, 1875-01-03
FfELD-KINSELLA SCANDAL.
Tho Testimony Before the Referee Secrets
from tho Lake George Hotels.
E1nsella and His Lady Friends Under
Assumed Names---No Defense
Offered.

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Assumed Names---No Defense
Offered.
From the 3eo York SUM-
One Of our Brooklyn scandals Was disposed OF
yester day before ex-Judge Greenwood. Mr..
Thomas ". Field, Superintendent OF Public In
struction, having sued Thomas Kinsella, editor
OF the Brooklyn Eagle, for $50, 900 damages to
his affections and home in betEaying his wife,
and the suit having been referred to Judge
Greenwood to take testimony, Mr. Field yaster-
day, with Lis lawyers. e1-Judee Emmott and
Mr. Joshua Il. Van Cott, went before the Raf-
cree to prove their case. Mr.. Kineella WAS not
in the room, but WAS represented by William G.
De Witt. the Corporation Counsel, and Mr. Win
chester Britton. When the motion was made to
send the case before the Referee, Mr. Knael1a's
counsel stipulated that il the decision WA adj
verse to them the damages should not be lees
than SIS, 900, and oE going before the Referee
they refused to consent to the presence OF re-
porte1s unless they we're allowed to annul the
stipulation. Mr.. Fields lawyers at length
agreed that the proceedings should not be pub
lished in detail.
M1. Emnott said that the plaintiff did not feel
it his duty to consent to private sessions On ac-
count OF tho name and character of his wife
whose character was to be investigated. Her
husband at one time would have done anything
to serve her. but that tins had passed, in the
Judgment of his counsel, and it WAS no longer
his duty to act with reference to her feelings.
There Was child to the marriage, however, and
there were relatives who should BE- spared any
disgrace that could be ayerted, and there were
the names Of persons in the correspondence
which they would be obliged to lay before the
Referee. For theae REASONS he wished that the
re- oTters should not attend. The plaintiff had
nothing to conceal and Was willing to be e1-
amiued aud cross-e1amined.
Mr. BRITToNs g REPLY.
Mr, Brittou, on bahaH Of Mr. kinsella, replied
that he wished tho testimony to be taken in
private to spare the feelings Of innocent par
ties. To do this his client jeopardized bis own
case. In his own good time, and IN his own
good way, 1fr- Kinsella would make his lnno-
| the plaintiff himself knows it to be. It IVES not
for his own sake that his client consents that the
| prosecution should go on to prove what 1t might
unopposed BY ansWe.lng testimony, but fcr the
sake of innocent persons- NY client, he ADDED.
| .t believes With belief as strong rs knowledge
that the plaintiff knows him to 10 innocent OF
the BETRAYAL OF the lady. As innocent OF it as ha
is determined to bs innocent ofany act that will
increase this scandal aud make It source Ut
suffering to innocent parties and to MS children
conclusion, said he should interpose 10 dafense;
that the plaintiff in making out his own e1 parte
case should submit it for decision on ex pafte
| testimony. He prsferred to abide by the decision
Of the Referee within the stipulation rather than
| to contest the Judgment in such way as to save
money ut the expense Of the feelings and fame
| Of Innocent women and children.
Judga Greenwood then courteously expressed
! to the reporters wish that they should not st
| tend, and the case was opened.
NR. FIELDS TESTIMONY.
| M1 Thomas ". Field Was the first witness.
| he testified to his marriage with his present
| wife and gave proof OF that marriage. De r.
lated lis acquaintance with Thomas hinsella. his
| friendship with hlm, how he introduced him to
| his wife, the circumstances Of their first meet-
ing. and the history OF their association up to
the date Of the discovery OF the crimina1 couuec-
ton Ho testified that in November, 1873, he
| went to Lake George to visit his wife. who had
| gono there on advice of her physiclan, and that
| On going to the cottage where she had been
| boarding he found her gone on an excursion.
| He broke open her trunk aud there found q large
| number OF letters from Mr. kinsella making ap..
! pointments and containing many expressions o. o.
| love and devotion. The iettera were sleneo " l.
T." He kept these letrers-
Tha letters were read by Judge Emmott in the
order in which they had been written. Mr. Field
answered questions relative to incidents men
| toned. Mr Knsella's counsel objected to the
| nsmes Of wall-anown perHons OF Brooklyn being
ID
| these well-known persons is the Rev. henry
| Ward Beecher Of whom Nlr. Kinselta Trites
| often as one Of his .best friends. Other public
/ men are mentioned, but their names are stricken
out. MIR. Field gave rambling testimony as TO
the pertinence Of the letters and their association
With the case, and they were submitted rs part
OF the case.
Judge Emmott then read the following testi-
mony. which was taken before Judge Isaac ].
Davis, 10 Glonns Falls, Warren County, N. r.
II T,Jr R.x7, ur3fa
mony to be taken de bena esse. Mr. Thomas J.
Dewitt represented Ar. KiDsella before Judge
Davis, and Mr. H. L. Burnett Mr. Field
WOMAN DRESSED IN BLUE.
The first witness Was Charles l.. Rockwell, one
OF tue proprietors OF the Rockwell House,
Glonp's Falis. Mr. Rockwell had his hotel reg
lister With him, which contained an entry On the
18th of November, 1873, OF ''T. Kingsley and
ladies'" He ssid that there were three IN the
| party, cua gentleman and two ladlea, who came
after breakfast the next morning. Ono OF the
| ladies was large. fns-looking woman, dressed
in blue, trimmed with Whito; the other ladJ WAS
small. with curly hair cut short; the gentleman
was about SO. He continned:
Shortly after they left here-ths next dsy, or tho
next but ope-I received note puEporting to como
from one Of the ladies stang that they would be heo
on Nov 49, and that they wished to engage roon o.
rnon,a With fire for that night remember the note
vas signed MIS-. A. R. sdles," and supposs il has
been destroyed in accordance with the custom OF ne
house They returned on Nov y 70 dinrer: iha
smaller lady Of the two Registered under ne pane
| Mrs, H. Il. Stiles and friend, Mddleton. n. T.; l
do moi remember whether their return to my hotel
Nov 49, The ree! Of tns Two s es ars ss
from the house, but cannot ssy to whom they ~ete
directed Tho first telegram Vas written In ths par
los a md @ ssa @ send i gne
mo tho money for It, It waa within Ave minutes 1tef
they arrived and one or two "efe sen.
rncted Beforo the arrival of this party 1t the Eock