Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24

Did she ever live in ST. Charles? Mrs. Proud
stated that she told her that she had come
| from st. Charles, where she had worked for 6
| banker, the plaintiff denies the statement
! what Is her name; who is she; what is to pre-
| vent her from fitting TO another town, where
| she may play the same game; far better TO pu
| a wild beast to roam on the world, than
character of this kind, with the fruit of hei
success In her hand. Why did she not 90 te
the house alone; no, Mrs. Shell had been hel
| shade in all her visits; it WAS she who went to
the lawyers; she who did the talking: she who
| asked MIR. Mead to take the case for 800. Then
| the talk about wages, the wages were $2l; the
retaining fee was 800.
The apology of the wages showed that
this had been case to extort blackmail al
| their silence; il was a bad and wicked attem OF
! to get a jury of Ramsey county TO endorse this
villainy and award the heavy damages
| Counsel detailed the scene at MIR. Billson's
| oilce and spoke eloquenily OF the dignifed
conduct of Mr. Billson 10 repelling the
| women. Did Mrs. Smell let up when the
wages were obtained? no, she gees to Mr..
Mead, who resented the charge as any
high toned man would have done; just as the
bar of the city and the newspaper reporters had
Done; what was the motive of these visits?-
hush money, lucre, blackmail. At last finding a
lawyer, MIR. Bradish, they get complaint.
Counsel reviewed in a graphic manner the
visits OF the women on their hunt for lawyer.
The stereotyped testimony of the plaintiff
and Mrs. Smell con cerning the answers given
by Messrs. Egan, Mead, Murray, Kiefer and
other lawyers, was cited as a peculiar feature
of the case, and counsel showed how absurd it
was to seriously consider such stories where
each was made to tell the same story in pre-
clsely the same language.
SARAH CAMP SMELL.
Addressing himself to Mrs. Smell, counsel
said that she was the moving spirit of the
prosecution; if paper was to be produced it
waa brought from the capacious pocket of Mrs.
Smell; if counsel wanted points on the case be
passed by the plaintiff and consulted Mrs.
Smell; and yet this is the woman who sympa-
thized with poor Mrs. Billson, who didn't
want punishment; who didn't at first tell the
mans name they were after; terror wss what
they wanted; to extract money at the expense
of their silence; at Mr.. Egans office the whole
talk of the girl was to settle the case with
money; she had pilloried herself as a most mon
umental liar.
Mrs. Smell was very ready to send the news
paper reporter to see the lawyer at Minneapo-
lis, yet she it was that was SO anxious to keep
from Mr.. Dunne, the GLOBE reporter, the girls
story; she it was who, after an interview last
ing into the night, insisted upon going TO the
Pioneer Press with the story. Mr.. Woolworth
had testified on this point. Here was the man
who had repelied these Infamous charges
with dignity, hrmness, manhood, and when no
doubt $50 would have purchased silence. The
crucial test of yeracity had been applied to the
person whose character had been suspected.
How the plaintiff had come out of the test you
know; how Mrs. Shell had passed the ordeal
you also know. 1t was one of the sad things
In the case to bring Mrs. Billson in court to
drag her skirts through such accusation.
There was the defendant Mis-. Billscn, Mr..
Murray, MIR. Kiefer, Mr., Egan, Mr.. Mead Mrs
Proud, Mr.. Woolworth, MIR. Dunno; they and
their veracity on the one hand, the statements
OF Victoria on the other.
guilty, weak or timorous man would have
yielded, and say that the courage OF Mr. Bill
son in resisting this attempt, and placing his
good name for time in pawn. and putting it to
the conversation of the streets and submitting
1t 10 the drunken, restless and uneasy spew
and vomit until he could be vindicated. The
man that has the courage to do that in any
community deserves its credit and approval if
he is right.
There are certain things that come out occa.
sionally in the administration of justice which
shows that society is not what its surface
seems. In every great city-partiaily SO in
this city-but in every great city, under every
fair and stately street. decked with trees and
glorious with marble, there runs correspond
ing street uuder ground, ramifyiDg throughout
the city, and underneath it the sewer. Above
is the pure air. the stately buildings, the lovely
trees, the rolling equipages, the luxury of
ciety; beneath are the under-drains, the under
world OF that institution; occasionally there
are the man-holes and places for the escape of
miasma and this trial demonstrates that be-
meath the stratum of society in this city there
is moral sewerage running under every
house, tapping it, draiaing it, and coming to
place where its miasma and pestilential
fumes can bubble up to poison the atmosphere
Of the court room, and to blight the reputation
as it is sought to be here.