The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-31
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
Dashing Family Physician Relates
the Story of His AmOrous Friendship
In the Court Room.

brooklyn Special to the Chicago Times.l
Since Mr.. Beecher appeared in the city
court room here to answer Mr.. Tilton's
charges of Grim con, there has not assembled
in that historic apartment such throng at
this morning greeted Judge McCue as he
took his teat to continue the divorce
suit of Oswald Miller against his beautiful
young wife Margaret. The husband barely
% and the accused one barely 20, the two
look enough alike to be brother and sister.
In August last, as he alleges, he first sus-
pected her. and he began preparations for
the suit. As is usual in Brooklyn his coun-
sci asked that the case be sent to a referee,
but Judge McCue, who had noted within
the last two years an alarming increase in the
number of divorce cases, publicly announced
that in his opinion the public trial of few
of these must tend to diminish the number
as very few persons would long hesitate be-
tween the publicity of a scandal suit and
the inconvenience of domestic discord-re
fused to dispose of the suit in that manner
and ordered a public trial. The prosecu-
tons witness testified to a suspicious condi-
ton of affairs between the fair young
blonde and one Horton, who had frequently
| taken her riding, and with whom she
was said to have been seen by some of her
! husbands spies, in suspicious localities. DR..
McManus, the family physician, whose
visits to her seemed oftener than the condi-
| also under suspicion. 1t was alleged she
had been seen with HIM, too, in unsayory
| places. Yet, the prosecution had not es-
| tablished much of case, and this morn
| ing the young woman and her lawyers
walked into court with full confidence
depicted in every motion. They
| first showed that Miller's father had from
| the first opposed his sons marriage to Mar
garet, and that the elder Miller had offered
| SIC. 900 to the lawyer who would divorce his
| son from her. Horton then testified that he
had frequently been with her but never in
any other than the most honorable manner.
| So far so good but the climax was to follow:
.'Dr. McManus" shouted the court crier,
and the dashing, young, black-eyed, black
bearded, handsome physician took the wit
ness stand. Seating himself in the same
| spot and in Just such revolving chair as
| the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher took two
years ago. DR.. McMauus folded his arms and
| with the utmost composure glanced down at
| fair Margaret just as the great Ply
mouth preacher looked down on little Eliza
beth. There he sat, while Margarets coun-
sci red DR.. McManuss affidavit made in
| September last, in which he said that to the
best of his knowledge and belief, Margaret
was chaste and pure, He then testified in
velvety tones that he had not visited Mar
garet save in a professional capacity, and
| that she had never been with him anywhere
1 out OF QeT mouse. ne DtntNcQ SHE WIS q
virtuous, loving wife, and that the proceed
| ings were the result of a conspiracy to en-
rich lawyers and free the young husband of
a marriage alliance that was distasteful to
his parents, -
CDR. McManus," said the husbands coun-
sell in the first question asked on cross ex-
| animation, "have you ever had illicit ter
| course with this woman?'
Dr. McManus gave start, and Margaret
colored crimson. The witness did not re-
ply.
| inal intercourse with this woman? Answer
| me-"
Il decline to answer that question: re-
| piled the physician.
'Will the court direct the witness to
answer said the lawyer, addressing Judge
| McCue.
"The witness must of course answer the
inquiry" said the judge. Its proper
| question" 80 -.t....
DIR. McManus turned slightly in the re-
volving chair just as Beecher turned, under
William Fu,lertons penetrating questions.
Margaret raised her head and looked at him
with parted lips. The spectators held their
| breath and glued their gaze on the hand
some young physician. gfia
"Must answer2' he asked.
"You must" answered the Judge,
eyes sir, have repeatedly had illicit in
| tercourse with Mrs. Miller was the calm,
clear reply and the youthful Margaret cried
out in a most piteous tone "Oh, God, have
mercy upon my SOUL and then her by
sterical sobs rang through the crowded court
| room.
please state when and where" said the
| lawyer without tremor.
DR.. McManus then calmly and collectedly
| told how, visiting the young wife profess
| sionally in her home he was tempted by her
ravishing beauty She was the perfection OF
health. and needed no physicians prescrip-
tons. Hhe was magnetic. she enchanted