Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-29
ATCHINsON VS.. ATCHINsON.
The Parties I'm Court and the Evi.
dence.

Following is a synopsis of the testi-
mony brought out in the Atkinson
case as given by a San Francisco ex-
change:
Mrs. Matte Atkinson entered the
Courtroom with a lady friend and the
latter's husband and led by the hand
= prettily dressed, blue eyed, golden
haired intelligent maid of 8, who was
none other than Nina, for the right of
the possession of whose corpus the pro-
ceediugs were Instituted. Mrs. Atchin-
son is a quite
YOUNG AND HANDSOME BRUNETTE,
With a lower facethe least little bit too
heavy and the upper the loast little bit
too light for thoroughly reliable love.
Illness. Her tall and graceful figure
was shown to the best advantage in a
black %pOlinaise dress with a prolonged
trail, which, when she moved about
the Court room, before proceedings
commenced, she could twirl around
herself in the most expert manner.
The injured husband is a young man OF
a pronounced blonde ty pc, but the en-
tire bald top of his head speaks more
eloqutntly than words of worse
troubles to his hair than the close hats
denounced by the great crusader, DR..
bio Lewis.
THE HUSBANDS EVIDENCE.
Arthur w. Atkinson was then sworn
and testified: / was married to the re-
spondent in May, 1867. We have
lived separate since the 10th or 18th of
February, 1878, and 1 formed the in.
tention never to live with her again on
the l2lh OF March. Tina. intention was
caused by the infidelity OF my wife.
By iptideiity | mean she was not true
to me. She was untrue by harboring
other men and being with other men.
| am convinced that she was guilty OF
adultery.
Q.-What acts do you know Of re-
s%poudent having done that make her
an unit person to have the custody of
the child
The Nevada Legislator replied in the
following neat sentence | saw she
and another gentleman kissing one
another on the 18Th or l4th of this
month. l saw this repeated. l have
also heard her i'm conversation Here
the witness told of the somewhat indel-
icate subjects his wife was fond of dis
cussing, and continued j: She va talk
ing tn one Mr.. ole. ! also heard Der
discussing the harmlessness of adul.
terry with Cole and a Mrs. Turyle. Cole
said to her that his opinion
of adultery was that it was
all bo-h, all nonsense. He said,
Il wouldn't have anything to do
with the wife Of man who was all
surd." he spoke Ironically. that is,
ne mean the opposite OF what he said.
Muir. Turvle said she rather liked
adultery. She was also smoking ci-
CARS aud cigsrritos.
b. NJ. Atkinson testified that in the
conversation alluded To by the proceed
ing witness. he had heard Matte Civ.
ing Mr.. Cole very glowing descriptions
of the shapes OF different women. She
described a young lady, from the ap.
pearance OF whose face IL might be sup
posed she was only a child, but OF all
b limbs Matte had ever seen, that
girls beat them. / heard Matte say
these things. and saw her motions.
Cole kissed each of the women twice.
Then he ven as far as the door, when
Mrs. TURTLE snatched his hat away,
and put it on her head. Then he did
some more kissing.
VERY DIRECT EVIDENCE.
VIM. F. Howe testified he had seen
respondent drink wines, liquors, ales
and SO forth. He said: Mrs. Durvle
was her bosom friend. l know Mrs.
ness then gave u specific narration of
mats of nri,asttr i,I,.t,aI in -, tba
respondent, her associate in crime be
ing George ID. Terry. on December
l4th, in her room He had also been a
witness to a similar scene, wherein
Mrs. Turvls and II. b. Slaven, "tha
drug store man." were the actors. in
little Mins's room, or January 3nth.
Mrs. Turvle went East on Monday
morning.
II. +. Bush corroborated the previ-
Gus witness testimony, having been an
eyewitness To the same scenes.
THE DEFENSE.
The respondent asked for a subpoena
for George J. Terry.
John 5. Capron, a real estate agent
of Eureka. testified to the excellent
aud unblemished char acter of Mrs.
AtcbInson while IA resident of Eureka.
She associated, he said, "with the first
families OF E~ureka-the upper crust"
William p. Haskell, also OF Eureka,
corroborated the evidence of Capron.
James c. Zabriskie testified to his
acquaintance with Mrs. Atchinson
since her arrival at Oakland and to her
modest and lady like behavior and The
peculiarly excellent manner in which
she o care of her daughter.
Yesterdays dispatches gave the
child to the mother. A telegram in
to. days SENTINEL states that Ate him
son was acquitted of perjury.