The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-10

SIDE wherever she had gone with her husband
Forty dollars for liquor al Putnam's, seventy
dollars at Chadwlek's; they would have you
nelieve that this hundred dollars worth o.
| liquors and more was for cooking purposes
alone A hundred dollars worth of liquor
| gone into cooking in four years! No. gentle
men, that won't answer and don't meet the
exgencies of this cese; it is fallacous; it is on.
" himsy pretense. She induced her hus.
band to go into this COMPANY, quiet business
man, married to gay and handsome Wife, " he
demanded the excitement of the highest cir.
Giles in the city of Portland, if you choose tc
call them so. This man was quiet absorbed in
MS business, married TINS young lady 20 years
this circle Gentlemen, 1 dare not trust nv.
self to speak the honest sentiments of nv
heart about the perls of that circle, in commu.
NIFTY like this. They plunged at once into this
Witt oi excitement, of card playing and drink
ing; day after day, week after week, she going
SIDE oy SIDE with him, keeping liquors in her
| house, ordering them herself, offering them to
ner guests and partaking of Just such liquors as
men did. think you will believe without the
slightest hesitation in the world that this wo-
quor that was drank by Others ask you this
one thing: suppose this lady had said to her
husband, knowing he had this appetite upon
hlm that it was developed III Ellsworth, sup
pose she had said to her husband then, in the
hrst moments of married life, with the influ-
tent, now my husband we are entering upon a
new life, we will Danish all these things from
| our house, will have our social circle, the So
cIety of good men and good women in the city
OF Portland; we can find them here and we
will keep out of this fatal circle which is draw
ing so many of the young men down into the
| very cutters. Do you believe that this man
| would not have been saved from these troubles;
that she might have hedged I'D the way from
| this dangerous road and made his home pleas
| ant and happy, he standing up in the nobility
| of manhood and she in the nobility of woman
hood. But she denies she has ever been in
| toxicated; she almost denies that she ever
drank in his presence; would have YOU believe
that she has been very temperate woman
[ don't know but she is according to the STAN
dard of that circle; but she is not according to
the general standard of the community. Take
the scene described by Mr. Miller, in which he
that she had been drinking something, and
that she asked Mr.. Miller to carry her up
stairs; but says that it was when Manasseh
Smith produced a bottle of champagne, that
asked her husband to carry her up stairs as
joke. Counsel discussed the testimony on this
matter of Mrs. Miller's drinking at some length
and then proceeded to another topic.
came to what is to me the most disaereea-
BILE part of this case, in its bearings upon the
character OF the parties concerned, parties out
side of this case. There is no branch of the
case that regret 80 much, that has given me
so much real pain, as the connection of this
lady with Gen. Shepley. 1t seems that ac-
cording to her own account in 1866, perhaps
earlier, she was riding with her brother-in-law,
Frank Miller, by Cen Shepley's, saw him on
the walk and he proposed to introduce her to
Gen. Shepley; she tells you that she objected.
Why, why did she object? 1t was not on ac-
count of his rank and position in society here,
for no man stood any higher, l apprehend,
| than he. because he lived in fine style, was a
man of property, man of influence, q man of
talents, standing among the foremost at the
Cumberland bar, which is distinguished all
over the State tor its talents Why did this lady
decline the association with such man? Was
there something outside of his character which
she knew had come to her ears by rumor was
there such a reputation in this community
that an honorable woman, just married, would
decline or object to be introduced to hin?
There is no other construction that you can
put upon that at all; no other possible excuse
She saw him at the clambake; he became a
frequent visitor at the house. Putnam saw
him from three to four times week visiting
there, in the afternoon; did not see him eve
nings, because be was in the store, and not as
the papers relate because he was not at his
store. Gen. Shepley tells you that he was
there great deal otener than any witnesses
have described. Why did he call that tire of
day? Miller went from his dinner at about
halfpast 1. Shepley went down from 2 to 8.
