The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-26
THE NEWELL SCANDAL.
NIB. SLAYER CONCLUDES HIS ARGUMENT IN
BRHALy OF Mr. NEwELL-coLoSxL EEL
LOWS REPLY on THE PART or Mgs.

NIB. sHArER CONCLUDES HIS ARGUMENT IN
BEHALy OF Mr.. NEwELL-coLoSKL EEL
Lows REPLY ON THE PART or Ngs
NEWELL.
The crowd In attendance At the Newell divorce cass
yesterday surpassed In numbers that OF any previous
day During the afternoon the door Of the adjoining
court room was kept open allow multitude OF tho
curious TO stand ,psos and catch the words Of tho
counsel who were summing UP. When Mr. shafsv
had concluded his argument in behalf Of dsfond-
ant Mr. Fellows rose In reply.
Mr. Shafer, In continuing lis address, asked whether
Il was the custom OF New York lawyers 10 spend
their evenings " the rooms OF their female
clients 10 prepare their briefs and other papers
Did not female clients generally visit thor Law
yers at their ofhcess AZ 10 Mrs. Newcl's caim
upon the Boardman estate no calculated, "Why.
q rich man can't afford to die nowadays lest dozen
persons como forward 70 claim his fortune. Further
on Mr.. shaior applied to Mrs. Newell the pleasing
epitnot OF an "unchained tgrexL" In regard TO tbe
discovery OF garment claimed to show indisputabie
evidence OF Newels guilt with Mss Olney tho
speaker argued how improbable IL that hus-
band would leave such o7dcnces Of guilt Tor his VITO
10 discover. Speaking OF Pickerng's character Mr..
Shaior's eyes flashed gared, AZ the Boston
lawyer, and no shouted a. him, "You. you may turn
up your much as you please iaus q ter-but
you could put mono OF your neshbors IN Charesowp.
Mass. ON tho stand to prove your good characterl"
Mr. Snaior concluded In isrvent appeal to tha jGry
to And verdict for tho defendant.
e COLONEL yRLLows REPLY. .A~
AZ quarterpast ono, after reoess Colonel Fellows
summed up In behalf Of the plaintiff, Mrs Newell
Ho alluded sarcascaly TO Mr.. Snaiers vehement de-
nunciaton OF tho press reports. Ladies' Of lame,
no said, had boon stlgmatized contemptuously AZ
.sMarm" Pollard and "Marm" Wheeler. II was noe
essary 20 strike down these witnesses and Pickering
lawyer whose reputation good ns that OF any
counsel engaged either sde Mr.. Fellows attacked
the witness Mary Campbell, the servant girl. Why
was she not produced upon the stand, and why had
her deposition 70 be read insteadY Because In five
minutes she would have broken down on the stand
Mr. Fellows said such things Mary Campbell had
described had never taken place Boston, In New
York. In Paris or even IN sodom and Co
morrah. The whole story, he contended, had
been manufactured out OF whole cloth un-
dor tho supervision OF the dotscsive, Heath,
who, Il was evidence, had been 10 Mary Camp
bell Heath was detective, he sad, employed by tho
BoardmAn heirs 70 hunt up evidence against Mrs.
Newell and who was paid from tne inexhaustibie
wealth OIL The Boardman estate. It was claimed that
MIA Noweil had attempted 70 take away The entire
estate from these heirs. This untrue. All she
had claimed moiely Of the estate lett her by tne
anu who had made his oLher heirs rich.
Mrs. NEWELL AND PIcKHRiNG
OF Mary Campbell no turned 10 the charge OF Mrs.
Neweips adultery with the lawyer Pickering. The
very presence Of Pickering on the stand be said had
boon bitterly denounced Ny the counsel tho other
SIDE. They had expected that Pickering who had
been Joined az co-dcIendant in Mr. Ncweips cross
acion and been charged with adultery with
his Client with tho respected friend and conndant
OF Plcxerng's vito, would told his hands ana
silent. IL was none OF the Jury's business what fck
erngs connection with ths case was long as tho
Judge had admitted his testimony ana declared that
PicEsrng's hps wore not sealed because OF auy pre-
vlous association BIO bad the parties counsel
Think you that Mrs Pickering would have sat here all
was her own nasSans .Ss. HANDED be.
70 take caro- OF hsr during his sSsenee. il was
claimed by the other side that thoro difference
eis relation 10 Miss Oiaey There was this vital d
forence--Pickeriag's relation 70 Mrs. Newell
accompanied lhsm 70 Saratoga Marlha's vineyard and
other places while Mr.. Nswss relation 70 MISS Oincy
her that tor the second sne having boon entirely
ignorant OF the nrst time) he going to take Miss
Onoy 70 Europe. Tue silent testimonyoi Mrs PicK-
erings presence here WAS complete refutaon OF This
MRS xrwELL's RELATION TO BoARDxAx.
MI FeiIows said that u had been asserted by the
other sido that her islsors TO Boardman had shown
deep love impossible that their
Ss~a 0o Only remained sS !. these q
love- but even now she was ready " declare 70 tho
World that she followed The msmory Of Tina dead man
such SACRED spot 10 nor ~ her rsmembranee
Of tho :, kindness aud love OF THIS old
ksrchief to nor Taco and Sobbod biz
tsriy.l She had loved th,s old man lar moro than
her husband, and yielded 10 him OF snoc Won
sho should nave for who her athcr. he had
read these letters carefully and no WAS prepared 10
say that woman wrote such letters 10 tho
who had betrayed ruined her. NJ. Follows spoke
Of the natural extravaganza OF Mra Ncwoiis nature
ana o. ner expressions IN wiring. sho could not
speak Of horse without speaking at once OF 'dear
h0rBc." Speaking OF her alleged assignations with
Boaramau, he asked why nobody had been brougnI
IRON Boston 10 testify that they had sosn Boardmsn
and her IN anything bus public place when there
were hundred thousand mon IN B0ston who knew
Boardmanf There nover was whisper Of . suspi-
that any Improperly existed botween lnsm until
u became necessary 20 rob hrA Newell OF the money
no had oeQuoathod Dor.
Sand venture to say" Mr.. Fellows Numbered out
'thst the who would stop down Into the uust OF
Boardman's grave, unDcna MS rigid nngsrs and
wrench aud steal from thcm She letters which he had
declared sacred ny hs last wish IN hls, would mot
hesitate to steal her money also"
Mr.. Follows had not concluded his argument whom
tho Court adjourned until this morning.