Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-03-26

Yesterday. before Chief Justice Cartier, In
the Circuit Court, the case OF Oliver agt. Cam
eron-the action brought by Mrs. NJ 8. Oliver
agt Hon. Simon Cameron for breach Of promise
OF marriage, alleged to have been made on the
7th Of December, 1915, for which $4,000 dam
q Peter and B. J. Darneille and Mr.. Toney lof
Kentucky for plaintiff; Gen. b. T. Butler ana
MessrS. W. A. Cook and A. G. R1doie iof oe-
PENDANT.
MEDICAL TESTIMONY. ..,.
DR.. ID. W. Bliss continued his testimony aaen
our report closed, ana on ,,t SSce and gave
her no medicines, but did give ner q, ao w e.
TThe doctors testimony was much OF IL OF
character which IenHe es Women stood
on tip.toe In the crowd in the courtroom 10
heart 1t n1ay however, p TSe 59G dea
Gentlemen stuck it out like TrojanS.l
TESTIMONY AS TO THE HANDWRITING OF THE
PROMISE LETTERS.
+ NJ Foster testified that he lived in Harris
buro: had known Mr. e. Intimately all his life,
and knew his handwriting. Witness examined
the Brtstow letter, and pronounced IL genuine
The letter Of Sept. 5th, or 25th, was produced,
and witness said it was not in Gen. C.'s hand
writing. Witness then explained the diner
ences In the letters The other letter produced
was not In his handwriting. Witness Is lnSur-
ance commissioned OF the state.
samuel F. Barr, private secretary OF Mr.. Cam
eron for sixteen years, testined tnat the Two
disputed letters were not written by Mr.. Cam
General Butler sought to make evidence of
the Psfer eected fiat the original letters
were here and copies were not admissible, and
photographs were not always exact.
objects were not true pictures OF things as seen
by the human eye. No two signatures of the
same man would look alike when magnified;
and yet here only two signatures one genuine
and the other said to be spurious are enlarged
Now OF course they differ-all signatures differ;
but this magnified difference Is here presented
as proof positive that the two did not come
rom the same hand
The Court.-That will be an argument to the
jury. Upon proof that these are photographs
Mr. Toney.-We waive proof that they are
photographs.
MIR. Barr, resuming, testified that Mr. Came
punctuation, and in dividing by hyphen at the
end OF line on the syllable.
LOBBy-wOMEN, ETC.
Witness was asked If it was true, as stated by
Cameron In compounding drugs, &C., ard had
given him {Mr. Barr some. He asked to reply
at length, and said that after he came to be
Mr.. Cameron's secretary his committee room
was beset with lobby women, women of light
character &C, but witness cleared them all out.
and gained the reputation OF being "bear."
Never heard any thing Ill OF Anna Davis knew
that she is not Mrs. Cameron's cousin.
MR.. CAMERoN's MESSAGE.
Cross-examined. = Witness never saw Mr..
Cameron speak to Mrs. Oliver: never saw Mrs.
IL
before the present that witness had seen Mrs.
Oliver was when she insisted upon entering the
committee room just as the committee was
Cameron, "This lady is very anxious to see
you, sir, and you had better send her a mes
sage" Tel her." said Mr.. Cameron, to go
Mr.. Peter.-Then she went to the lawyers.
Gen. Butler. She went to Vaudeville.
Laughterl
THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN COURT TO-DAY
This morning the crowd came into court
slowly, but the room gradually filled The only
lady present besides Mrs. Oliver was the mystic
riOus woman who has been about the court
house for some days; and, by the way, she was
the name OF Mrs. NJ. A. Henriques She is of
medium height, rather slender, with small fea-
lures, dark hair and dark brown eyes, and was
slashed with silk, over which she wore seal
skin jacket, and hat of the same material In
her ears hung diamond drops, and on her bosom
she wore yellow rose bud. she appears to
and 1t Is said she has been well acquainted with
Mrs. Oliver; and it would be inferred. from the
apparent disinclination Of Mrs. Oliver to recog-
nize her, that there is no love lost between
them.
This morning some of the court officers
identified her as the defendant in the case OF
Josiah A. Sample against Mary A. Sample, filed
Sept. IA, 1915, In which decree of divorce was
awarded the plaintiff On the eth Of December
following, Oh the ground OF adultery. 1t az
were married I'm 1869, at Chicago, and lived TO-
gether until the list of May, 1874, On which day
plaintiff charged she deserted him, and he
vember, 1874, with one Major Burns. The petf-
ton was filed by T. Fl. n. Mcpherson. and Mr.
X. s. Davis appeared for defendant, but no tes-
umony appears to have been taken by her, or
by Mr.. j. N. YZnaga. Three of the witnesses
were employed by her at different times. Some
OF them were In the house on 9Th street, near
the Police Court. 1t is claimed by her that this
case was like the case now pending-a put-up
job.
A SINGULAR STORY
This morning Mrs. Oliver was the object of
notice by some parties employed In one Of the
executive departments who thought they
ldeDtined her as the woman who recently made
a remarkable statement to the Secretary OF
the Navy. They were almost certain she is the
same. They state the woman In question gave
the name OF Mary Oliver, and that for several
departments that her daughter had been
spirited away from her and placed In Catholic
convent, that after several years search she
as n,d 9to,e snat sae had been placed on
and taken down to the coast of North Carolina
and house had been built In the forests where
she was kept as prisoner. She insisted that
daughter away 1t was the duty OF the govern
ment to use L. S. vessel to assist her in OBJ
tanning the custody OF her child. Some parties
directed her TO first apply to the Z. s. marshal
OF North Carolina, and about two months
since she wrote that Official and received
very sympathetic letter, asking for further
particulars. Some OF the officials came to the
conclusion that the woman in question was
harmless lunatic.
ANOTHER WITNESS WHO PRONOUNCRS THE PRO
MISE LETTERS FORGERIES.
Hon. John w. ktllinger testified that he had
represented the Harrisburg district In Congress
Tor six years; has known Mr. Cameron and his
handwriting. He Identified the BristoW letter
as Mr.. CamerOnS, and said the two others were
not written by Mr.. Cameron. On cross-exami-
nation witness said that he would have tden
tilted the Br1StOW letter without the signature
The others were counterfeits; the writing did
not simulate MFR. c. s with accuracy
AND ANOTHER
Gen. + Fitzgerald Beale testified that he had
known MIR. Cameron 80 years; for the past Is
years quite intimately: was confident That the
Bristow letter was written by Mr. Cameron
and that the others are forgeries.
TESTIMONY OF AN EXPERT THAT THE ,ETTRas
ARE FORGERIES.
Jas. H. Saville testified that he had made the
subject OF handwriting careful study, eSpe-
c1ally when he was in the Treasury. Examined
the letters, and said If the BrIstow letter was
genuine the others were fOrgeries and vulgar
ones He explained from his examination of
the photograph OF the BristOw letters the pen
mark Is heavy on the right, showing that fhe
pen stock inclined to the right. The other let
ters did not show this all through, the pen hay