St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30

Barnard gave a chattel mortgage on her
piano to save him from trouble. 1t was while
consulting with me concerning, one of his
periodic dilemmas that she told me (this was
some two years before the application for
divorce) that she had not the heart to strug-
gle longer here, in Indianapolis, and that
she had concluded to rent her house "a gift
from her father and 90 to her brothers
home, in Washington, D. c., where her son
was also, for the time being. | shall not
soon forget that conversation. She wept
like a child. / trust that, as a man born Of
woman, what l then saw of woman's pa
tence and long suffering made me less
willing to listen to ISLANDERS of one"
Mr.. Hammond was here interrupted by
client and l left temporarily, to call on Hon.
Braynt K. Elliott, now on the bench of the
supreme court of Indiana. In answer to
questions, Judge Elliott said:
eyes, was judge of the superior court
and rendered the decree in the suit Of Jo-
sephine Barnard vs. Jehiel Barnard Senator
Mcdonald did not appear as counsel for the
plaintiff, nor was he, so far as | know, at all
| interested in that suit. The counsel for the
plaintiff were the late General Geo. II. Chap
man and L. j. Hammond, Esq, gentlemen
of high standing in society and in the pro-
| fession. Mr. Hammond had immediate
charge of the case. The evidence adduced
proved cause for divorce under our statutes
several reputable witnesses being examined
who testified that Mr.. Barnard had failed to
make provision for the maintenance of his
wife,
A special note just here Judge Elliott
and Mr.. Hammond are both Republicans.
In every political contest both are arrayed
against Mr. Mcdonald.
But the canards against Mcdonald do not
stop with the falsehood that he was the attor-
nev in the Barnard divorce suit. l read in
an insignificant print a week ago that he had
Thought his wife from her former husband
by paying him thousand dollars" and here,
in Indianapolis, have had the same SIAN
der
WHISPERED IN MY EAR
after timely conditioning that this was a
s'grave yard'' secret so far as the whisperer's
name was concerned. | am compelled to
say, too that this disgusting imputation has
in each instance, come from a Democrat who
expressed preference for Thomas A. Hen
bricks. do Mr.. Hendricks the justice to
say reputable friends of his tell him that if
present Che is now in EurOpe), he would re-
buke any such SANDER. have hunted down
this SANDER also.
Between Senator McDonald's first wife and
Mrs. Barnard there existed, uninterruptedly,
cordial friendship. They were the promi-
nent members of the board of the lndianap-
oils Orphans Home and intimate associates.
With his characteristic generosity toward the
friends of his family, Mcdonald listened to
Barnard's appeal in December, 1876, for
help to save him from criminal prosecution.
He was defaulter for thousand dollars to
the Farmers Insurance company, of York,
Penn He stated to Mcdonald that Byron
K Elliott would share the amount requisite
to get him out of the box he was in. With
this understanding the senator went his sure
ty, to find, subsequently, that he had been
deceived, for Judge Elliott had made no
such promise. Concerning this transaction
Judge Elliott answers written question OF
mine, in writing, as follows:
~ know something of Mr.. Barnard's hay
ing procured Senator Mcdonald to become
surety for him. Mr.. Barnard had become
indebted to an insurance company, of which
he was the local agent, for, | think he told
me- one thousand dollars, and asked me to
Join Senator Mcdonald as surety for him.
This declined to do. Mr.. Barnard after
wards told me that Senator Mcdonald had
kindly assisted him and relieved him from
grateful. This occurred some time, but how
long 1 cannot remember, before the applica-
ton was made by Mrs. Barnard for a di-
vorce.''
That Endorsement Mcdonald had to pay at
maturity though Barnard had assured him
that he could readily pay it if only allowed
the time the Endorsement secured to him.
Henry Coe, Esq, the present local agent Of
that insurance company, has shown me the
register of its indianapolis business. Barnard
secured the agency May l, 1876. 1t was talk
en- from him in December of that year and
shows him to have been $1,04S short. This
was more than two years before Mrs. Bar
nard's application for divorce.
But it was noticed that B arnard, who had
been impecunious for years, had money
when the divorce was granted. Upton j.
Hammond is seen again and states as fol-
lows:
''While residing with her brothers. family
in Washington in the autumn of 1876, Mrs
Barnard occasionally communicated with me
by letter in regard to collecting some old
judgments rendered here in her fathers IA
vor against man who had subsequently re-
moved to New York. and was thought to
have acquired property there, and concern
ing the taxes for which her house had been
sold and which she had been led by her hus-
band to believe had been paid. She also
communicated the fact that her husband was
annoying her with complaints of his financial
needs. | then suggested to her that she
ought to get divorce. After considerable
hesitation she authorized me to file a petition,
but desired me to spare her husbands feel
ings so far as [ possibly could. Knowing
Barnard well, | called on him. He talked
opposition, saying if she was divorced from
him he would want to go elsewhere and had
no money to go on. Subsequently, Mrs.
Barnard authorized me to mortgage her
house, and from the proceeds to give Bar
ard $1,000. The money, $1,000, was Dor
rowed, December 1878, from the Thames
Loan and Trust company and through w.
W. Herod, his attorney Barnard received
from his wife $1,000. Thus Mrs. Barnard
manifested, even when separating from him,
the kind spirit which had always marked her
treatment of him.
Jehiel Barnard remarked two months only
after the decree of divorce was recorded.
Josephine T. Barnard was remarked two
years later, ON January u, 1881, to Mr.. Nc
Donald, who had been a widower since Feb
ruary, 1875.
Frank Barnard was in government en-
ployment at Washington and the attendant
of his mother during her stay there prior to
her marriage to Mr.. Mcdonald. His record
in Indianapolis is faultless. Since his resi-
dcnce at Washington he has married a soci-
ETY. favorite there, neice of General Sher-
man.
1T IS wOMEN's SPITE WORK.
was invited to dine two days since at the
residence of a leading merchant here, whose
wife is a favorite in the best society of the
city. An opportunity occurring for the
questioning. 1 asked: Madam, what is
the animus of the social war on Mrs Nc
Donald!n
''AhH' answered the lady, whose husband
is q Rennhlican. llit il n nin,.n Of orirtin Dam