New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-08
THE SHARON DIVORCE CASE.

EX-SENATOR SHARON on THE WITNESS sTANp-HiS
vrps1oN OF THE CASTLE DENIES livery
TnING-IHE CASE ADJOURNED UNTIL July.
SAN FrANClsCo. May 31.-Ex-SenatOr Sharon
has occupicd the witness stand for several days,
and he has made an apparently candid-ln TACT III
many respects a brutally frank-statement OF MS
relations with the plaintiff Mr. Sharon is himself
a lawyer and understands the value OF evidence
nor could he be in the least degree confused, EN-
arrassed or put out of temper by cross-eXamina-
ton. though Tylers questions were often eminenty
calculated to upset less adroit and self-contaned
witness. 1t would be impossible to reproduce the
body of his story in the columns Of THE TRIBUNE,
nor does the fact that the San Francisco papers
have published it all without hesitation or compunc-
ton Justify repetition of the experiment upon
your readers. Suffice it to say that Mr.. sharon
says that Sarah Althea sought him out, invited MN
TO call upon her, accepted an invitation to dine
alone with him at his rooms, stayed Till nearly
midnight. and finally entered into an arrangement
whereby he was to pay her $500 month for the
pleasure of her society.
After this according to the witness. the relations
between them continued until he found that she
was proving too familiar; until III fact ne missed
money and papels and was convinced that she had
taken them. Then lie decided to sever the connec-
ton. and offered her first s., 1000 and then $500
fora receipt in full of all demands. She accepted this
offer lie testifcs, and gave him receipt, but he
charges her with having subsequently, entered his
rooms and purlOnCd the document The dolngs OF
the couple appear 10 have been eccentric, according
To his testimony. On one OCCASION he declares, she
climbed i'll over the trausom. and subsequently
"noppedr herself down on the floor; whereupon
he poured jug of cold water over her as she lay,
and apparently with beneficial effect.
At another time she persuaded his Chinese SER
want, XXI" t. let her put a lOve-philter mot a
D." Potent Pbilter" by the wayJ into
the whiskey, wine and brandy bottles
on the sideboard Again she petitioned TO
he allowed to come and rub his poor feet " when
he was SICK. He denies having choked her or
locked her in closet. He denies having introduced
hertz any one as his wife. lie admits having in
viicd her down to Belmont, his country-seat, on
the occasion OF his daughters marriage to Sir
Thomas X. Heshcth and hc admits that he allowed
il to be thought that she was respectable woman
He says that he may have written the signature
winch is at the bottom Of the alleged marriage con-
tract for he says he has habit OF writing his
signature upon pieces of blank paper, and that his
clerks are obliged to look carefully after such
pieces and de troy them. But he is positive that
he never signed the alleged contract and he is rot
.css positive that the word wife in all the So
called dear wife letters" is a forgery At the
close of his cross-eXamination he made one admis-
son which The counsel for the plaintiff
appear to think Of great importance to their
SIDE. lie acknowledged that while
he had had many mistrcsses he had never treated
any OF them with the respect and consideration he
had shown 10 Miss Hill. This Tyler and MS a,sO-
Catcs Of course interpret mat ne 50 Ic,s'cd theI
cclt because he re .aIded nor as bis wife, bGt IL
really not a little difficult for the disintera,ed OBJ
server to discover auytIim IN the form of special
consideration III his behavior 10 Sarah Attn q,
either il0n her testimony or his own. Tyler was
so catcI with this admission however that be lot
the witness oil at once and surprised the COurt
and his opponents by stating that he mad no more
witnesses TO call. The Court promptly ayaltd
itsel of good an opportunity 10 adjourn tAo
case until .Tuiy II. and tIll then the PIbIc viii
have 70 wall lor the next installment of THIS re-
maIkabe and by no means 3ayOry case