Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-09-27
REBrKED.
The sIanderers of Elaine are Fully An
 swered.

The sIanderers of Elaine are Fully An
 swered.
 In the Blame libel suit in the District Court, at Indianapolis, on Saturday
 afternoon, Mir. Blaine's attorneys filed the following answer to the interroga- tories propounded by the Sentiners at- torneys on September l2th:
 l, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me, depose and say, n answer to the foregO- ing interrogatories:
 First-Hsrriet B. StanwOod.
 Second-In Georgetown, Ky, in the spring of ls4s.
 ThIrd-I lived in Kentucky, as an as sistant professor or tutor in the West ern Military Institute, from January, 1S4s, to December, 1851. In lSIS and lS49 the Institute was at Georgetown; in 1850, at Blue Lick; n 1851, at Bren- nan Springs.
 Fourth-The lady married lived in | Kentucky from the spring of lS4S to | the spring of 1850. She was engaged as teacher in Colonel l.. r. JOhnsOn's Female Seminary, the first two years at Georgetown, the last year at Millers- | burg.
 FIfth-I finally left Kentucky m the latter part of December, 1851, and went | to New Orleans cn business, and thence directly to Augusta, Me, which place I reached February 9. 1852, and was next employed as principal teacher in the l Pennsylvania Institution for the h. structiOn of the Blind in PhiladelphIa. Sixth-My wife left Kentucky in March, 1851, accompanied by myself Us far as PittsOurg. Pa. Thence she travelled alone to New York. where she was met by her brother. Jacob Stan wood, and under his protection pro- ceeded to her mothes's residence in Augusta, Me, where l next joined her February 9, 1852.
 Seventh, Eight and Ninth was married in Millersburg, Ky. on the 30th Of June, 1850, Tn the presence of Sarah C. StanwoOd and 5. l.. Blame The marriage was secret. Having doubts subsequently, of the validity of the marriage under the laws of Kentucky, which then strlngently required license from the Clerk of the county court, had the marriage solemnized a second time in PIttsburg, Pa, on the 29th of March. 1851, in the pre- seuoe of John V. LaDsyne and David Bell.
 Tenth and Eleventh-Jacob Stanwood ! was the oldest brother of my wife. l had no acquaintance with him at the | time of my marriage, and had never | seen him or heard of him m any way, l directly or indirectly, before my mar | riage. l met him for the first time in | February, 1852. I had two letters from | him after my marriage and before l l met hlm-One warmly welcoming me as | member of the family. the other in | 4uiring If he could promote my business | interests by the loan Uf money. 1 had 1 no other correspondence of any kind | until after l had personally met him in l February, 1852 Ny wife bad two other | brothers, neither of whom l had ever | met when l came to New England, in I February, 1852, nor did I ever meet | any male relatives of my wife before | my arrival in New England in February, 1852.
 Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth My first child, son, was born in the | house ot his grandmother on the 18th | day Of June, 1851. His name was Stan wood Blaine. lie liv, with his parents l III 1852, 1858 and part of 1854. in Phila- | delphia. He died July 3l, 1851, and was | buried in the Starw0Od lot in Forest ] Grove cemetery, Augusta, Name. |
 Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth | A monument was placed by my direc- ton over his grave, the year after his death, thus inscribed: "StanwOod | Blame. Born June lS, 1851. Died July 3l, 1851"
 Eighteenth have not myself seen the stone since the first week m July, but have reason to believe, and do be- lieve. that since that date many letters and figures thereon have been defaced, and that the figure l in the year 1851 has been entirely removed l have no means of ascertaining by whom this was done, but have reason to believe, and d. believe, that a photograph WAS taken of the defaced stone, by the pro- curement of one of the publishers of the New Age, c Democratic paper pub lished in this city, and that copies of said photograph were sent to divers and sundry persons, including the publishers of the Indianapolis Sentinel, defendant in this suit.
 Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-frst and Twenty-second-I know the book At4tIECu lO h5 tue A4AaG or James G. Blaine" l did not revise the volume. nor become in any degree responsible 1 for any statement ir 1t. Though saw part of it before its publication. did not and have not to this day seen page 1 6S, to which the question refers, though [ the statement there made was doubtless 1 derived by the author, ROfell Fl. COnnel, from conversations with me, but not I from any special authorization by me to make 1t. JAMES C.. BLAINE. United States of America, District of
 Maine, ss: { Before me, Winfield 5. Choate, Com | missioner of the Circuit Court of the l United States, in and for the said dis i trict, personally appeared James G. 1 Blaine and subscribed ana made oath to [ he truth of the fOregolng answer. f Witness my hand and official seal aft i Augusta, in said district. tbIs 17th day i 'f September, in the year of our Lord 2 me thousand eight hundred and eighty c our. WINFIELD $. CHoArr s Commissioner of the Circuit Court of Q the United States for the District of | Maine. d