The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-28
TIE MEADE hEDUCTiGy CASE.

Extraordinary Cross-Exa,ninntion OF Ilrs.
| sEemic.
Yesterday afternoon, in the examination room OF
| the Tombs Police Court before Justice Bowling,
there further hearing In the Of Mr.. J. W.
Gould, broker, Of IS Wall street, on The charge of
assault upon Mrs. Meade OF Brooklyn. Tue detailed
particulars OF the alleged assault, In her
examination, were given in the HERALD OF Wednes
day.
In that affidavit Mrs. Meade alleged that she &C.
cOmpanied Mr.. Gould's to Newport Hotel, staten
Island, the 18th inst, for the purpose of seeing
her husband, from whom she Is separated, and
that while there she was stupeled BY the effects or
soda water and tea given 10 her by Gould, and that
While in that condition she was crlmnaily assaulted
and thar Gould told her that he very sorry for
what he had done but that the mother-in-law OF
Mrs. Meade had promised him 900 to do what he
had done, in order thar the husband Of the conf
plainant might obtain evidence for divorce. Upon
this statement Gould was committed to The Tombs
to answer in $4,000 bail, and upon this bail was
liberated on Saturday last.
Yesterday afternoon eX.Judge Russell, who was
counsel for the defence, with Gould and number
OF his Wall street friends, and Mr. Howe, counsel for
the prosecution, with MIS- Meade ana her friend Miss
Gregier, attended at the TomoS Police Court.
Mr.. Russell cross-eXamined Mrs. Meade upon her
former affidavit, and to nearly all the questions
asked by TIE counsel she returned an emphatic and
decided negative. She said that she first saw the
defendant on 18th of August on the boat, when
she was on her way to her friends AT Worces-
| Mss Charlotte Greyier and Miss IDA Gre
! ger; she dd not then give him her
10, addressed to Could in which she said she wished
| to meet him very soon aud which she asked him to
| ing. (1hs note was put Ia as evidence.) She did
not drink aie vine or champagne only tea and soda
was not Intoxicated; Gould had some wine, out she
had not; she came away rom the hoyei with Could
see tue san Francisco minstrels; she certainly did
not go 10 the st. Denis Hotcl aud stay there all
night mad not been there within the last three
inS win friends during the las; three
Harry stubbans. and had not stopped, within the
last three weeks either at the Madison OF the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
In re-examinaton by Mr.. Howe, Mrs. Meade said
that It was after taking the soda water and the tea
stairs that she lost tile Of her senses Mrs. Meade
produced gold pracelet, a breastpn and earrings,
all of whlch were more or less broken, and which
she said we're perfect when she met the prisoner at
the hamilton ferry, but were broken in the struggle
at the time Of the assault.
Mr. Russell took an OBJECTION TO the jurisdiction OF
the cour IN tins case Dasmuch as he said that tho
crime II any, Of dragging the lady for the purpose
OF dedement, was committed in Richmond county
and not IN New York He also said that as the testl-
mony OF the complainant had not Deen coIroborated
It was fatal to the further progress OF Tue case mas
much the section under which this arrest had
been maze required distinctly that this corrobora-
ZION must DO gwen lie also said he should be able
to produce witnesses who had good reasons for
knowing that Mrs. Meade was npchaste, and that
these Witnesses were then within stones throw Of
the court
Judge bowling said that in reference to the frat
objection, the coari had jurisdiction because the
offence was begun 10 be committed ct the Hamilton
ferry which was part OF she alleged conspiracy fer
erecting the criminal assault. As to the second, he
understood ihet there TGs corroboratng testimony,
ana MR.. Meade had sworn 20 that in her first AM
davit.
M. Howe said nc had not understood that any
thing more was TO ie done Mt the present examina.
ton than to cross.eXanine the complainant lie
intended on q future day 10 produce several wit
nesses TO c0nilrm the testimony OF Mrs. Meade, and 1t
would be abugdanlly sGoWn that this waa con-
spiracy 70 Obtain the requisite evidence FOR
ulNorcn.
The further hearing was adonfned until Wednes-
day, when II understood that the only witnesses
theq examined would he those for the prosecution.