The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-25
AN UNIQUE DOCUMENT.
Bush's Answer to Ex-senator Tabor's Suit
for Twenty Thousand Dollars.

DENVER, Col, May 34.-Bush's 6,000-word
answer to ex-senator Tabor's complaint, by
which he seeks to recover claim for 500
900, is, in point OF legal phraseology, unique,
and no doubt will acceptably fulfill the pur-
pose of its being counter-charge to the
$40 600
Thus explained. the defendant further
states that in 1882 plaintiff tTabor) was, and
for twenty-five years had been married
man, the husband OF one wife and the father
of family; said wife was then living in
Denver, COL, was of sound mind, good
health and honestly and faithfully devoted
to plaintiff; that for some time
prior thereto said plaintiff became
enam1red of another woman not his wife,
commonly called Baby Doe" on whom ne
had set his heart with ali the glowing passion
which characterizes an old mans iniideIity
and warming after green pastures new in
applied to defendant, beseeching
him by the love the plaintiff
bore said Doe, by his earnest desire to pos
sess her as his and his alone; by his desire to
break away from the bonds of twenty years
that had bound him to his wife, that he
should exert himself in his behalf, for, as
plaintiff informed defendant, said
the affection and endearments
bestowed upon her by plaintiff That there
upon, on the Sth day OF March last, said
plaintiff proposed to defendant to enlist the
services of defendant to aid him, by all legal
and proper means, both in procuring 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 obtain proof sufficient to
enable plaintiff to procure divorce
from said wife, and also aid him in effecting
a marriage with said Doe; also, that said
defendant, to that end, should look up and
secure testimony, by affidavit of parties who
would testify to acts committed or omitted
within twenty years last past, by
the wife of, the plaintiff, which would
be actionable, and which would enable
plaintiff to procure a divorce from his wife,
and then and there said plaintiff promised TO
pay defendant, in case the results of his
efforts in that behalf should result in
divorce from said wife and a marriage with
said above-named Doe to pay for such
divorce the full sum of $40 600.
Defendant here claims that he paid out of
his own funds at plaintiffs request large
sums of money for services rendered in that
behalf among which is mentioned $3.50
to one Goodrich, which your reporter is cred
lily informed is a celebrated expert divorce
lawyer at Chicago, Ill, and $500 to
one Dudley for services unspeci6ed.
DeIenudnI Chains 10 nave ldlInlully ana
successfully performed all these ser
vices, and for which he still re-
mains unpaid. Defendant further says
that in the month OF March, 1892
plaintiff became impressed with the idea
that he was aG that time an incipi-
ent statesman in embryo, and it
needed only the vivifying infiH-
ence of popularity to bring him out,
and that in the fullness of time. by liberal
expenditures of push, pluck, pelf and puff,
or crook. to obtain the
requisite number of votes i'll the Legisa-
ture of the State of Colorado
at the next session thereof to en-
able him to 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
should be forgotten and all lesser living men
lost in the brilliancy of his senatorial career
and thereon he proposed to defendant that if
he would at all proper times and places. to
the best of his ability, help plaintiff to
emerge from the security of California
Gulch and embryonic state aforesaid, into
the realms of craftsmanship and the
status of statesman. he would. in case
he was successful, pay defendant So, 600 De-
PENDANT claims to have faithfully and sue
cessfuly performed all these services, tor
which he still remains unpaid
and that in the month of January last he
paid, at the request of plaintiff, to members
of the Legislature and others various sums
of S. to S475, a.gregating about $500.
Defendants attorney intimated to your
reporter that all large sums used for election
parposes were paid by Tabor himself. The
case will probably result in the political,
social and financial ruin of one or both
parties.