The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-26
Bush's Answer to Tabor's Com
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DENVER, May 2.-Bush's 5000
word answer to ex-senator Tabor's
complaint, by which he seeks to re-
cover q claim of $40, O0O,. is certainly
in point of legal phraseol0gy unique,
and no doubt will a~cceptably fulfill
| the purposes of its being a counter
| charge. The ten thousand is thus
! explained: The defendant further
states that in 1882 plaintiff (Tabor)
was, and for twenty-five years had
been, a married man, and a
father of q family; said wife
was then living in Denver, Colorado.
| She was of sound mind and in good
health, honestly and faithfully de-
voted to plaintiff; that for sometime
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 ardor of q glowing passion
which characterizes an old mans in
fidelity and yearning after green
fields and pastures new In
matrimonial ventures. There
upon he applied to defendant
beseeching him by the love he bore
the plaintiff, said Doe; by his earnest
desire to possess her as his and his
alone; by his desire to break from
bonds which 20 years had bound him
to his wife; that he shonld exert him
self in his behalf. As far as plaintiff
is informed, defendant said that Doe
only partially ~reciprocated the affec-
ton and endearments bestowed on
her by plaintiff; that thereupon on
the 9Th day of last March, said plain
tiff proposed to defendant to enlist
the services of defendant to aid him
in all legal and proper means both in
procuring said wife OF plaintiff to sue
for and obtain a divorce from plain
tiff. or in "a that could not be
effected, to aid plaintiff in all lawful
ways to OBTAIN proof sufficient to en-
able plaintiff to procure a divorce
from his wife and also to aid him in
effecting marriage with said Doe.
That defendant to that end should
look up and secure testimony of par
ties who would testify to acts COM
mitted or omitted within 20 years
last past by the wife of plaintiff,
which would be actionable, and
which would enable plaintiff to pro-
cure a divorce from his wife, and,
then and there, plaintiff promised to
pay defendant-ln . the results of
his efforts in that behalf should result
in a divorce from said wife and mar
rage with said above named Doe-to
pay for such services the full sum o.
$4,000. The defendant here claims
he paid his own funds at plaintiffs
request, and large sums of money for
the services rendered in that behalf,
among which is mentioned $3.50 to
one Goodrich. which your reporter is
c~reditab'y informed is a celebrated
divorce lawyer of Chicago; 81, 800 to
enc Dudley for services u%nspecifed.
Defendant claims to have faithfully
and successfully performed all these
services, and for which he still re-
mains unpaid. Defendant further
says in March, 1892 plaintiff
became impressed with the idea that
he was at times an incipient states
man in embryo and that it only
needed verifying in the influence Of
popularity to bring him out; that in
the fullness of time, by the liberal ex-
penditure of cash, pluck, pelf and
puff. he might be able by hook or by
crook to obtain the requisite number
of votes in the legislature of the
state of Colorado at the next
session thereof to enable him to
take his seat by the side of the great
and good men in the hall of the
United States Senate and so immor-
talize the name of Tabor that com-
pared with him the great Trinity of
"Clay, Calhoun and Webster" should
be forgotten and all lesser living men
lost in the brill ance of his Senatorial
career, and ~thereupon proposed to
the defendant that if be would at all |
proper times and places, to the best
of his ability, help plaintiff emerge
from the obscurity of California
gulch and embryonic state aforesaid
into the realms of craftsmanship and
the status of a statesman. he would. |
in case he was successful, paw de-
PENDANT $1,000. Defendant claims to
have faithfully and successfully per-
formed all these services, for which
still remains unpaid, and that in
the month of January last he paid, at
the request of plaintiff, members of
the Legislature and others various
sums of money to about sixty differ
emit people, in sums of from
IS to $475, aggregating about 81. 500.
Defendants attorney intimated to
your reporter that all large sums
used for election purposes were paid
by Tabor himself. The case will
probably result in political, social
and financial ruin to one or both