Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-23
TEE FkkASL BUT FAIR
Mrs. GIISer. who 10 The Weaker % the
Two Principals in the Scandal
that Now she TOpIc or
ihe Time Ia. Wash
fngtOn.

MIS-. Oliver. IN the course of her testimony
in the suit che has against Ex-senator Simon
Cameron, OF PeGnsy lyaEia, gave the facts OF
her lite In the following terms: Ii was at
New Orleans that she gave Mr.. Cameron
history Il herself. Shs told him that she
was depending upon a lady in that city for
home; that sha was once IN better circum-
stances, bot had lost everything. When she
was .:i girl, she ,eHt 10 live with Mrs.
Oliver .; L'-.svIlie, Kentucky, and she sent
her to SO school ksot BE- Rev. Br. Bro IN.
Mrs. divers son kept her in q private rCom
IA the house, ard promised h marry her but
had q vie living. Alter she related her his
tory 10 Mr.. Cameron, be told her to keep lG
to herself, and that she should come to WASH
i1gtou. lie would introduce her as the
daughter Of Commodore Stuart, and a widow.
Mrs. divers son was named Thomas Mar
shall Oliver She told Mr. Cameron hat they
had lived rs man and wife, and that she had
two children by him. She lived with him
from 1874 up TO the time the divorce was ob-
tanned from MS wife, aud the judge told her
that it divorced her aiso. She told Mr.. Cam
eron at the time she lived with Oliver he
had d wife living. After the divorce
Oliver lett ard size never saw him again
SIZE was born in Ireland, and was a descend
ant OF the Alden family. Her father was
once d general, but had become reduced 10y
circumstances Her father gave her TO a
family namei Stuart, living at Petersburg,
Virginia Mrs. Diver took her to Raleigh,
North Carolina, and afterward to Louisville.
Kentucky. She attended school at convent
at Cedar Grove, k7ntu ky. She told Mr..
Cameron that a lady IN New Orleans who
had Lost her husband by yelio viewer wanted
her TO live with her. MIR. Cameron said he
might make New Orleans his home at some
future day, and wanted her to come with
him. She thought that she would like him,
because lie was kind and gentle. tier first
meeting with MIR. Cameron was in 1874. She
saw him about the Marshall estate, ard it
beng a claim against the United States, she
thought thai he would take some interest in
it. Her visit n+rth at that time was to see
her daughter, who was IN u convent at Phila-
Gelphit She spoke to Mr.. Cameron about
it. and ask his a:sis,a see to get her away.
The marriage ceremony between her and Mr..
Oliver was performed by Mr. divers book
keeper Ia the ufeseLce Of Mrs. Oliver. Sac
asked Mr. Cameron il it was legal, aud he
said that if she had net seen Mr.. Oliver
since the war the G. remODy amounted
to nothing. She tben returned to New
Orleans Qcd wrote him Immediately,
but nothing was said about love aGG marrl-
age. number Of letters passed between
them and then Mr. Cameron came to New
Orle rs with senatorial party. She knew
he was a senator from Pennsy wanna, but did
not think that to re a senator from PennsJl
vania was a great deal. She knew that he
had beer secretary Of war during the rebel
lien, but did not tllnk that was much. She
knew that lie went as mia !ster to Russia. but
beiog in war times she knew very little about
it when be went 10 New Orleans she saw
him at the ST Charles bot |. He sent a mes
sepger for her, and she went directly to hIm.
She went Into the par!or. There were a
Eumper of gent,emeB there, but they left,
- p ~, -
then thai she made the disclosure as to whom
al d what she was ard be made the promise
10 pass her OFT az Com cdoTc S;uart's dauGh-
ter. He agreed 10 20 into that deception the
second time he ever saw her, and after she
had told bim OF her past life, and make her
has wife. That was as tue as anything she
had worn to. The marriage Contract was
not even sealed with kiss. She had never
worked il a New York; Masonic reaalia store,
nor had ever met fhCmas n. Oliver in that
CITY, at That factory, or at an designation
house III tuat city, nor die he aiterH ard send
her to Louisville. Kentucky. She
was IN New York ia 1874; had been in Mon
t'eal, but not IN Qlebec. She had never
lived under The name OF Mary NJ 'Caffery. and
nd not give It 10 Oliver as her name. Ste
did hot tell him that she landed With her
father at Qlebec, and then went to Montreal.
She 6rst met Oliver at Petersburg, Virginia,
IN 1852. His mother, himself his nephew
AID witness went to Louisville together. Ii
he were not her husband, then she never
had one. No tombstone was put up III a
Louisville cemetery by her. She saw one
that had reference to her; it was the grave
Of her baby, Tommy. On il was the inscrip
ton ''Son of Thomas NJ. and Mary Z. Oil
yer. Age ten months" ar. Oliver put it
up, and 1t was IL aysspectahe burial ground.
II was put up with her Knowledge and con
sent. For several years she was looked upon
lawful, because be had a wife living when
he married the witness, who was young at
the time and did not know anything about |
the former marriage She would net ike 10
attempt 10 tell her age; she could not DO it to |
a certainty, but supposed that she was not |
lived with AIRS. Oliver until she insisted that |
! must live By myself Ny husband then got |
me a home in the Preston Road but ia lit
tie while his mother came to live |
with US. | overheard Mr.. Oliver |
reading a letter to his mother, saying: |
Frances is not dead or insan b. and has left |
the asylIm; what will | do?" | then re-
wife was dead. He said that he would get a
divorce, and arrange it with me. He tfen |
left me and went to Lexington, Kentucky, |
where be married some one else. proceeded |
to New Orleans to find some distant relatives,
but discovering that they were pc n, did
rot make myself known TO them. | then
went In search of my daughter, who was
found in u convent at DAYTON, Ohio, where |
eft her, and returned TO Louisville. Their |
went to Richmond, Kentucky, and there D.
w. Ewing wished to bring suit against Mr..
Diver for bigany, and wanted me for a wit
ness, but | declined having anything to do
with 1t. Then | went to New Orleans agar.
he first time that | saw Mr. Cameron was
1t the Congressional hotel in this city. l did
not tell him that was jast from the south,
.ithout money, and wanted 60 go to Pbua-
ieIphia to see my daughter, nor did he give
ne FIVE dollars. | never claimed to have lost
otton by the war, or tried to get persons TO
wear to losses sustained by NE.