, 1881-02-12
A Daughter Testitles to the Brutality
Of Her Father Toward Her
Mother.
Letter from Adds TO This Daughter Ten.
rescntlhg Himself as u Broken.
Hearted Nam.
BE Advises Her Not to divo Shelter
and Home to Her Mother,
The Daughters Husband Pronounccs
Adds a Hardened Old Repro.
bate.

GHANn RAPIDS Mteh., Feb. 1l.-Scvernl wilt.
ncBses havo been examined III tho ,leplurnple
Aidis divorce case tu-t}uy. Dr. Il. NJ. Luton,
who carred n note to NrH Adds from Dlu1gcit,
the correspondent In tho former cuset OH pr
nliont April lust, completed bis testimony.
Tho letter wis rcud. In It Isu}gett snys to Mrs.
Adds: "Ynu know wo havn done wrong," and
Urges her to SEQ Adds md Hcttlu tho cnsc IL
snve hcrsclr and him. 1fo tells her TINT Adds
haH had detectives on thoir track, and ca1l
knock her cAso endwlso, nnd that hnr law.
ycrs, who want to prevent q settlement Of
tho cnse, aru no moro hor frlends thnh
hls only nH sho has money. Ile informs her
TINT he must defend h[msolt und kcop out Of
atato Prison; that he doesn't Wish to ito her any
harm. but must defend himself, and atljnrcs her
sercrai times In awkward, unRramustcal Ian.
guagc, to settle tho easo md
SAVE HERSELF AND HIM.
Dr. Linton Insisted tflt, go fur rs he knew or
understood from 1lodyctt, Addls was In no why
prlvy or accessory to this letter. lie sultl thnt
Blotsctt contested to him that he hAd been
guilty Of adultery and he believed it. md bis
only inotLyo IN carrying her the letter WIS tho
hope that It might help to settle tho unfortunate
tronbto Many questions were asked NJ to the
property Adds had In tho atock corporations III
which tho witness was fnterustcl. TO shDw, per.
hnps. that Adds WINS wealthy asIlc from tho
property covered by tho tr,,st-ced, but tho
questions ollcltotl nothing Of moment.
one William putte, II jeweler In Adds 1llock,
was sworn, apparently to show tllnt A,ldlsululst
Christmas, 1871, had helped Nlo,lpptt to buy
jewclry or bought It for him; that Adlla was
paylnR him tIllodgctt> literally for services
rendered or expected. but Mr. rutte did
not connect Adds with purchases amounting t 0
but nbout $1o, Ind was absolutely positive tltAt
AldIH did not pay but for one lot; was quito
confident he dd not.
Mr.. u. Dnrwin~ Hughes, Of Hughes, O. 1irtcn s
Smiley. lHwycre, wns sworn lis 10 services for
Sylvester, who demanded
DAMAGES FROM Adds
for the assault On Mrs. Sylvester III tho stcopng
eonch This WIS evidently intenbcd Hs corrobo-
ratfv1 evidence IIe snw Adds onco or twtco
nbont tho matter. Sylvester WIS evidently snt-
istlod With tho result, nnd Adds pnid him fnr
whit ho had douc for Sylvester. Adds did
not admit or t!ony, to him, md did not call 1t
blackmAilng scheme 10 him.
ono William r. afcGurrlh had called ono dny at
Adds oElsco On business. lilo found tho door
l0ckcd. md through Il sash-toor saw exceedingly
Suspicious nets with n woman whom hu didn't
know. lie didn't know that sho was not Mrs.
Addts. but was not positive.
Potter Etzcom, Ia tho employ Of Addfs or bis
son for i've years past as conchnan ind nun OF
I'LL work ut tho residence, WIS cnles, apparently
to show that Adds hhd tried to Induce him to
GIVE FALSE TESTIMONY
In tho case. to buy HIN. Ilo said that A1d!s
hnd once snad to him that ho might call him to
testify ns how he tAddis) trontch bis family, and
told him If ho did testify to tell only tho TRUTH
md that Was nil there WINS Of It. IIo Ind never
heen nIked 10 swear as to impropriuttts bOtween
Mrs. Adds aud GeorKo Munro: mover had besn
offered money by Adds or any ngent Of his to
buy him, aud never Ind sail to nny ono that All
lts hat' over offered him money; had henrd
Atls scosd his fu,nily fpw times for not n,eot-
Ing him at trains who,l hn came home, tut nuycr
heard him gwcnr at thom. Otherwise he
ALWAYS SEEMED KIND.
Ono N. L. Mash awore that OH July 4, 1877, he
hul scon Adds in suspicious relations With a
woman be did not know In a lumber.yard III this
CITY. 1{e had told one GoUrRe ". Mills of tho
met tho satnu day md others afterwards.
Mills was ca1ict! aud swUro that NAsh did tell
HIN, OF such n soenc, and that latcr than tho
time Mash mentioned ho had seen Adds cnmiug
from that section Ut tho city with a woman who
Ito thought was q to Is years old, but did not
know her. no supposed sho WAS not ono of
Adslis' family.
u. a. HurltngAmo WINS recalled, and RAye
further ovillonco rs to tho Sylvester matter.
IIo testified thnt Adds paid him $50 for tho
mutual services OF hlmself and Sylvester, and
that ho saw n letter wilton to
4 FEMALE FRIEND
nf J, II. Kennedy, n former witness In tho case,
who know Of tho Sylvester afInir, which pur-
ported to bo written by Addta, and asked her to
60 with him on II commercial tour as company,
telling ler that Kenncly WIS not trun 10 1or.
Kennedy had bof0r0 swurn that Adds hnl told
him tho satnc woman was beating him, and thMe
he thought that Adds was playing double In tho
mnttcr:
block, was Gu Ilsd. evidently to show that 4ddtH
hui knowingly hAd questionable women US toll