Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-13

moral character stands talF, DIS success was
good at sore shins, but be made a great blow.
Mrs. Shaw was understood to have been a
prostitute, and to have had children before her
marriage. Mr.. F. Wade stated: DR.. Gilbert's
character is good; Mir. Connell said the same;
Mr.. Musso the same, bat Mrs. Shaw's not
very good. Mr.. Patrick said DR.. Gilbert's
character was good; Mrs. Shaw's was not con-
sidered good; she lived with Capt. Shaw before
her marriage, and had one or two children; be
had lived near her twelve years, and beard
nothing against her since her marriage. Esq.
Waidran: DR.. GilbeTt'5 character is good,
Mrs. Shaw's not good; Mr.. Simmons spoke in
similar terms, also Mr.. Antoine; J. H. Swan
never heard a good character OF mrs. Shaw at
any time before or since her marriage. Mr..
Bsyliss spoke we'll of DR.. Gilbert. MIR. Whip
pie said Mrs. Shaw's character was bad. Mr..
Cleaves spoke Of both parties as other wit
nesses had done; Mr.. Green did the same, also
Esq. Chase, who said DR.. Gilbert had worked
with him as a tailor; Mr.. Ray spoke in similar
terms Of both; O.. c. Jones spoke Of Mrs. shaw
az before.
The court then decided that The testimony
recently discovered might be introduced, and
g. J. Richardson was called;
was at Gait. Shaw's to tea on The 2Sth OF
July; Martin asked me for blank printed
notes; be said Capt. Shaw wanted them; be
went out with me; we got the blanks at
FiaheTty's; be got FIVE or six others from me
| during the week: the kind he got from Mr..
| Flahsrty were of The red kind now shown me.
It night have been three weeks before the 28th
that the notes were obtained.
The court adjourned for dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION..
The prosecution announced that they were
through, and tae defense proceeded to call
their rebutting testimony. Capt. Shaw was
again called. His condition was so weakly
that on his reaching the court it became nee
essary to lay him upon the carpet, and sprin-
kIe cold water upon bis face. On reaching
the stand he was asked what were the social
relations between his family and that Of DR..
Gilbert. After some objection to the question
on the part of the prosecution, Capt. Shaw
said:
Ihsve known DR.. Gilbert twenty-five years;
in 1915 my wife's sister, Eliza Mclean, and
DR.. Gilbsrt's daughter, now Mrs. Kennedy,
went to school together; when the weather did
not permit her to go home, she came to my
house; the familiesh have visited ever since; they
have been to my house twice where my folks
have been ~ theirs once; Mrs. Kennedy visited
my people when she was last here from New
York; ! suppose she was then STAYING at her
fathers; Mrs. Shaw sometimes visited at DR..
Gilbert's, and his family visited us; the doctor
and his wife called in June last and staid an
hour; Mrs. ShaW's name before marriage was
Ellen Jane Mclean; she was born in August,
1927; we were married June II, 1913, on
board the steamboat, Gen. Pike, the big Pike,
by DIR. Jno. A. Hungary, Unitarian preacher
of the District Of Columbia at - Ripples,
on the Ohio river; | took her to board at Capt.
John Rowes, Of Louisville, where she took
music lessons; / had to leave her there and
could not again be with her for a time; | kept
the marriage a secret for some time for rea-
sons Of nv own; we came to live in Memphis
in October after; l knew no more about her
than | did about your wife, until after | mar
ried her; her mother made such a fuss abousit
that we were married a second time; the mar
rage certificate Of DR.. Hungary was burned
up on the steamer White. we were married 2
second time about the next October, by Par
son Coons, after my first child was born; Capt.
Joel Green was captain of the boat | was
married on; the second marriage is on regis
ter here.
Cross Examined: The first marriage is the
one put down in nv family register; the White
was burned in 1850, | kept it till then; the Odd
Fellows never got after me; my partner told me
that something was said in the lodge about my
marriage, this was four weeks after my second
marriage; the second marriage was in a private
house on Main street of Jacob Martins. now
torn down, it was not at nv house; [ think my
wife's mother was with US this time; she
thought that a marriage on the river was not
COED; my Oldest living child viii be twelve in
October; my first chill was born March 70,
1874; | had no child by my wife until | married
her; when DR.. Gilbert's daughter went to
school she staid very often at our house; within
the last three years Mrs. Gilbert has visited
Us three or four times a year, she has said she
visited us oftener than any one else; I never
sent nv wife to DR.. Gilbert's for money.
A number Of letters we're shown the w~itnsss,
all bu5 one Of which he recognized as being
written by DR.. Gilbert; his council said they
were introduced for the purpose Of showing the
Intimacy existing between DR.. Gilbert and
Capt. Saw. Tn prosecution said they were
dated ten years since, and were merely busi-
ness letters. Or. Ksnedsy is DR.. Gilbsrt's
soa-in-law, and one Of the letters was signed
BY him.
DR.. Gilbert tras recalled: To the best Of ny
knowledge my family has seldom been at Capt.
Shsw'ss since my return from New York, and
then reluctantly. When the captain was sick
be wished my wife and daughter to call AMI
see him; Capt. Shaw's sister-in-lsw was a good
little girl; she and ny daughter were fond OF
each other as schoolgirls.
Both sides announced that their testimony
was now all in, and Gen. Sale proceeded to
open the pleadings, which viii! probably take
up the whole of this day. Msssrs. Sale, Far
riagtOn and E'dridge, the latter closing the
case, speak for the observation-disclosures King,
Payne and Yerger for the defense.