Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-18
AN INTERESTING CASE IN THE FED
ERAL COURT.
Lady Sues for Breach of Marriage Con-
tract.
Exciting Scenes in Court.
THIRD DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

hour was consumed in disposing of some unim-
portant business.
1nthe meantime spectators continued 10 pour
in until there was perfect jam. About the
time the other business was finished Mrs
Putnam made her appearance in company with
one of her counsel, Mr.. Camp, who cleared the
| way through the crowd. The witness then took
her seat and the cross examination was resumed
by Colonel Cooke. In giving her evidence Mrs.
! p spoke very fast and it would have been
impossible for any one except a photographer
| to have kept pace with her. She stated that
l she had never sent or received a letter under a
4 frank. She was not aware that she would meet
/ Major Cola at Harmonic Hall previous to the
| time of her going there, when she was first in
4 troduced to Davis. Major Cola had never
| passed night in her room at any time. Mrs.
| Hull had on the day after Davis left Washing
! ton for Tennessee, informed her that there was
| a rumor that Davis was married, but she did
not ask Mrs. ii. for her authority as she did not
L wish to excite any suspicion as to her relations
| to Davis Major Cola had never told her that
| Davis was married man, but on the contrary
that he was unmarried. ct Clnclnnati
| she went to Davis room at the Bur
nett House as related in her testimony on the
preceding day and while there was introduced
1 first to Dr. Lenoir and then afterwards to
Col. McGhee 0aughter). She stated that the
door was not bolted at the time of Col. Nc
/ Ghees coming to the room, neither was she I'M
dressed while sitting on the sofa close to Major
Davis but that she had her wedding dress on
at the request of the Major. After good deal
of parrying, she stated most emphatically that
she had never had criminal intimacy with Major
Davis. Great sensation in the audience)
Col. Cooke then asked if she was armed when
she overlook Davis on the Covington Pike. She
replied sharply ''Yes had two good arms and
the Colonel SubSided amid roars of laughter from
the audience She said that Davis was armed
They went on to Lexington and took supper.
They then left without ordering rooms and
drove on the road toward Tennessee until two
o clock at night. They then stopped at house,
but she did not remem5e the proprietor's name
In answer to a question as to how they roomed
that night she answered that they occupied ad-
Joining rooms.
At the stopping place the next night, after she
had retired Davis came into her room and
leaned on her bed, and in doing so pushed it off
some blocks on which it stood. This made con-
siderable noise and startled them. The follow
ing night at the next point he came to her room
in the morning to wake her up, and in answer
to Col. Cookies question did he knock the bed
off the blocks? ~ she replied emphatically He
did not" Great laughter.) They were eight
days on the route from Cincinnati TO Hunters
Spring.
She said that she had never passed off as Da-
Wis wife while on the way. After arriving in
East Tennessee they stopped at a Mr.. Graham's.
While there she did not tell to any man that
she and Davis had been married in Kentucky.
The next night Davis came into her room and
lay on the side of her bed. She was often ad-
dressed as Mrs. Davis, but she always told those
addressing her so that she was not Mrs Davis.
COuldn't remember about eating fried chicken
on certain occasion Qaughter). She did not
represent herself as widow lady at Hunts
mans, and she never conided her troubles to
any one,while there, but buried all her sorrow
within her own bosom.
She and Sallie Huntsman staid in a front room
up stairs. The house was ceiled and all sounds
could be heard from above by those below
Mr. Davis and a friend Mr.
Tate were sleeping below, and she and Sallie,
while undressing, overheard them making re-
marks concerning it. She dropped her elias
tic'' and one of the men below said to his COM
panion, There goes an elastic" She then drop
ped a second and heard, There goes another
come up from below Said they 1--WE can tell
every thing those women have on" She then
dropped hoop skirt, (hoops were then in fash
ion) Voice, There goes her hoops" Miss Sallie
then went through the routine of dropping her
apparel with a like result. Mrs. p then picked
up an elastic and let it fall second time. Voice,
from below, Good Heavens, how many elias
ties has that woman GOT
The second morning the men blew a large
dinner horn up the stairs at them from below,
and the following night they (the ladies' tried
the horn game Themselves but neither she nor
Sallie could blow it. They finally discovered
that their antagonists had been too smart for
them and stuffed it full of hay. Davis came
there with Mr.. Tate, and during the stay, had
member that they stopped under a beech tree.
At another time he came with man named
Brooks.
She said she did not upon this occasion bring
brandy from the Sulpher Springs, some four
miles away to Huntsman's for the party to drink
She had not talked with Mr.. Brooks at any time
Did not put her arm around Davis neck while he
was there. She and Davis rode to the Springs
together and Davis brought home two bot
ties of Bourbon whisky. They borrowed
Rrnn l-S' h,Nr- 4ho 4,:D
Brown, Davis offered him one of the bottles.
After their return Davis and Huntsman had
long conversation under an apple tree in the
yard, partly, as she afterwards learned, concern
ing herself
During her stay Davis opposed her going to
Oregon and said he would be divorced from his
wife. He said she would soon die any way, as
her health was very bad. Davis told witness
that he had caused awful reports to be circulated
about her in order to get his wife to divorce
him.
She wrote letter to an East Tennesseean
named Keener last summer, also one to Tom
Jones, and in reply to the latter received an Of
fer of marriage.
Mr.. Seals took her to Rogersville, and She
talked to him of Davis wife. She did not state
that she and Davis acted as man and wife on
their way through Kentucky. She never had
IN her possession an immodest picture in which
one of her limbs was exposed, and which she
was asked if she did not send to Davis.
The counsel in his interrogatorieS going back
to the time when she was at Washington, she
stated that she never attended lectures or par
ties at Harmonic Hall while in Davis COM
pany.
Here there was some parleying with reference
to some proceedings in the Masonic Lodge, which |
witness seems to have caused to be instituted |
against the defendant, but the matter was drop |
ped without any thing being elected.
Davis told her that Major Cola had married |
his niece Witness was here asked what she |
meant by the words would meet him. in one |
of her letters to Davis after he left Washington
and she said: I'm order to marry him. |
She never sent any thing by mail under the |
frank of Mr.. Butler of Tennessee After pro- |
ceeding against Mr.. Davis, she became very |
anxious to hear from her suit while in Wash |
lngton' and as she had not for some considerable |
time received a letter from her counsel. Mr., |
Camp, she sought an interview with General |
Stokes and inquired of him if he had heard |
from Colonel Camp. General Stokes, at the |
time, was ranking some of his speeches and |
asked her to send some of them to |
her friends, which she did She also after
wards tore some of the franked enyelopes