The Evening critic., 1882-05-05
THE CHRIsTIANCY NAsTiNEss.
Another Chapter i'm the Divorce Pro-

cecdings.
THE CRITIC briefly stated yesterday that JUS
tice Hagner had granted the application Of
Messrs Cuppy and Ingersoll, counsel for ex-
Senator l. p. Chrlstiancy, In the divorce suit
against his wife, Lille NJ. Christlancy, to re.
call Stephen Chester for continued examlna-
tlon in his behalf. The Chancellor remarked
that the testimony should 10 taken, and, II
upon the hearing of the cause 1t was found to
be irrelevant, it could be thrown out upon OBJ
lection being made.
Tho motion sets forth that when Mr.. Chester
was heretofore examined his solicitors pro.
pounded TO him certain interrogatories which
were objected TO by the defendant certified TO
the court, and the objection sustained.
The plaintiff claims that he had no oppor.
tunty TO show the competency or relevancy OF
the testimony which he designed TO elicit
Since that witness was examined tho testi-
mony Of one L. r. Bowers has been taken,
which tends TO show improper relations Of In
timacy between Mrs. Christiancy and George
+. Haight, who testified in her behalf, and
relation which tends to show strong feelings
Of bias on his part In favor OF Mrs. Chris
tiancy.
substantially the following; That Mr.. Chris
tiancy left New York for Lima on March 81,
1870, and that Mrs. Christiancy left to Join
him about Juno 81, of tho same year, and ar
rived at Lima July II, 1879; that early In her
voyage from New York to Aspinwall,
On Board the Steamer Colon,
she made tho acquaintance OF George L.
Haight, who was also bound for Peru, and that
she became very intimate and familiar with
him, too intimate and familiar for married
lady having any just sense of propriety; that
such intimacy and familiarity continued
through the voyage TO Aspinwall, at Panama,
where she and Mr.. Haight remained several
days, and on the voyage from Panama to
Callao, where her husband met her on the
steamer.
She Immediately stated to him that Mr..
Haight had been very kind TO her on the
voyage, wished to Introduce him to her hus-
band and requested that the latter would In
vito him to the Legation. Mr.. Chrlstiancy as
sented TO the Introduction and invited Mr.
Haight TO the Legation, where he frequently
came, spending most of his time with Mrs.
Christiancy and often walking and riding out
with her. Mr.. Christiancy had
No Suspicion Of Anything Wrong
between them until one day he accidentally
saw his wife sitting in Mr.. Haight's lap while
they were alone together in the parlor OF the
Legation. This Intimacy, Mr.. Christiancy
afterward learned and proposes to prove, had
been and continued to be extreme; that Mrs.
Christiancy was in the habit of getting up
early in the morning on the days when Mr..
Haight happened TO be in Lima and going out
for hours at q time with him and doing the
| same evenings; that she went TO Mr.. Haights
rooms in Callao, also in Lima, concealing the
facts from her husband and pretending that
| she had been elsewhere, and that while in
Peru
Mr.. Haight Was i'm Mrs. Christiancy's
| Bedroom
| at hctel with her alone when she was In bed,
and came out of the room between and
| O'Clock in the mornings that sometime before
she left Peru Mrs; Christiancy had arranged
with Mr.. Haight that on their return to the
| United States he was to support her at some
place near Philadelphia, and he, without the
| knowledge of her husband, gave toNIrs. Chris
,iancy 800 in gold TO leave her husband and
| return to the United States, which she did I'm
November, 1879, Mr.. Haight having left Cal.
| lac for the United States the week prior to her
departure; they met in New York upon her
arrival and he spent day or two with her
there at n certain hotel under ficticious
| name, and they came to this city together, ar
irving about November 26.
| 1t is claimed that q similar intimacy has
ever since been kept up between them, and
| that recently, after O commission from this
| court had been sent to Hartford, Conn.,, to take
the testimany of Mr.. Haight in her behalf
Mrs. Christiancy went on to Hartford, met Mr.
her at the ''Clty Hotel" under a false name
thas she remained there some week or tel
days, Mr.. Haight visiting her daily ant
late at night and she often having meals sen
TO her rooms, and sometimes late at nigh
Haight in the supper-room. 1t is further pro
posed to show that
Mr.. Haight IL Married Man,
with family residing at Hartford ant
| therefore under the strongest temptation Z
conceal his intimacy with Mrs. Christiancy
| but the husband promises to prove that Will
Mr.. Haight was in Peru, in the summer Q
1878, Mrs. Christiancy gave him her photo
graph. When Mr. Halght went South t
Iquique and africa, in the summer and fall c
1879, he met Mr.. Stephen Chester, an az
quaintance. The latter will testify that Nj
Haight told him that when coming from Ne,
York to Aspinwall, on the steamer Colon, wit
Mrs. Chrtstiancy, he occupied the same rooi
and berth with her several nights an
had criminal intimate relations with he
there, as well as at the hotel at Panama, ,wher
they stayed several days, and that the same II
timacy had occurred ON the steamer froI
Panama TO Callao; also, that they had TIL
same improper relations several times at tn
United State Legation, at Lima, and that o
one occasion they narrowly escaped bein
caught in the very act by her husband.
Mr.. Christiancy claims that the parties SUI
tanned such intimate and improper relation
to each other that they would in all prob
bility seek TO protect each other, and the test
mony Of either in reference TO the relations
and with each other would be natural
strongly .biased against Mr. Christiancy, an
that both would seek TO establish some oth'
cause for her leaving her husband in Per
rather than the true one.
Mr.. Chester will be the first witness exam
2 tned, and after him the testimony In suppo
of the other charges will be taken.