The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-09
THE MYSTERIOUS LADY
In the OIiyer-CamerOn Case.

De an important witness in the Oil
Cameron breach of. promise case
now on trial at Washington city. Sht
was placed upon the witness staac
one day last week, and developed
herself. We extract the following
from a report of her cross-examina
ton, from the perusal of which many
of eur readers will doubtless reco2
nize an individual known to them b.
reputation if not in person. We
copy from the New York Herald:
The cross. examination of Mrs. Hen,
riques was here taken up aud con
Quoted by Mr.. Peters. She wa
born in the stale Of Maine she was
sixteen years old when she left there
and removed with her husband t.
Philadelphia her first husband IS
name was George NJ. French: they
went to Philadelphia in the fall an6
left there in the following spring ::
her hu~ band went West and she
back TO her father; she joined
her huabaod in Mississippi; they
resided for some years iT that State;
be failing in business there in 1857
lhey then moved to Lyons, Ohio,
/
and afterward to Chicago; they
we're in that city off and on for
many years until 1879. her husband
being there part of the time; her
maiden name was Mary Alice Pratt;
Mr.. French is still living, but she
vas divorced some time since upon
ner own application ; she married next
Mr. GoingdIke, in Chicago, and he
lied in 1865; on January Is, 1868,
she married Josiah A. Sample in
Chicago; they lived in that city un-
il the January following, when he
ook her to Mobile on account of
her health; she lived there until
the last Of April, 1874, when they
vent to Warm Springs, n. c., from
there she went to Springfield, Mass.
TO get her mother and after a flying
trip to Chicago returned to the Warm
Springs; in October, 1874, she came
TO this city and rented house No.
,321 New York avenue and lived in
it until March, 1875, when she went
to Harmon, Ohio; she remained
there some weeks and then returned
to the Warm Springs; Mr.. Samples
is now living in New York, she was
divorced from him and came by the
name Of Henriques honorably, she
ought to have in her possession the
contract of separation drawn be-
tween her and her husband, made
at Warm Springs before the divorce
was obtained, but had mislaid it
she finally went TO Raleigh and en-
tered suit for divorce from him and
lie ran away he came to this city,
hired some negroes to testify
6 gainst her in her absence on the
charge of adultery, of which charge,
as God,was her judge, she was in
uocent, and obtained divorce she
married Mr.. Henriques in PhiIadel.
phia in 1876; they went to Califor.
MIA aud lived together for a few
weeks and then separated; he was
still her husband; he was poor,
old and invalid, aud as he had .
d eceived her at the time Of the mar.
riage they mutually and calmly .
agreed to separate; she thought it
rather bitter pill TO be compelled /
to live with another invalid she had
just been freed by divorce she first
met Henriques during the Centenni-
al he rOomed at her house in Phila,
delphia at that time when she was
III Springfield, Mass, with little
money left her she went to San Fran
c SEQ and bought herself a piece of
land and built house upon it.
Mr.Peters-Well, madam, who did
you get this money from?
Witness-I shall not tell you; it is
none of your business.
Mr.. Peters-Do you object to tell
ing
Witness-I came by it honorably,
and did not blackmail anybody to
get it.
The Court-Well, we will go no
further in that direction.
This witness continued at some
length, detailing events of her own
history and declaring that misfor-
tunes had happened her by reason of
blackmailiag operations. She teld
Mrs. Oliver that if she (OliveDcarried
out the threats she had made. and if
il ever came to a trial witness would
come into Court and testify against
her, and she had done so. At the
conclusion of her testimony the
Court adjourned until tomorrow.
Died, in Washington. D. c.. 4th,
the Forty.fifth Congress. "Nor far
t1er seek its merits to disclose, or
draw its frailties from their dread re. ;