Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-17

THE HORTON-MORaiAN SCANDAL.
Testimony Of the Plaintiff in the Suit for Dam.
IageS
SOME INTERESTING LETTERS.
It was mentioned in The STAR Of last week
that the case of Lucy w. R. Horton against
John H. Morgan, son of Senator Morgan, action
for seduction and breach of promise, some testi-
mony had been taken. This was at the Office Of
Aessrs. Cook Cole, plaintiffs attorneys. after
notice that the plaintiff, Miss Horton, would be
examined. The defendant and his father, Gen.
Morgan, were present, with Mr.. L. G. Hine.
counsel for defendant. The plaintiff, Miss
Horton, testified that she made the acquan-
ABOUT the LIST of March, when she was at her
cousins, Mrs. Trips; saw him daily thereafter
for some time, he pretending to be in love with
her and cOnyersing freely with her on the sub
Ject OF marriage. 1t was about the last Of Nav,
1877, that she promised to marry him. In the
spring and summer of 1877, he wrote her several
notes and letters. and she produced several with
copies, which had been compared with the Origi-
nails.
MORGAN'S LETTERS.
The first four letters, the dates of which COW
cred the time from June 4th to July Sd, inclusive.
were formal notes, notifying her that he would
call OF inviting himself to play croquet with her.
The fifth letter. which was undated was writ
ten from Country Place. 20 miles from Selma, -
and reproached her for writing letter unjust
to yourself and cruel to me-" Another letter
written by her about the same time seems to
have been more agreeable to him, for he says:
IF the dated letter was written last / am to
believe that you sincerely love and trust me- but
If the other one is last l am exceedingly doubt
full whether you really love me or not" Fur
ther on he says: az believe that love is
very mortal and liable to burn out and
die away, especially when it blazes and
flames too much in the beginning (nothing per-
sonal intended, but don't propose to give you
an ESSAY on love- simply sat down to say
dated August 10, he says: ''There is no use in our
making ourselves miserable and others unhappy
because we love and cannot be together" and
remember that you can trust me implicitly and
need not fear me in any way" In this letter he
also reprOaches her for jealousy. In the next
letter, August 80, 1877, he calls her to task for
bringing grOundless accusations against him,
and says: 81 don't think have ever given you
cause to treat me this manner, nor can see why
you do so, unless it is because you are tired OF
me and wish to rid yourself of a dull, tiresome
fellow that can't write nice love letters" The
next letter Of this series was dated August IL
1877, at Selma. and was addressed to "Dear
Sweetheart, and was an ordinary sweetheart.
HER INTIMACY WITH MORGAN.
Miss Horton continuing her testimony said
she never met defendant again in Alabama
after she Left Selma in II to talk to him. She
was very intimate with him then for she thought
she was going to marry him. He told her one
night that he wanted God and his dear father to
be his witness that he expected to marry her
and intended tc she thought this was i'm July;
he used the same expressions the night she left
Selma. They were then sitting down. and she
ssald, "he had his arms around me and them
don't know how exactly it happened, but l
said--I commenced crying. He said if I
loved him l would not care what he did, and he
said if any one saw me he would leave Selma and
never come back, and that he wished to marry
me and that he would marry me and nobody
would know it." 1t was on the bank of the
river, in the evening, about o'clock. He used
this expression about marrying after she had
returned to her cousins house, because she was
crying, land, she added,
81 WISH 1 HAD SHOT HIM
that night. I have said it, and you may put it
down." After she left Selma she frequently
wrote to him of what occurred, and he would
alwaySwrite az though she was angry and wrote
him mean letters. She had two of his letters
which he returned hers. He requested her to
return the letters he had written her. or rather
to destroy them, saying that he had destroyed
hers; this was by letter, Showing the letter }
had undergone change, but she had not the
letter with her She had been examined as a
witness in Alabama against Mr.. Morgan
in case of seduction. He has twice
been indicted there, both times by a democratic
Alabama jury, and she attended four times.
twice in 78, once in 70. and once in 80. This
case is pending there yet. While in Alabama in
1881 she received a letter from the Prosecuting
Attorney, Mr.. Pitts. which was introduced in
evidence. Witness first came to Washington in
1873. and returned to Alabama. but came back
to Washington in 1879. Went to Alabama again
in 1880 to appear as awitness for the state Gen.
Morgan was SO anxious for the case to be tried
that he offered to pay her expenses there and
back, and he got her ticket for there but not
back. Gen. Morgan paid her expenses there. She
remained there from May. 1880, to March 1881
and there were two terms of the court held.
Gen: Morgan and her father, who died in Sep
TENDER, 1865, were friends, and Gen. Morgan
visited him few days before his death in No
Vember, 1865 letter from Gen. Morgan was
produced to show the friendly relations of the
families. This letter is addressed to Mrs. Nan
me horton, and processes the deepest sympathy
and tenderest regards for her and her children.
THE ADAM BEDE OF THE CASE
Miss Horton was questioned as to her acauaint-
ance with W. B. Walton, and said she had known
him all her life, up to the time she left DAYTON
In 1879, and she had heard that he died in Wash
ingtOn county, Miss, and she correspondent with
him up to January, 1880 She denied that she
had ever made similar charge to that made
against defendant against Mr.. Walton, and she
was asked about letters she had received from
him to show that his relations with her were of
the most honorable character. She said that she
considered Walton the most perfect gentleman
she had ever met. One of these letters ia as fol-
lows:
WALTON's DENIALS.
Miss Lucy:-I have read, with great indigna-
ton and grief the falsehoods Morgan has perpe-
trated against you and l. write to emphati-
cally denounce them as false, and in eue,y par
tictildr, entirely inconsistent with truth: Nor
have you ever, in any way, tried to make me marry
you. On the contrary, for about five years have
wanted to marry you. Poor little girl, how much
l wish could assist you more than is now in my
power: l can not cease loving you, ''Lucy,
sweet" My heart aches with tender sympathy
for you, and would do any thing to serve you.
Oh, Miss Lucy, if could live over my wasted,
misspent life, if you had never met John Morgan,
how happy we might now have been.
God pity us both, and pity us all
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall
For Of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these, 1t might have BEEN"
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