The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-02

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: and statrways were crowded with anyinn
: aud Interested people. women Ii well .
men were mingled In The lam. ali NJ fhe,,
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: scandalof1s ease. EsFf SO II 4 1.rI &
q e<a5 THE FAIR PRISONER. ss 1919 s3...3
The defendant, Catharine Waller aha,
Cafrae al. kent ok0s Carrie n. Waite, ,Hst
, attended by her counsel, Byron D. EyeriiI
and her father-in-law and mother.in.sy. Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Waite, and another lady
She Is shout thirty years of age, with pale
conntenauce and firm and resoiute expires.
sion when at rest. Her hair is dark, and
was dressed in Pompadonr style. She an.
| peared cool and collected, and used pair OF
gold.bowed eyeglasses in surveying the large
audience in attendance. She was neatly and
flshionably dressed. AS the case proceeded,
her usually pale face became flushed, but she
betrayed no sign of ,tneasiness.
TIRE ALLEGED HUSBAND NO. l.
Mr.. John Waller, who claims to have mar
ried this woman in Pictou, n. S., in May,
1862. came in and sat beside County Attor-
ncy Charles +. Libby. lie is about thirty
years Of age, but looks somewhat younger,
with medium forehead, mutt0n.chop Whis-
kers, and mustache. His two children,
! whose mother be states Mrs. Waite to be,
SAT beside him.
THE OPENING PROCEEDINGS OF TIE COURT.
| Inc jury was soon empannelled, and is
composed mostly Of middleaged men, who
VIII undoubtedly consider the case with due
| wisdom and Justice. The prisoner was
placed outside the bar so as to be in full and
| near siSht OF jury and witnesses, that the
| latter might be more certain as to her iden.
| tity. The Indictment was read, CHARGING
| that CalEatine Waller, alias Carrie NJ. Kemn'
| alias Carrie ii. Waite, on the 10Th of Nav
1862, married John Waller at Piclou, Nova
| Scotia, and Oh April "a, 1SI3,-her husband
| living and no divorce having been granted
to either party and no seven years. separation
cccurring-shc was married to Edward f.
| Waite, of Portland, feloniously. knowingly,
and unkiWfuily committing the crime Of
bigamy.
County Attorney Libby opened the case
| for the Government, in substance stating
that he expected 10 prove that tue maiden
name Of the defendant was Ca'ilarine Me-
Kenzie, and that in May, 1862, when about
| sixteen years Of age, she married at Iictou
John Waller, young farmer in moderate
circumstances, and unacquanted much with
the ways of the outside world. They lived
| together seven years. Two children were
| born to them, who were Eow in court
two boys, eleven and seven years Of age.
In November, 1860, Mrs. Waller came
| to The States to earn money to furnish her
house better, but against her husbands earn
est circumstances, although he fiua!ly
yielded. Arriving in Portland she took the
name of Kate Waller, and sometimes called
! herself Kate Wallace She afterwards went
to Boston, and returning here, took the
| name Of Carrie M. Kent, and refused to re-
coguiZe people who called her Kate Waller
or Wallace, but spoke of cousin Kate wal
| lice, who, she said. had died here. She mas
told dilferen. stories rs to her origin and
early history, among others that she left
| Nova Scotia because
! HER MOTHER WANTED HER TO MARRY A FRENCH
| MAN;
| that she was IN orphan. born in England,
and had come to Truro, il Nova Scotia, with
her uncle and orphan brother; that her
father was large manufacturer in Truro,
and after his death her uncle had robbed her
of her Inheritance. During the years of her
absence from Nova Scotia November 1869 TO
July 1879 she continued to correspond with
her husband, John Waller. In July, 1873,
less than three months after her marriage
| with Waite, she made visit 10 Truro,
ostensibly to see her uncle, she said but
| that she passed on to Pictou and remained
four or five days as Walters wife, and was
seen, known, and recognized ny her former
| acquaintances there. After her return to
| Portland, Waller heard that she had married
again, and lie came on and asccrtained such
was the clse, and she was arrested and Is
now on trial.
During the address Of the county attorney
Mrs. Waller was calm and seE-p0sSesSed,
and withstood the searching gaze of the
audience with complete nonchalance. Mr.
John Waller, the husband, was the first wit
ness examined this afternoon, and his testi-
mony was substantially rs stated by the
county attorney. He positively identified
| the prisoner Us his wife. hirs. Holden next
testified that she was sister OF the prisoner,
and also most cmphatcally identified her as
| the wife OF Waller. The case will continue
several days, and excites the most intense
| interest YOrh Herald.