That was the time he selected to make his calls
from three to five times week or more, ac-
cording to his own account, there in the day
time, there in the evening. What was he
there for? You have seen this lady. I say
nothingzpnkind Of her. You have seen this
lady upon the stand; you will Judge whether
a man like Judge Shepley, IS years of age,
would associate with this woman for mere in
tellectual purposes Is she of that brilliant
talent, do you judge, that would call him there,
band was away, and in the evening. Time
after time, and time after time? Was
it to protect this lady from the drunk
en- fury of her husband whom he has
helped to make drunk? There could be 40
danger from her husband when he was sober.
Now / must deal with this man as man in
this case, not as Judge Shepley.s l care not
who he is. l say if he has projected himself
into this case, we must deal with him Just the
same as with any other maj we know No rich
or poor; we must call things by their right
name. God forbid that should shrink from
my duty or the oath / have taken as a coucsel-
lor because am under the shadow of great
man or little man. Mr.. Miller's three sisters
find this man installed in their brothers house
when they went there, or did not see him come
to it or go from it. He does not deny that, but
on the contrary, thinks by an exhibition Of lib
erality on that point to be the better believed
when he comes to testify to essential points
upon which his testimony is to bear. Statira
Miller tells you that Mrs. Miller passed the
Generals carriage with her; wanted to wait
for ride; went into store to buy skein of
yarn handed out fifty cents, when the price
was twenty five, and was so absorbed as to for
get to take her change. She was looking out of
the door and out of the window watching for
the Generals carriage. Another of the sisters
tells you that she found the doors of the parlor
into the hall clossd she went up stairs, called
Sarah; she did not answer; that she came back
to the parlor and found Sarah and Gen. Shep-
ley there.
On the 10Th of March, 1870, another Miss
b,,x- ri,Ao
that Gen. Shepley's daughter was married,
Sarah beckoned to the General to come in
Marcia says she was there one Sunday that
she beckOneG to gentleman to come in, that it
was Gen. Shepey, and that she said to him,
she could not get along without man. One
OF these young ladies' left Gen. Shepley and
Mrs. Miller sitting in the front parlor, went
up stairs to see picture, gone three-quarters
of an hour, they had changed their places from
the front to the back parlor; as she came down
match, this was in the dusk. Marcia saw
Shepiey there when Miller came home intoxi-
Gated, was mortified that he should be seen in
that condition, and said to Mrs. Miller, she
should think Gen. Shepley would have sense
enough to leave You remember the temper Mrs.
Miller manifested on that occasion, that she
had right to have such persons as she wished.
He was in the habit of holding conversations
in that house and in company with her in
whispers very frequently indeed. Miller tells
you that he came home in the evening great
many times and found the blinds shut and the
gas turned down; has gone into the room
where they were and opened the blinds and
! turned up the gas. Daniel Miller testfies that
as he was walking on Park street he saw Gen.
| Shepley standing in the street with Mrs Mil
| Ter with his hand on her shoulder. / was
| amused at the explanation which the General
made. He didn't think he put his hand on her
| shoulder, did not see why he should, and that
| is all the denial he makes of it. Take Henry
| Miller's testimony-a faint light in the room,
he pushes the door open and the light flames
| up suddenly, and Mrs. Miller took her seat
upon the sofa, an empty chair sat by the side
OF Gen. Shepey, very closely. This lady has
| testified that she could not reach the chande-
ler six and a malt feet; but she did not testify
| that she could not reach a drop-ligbt that was
| on the tab'e.-Adjourned.
| AFTERNOON
| Mr. Baker resumed his closing argument:-
| Gentlemen of the jury, was proceeding with
some of the prominent facts of the intercourse
between Gen. Shepley and Mrs. Miller, at the
| adjournment; had come to the point where
Statira Miller was at the house of her brother,
| who proposed to go to ROgers's and asked her
| to remain till he returned, and she promised
that she would do So While she was there,
Gen. Shepley, just returned from New York,
weary and wayworn with his travel, came to
the place where he would most naturally find
sympathy and consolation, apparently with
| out time to have gone to his own bone. He
seemed dull but gentlemanly, remained a
| short time and proposed to leave, started
| down stairs, they then occupying the back
| chamber for a sitting-rOOm, reached the door OF
the lower hall, held very low conversation,
Mrs. Miller came back up stairs and invited
Miss Statira to 60 home, and proposed that the