The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-28
THE NICHOLS DIVORCE;


ANT-THE CELEBRATED SUNDAY AT THE
METROPOLITAN HOTEL SAID TO BE A MYTH
IcAL STORY.
BRfpGEPoRr, Conn.,, March 81, 1877.
The Nichols divorce which has attracted 50
much attention months past was continued In this
city to-day The local interest which strongly
manifested at the opening and for some time there
after seems to be OH the wane Fcw wore In attend
ance. to-day, beyond tho immediate relatives anu
friends OF tho parties
Mr.. Thomas C. Lyman, whose name has been so ire
qucnty introduced during the trial. was present aud
apparently made many suggestions TO counsel
Sunday the 5.h of March, 1876. is one Of the
crisis days Of this case, for ON that DAY u
is claimed by the friends OF Mr.. Nichols that
Mrs Nichols lett tho Remsen House. Brooklyn where
she was boarding. crossed tho ferry and was driven
up Broadway, where, In company with Mr. Lyman,
she stopped the Metropolitan Hotel and remained
come time. This, they claim, has bad look II not
disproven but on the other side II Is denied that any
such transaction took place To rebut testimony on
that point tho first witness called to-day was
MISS SARAH wnirxgYER,
who was formerly a seanstress in tho service OF Mrs
Nichols She was somewhat prepossessng in appear
ance-hght complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair,
and told story without my seeming Fermentation
that she lived with Mrs Nichols before she
ieil her Seventy-iourth street residence. in
JSSDrsy 1870 1ad Mna Son"s
the Rcmscn House, corner OF kemsen ana Cllnscn
streets Her rooms were ON the third hoor, on me
corner and witness being In the Same rooms naa Tue
best OF opportunity all that was going on she
said the house nearly all the time, never being ao
sent ore than halt day 1T time, and only went 70
church In the evening sunday. On Sunday, the 9Th
OF March, at the Kemson House, and Is sure Mrs
how many Dcrsons lived at the Rcmsen House-it was
u boarding house for gentlemen and ladies, and there
might have been fifty hore At the time Ars Nichols
times gong before lunch and sometimes after,
and only on one occasion was she absent
and then she wen, to her mothers IN
Southport. Witness said she never went OUT witn
Mrs Nichols but once that she could remember aud
then they called at her uncles, Mr. Beers in johnson
place. Never to New York with her Said she had
often seen men watching IN front u the Ksmse SCI,
Mrs Nichols 10 leave the house ana De
followed She had been 30 followed herself number
OF times she Was dressed In mourning but did not
wear a scaskin sacque nor long lace veil MIS-,
Nichols attended morning service at 81 Thomas
Church. she SAID, in Fitty-thlrd street. New York,
when her health would permit, during their stay ut
the Renson House. but was generally home by three
O'Clock, The sunday she s.aid homo al Soy a no
Sabbath IN February she said that Mrs NICHOLS re-
turned from church, and said che had seen her nus
band on Fifth avenue aud Forty-fOurth street, ana
that was about month utter they parted witness
continued to live with Mrs. Nichols until October last
accompanied her to Southport during the SUMNER
and was confident she could not be mistaken IN her
testimony concerning villa. occurred Sundays or
"A' CHARLES y. yuExeLxa
was the noxt witness lilo resides ut No: sos Ninth
avenue Is brewer Dy occupation ana works ior !. "
across one street from his house he occupies, with
his family the first door aud basement OF the house
and Mr.. Jones the floors above. This W.T.
ness rove a long account Of matters ana things
IN general speaking oil his rheumatic trouoes' MS
break fast dinner and supper hours ana now MT. ny.
man, his employer, came TO see him during severe
Illness One front entrance he said, was used BY all
the occupants tho house and he was very confident
that Mrs Nichols in the house while he was
there An affidavit oil
NARY JONES
which was then reid stated that the upper floors OF
No 1913 Ninth avenue were occupied by hersei ana
son and his family and she was perfectly clear IN her
mind that Mrs Nichols never came 10 that mousse was
very that Mr. Lyman was never N that part OF
the house she occupied. She described the diIerent
rooms how they we're furnished and used. sho was
absent from home but lito and not at all during Octo
Der and November. Had the malaria lever then and
was confined 10 the house DR. Everett attended her'
n brother OF T. c. LYMAN, was examined in reference
to the Yacht Estela and some excursions 10 1877
Nelson Kitchen wss then sailing master ana Richard
Godsoe steward. The first excursion was upon invita-
ton OF his brother, about the LIST OF June 1872 ON
Sunday, the party consisting OF the agents
yacht lay ut the loot Of Thirty-ourth street, North
River, all day Saturday, and GU Sunday they started
between nine ant ten CLOCK A. d. or oonsy isunu
noon and evening before Mr. 4. q. Lyman
was at the brewery. ON Sunday, two weeks after,
no wind and they made poor headway. They drifted
down 10 Governors Island, hoated around there
awhile and drifted back ut night with tho TIDE Soon
after that, witness said, the yacht was taken TO
Babylon, l.. i. =.
number of witnesses examined as to the
Yacht excursion and their testimony showed that the
witnesses tor the plaintiff were mistaken. Evidence
was given TO the character OF Kitchen, which
sbow cd that his character Objectionable.
WILTON CONN,
who testified IN relation to beng employed to watch
Mrs. Nichols the Remscn House. In the first place
ne said he Introduced 10 &. W. Brown, No
Al South Portland avenue, Brooklyn, by Charles
Frost, a detective belonging 70 the Brooklyn
Police Department. and by his arrangements
young man tn his house, when
an appointment was made at which the engagement 10
watch Mrs Nichols tho 9Th or 2Sth OF February,
1876 and continued watch every day for some time
On Sunday, the 9th Of March, he was ON hand and
MRS. NICHOLS DID LEAVE THE REMsKN HOUSE
She had been pointed out TO him on the 9th or 18th
of February by the young man who employed him TO
watch and he was suro he should have known II she
had gone out
and watched viganty all day. SO az TO be sure on that
point Mr. Taylor WAS subjected TO searching ex-
animation but ne positive In his testimony that
on Sunday, March g, Mrc. Nichols did not go out II
was his business 70 wutch-it was that he was there
for-and he not the kind OF watchman to be
caught mapping At tho CONCLUSION OF testimony
Mr. Stoddurd read another lot Of depositions, after
which the Court announced recess until ten O'Clock
A. M Wednesday, when another batch OF evidence is
to be submitted
OBITUARY.