The New York herald., 1877-02-16
BRIDGEPORTS BUSTLE.

CONTINUATION OF THE NICHOLS DIVORCE CASE
MIR. FULLERTON DAREs MR.. DooLIrrLE TO
DO MORE.
Mrs. Nichols, shroudod sho was In a heavy, i'm.
pcnetrablc vc evinccd interest In tho proceed.
ngs Of the divorce trial Bridgeport yesterday than
on any previous day. As witness after another
appeared against her she turned round and gazed at
them In q striking manner. Mr. Nichols lady cousins
aud tho chambermald at the Metropolitan Hotel
seemed TO be the special objects o. her searching gaze
The themselves were fairly scorchcd by the
scornful withering glanccs OF Mrs Nichols friends
large number oil witnesses were examined by cx.
Judge Fullerton during the day. aud among them wcrc
batch OF New York policemen, whose stalwart forms
were conspicuous in the court room.
WATCHING STORE.
Mr.. G. +. Berry testified that Mrs. Nichols came to
his drug store, at the OF Ftyscvcnth street
aud Tenth avenue, and took position behind the
door wherc she could view Lyman house, and then
rushed out suddenly to meet Lyman He thought shc
bad been to his store about MY or sixty times, and
sworc positively to thirty times
Mr. Millbans stated that Nichols, alter his matri-
monial difficulties, became irghifuIly thin aud pale.
Nichols told him that he had slept for m8nths,
and he believed he had been poisoned.
Mr Doolittc Mrs Nichols counsel)--Didn't Il
10 you to ask hm II he hadn't had tlc nap In
those two montbsy u.aughcr)
Witncss-Ycs; bu: he rather insisted that he had
not slept at all for Two months U.aughtcr)
Here overybody's gaze turned with wonder upon the
champion sccplcss man OF the country, but Sir.
Nichols Just now looked remarkably wide awake
cHAMBEHMAiD's OBSERVATIONS.
Mary Anu Battcs. pale, buc-cycd, honcstooking
young woman, was the chambcrmaid a, The Mctropol-
tan Hotel that evcntfu 9Th OF March, 1876 wnon,
as previously testified, Lyman was driven there with
Mrs. Nichols from The South ferry, and there
occupied room l24. Shc narrated the crcun-
stances under which she observed the couple
IN IA tho door OF tho parlor connecting with
the room was half open and Mary Ann thought
she might as well peep IN; she stopped IN
front oil the door. but only Tor brei second, which
face TO face. She dcntincd Mrs. Nichols the lady
l2l but as she Is always heavily vcicd that nobody
cOud distinguish her Nr. UoOttc led 10
know where and how Mary Ann had been able TO
identity her. Shc said that yesterday evening Mrs.
Nlchois cit the court room she caught glimpse OF
her face. She was asked how near Mrs Nichols was
TO the place wnerc she was sitting now, and being
rather confused by the bcwildcrng cross examination
10 which she had been subjected she said sho did not
know.
Mr.. Doolittic-Was she within half mile OF ~
Mary Ann Qmpcrtincnty)-i don know. (Iaughter.)
IMMORAL HOUSE
John Maher, small, stubby, rcd nustached man,
assistant jantor at the Fifty seventh Street Police
of the house IN Wesl Fifty nrst street, which was the
object OF Paul Pry Edwin Fergusons observations
through opera glass he stood at the oi Fiy
first street Tenth avenue, with Officer Cottrc
nnc day when he Lyman whom he knew meet
Mrs. Nichols on the avenue and then they went into
! the house, he first, sho aitcrward.
Mr. Fullerton, who desired that the witness should
identity Mrs Nichols In court, said in subdued but
firm touc addressing Mrs. Nichols COUNSEL Seen
ticmcn, now must make request, respectfully Of
course, and that is that Mrs. Nichols remove veil
Al this point there was great nuttcr In the court
ROOM Mrs. Nichols trends hed whispered consul