Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-06-16

your desertion of me. Had you called oil
| me as gentleman, and offered any reason
able excuse for this treatment, or simply
asked me to release you from this engage
ment, and assigned no reason, trust
should have had too much pride not to have
complied at once; but your desertion, as i
is, deserves whatever punishment the opin
ion of just public may visit upon its au
thor; and you may rest assured that if my
CO unset SO advises, such reparation shall be
demanded of you as our laws grant to my
sex under the circumstances.
"Yours, e. C. CARzTAnG."
The other witnesses beside the sister
were servants and bparders in her house
who testified to having heard the plaintiff
say that she was going to marry the old
gentleman; that she loved him "better than
any body else." The sister swore that Mr..
Shaw twice Gin the Fall of 1856 and in the
Spring Of 1859 spoke of marrying the
plaintiff, and that she herself carried notes
to his house, signed Kate"
The defense attempted to break down the
plaintiffs character, but signally failed
Every witness swore that so far as his or
her knowledge or frst-hand information
went, there was nothing improper or ind eli
cate in her conduct. Some of the defend
ants witnesses tried very hard to impugn
her reputation, but on cross examination
the truth came out. A great deal of stress
was laid upon the fact that she was in the
habit Sunday afternoons and evenings oi
visiting Mr.. Fred. Homes, one of the board
ers n the house in his own room, frequent
ly staying an hour or two. and sometimes
till II O'Clock. But all the witnesses said
that she made these visits openly, and that
they never drew any inference o. impro-
priety frcm the practice; and it further ap-
peared that Homes, who was Secretary of
an Insurance Company, acted as her busi-
ness agent, and that the conversation, when
overheard was ssupon matters of business.
Mr.. ShepIey, in opening the case for the
defendant, lef:' this specific charge and
branched out into general strain Of re-
mark, as follows:
The parties plaintiff use the term de-
l;berately, for, though this woman stands
here as the nominal plaintiff, she is but the
instrument of the real one who occupied
that chair, and which, by her own admis-
sion, in the eager lust of clutching this
promised gain, most unwittingly let out in
her testimony-living for four years in
house where none but unmarried men lodged,
stand here and say that no woman (God
forbid | should debar any woman bereft of
protectors to exercise any employment not
immoral, because there are few honorable
avenues enough in this country for such an
one to seek liveihood), especially one
separated from her husband for ten years,
with her unmarried sister, would seek to
occupy such house unless forced so TO 60
by adversities. 1t may be a position con-
sistent with proprieiy, bat it is an untor-
tuna,e one under any circumstances.
The defense introduced some witnesses,
with view to impugning the plaintiff 5
reputation while in Charleston, but the evil
dence showed nothing more than that the
young men at that place INDUCED them
selves in loose talk about this pretty millin-
er, only 90 years old.
One of the counsel for the defendant, in
opening the case, insinuated rather than
stated that the plaintiff received money
from the defendant for improper considera-
lions, brt there was no evidence to that ef-
feet. There was some talk, however, on
the part of one witness respecting alleged
notes for money lent by the plaintiff to the
defendant, which notes she had pronounced
to be forgeries, but there was no proof con-
Meeting them closely with the case.
The whole effect of the testimony on the
part of the defense was to show that MISS
was, SO far from being imnodest
Or indecorous, unusually prudent and dis
Greet, and that, for some reason best known
70 himself, Mr.. Shaw had seen fit to make
against her good name which he
could not support, and to try to,hunt up evil
lence which he could nowhere find. The
Jury were undoubtedly governed, in the
rendition OF so large a verdict--the largest,
ever given in a case of this kind
by the great wealth OF the defendant, the
personal attractions of the plaintiff, and
'till more by the course which he, a man
wice her age, had pursued toward woman
whose affections he had once sought to win.
No inconsiderable fraction of the one hun
lred thousand dollars damages is to be re-
,arded as "smart money."-N. Y. Tribune.