The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-29
THE OTHER SIDE.
Truth" Crushed 10 Earth by a Power
full Affidavit,
And will Experience a Struggle In
Rising.
Very Emphatic Denlals In Toto,

PIrrsBuEe, July 26--lEditor HERALD. i
In your issue ofthe 9lth instant. there ap.
peared an article frcm the Truth, published
In New York, headed Unhappy Mar
rage" in which the author attempts to
give an account ofthe marriage, the suit
for divorce and the troubles of Mrs. Lula
". Jones and VIM. g. Jones. 1t is not
necessary now to review that part
OF the article which proposes TO
give history tbis
unfortunate trouble, for as those who do
not know the parties II will do them no
good TO rehearse 1t here, and those who do
know them also know what great Injustice
has been done to Mrs Jones, aud that her
purity and nobility of character and the
heroism she has displayed will shine out in
eternity as sparkling jewels in her crown
long after her prosecutor and Yiliner has
passed into the unbcunded wilderness be.
yond But that part of the article which
reflects upon Texas justice aud the
district court OF Camp county
deserves office. Below we give state.
ment OF the officers Of the court as TO the
conduct OF parties in the trial OF this cause
In reply TO that part Of the article before
referred to-;
We, the sheriff and district clerk of
Camp county, certify that the trial of the
divorce suit between Mrs. Lula Y. Jones
and William &, Jones, at the last term of
our district court was regular, fair and Inn
partial ana before jury selected
oy Mr.. Jones counsel from among the
best citizens OF Camp county. That
the statement published in the Truth and
copied in the Dallas Herald Of the 9th
instant, that the verdict was rendered
through combined ignorance and prejudice,
Is false. AS to any witness rushing into
the courtroom as there described, there
was nothing OF the kind. The most OF the
excitement, IN regard to any witness was
when Mr.. Jones' counsel swore out an ani.
dayit for continuance as long as the
moral law, on the ground that their main
witness was absent in Europe, when the
witness appeared in the courtroom to
! their great discontinue While one of
Jones counsel was speaking, one witness
/ did ask the court to have his evidence fair
ly stated, and that he he protected from the
unjust assaults and abusive epithets of the
attorney, but nothing further occurred in
regard to any witness deserving notice. As
to Mrs. nesregular appearance in court
with her child attached to her waist
by q chain, nothing of the
kind occurred. The chain was brought
in one day TO be used in evidence to show
now MIS- Jones had 10 guard her child
while 1he lived in New York, aud lust prior
to her departure, to keep him from failing
into the hands Of Jones and his detectives,
who daily and nightly pursued and watched
her in an effort to kidnap her child. As to
her claspinE the child to her bosom and
praying the jury not to tear him from hel
no such scene occurred.
J. II, HISS, Sheriff,
Il. IL. RUSSELL Dist Cl'k,
Judge NJ. l.. Crawford, of Dallas, and Col.
onel w. =. Mclean, of Mount Pleasant,
Texas, can vouch for the truth OF the above
statements.
Business is dull and the weather has been
verJ warm and dry. Good rains passed
around US yesterday, but none fell at this
place. The corn crop has been damaged IN
some places by the drouth, though cotton
is doing very well.
Our town is alive with drummers inter.
viewing our merchants.
| Wa'ermelons are very plentiful In this
locality, though fruit is scarce.