New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-17
THE COURTS.
TESTIMONY IN THE HARBECK SIT

| lmON IN HE liARBELk SUIT.
The crOss-examinatiOn of Caroline IIarbeck.
the plaintiff In the divorce suit against John IT, Harbeck
was continued yesterday. Ex-Judge Fullerton for Mr.
Harbeck asked the witness many questions In regardto
her life and the places where she had been before she
met Mr.. Harbeck. Mrs. Harbeck refused TO answer
these questions, the ground that they would tend 10
degrade her, and was excused from doing so by the
Court She bad received letter from her former hus
band after she went to live with Mr. Harbeck She
thought that Mr.. Harbeck had received other letters
which he had not delivered TO her When Mr. Harbeck
first proposed TO marry her she besated because she d
not know that he rich She married him because she
wanted home and wished 70 live a correct life In the
letter referred to from her first husband there wa
proposition that Mr Harbeck buy OFF his claims upon
her. Mrs. Harbeck on her redirect examination said
that she had told Mr. Harbeck all her past history az
soon she became intimate with him. She had never
told Mr.. Harbecks father that she not married 10
his son.
The first witness on the part OF the defence was
Thomas ID. Robson the attorney for Mrs. Harbec m
the divorce suit brought against her by her first
band He had never told Mrs. Harbeck that Mr. Mont
gOmery deid but only that he sd heard
that effect Charles A. Cornell testified that he Mr..
Montgomery alive in May, 1879 William II. Harbeck,
the father OF the defendant testified that n December
1879 he visited the plaintiff at his sons house in Fifty
1ith-st She complained to him that Mr.. Harbeck had
ordered her to clear out Of tho house tomorrow The
piled: mo but everybody thinks I am" After
negotiation she agreed 10 accept $1,000 year and
guaranteed the payment Of the annuity He
saw her Afterwards az the Hoffman House and told
her that his married She exclaimed: Then 10
IS all with ought to have made him marry
two years ago" lie had never called the plaintiff NM
Harbeck Louis FrObsher said tnat Mrs. HaIbeck had
complained TO him in 1870 tlat Mr. Harbeck had trans
ferred hs affections TO another and that If she vera
obliged kaye him she would be disgTaced In the eyes
Of many people who thought she was married. Annie
made, and had advised her sister TO accept It, Her
sister had admitted that She was not married TO Mr.
HaTbeek. No other witness called aud the counsel
submitted the case without argument.
THE REV. Mr.. HUMANS REPUTATION.
The trial of the libel suit against Bishop
Hare continued yesterday before Justice Van
Worst. The rest OF Bishop whipples testimony was
read In regard the credibilty OF Indian testimony
Bishop Whpple said that the conduct OF white men Is
prOverbiay bad that Indians easily believe any evil
Of them in reference to Indian women" Indian girls
are never allowed to go ont unattended. II white man
were seen alone with an Indian woman. that would bo
sufficient excite the suspicious of the Indians II an
Indian woman was told by white that he wanted
her alone, she would in all probability, under
stand that an improper proposal was intended. Ihe
next deposition read that OF the Rev. Mr. William
son, the last twenty years missionary among tho
Dakota Indians He said that he was minister OF the
Presbyterian Church He had known Mr.. Human since
1867. Mr. Humans reputation at santee
and its vicinity, at Yankton Agency
and its vicinity, and among the Dakota
Indians generally was bad. In his deposition, Alfred
L. Riggs Congregational minister. who went TO santee
in 1870 said that he had known Mr. Hnman for segea
teen years He corrOborated Mr.. Williamson's testi
mOny in regard to Mr. Humans reputation among the
Indians 1t had been the general opinion he said that
the investigation of Mr. Human In 1873 by the Bishops
had been a " whitewashing " affair.
The offer Of Mr. Nash to read certain portions OF tho
deposition OF halfbreed named Ross opposed by
Mr. Smith in long speech. Mt Nash said
that he would make argument in reply Justice
Van Worst admitted the testimony. Ross said that he
was one Of the members OF the Bible class who had
written 70 Bishop Hare asking him 10 remove Mr. Hin
man. Bishop Hare had solicited or suggested the
writing OF this letter. Mr.. Hnman had charged Ross
afterward saw Bishop Hare and told him Of stories
against Mr. Human which were alOat. The witness
had heard for many years rumOrs about Mr. Humans
conduct towards Indian women. Mr. Humans gener
nj reputation time OF writing this letter was bad
letter written by Rosss wife read In which she says
that Mr. Hnmnn had kissed her and told her that ne
loved her than any one else Duncan ono
saw Mr.. Human and Indian woman 20 into
the tent and the went away. be told
Mr. Human that he a clergyman who bad
come teach the Indians do right and lie doing
very wrong. Mr. Human replied, "No objection all
right" The Indian woman No Christian; she go
church but Christian. She is Presbyterian MEM
Der, bad woman" The witness heard this story
from Duncan Stone long time before he told Bishop
Hare about it, He continued after he heard 70 remain
sooner because Duncan Stone had only told him the
story but had told him TO repeat IL 10 the Bishop