The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-30
oBABY DOE.

The Creature that Cost Senator Tabor so
Much Mental Anguish and Ready Cash
Bush's Answer to TabOr's Suit, With His
tory OF His Divorce and Entry Into the
Political Arena.
Denver, Col, May 24.-Bush's {, OOO-word
answer to ex-senator Tabor's complaint, by
which he seeks to recover a claim of $50, OOOf
Isl In point Of legal phrasOlogy, unique, and
no doubt will acceptable fulfill the purposes
Of It's being coquter- charge. Ten Thousand
dollars is thus explained. The feudaetfurther
states that in 1882 the plaintiff, Tabor, was,
and for twenty-five years had been, a mar
Iied man, the father of family. Said wife
was then living in Denver, COL; was Of
sound mind, good health, and honestly, faith
fully, devoted to the plaintiff; that for some
time prior thereto said plaintiff became
enamored of another woman not his wife,
commonly called Baby Doe" on whom he
had set his heart with all the glowing pas
sion which characterizes old mans inn
deity and yearning after green pastures.
Thefeupon he applied to the defendant
beseeehing HIM by the love the plaintiff
bore said Doe; by his earnest desire to
possess her as his. and his alone; by his de-
t,Ts to break away from the bonds DDS; that
his wife; that he should exert himself in
has behalf for, the plaintiff informed
the defendant, said Doe only partially recip-
rocated the affection and endearments be-
slowed upon her by the plaintiff; that there
npon, on the Sth day of March last said
plaintiff proposed to the defendant to
enlist the services of the defendant to
aid him in all legal and proper means
both in procuring said wife of the plaintiff TO
sue for aud obtain a divorce from the plain
tiff, or in case that could not be effected, to
aid the plaintiff in all lawful ways to obtain
TO procure divorce from said
wife, and also aid him in effecting
q marriage with said Doe; also that said de-
fendant 10 that end should look up and
secure testimony by affidavit of parties who
would testify to acts committed or omitted
the wife of plaintiff which would
be actionable and which would enable
the plaintiff TO procure divorce from his
wife, and then and there said plaintiff prom
ised to pay the defendant in case of the re-
suits of his efforts in that behalf should re-
suit in divorce from said wife and marriage
with the said above-named Doe, to pay
for such divorce the full sum of SIC 600. The
defendant here claims he paid out Of his own
funds at the plaintiffs request large sum Of
money for services rendered, among which
Which y01T TeT0rter TO 9ne eons GEaSH
informed is the celebrated expert divorce
1aywer of Chicago Ill. 81, 800 to enc Dudley
for services unspecified- The defendant
claims to have faithfully and successfully
performed all these services, and for which
he still remains unpaid.
The defendant further says that in the
month of March, 1882, the plaintiff became
impressed with the idea that he was at that
time an incipient statesman in embryo, and
1t needed only the vivifying influence of
popularity to bring him out, and
that in the fullness of time. by
liberal expenditures of push, pluck, pelf and
puff, he might be able by hook or crook to
obtain the requisite number Of votes in the
Legislature of the State of Colorado at that,
the next session thereof, to enable him
70 take a seat beside the great
and good men in the hall of the United
States Senate, and so immortalize the name
of Tabor that, compared with him, the
great trinity of Clay, Calhoun and Webster
shoulk be forgotten and all lesser liqing men
lott in the brilliancy of his Senatorial career,
and thereupon proposed to the descendant if
ne Would, at all proper times and places, to
the best Of his ability, help the plaintiff
emerge from the security of California Gulch,
and the embryotie state aforesaid, into the
realms OF craftsmanship and status of 9
was successful, pay the defendant
5000. The defendant claims
to have faithfully and successfully performed
all these services, for which he still remains
unpaid, and that in the month of January
last be paid, at the request Of the plaintiffto
Members of the Legislature and others, var
Gus sums OF 50 70 S475, aggregating about
$l,5Oo The defendants attorney init
mated to your reporter that all
large sums used for election purposes were
PAID by Tabor himself. The case will prob
ably result in the political. social and fuan.
cal ruin OF one or both of the parties.