Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 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 BKK.
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, GOO, 10 Ger.
tsinly, in point of legal phrsseology,
unique, and no doubt will acceptsbly
fulfill the purposes of Its being coun-
ter charge. The $40, 900 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
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 bacame 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 irfidelity
and his yearning after green fields
and pastures new In matrimonial ven.
lures. Thereupon he applied to de.
fendant, beseeohing him by the love
the plaintiff bore said Doe, by his
earnest desire to possess her as 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,
said 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 and 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 divorce from said wife,
and also aid him In effscting 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 tn 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, 000.
Defendant here claims he paid out of
his own funds at plaintiffs request
large sums of money for uervices rem.
6ered Ia that behalf, among which Ia
mentioned $3.50 to ono Goodrich,
which your reporter is creditably in
formed is the celebrated expert d.
voroe lawyer of Chicago; 81, 800 to
one Dudley for services unspeci-
fed. Defendant claims to have
faithfully and successfully performed
all these nervices 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.
fasnce of popularity to bring him
him out. That in the fullness Ci
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 scat by
the side OF great and good mon II
the halls of the United Statei
senate and to immortallzs 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 aenatoriAl 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 statesmsnshll
and the status of statesman, HI
would, in case he was succeH,
full, pay defendant $4,000. De
fendant 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 Gums of none
TO about sixty different people, 1
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 {
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