New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-30
HINSDALE'S DIVORCE SUIT.
THE TWO BROTHERS TESTIFY.


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| PLETED-THE DEFENCE BEGUN.
| When Judge Brown took his seat in tho
Queens County Court House. Long Island CITY yesterday
| morning William r. HinsdaIe who seeks absolute d.
vorce from bis wife sat beside his counsel Judge John H.
Reid. Mrs. HinsdaIe, with her daughter Florence, .
pretty girl Of seventeen. occupied seat between dcnefa
H. f. Tracy aud william A. TraIl. her lawyers. TX Dis
trict-Atorney Downing appeared "a counsel for T. H.
| Hinsfale the correspondent william X. Hnsdaie was
| the first witness He examined by judge Reid. He
testified that be was married in Detroit Nch In 1861.
| that there had been judgment ~ divorce
| granted against him, that the facts charged IN
the complaint done with hi. procurement and
he first heard Of acts Of nhdely the part Of Mrs.
! IIlnsdale the 18th or 10th OF August, 1890 when
! cross examined by General Tracy, ne said
When first learned ofthc acts OF inndety separated
from my wife. FRS went 10 live at No 1913 ClenDOnt
ave, Brooklyn. IN Agr 1879 Isaac n Carl lived in,I'
Carl also lived there. lived there from hpr1l l. l7,'
until the latter part OF August ESQ Tsn5 20 10 -
1883 Then went TO No ~ seyenth,ave Bsookyn Mrs.
CARL kept thu house IN SIXTH ave- ppIfaea VIII n "a
She is the that have been accused OF being mt
no To- ia" Judge Reid : When made my arrange
ment with Mr.. stewart to manaee tho
WAS to be there on Sundays and holiday mad per-
mission 10 go operas and theatres That continued 81
ter Mr. Sfewaltr dea3b. have lived at toe st Cloud
Hotel the Winchester House and Mrs. D0ugsse's board
ing house, West Forty sxth-st., NewYork -,-
10 General Tracy went to board at Mrs Douglasses
on November 30 1872 and continued there unlii june
90 1873. paid 500 per week Ny wife and child came
to Mira DOuglasses and after that paid r3J week.
She remained there only short time advert,sed ln
New-York paper for boarding house, and Mrs Carli
answered it, and went to board with her
winchester Brltton. counsel for Mrs. Carl,
here entered the court room, and asked
to he allowed to represent the interests and to pro-
ect the reputation Mrs. CARL The court so ordered
Marie Hansen. bousekeeper at the Hinsdale House.
Garden City, testified to having seen Mrs Hnsdaic III tno
Of j.. b. Hinsdale who was staying al the mousse
She generally went J.. b. Hnsdae's room when W X
Hnsdae went away from home. The witness had seen
Willie CARL throw Mrs Hnsdale on her back on the lawn
and had him throw salt on her at the table she saw
him sitting on lap in the dningroom. There was no
light I'm the room and he kissed her. She had -ee Mrs
Hinsdae IN her room and W. A. Carl on his Knees ms
head IN hor lap and combng his HAIR Whenever W.
A Carl came to the house Mrs. Hinsdale met him and
kissed him After size left Garden City she went TO live
with Mrs. Car at No. 90 siXth-ayc. william X iiins-
dale was boarding there that time and W. A. earn was
thercaso After his wife left the house the witness told
Mr. nnslale what she had seen between Mr. Cafi ana
Mrs. Hnsdalc.
Mrs. c. A. Wallace testified that she became
acquainted with the Hinsdales at Garden city
in April 1873 She was friendly terms with MIA
Hnsdae who spoke OF her acquaintance with men oth'r
than her husband. The witness had seen VIII Cai ana
Mrs. Hinsdale in Mr. Carlis ROOM
Ceoree ansen said that he worked Tor MT ana Mfs'
William r. Hns,lae at Garden City in 1873. There werc
living at the house Mr. insdalc his wife and daughter
and f. b. Ins.lae He remembered b. IIinsdale coming
there In September, 1850 Mrs lnsdae wa IN bed ana
he went to and the witness heard hin kissing
her several times lie remained in the room about an
hour one summer night in 1850 Mrs. IIinsda kissed
the children good night, and went back 20 her ro'h
Willie CaIll was in the room.
