Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-14
A STRANGE sCENE IN COURT.
Tho PiaintifY, In . suit for Damages, Test
fying from q aCot-29S. 900 Demandcd

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flying from . aCot-Sa5, 600 Demanded.
Mrs. Henrietta Deputy, aged twenty
eight, the plaintiff in suit for $25, 900
damages for assault against William II.
Hazard, ex-eommissioner Of city works
In Brooklyn, was OH Wednesday afternoon
carried into the Brooklyn city court upon
a cot. She was wrapped in blankets, ard
seemed to have been wasted by disease.
Her hands were small and almost trans
parent, and her dark eyes presented a
contrast to her pale face. Her husband, a
smooth-faced, black-haired young man,
accompanied her, and a number of mother
Unlocking woman, including kind-faced
Quakeress, tucked the clothing about her,
turned down the rutfie Of her night
dress, and smoothed back her dark
hair. The court room spectators We're in
stantly moved to sympathy with the
afflicted woman, and the hush of sick
room spread over the throng. The coun-
sci stepped softly about, and spoke in a
low tone. Judge Reynolds transferred his
seat from the bench to the witness stand,
to be nearer the plaintiff, so that she need
not over-exert herself. DR.. Charles Corey
her physician, sat at her side, and tum-
bier of water containing bent glass tube
was placed upon the reporters table. Mr..
Hazard, the defendant, is tall, bluff,
hearty man, with long curling black
whiskers and curly hair, slightly m xed
with grey. He is wealthy builder, and
he constructed the Brighton Beach hotel.
Until last summer he was commissioner of
city works in Brooklyn He had Z. F.
Tracy, S. D. Morris and Richard Ingra-
ham as counsel, while COndit & Lamb ap-
peared for the plaintiff.
Mrs. Deputy is the wife OF David
Deputy, cousin of Mr.. Hazard. The
latter had purchased house from the de-
fendant, giving back a mortgage which be-
came due last spring, and the money was
demanded. Mr.. Deputy was unable to
meet the mortgage, and in response TO
note from Mr.. Hazard he wrote sharp
letter, saying that he had taken the house
at Mr.. Hazards urgent request, and had
gage. He offered, however, to surrender
the deed Of the house. Mr.. Hazard did no;
answer.
Mrs. Deputy testified in low tone that
she went to see Mr.. Hazard on June
last about the mortgage. "Iasked him."
she said, "whether he had received letter
from my husband. He said he had, but
that it wasn't worth an answer. The let
ter, he said, was a pack of lies, and my
husband was a scoundrel, a liar, and a
thief. Heasaid that if said that the con-
tents Of the letter were true, was liar.
l said that l did not como here to be
abused, or to have my husband abused.
He grew very angry, and threatened to
strike me, cal ed me a hussy, and said that
there was not an honest hair in my head,
and that of the two-my husband and l.
l was the bigger rascal. He hitched his
chair towards me as though to slap me,
but he restrained himself, and said that il
l was a man he would kick ME into the
street. l told him that when we took the
house there was some conversation about
the foreclosure clause i'll the mOrtga ge, and
he said to me, that clause shall never
harm you, my child He further abused
me, and said he did not want the deed, but
his money. Then he became more cnr,.ed
than ever, and seizing me by the shoulders
raised me from the chair, and holding me
in his arms, shook me violently three
times
"How much did you weigh them
"Ninety- three pounds. He next whirled
ne around SO that my back was against
his breast, and he bound me tightly in that
position with his right arm, while with his
left hand he covered my mouth and nose
and drew my face to the left side SO as to
strain my neck. While holding ME in this
position he pushed me ahead as he walked
through the door of tho library to the inner
vestibu!e door ut the entrance. With his
right hand he opened the door and with
his knee against my back he pushed me
through the inner door, through the YES.
tibule and out upon the stocp distance
of ten feet. land ID at the top of the
steps and clasped the rail with my left
hand. As turned saw his foot was in
tho air. rushed to the foot of the stoop,
and in d.zed condition made my way to
my fathers house and at once sank help
less upon a sofa.
Mrs. Deputy gave vivid description of
her sufferings since. There seemed to be
an injury to her spine caused by tl,e as
sault, and she was almost ruined physic-
ally. She added:
IL have had no feeling for long time,
and since have been unable to stand, and
have had to be supported on my feet. I
have never lifted my feet since the af-
fair. My eyes have troubled me all the
time, and:when try to read the letters are
blurred. My arms seem to be asleep, and
l have never been able to remain long
time in sitting position with any degree
VA OOhAOAt. ~ 10 always Will tut
est pain that hold my head up have
been able to sleep very little. 1 cannot
tell now whether my feet are warm or cold.
There is constant pain along my spine,
and applications that are not of the
temperature of tho body cause me pain.
Before the assault l was in perfect health.
Mr.. Hazard, in Ills answer to the suit,
admits having rut the plaintiff out of his
house but says that he did so gently and
and with no more force than
was necessary. He alleges that she and
her father came there, and that in an OK
cited tone she called him a liar and said
that ho had robbed her. He told her that
he could not permit the use of such lam
guage in the hearing of the family and he
requested her to leave. She placed her
foot against the door, and endeavored to |
shut it and keep it shut, but he lifted her
mp, and placed her outside the house.
'.MILT" SAYLER,