The Evening critic., 1882-05-09
VERY NASTY,
The Last Batch in the Christiancy


Mr.. Stephen chester, Of New York, gave his
deposition yesterday before Examiner Love
Joy in behalf OF ex-senator Christiancy in the
divorce suit brought by the latter against his
wife, Lille NJ. Christiancy, and in rcbuttal
and contradiction OF the testimony OF Mr..
George f. Halght, who gave his evidence last
summer on the side OF tho defendant. Tho
witness testified that in tho early part Of July,
1870, he met Mr.. Halght at Iquique, Peru, and
in conversation he told the witness that he left
New York about June 90 of that year, in the
steamer Colon for Aspinwali, en- route to Peru.
day or two after leaving lady rushed
screaming from her state.room and took refuge
In the state-room OF another female passcn-
ger, stating that some men had endeavored TO
enter her state-room; that some of the officers
Of the ship, aroused by the disturbance, gath
epa qround h ana y one Sl the g b
lady, who was Mrs. Christirncy, as n repu-
table married American gentleman, competent
and willing to act as her escort and protector
until she should arrive at Lima, Peru, to
which point he was going. Because of such
public acceptance Of him as her escort he and
Mrs. Christiancy naturally associated together
during the voyage and to n great extent with
drew from the society of the other passengers,
and because of the circumstances this did not
cause unpleasant remark. Shortly after this
intimacy commenced Mrs. Christiancy, In un-
mistakable terms, inslnuated to him that she
did not care 10 pass the nights alone, and that
his presence In her stateroom would not be
disagreeable 10 her. on eome occasions du-
ring the voyage To Aspinwall he secretly en-
tered her stateroom and passed tho greater
part Of the night with her In the same bed and
had Illicit Intercourse with her. Upon their
arrival at Panama she, under the pretence of
mistaking her own room at the hotel, entered
his room, ana that both day and night the i'm
proper intimacy existed between them, and
during the voyage from Panama to Callao the
Illicit Intercourse was kept up as occasion oc-
Cured. About the latter part of September or
early part OF October, 1870, the witness met
Mr.. Haight at africa, Peru, and Mr.. Haight
told him that while he had been at Lima,
after he had returned from Iquique 10 Lima,
he had been a constant visitor at the American
Legation, at Lima, being frequently invited to
breakfast and dinner by Mr.. Christiancy, who
was tnstigated by his wife to extend such in
vitation, that she might find more frequent
occasion to indulge her passion for him
(HaighD; that he did frequently, at the Lega-
tain, have Illicit Intercourse with her, and on
two occasions they narrowly escaped detection
by the husband In tho very act; also, that he
had the same Intercourse with her at the
house or in the grounds of Leanceo Prado, In
or near Lima that he and Mrs. Christiancy
were often together In carriages that they
were known to almost all the hackmen of
Lima, who knew her not as the wife of the
American Minister, but as his (Haights)
sweetheart, and that so great was her infatua-
ton for him that she openly visited him at
his rooms at Callao, and thereby created
scandal and remark among the employees of
the hotel.