Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-25
Detectives and Spies Track
Her Footsteps to Secure
Cause for Divorce.
While baby Doe" Bled the
Licentious Fool and Then
Deserted Him.
How He Emerged From Cali.
fornia 9ulch and Blossom
ed as a Statesman.
The Details of His Base Villainy
Dono Up in Unique Elegance,

Special Dispatch to TnE BKE.
DENVER, May 24.-Mr. Bush's ak
Thousand word answer to ex-senator
Tabor's complaint, by which he seeks
to recover a claim of 500, 600, 10 Ger.
tsinly, in point of legal phraseology,
unique, and no doubt will acceptsbly
fulfill the purposes of Its being q coun-
ter charge. The $40, 600 claim Is thus
explained: Defendant further states
that In 1882 plaintiff (rabo,) was and
for % years had been q married man,
husband of one wife, and father of a
family; said wife was then living In
Denver, Colorado, was of sound
mind, good health, and honestly and
faithfully devoted to the plain.
tiff; that for some time prior
thereto said plaintiff became enam.
ored of another woman, not his wife,
commonly called "Baby Doe" on
whom he had set his heart with all
the ardor of q glowing passion which
chsracterizes an old mans iridelity
and his yearning after green fields
and pastures new In matrimonial ven.
lures. Thereupon he applied to de.
PENDANT, beseeohing him by the love
the plaintiff bore said Doe, by his
earnest desire to possess her 81 his,
and his alone, by his desire to break
away from the bonds which for twenty
years had bound him to his wife, that
he should exert himself in his behalf,
for, as plaintiff informed defendant,
uaid Doe only partially reclp.
rocated the affection and endesr-
ments bestowed on her by
plaintiff; that thereupon, on the 8 h
day of March last, said plaintiff pro-
posed to defendant to enlist the ser
vices of defendant to aid him In ell
legal aud proper means, both In pro-
curing said wife of plaintiff to sue for
and obtain a divorce from plaintiff, or
In case that could not be effected, to
aid plaintiff in all lawful ways to OBJ
tain proof sufficient to enable plaintiff
to procure o divorce from said wife,
and also aid him In etfscting @ mar
risge with said Doe; that this defen.
dant, to this end, should look up and
secure testimony by affidavit of par.
ties Who would testify to scts com.
ml.ted or omitted within 20 years last
past by the wife of plaintiff, which
would be aotlonab!e, and which
would enable plaintiff to procure
divorce from his wife, and then and
there said plaintiff promised to pay
defendant In Gaze the result of his
efforts in that behalf should result In
divorce from said wife and marriage
with said above named Doc, to pay for
such services the full sum of $40, 900.
Defendant here claims he paid out of
his own funds at plaintiffs request
large sums of money for services rem.
6ered Ia that behalf, among which Ia
mentioned $3.50 to n Goodrich,
which your reporter lie creditably in
formed is the celebrated expert d.
voroe lawyer of Chicago; 81, 500 to
one Dudley for services inspect
fed. Defendant claims to have
faithfully and successfully performed
all these services and for which he
still remains unpaid. Defendant
further says In the month of March,
1882, plaintiff became impr sssed with
the idea that he was at that time an
inclpient statesman in embryo, and
that 1t needed only the vlvifying In.
fusnce of popularity to bring him
him out. That in the fullness 81
time by liberal expenditure Of push,
pluck, pelf, and puff, he might be
able by hook or crook to obtain the
requisite number of votes In the legis
lature of the state of Colorado
at the next session thereof to en-
able him to take a scat by
the side OF great and good mon II
the halls of the United StateI
senate and to immortalIzs the name o.
Tabor, that compared with him thu
great trinity of Clay, Calhoun anc
Webster should be forgotten, and al
Lesser living men lost In the brillianc!
of his senatorial career. And h,
thereupon proposed to defendant, il h
would at all proper times and places, t.
the best of his ability, help plaintiff t.
emerge from the obecurity of Califor
MIA Caleb and embryonic state atore
said into the realms of statesmsnshil
and the status of a statesman, HI
would, in case he was succeH,
full, pay defendant $4,000. De
PENDANT claims to havs faith
fully and successfully performed a
these services for which he still re
mains unpaid, and that in the mont
of January last he paid at the reques
of plaintiff to members of the legisla
tore and Others various sums of none
TO about sixty different people, |
sums of So to S475, aggregating abou
81, 500. Defendants attorney Int
mated to your reporter that all larg
sums used for election purposes wer
paid by Tabor himself.
The case will probably result In tn
! political, social and financial ruin {
ono ~ both nartIoR