The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-21
MRS. DIVERS SUIT.
Some More of the Widows Let
ters.
A Receipt i'm Full for All Her
Claims Against the Ex-senator.

WASHINGTON, March 2o.-In the oliver-Cameron
case number of letters were submitted to Mrs.
Oliver which she admitted having written. In them
she demands Of Mr.. Cameron $75 position or $4,000
In one she says: 81 am in the house Of a minister
The same pous protection surrounds me now had
last winter, and hope you will have respect for my
feelings" She thinks Of taking harding house,
and asks if he can send her boarders She wishes he
had never let Annie Davis into his secrets about her
self and assures him that she, Mrs. Oliver Is the
only friend he ever had.
In another letter she says: II am sorry am CON-
PEELED to act against you, but am lone orphan and
God will not suffer any one to impose upon me to the
extent you have without using His help to assist
me-" She complains of Annie Davs's in fuence
over him. and says That people were afraid to inter-
fsre With that person, adding: "She tells them she
can get them in office, your name, has it for
byword but you least suspect it. My number is 3lS
Pennsylvania avenue. When leave here expect
to retire to a convent
Another letter is addressed to Senator Don Cam
eron and exp esses desire to hear from him the
subject Of settlement. Its postscript is as fol-
lows:
Some day. your papa will remember me. love him
the same. i would have made him happy. know
wonld. If went to Europe with your papa I
could introduce him to the nobility and show him
the castle where my rel, lived in Scotland tan Even
in my behalf, and had your papa tIeate1 me well you
would DO the first today in the Cabinet and our next
President
Ia another letter to Simon Cameron, she says pi-
ously:
WHEN do come up in the court intend, with
God help to succeed in the defense OF my reputa-
ton. l snail die before shall tail in that The mo
reputation thai mouemt those who 90 il shall suffer,
for God Will nefend me- 1t is yout duty as Chris
tan t. protect this poor Miss Davis know nolh-
ing about her only hear che is an orpha0, UNDER
stand, like myself, and as cannot have he happi
ness nov ever again to hope to be with you, hope
the Five or
in this life and IN the next whence we all are hurry
ing If the settlement is made am going to live in
Florida and to be able to pray for your peace
with our Redeemer.
In one of the last communications she invites the
Senator to be married privately and then she will
settle the suit If he does then the President and
Stanley Matthews intend helping her, but she cares
more for the Senator than tbem and desires settle
ment. Again she asserts that it is not bis money
| she wants but himself. Finally she as ks Mr. Gamer
on to marry her privately, and promises that if be
will do he take possession of the whole South,
| and the Southern people will adore him.
Sheadmitted siguing receipt for $1,000, from ST.
mon Cameron ia full for all claims for which she
made on him. She had passed under the names Of
Craper, Keefner, Stewart Buker and Oliver, and on
one occasion wien calling on Cameron at the Con-
gressional HOTEL she introduced herself Mrs. Gen.
| Sherman.
| The cross-examination closed this forenoon.
PlainIfs counsel offered in evidence the two let
tiers previously published purporting to have been
written by Cameron, IN one of which be promises tc
take her to quiet place. provide for and protect her
| and in the other tells her she shall Re his wife,
Gen Butler objected to this introduction first he.
| cause it had not been proven that Cameron ever
wrote them and secondly because his side has not
| been given an opportunity 10 examine them. He
proposed 10 prove by the strongest possible evidence
| That these letters were merely forgeriss.