New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-23
The Van Mes. VIII Case
nf The Tnbrre.

OF InS
WASHINGTON Nov. p, Is4h
The Court room was crowded to-day 10 listen to
~. continuation o. the Van Ness trial Mrs Con-
nor was again present with her counsel
Mr. Mattingiy. The first witness examined 20
dsv stated that he lived in 1:i2 very nesf 10 MIS-
Cc,rno- in Missouri avenue, gnd that he had re
o8.ntlx seen Gen. Van Ness come to Ter house. II
his GARAGE. and that he remained there OCCASION
all. tor hours a. time bu, he did notrecoLlect see
ing him 90 there az night
v, Fs1er had been resident OF Nlssoan
s~srne sbout three Years, keeping 1 bowling alley
there. He had seen Gen. Van Ness go 10 the house
OF the plaintiff several UNDERSTANDINGS on 1901
and sometimes IN his csrrlage-had known me cz'-
rage .ait two bo1rs-hsd seen the Gene'ai pass
While witness stood al his OWL door. and "s'che1
him 20 in. He did not recollect having seen MN
20 there az night Last time he saw him 90 mere
vas il February last three or Tour weeks oeAo15
bis death Recollected the day because ne pointed
him ont 70 A Young man who wished 70 know MIN
II wasa verr cold DAY. and the General walked
round from his carriage -
on cross examination, he expressed his Deiei
that plaintiff house was boarding mousse -
though he did not remember to have seen anE sisa
exhibited. He had seen other gentlemen pass ~
,rith ladies' belonging to the house. They may
have been gentlemen boarding there de niight
have seen another carriage standing al her door
once.
Considerable time was occupied IN examining
Mr. Murray Cor the purpose OF Identifying me sis
natn-es 10 the letters filed IN the Orphans Court
pa the hand writing Of Gen y an Ness tie e%-
pressed his belief that the signatures were genuine
although ne admitted himself 70 be ignorant OF lae gen
a-a1 CHARACTER of the Generals writing tie TOOK MS
knowledge of his signature from bank noes slEneu ~
~, although in REORGANIZATION he admitted that he
had overlooked the fact that IN signing oans NOES Hs
General uniformly connected the an ana uic Hess-
while in the letters the words we're sePaIa'e D IN a
noes were she n 20 witness 20 refresh MS memory ou'
he persisted in the belief that the signatures were senu
inc -, - 81 ,,,t
itted 10 the jury evidence. one stated Iadorest.
-, rs Common that he mad gwen nor the house and ot
Che occupied that she ought not 70 De annoyed ~ "hat
the nublic said-hat ne knew she had suffered mucn'
u, That he would make II up 20 her-tnat sac anu men
cT;ld nv children would be provided for in his will
0,ber let;er. desired her meet him N Philadelphia
about the 6th August-inorm her that matters can DC
arranged there, and that he would return ron Nv
Work 10 that citv about the 9Th 9TH August and MAKE
her his lawful ife-desng her to take care OF nese'
TO have good servant-to have the cai!o wen aie'
ed Toto purchase such things as she wanted ana 70 pc
narcuar in taking receipts for al payments and save
enclosing money Some letters are addressed MIS- ~
| A V y" and some are signed Your own husband,
your afrertionste husband sc. The 9th letter repeats
tina, ne has given her the and LOT she occupied
and vii leave her good fortune and requests heF mol
| 70 worry him about slcDing paper.
George Becker proved tina: he had once driven PLAIN
iii TO the house OF Gen Van Ness where she remained
about twenty minutes. The General came 10 the door
Mr. Towers. Mr. Colard and Mr. Williams testified
thu, Gen Van Ness frequently visited the plaintiff II
Missouri avenue his carriage which would frequently
leave him there Other gentle boarded al neF mouse
| son,s,;roes and were taken TO and fro IN a hack
Gen Walter Jones examined 20 prove the Identity
nj Gen Van Nesss letters most of which be believed &c
be genuine The testimony OF Gen Jones was yery
The renuinencss OF Genvsn Ness letters farther
proved By fII McNamee.
The testimony Of Miss Conner daughter o; the plain
tia. was then gone into She proved the Journey u
philadelphia on the "a OF August the visit OF Gen an
Ness on the 9Th the going OF her mother and the
General TO be married &C. Before her evidence wa:
closed the Court adjourned.