing preceded her marriage Septem ber 13 to Leigh Bonsai, Jr., a declaration by Bonsai that he remem-h bers nothing of the ceremony and refusal of the defense to argue theNjtJ_""" T" ^" case featured the closing hours of d
"Leigh came to me saying he had told why he believed the marriage! clearly and cmcisely: He might a ^a,zy idea he'd been married and ct his son and the pretty divorcee, have been discussing the son of a a Catherine Jenkins Bonsai, should be neighbor so far as outward evidence
While the father fought down tra-
of family so he
might testify fully to the bizarre
me to call his father and ask if it was true. I did so and had
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clasping and unclasping of his hands as the testimony progressed.
Under interrogation—kindly but
the Bonsai marriage annulment case, carousings of Leigh Bonsai, Jr., the searching—at the hands of his
before Judge Preston Court at Towson
in Equity
Judge Preston took the case un-
son sat behind Col. John T. G. Lee, his counsel, smirking and chuckling gleefullly as each new incident was
der advisement, requiring attorneys recalled. Bonsai, the elder, was on
the witness stand when the noon recess was taken.
Soon after the noon hour, Mrs. Catherine McPhail Jenkins Bonsai, the defendant, appeared.
Her attorneys, R. E N. Carter Hammond, their opening statement they would prove the marriage was contracted
for both sides to submit briefs and announcing decision will be made when the court has read the transcript of evidence.
Announcement also was made that actions for alimony and attorney's fees had been settled out of court.
Mrs. Bonsai, adorned in a deep
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friend, Colonel Lee, the witness said:
"My son has been a heavy drinker for some years past; latterly—in the last two years—he has been drinking considerably. When he drinks he loses control of himself entirely. Last summer Leigh began working steadily. For ten weeks he worked hard every day without Kanode and! any lapses. August 23 he went on declared in a spree which lasted for three days —the usuuai term of one of his drinking bouts.
"Since then he has been drinking
terribly—that is the only word that
describes it. Time after time he
' went on sprees, always ending in
such a nervous condition that he
could neither eat nor sleep, and al-
! ways requiring hospital treatment
before he regained control of his
I senses.
"Once before, last January, to be exact, we found it necessary to send I him to Springfield for treatment as 1 an alcoholic addict. When he drinks he loses track of all details of life. It is seldom he can recall any of the happenings in the time of his sprees."
Under questioning the father told of his son coming home intoxicated on several occasion, ordering several taxicabs and then calling on him to pay the bill, wtihout having utilized any of the vehicles.
On another occasion the elder Bonsai testified, when he returned home one night he noticed a poorly-dressed, elderly man about the house. The same man was prowling about on the following morning, and when the father asked his son who the guest was, Leigh, Jr., replied absently:
"Oh, he's an old fellow I picked up downtown last night."
Turning to September 13,, the day of the wedding, the father testified his son had been drinking heavily for several days past and that he had information about Leigh, Jr., Mrs. Jenkins and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Eisenhauer had been drinking practically all of the night before.
The father further testified that after the return from the wedding, when he refused admittance to his son and the new bride, an "altercation took place between Leigh and H. Pleasants Bonsai over some puppies. Ligh went into the house, washed up and then disappeared until 4 A. M., the father said.
Leigh, Jr., immaculately clad, but showing the results of his confinement at the Springfield State Hospital, was plainly relieved at the end of the morning session and hurried to the hallway to stretch his legs after a morning of inaction.
Mrs. Katherine Jenkins-Bonsai, accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhauer, arrived at the courtroom at 12.30 o'clock, flushed and penitent at the delay. She seated herself with her attorneys at the end of the table opposite that occupied by her husband.
Mrs. Bonsai nodded to her attorneys and to Capt. John Dandy, one of the witnesses, then let her eyes stray impersonally over her husband. There was no light of recognition in her eyes nor did Bonsai make an effort to speak.
The hearing took place on a tinge of opera bouffe in the afternoon hours as witness after witness lightened the day with witty reply or left an opening for some derisive finding on the part of the audience.
Particularly was this the case when the Rev. Carl Wideking, who performed the ceremony, told of the wredding and declared it as solemn and noteworothy a marriage ceremony as one might wish.
A moment later he was reciting this incident:
"I asked the groom to repeat after me the words, 'I, Leigh Bonsai, do take this woman, Katherine Jenkins-Bonsai, to be my lawfully wedded wife'—and he replied quickly, 'I will not say that.'
"I replied that he either must conform to the terms of the ceremony or it would not be performed -—and he repeated the words after me."
Laughter was renewed later when the churchman said naively:
"After the ceremony and the blessing, Eisenhauer said to me, 'Pardon me, but I feel I should say a prayer, too,' whereupon he fell on his knees and prayed for the contracting persons. It was unusual, but I did not feel it was undignified."
Testifying as to the condition of the party, the clergyman said:
"It was a gay party, but not boisterous, it seemed to be the gay-ety of happiness rather than of liquor. There was no odor of liquor apparent; had there been I would have rfeused to perform the ceremony."
The clergyman seemed mystified by the gales of laughter which
pressed at the news.
"I also saw Leigh the day of the wedding and he was very 'tight."
Lloyd Chenoweth of Carney testified he had been stopped by the wedding party and asked for direction, to a clergyman's house. He said Bonsai seemed intoxicated and that there was considerable profanity intermixed in the conversation.
One remark by Katherine Jenkins-Bonsai he refused to repeat verbally, but wrote it on a slip of paper and passeed it to Judge Preston, who frowned and thrust the slip into his pocket.
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