Iudce Reid read the testimony OF Celia Larson. taken
before Homer \. Nelson, In which sne sd ihit
she was a chambermad v. X. IIm.dales house, IN
Garden Csy that Mr.. ilinsdae was away nom nome
good deal II The time that Willie Car was at me h9se
when W r. fIinsdale away, and that Carl ana Mrs
Hn,dalo occupied adjoining Jom,. , -, IL, a.,
The deposition OF Mrs. H. {. Clark, WHO Is ~ VIII %
taken aud that will close the testimony Tor the pam
TN. ., A.,
H mila@ opened 1T0'' for the S9' defence 20
aaid tat he Tod show nat the clfIf,' M ,.,i W.
then chilled a. witness lie testified " am hiy years
of age. Went to Euro. e in 1876 Before gons | bad
return. had sent my iulntire there nN'A ih-Fo
about two years, leaving the house in the a Of 49,
am an inyeemte smoker Aner dinner
generally went out ON the yetanda ana snoked ~ 'front.'
Of the house Mrs HnSdale never spent ht an hor ~
my after dinner have no recol,etion OF belhg ia
room with her at any lhne ~aat Yer ~ie lI e 'ne'S
don't remember tai she ever had her hlr done uP "a
papers while IN the house. never kept paplr IN
my room That .dy o3na 90 UP mr. b VIA. %
never were any impopHe"S nttNsrh h,r asI nG no'
sir never! was Informed by my brother OF ms lnt'n
ton to separate from his wife in July g. --o MY brother
called ~ my Office ia New, ork ana old me lii h' nl
"A with whom he was de- crate Ia love ana
get divorce from her husband, and DE would set
Western divorce from his "ife. toid nun II NHHnu
at the Manhattan Beach Hotel was having ny dinner
and they walked down the dniug-room together They
came 70 my table and he ordered bottle OF champagne
Their conduct at the table was airctiOnfte Tie day
ter wrote my brother letter advising him 90 let the
woman alone or words 10 that effect"
copy the letter put IN evidence. Part OF II was
"a follows:
Ny DEAR DkOfHER.-T have thought seriously and
deeply OF your relations with Mrs. {. cannot
but feel that YOU dead To all OF piOproty and
right IneVer felt so much shame and humiliation In my
life as when You. married man win a FAMILY.
walking In a public place with another msus WIFE,
Knowing that y0u infatuated with Mrs G., and know
ton could tolerate the thought that you drove 20
tho beach with her alone a carriage. IL j. not m my
power what will be- bat II l. highly pobahe That
your foolish nfatuatiOn will disgrace ana ruin YOU
The witness continued: II my brother AFTER
came back from the West and he upbrSldoi
me for interfering In his domestic afaIs. lie
talked to me separation from his wife, aud requested
me 10 iriw up fdld 40. brought about rccOnclil
ton soon after and he went ca live with his WIN again
Several letters that passed between the brothers were
read Nv General Tracy. When he read letter nom T.
r. Unsdale IN reply received from W X. after the
final separation IN which he SAID that the poor homeless
and deienccess women would find shelter under hi,
rnof and that W RI hunting down Of them should stop
al his door Husdale and her daughter were yisby
affected and burst into tears. Mr. Ilinsia0 gave ne
tailed statement Of the trip 10 Garden city on special
tlain July q 1850 when he went Ia see Mrs Hihsiale
about proposition made by her husband for soPara
ton lie stsd there about hour then returned IA hs
spec al train He might have kissed her when leaving
thc house. ~ lac usually did she wept coniihu0lsy
while he was In the room.
The case Will 20 on to-day
ASUIT AGAINST JAY GOULD.