The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-22
A CELgBRATED CASE.
Verdict In Novel suit-A Question OF
Facts Retu cen the Parties.

NEW YoRK, October 2l.-In the suit o
Charles Dean against Theresa P. Bell, tc
recover for services as her escort and Gus
todian Of her diamonds during a trip tc
Europe, the jury in the Supreme Court
Circuit gave plaintiff verdict for 81 200
He is youth OF effeminate manners, with
graceful moustache, and scar upon the
left side Of his neck. He left Mrs. Bells
household in the summer OF 1878. Soon
siterward he began suit against her in
Kings county TO recover compensation toi
services rendered. Ills complaint set forth
that she engaged him in San Francisco to
accompany her on her travels as an escort
and protector. Among the duties which
he performed was to carry her diamonds,
lsok after her luggage, and obtain com.
Portable apartments ior her. He alleged,
also, in his complaint that in thisan other
cities, for the sake OF convenience and
to ward of inquiries as to his relation to
Mrs. Bell, she represented him as her
brother, not only at hotels, but also at
private residences, and to persons with
whom she became acquainted at enter
tainments. The complaint declared that
for all these services Mrs. Bell agreed to
give him proper compensation, but she
dismissed him from her employment in
Paris, France, suddenly, and without re-
deemipg her promise. Dean, therefore,
claimed that be was entitled to S. 900
The defendant appeared in court richly
dressed In brown silk robe and a mag.
niticent camel's hair shawl. Her features,
remarkably haggard in woman twenty.
six years Of aye, were partly concealed
by heavy brown veil wound around her
hat and allowed 10 hang over the upper
part OF her face. Mrs. Bell said she never
employed Dean, but, on the contrary,
picked him up and took him into her
lamily out OF charity. She met him in
San Francisco, where she was introduced
TO him by her cook or housekeeper. He
was in difficulty, and visited
the house to get his meals, which
the cook gave him in the kitchen. lie wss
nice young man, who made himself very
pleasant TO her children, so she tolerated
him. She started East, aud met Dean up
on the train. He was travelling East with
man named Hook. He spent great
deal OF time in her stateroom, and when
they arrived in New York she was a party
to a plan by which he was to register
under the name OF Davis at the Astor
House, in order to evade Hook, with
whom he bad a dispute. She continued
to pity him, and finally determined, by
taking him to London, 10 help him in his
search for friends, among whom he emu.
nerated Nine. Anna Bishop. ASS return
for this kindness, she only required that
he should perform petty services fol her.
She took him, not only 10 l.oudOn, she
said, but also to Paris. There his manners
became 40 offensive that she ordered him
to leave her apartments and remain away
from her. Again plying him, however,
she gave him y ticket to return to San
Francisco, and 500 francs In money. Mrs.
Bell denied positively that she ever repre-.
sented Dean as her brother, but admitted
that she knew be had made such repre-
sentation, and that she did not take the
trouble TO correct it.