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marry her right away, and a few days after this I married her at a minister’s house at Jersey City. I forget his name and the name of the street.
    I had been married to her some little time when she told me her name was not Turner, but Kunigunde Mackamotzki. She said her mother had been married twice, and her name then was Marsinger, and she was living in Brooklyn. Her mother had been dead some years. My wife told me her father was a Russian Pole and her mother was a German.
    Her stepfather, so far as I know, is still living, and resides at Forrest Avenue, Brooklyn.
    Her parents were in rather ordinary circumstances, but she had a good education, and spoke German well.
    After getting married to her we went to St Louis, where I practised as consulting physician to an optician in, I think, Olive Street. His name was Hirsch, I think.
    We stayed there about a year, and we returned to New York, where I took a position as consulting physician to the Munyon Company. We lived in the office at East Fourteenth Street.
    I was in New York for only a few months when the company transferred me to Philadelphia. I was there with my wife for about a year, and was then transferred to the firm’s place at Toronto, where I managed their business. I forget where I lived, but we were there only six months, and then returned to Philadelphia.
    I was there some time, and while there, about 1899, my wife, who had a good voice, went to New York to have her voice trained, as she thought of going in for grand opera.
    I paid all her expenses, and occasionally visited her at New York, and then in about 1900 I came to England alone, where I was manager for Munyon’s at their offices in Shaftesbury Avenue, and I lived at Queen’s Road, St John’s Wood.
    It was in April I came over, and she joined me in August, as she wrote and told me she was giving up her lessons in grand opera, and was going in for music hall sketches. To this I objected, and told her to come over here. She came, and we went to live at South Crescent.
    When she came to England she decided to give sketches on the music hall stage, and adopted the name of ‘Macamotzki’, but she did not make anything at it. She gave a sketch at the Old Marylebone Music Hall, but it was a failure, and she gave it up.
    After this she did not do anything in it for two or three years, until I had to go to America about two years after coming here. My firm sent for me, and I became manager in Philadelphia.
    When I left England my wife and I were living at, I think, 62 Guildford Street, and she remained there while I was away. I remained in Philadelphia from November till the following June, and sent my wife money regularly.
    When I returned I found she had been singing at smoking concerts for payment, and that an American music hall artiste, named Bruce Miller, had been a frequent visitor to her house.
    She told me that this man visited her, had taken her about, and was very fond of her, also she was fond of him.
    I may say that when she came to England from America her manner towards me was entirely changed, and she had cultivated a most ungovernable temper, and seemed to think I was not good enough for her, and boasted of the men of good position travelling on the boat who had made a fuss of her, and, indeed, some of these visited her at South Crescent, but I do not know their names.
    I never saw the man Bruce Miller, but he used to call when I was out, and used to take her out in the evenings.
    When I returned to this country, I did not take up my position at Munyon’s but went as manager to the ‘Sovereign Remedy Company’, 13 Newman Street.
    They failed about eight months afterwards, and I then went as physician to the Drouet Institute, Regent’s Park, and afterwards at 10 Marble Arch, and they also failed.
    From there I took a position with the Aural Clinic Company,