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"Certainly not!" snapped Referee Cohalan, "I'm not a witness."
Referee Cohalan frowned dangerously. "Women don't dress in crinoline or hoop skirts any longer." growled he. "They wear lounging pajamas. Just because a woman comes in and takes off her coat and puts on lingerie doesn't mean that she is about to commit adultery."
Mr. Wright, the witnesses admitted, had been fully dressed. The referee looked hurt. "This is the first divorce case I ever heard of," said he, "where people committed adultery in full dress."
"You keep quiet!" ordered Referee Cohalan.
More evidence was offered. There had been trunks and luggage in the apartment. "Trunks and luggage don't commit adultery," cried the exasperated referee. Thereupon he made startling news for New Yorkers by refusing to grant a divorce on what laymen have come to consider standard evidence in such...