Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-31
TABoR,s TROUBLES.
A Document Filed by Bush. a Former
Employe of the Ex-Senator.

Documeht H1Ied by Bush, a Former
Employe of the Ex-senator.
Denver (Cot.) Special to the Chieago TriBzns.
Bush's 5000 word answer to ex-senator
laDors complaint by which he seeks to
recover a claim OF $50 900 is certainly in
point of legal phraseology, unioue. and
no doubt, will ac%ceptably fulfill the nur,
poses of its being. The counter-char6e Of
SlO,OOO Is thus explained: Defendant
further states in 1852 plaintiff (Tabor
was, and for twenty-five years had been.
a married man, the husband of one wife
father ola family. Said wife was then
nVlng In Denver, Col, was of sound mind,
gooo nealtn, and honestly and faithfully
devoted to plaintiff; that for some
time prior thereto said plaintiff be-
came enamOred of another woman
not his wife, commonly called
BABY Doe," on whom he had set
his heart with all the ardor of glowing
passion which characteriZes an old mans
lnhdehty and yearning after green fields
ana pastures new in matrimonial VEN
lures. ThereupOn he applied to defend
ant, b~eseeching hin by the love the plain
tiff bore said Doe, by his earnest desire to
possess her as his and his alone, by his de-
sire 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 defend
I ant SdIu LUZ OulN PARTIALLY IeElDfOcdTe0
the affection and endearmentS bestowed
on her by plaintiff; that thereupon. on the
oth day of March last, said plaintiff pro-
posed 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
1or n obtain a Divorce from
plalntlff, or, in case that could not be eff
Iected, to aid plaintiff in all lawful ways
to obtain proof sufficient to enable plain
TN to procure a divorce from said wife.
also to aid him in effecting a marriage
with said Doe; that this defendant to that
end should look up and secure testimony
by afldayit of parties who would testify
to acts committed or omitted within
twenty years last past by the wife of
plaintiff which would be actiOnable and
which would enable plaintiff to procure a
divorce from wife, and then and there said
plaintiff promised, in case the results of
his efforts IN that OehafT should result in
a divorce from said wife and marriage
with said above named Doe, to pay for
such services the full sum of $40, OO0.o
Thu 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, whom yOur reporter
is credlbly informed is a we'll known di-
vOrce lawyer of Chicago; $1,000 to one
Dudley for services inspected. Defend
ant claims to ave faithfully md success
fully performed all these services, and for
which he still remains unpaid.
Defendant further says that in the
month of March, 1882, plaintiff became
impressed with the idea that he was at
that time a statesman in embryo, and that
it needed only the yivifying influence of
popularity to bring him out; that in the
fullness of time, by liberal expenditure of
I yrCh nlVual- nNp1f nN1I nRA h. .A.-l&
be able, by hook or crook, to obtain the
required number of votes in the Legis-
lature of the State of Colorado at the next
session thereof to enable him to take a
seat by the side Of great and good men in
the halls of the United States Senate, and
50 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 thereupOn proposed to defendant, if
he would at all proper times and places
TO the best of his ability help plaintiff to
emerge from the Obscurity of California
Gulch II the embryonic state aforesaid
into the realms of craftsmanship and the
status of a statesman, he would, in case
he was successful, pay defendant $1,000.
The defendant claims to have faithfully
and successfully performed all these ser
vices, for 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 money to about fifty different peo-
pie in sums of 50 to $40, ~aggregating
about 81 1900.
Defendants attorney intimated to your
reporter that all large sums used for cleo
ton purposes were paid by Tabor himself.
The case will probably result in the
political, social and financial ruln of one
or both parties.