Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-03

| As fkiAs AN AMUSING STORY or HIS wooIss AND IN.
RENTING.
The Ulman-Neyer breach OF prorn,se case was
| continued I'm the United states circuit ooart AZ
New York Thursday. The defendant, Henry III.
Meyer. young merchant OF Richmond Va was
placed upon the stand. and the New York Tf,pes
ssys: Ills examination throughout eccunled
about two hours, and he talked at the rate of
about SO words to the minute IN substance he
admitted the making of the marriage engagement
while nIng In TIE park in August, isso. aud the
| uary last lie said, however, that he
did not break IT because OF any reports he
character, but because he had heard
various Objectionable things conccrnIao
her and her family. and principally because his
sister Rosini told him that Ida Timan said She aid
not love him. Up to that time be loved her SIM
cerely. He admitted that ne was the man I'm the
red domino at the Puum masked haIl who had
ttlkef 10 Miss Uiman after the hralKtnc OF
Tue engagement, but said she knew very well who
le was and that he wrote his name twice ON her
thciny card for engagements He admitted
asking {" see her hand, and said he did so ta see
II she was wearing n certain ring which had been
H.eh her. He also said that when he met her he
nlted the veil az her mask and saw who she
was. with regard q Miss Ulman's declaration
ms sister that She dt not love him. he spoke 90
her about II afterw1rd, and she admitted H. but
Insisted that she sold n I'm passion
ION croSS-eNamina ton Mr.. Meyer was nj times
very amusing, and set the entire audience lauvh-
ing. He said that ut the time he made the en-
gaEeintnt while riding IN the park n, believed
Mss llman'S head was resting on his shoulder
b7lhg asked who WAS in the blrouchc ne said
there was Mr.. Tompkins, Miss Lehon. Miss Ulman
and Mr.. Meyer. by Mr.. Meyer YOU mean YOUR
seir?' queried the counsel 4 certainly DO replied
the witness Proceeding In answer 10 Questions
ne said: 'Aftnr awhile Miss Imam said. Harry
that MSS the first time she ever calsou me Harry
she said, Harry, YOU don't feel well; now YOU lay
your head on my shoulder, and ne did So II was
in one OF these intervals that he proposed mar
riage He did not remember that he whispered
II, but he certainly did not speak above a very
low tone: he could not say whether ne had his
head on Miss Ulman's shoulder at the time or
whether she had her shoulder on his
head. [Iaughter.l The witness corrected this
by saving that ne meant Miss Ulman's head on
my shoulder Afterward when he went To Mr..
tlman to ask his consent TO the marriage he said
ne resarded the act as one OF The most trying mo-
nents In mans li.e,' and again the audience
laugh d. Being questioned more closely as 10 the
Purim ball. he admitted that he did while in
domino and m'sk, ask Miss Tlman 20 show him
her foot as she t,stlfies, but he denied that She
indignantly repeled the request. on the con-
trary, he said she at once pushed her foot for
him why he made that request, and ne replied
th2t he asked u see her foot because IL was both
small and prettily shaped.
Miss Emmie Alderman was the next witness,
ana her testimony WAS confined 10 the narration
OF some incidents OF the Purim ball. Miss Rosina
Meyer, sister OF the defendant, was next examined.
She narrated at great length the story OF her
Visit Tor the holiday season, Christmas and New
Years, at the Ulmans' home. Her testimony was
full or minute details of occurrences such as
happen in every family where young ladies have
company, and she particularfZed the things that,
In her Judgment were discreditable and did not
renfer her brothers marriage with Miss Ulman
desirable One was the fact that Miss Ulman re-
celVed ring as New Years gift from another
gentleman, an old friend; another was that she
did not like the class Of people who visited at the
ClmanS. especially two ladies who. painted and
powdered very much, came TO the house one even
ing with a ventriloQuiSt The straw which broke
the camels back, however, was Miss lda's declara-
ton one day, when something had rendered her
petulant, that she didn't love Miss Meyers brother
any way, and wouldn't marry him."