New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-25
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
MRS wrTMoRE CROss-EXAMINED.
Mis-. " MVAI1 OIsO''- " .
HER VERACITY IEPEAChhD-iNDi|AHO i0 d"

HER VERACITY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~" NJ
TEMPTED BLACKMAIL.
uo,y wall dressed people flOcked TO Part Court
.sr"n,erai Sessions Yesterday, where Mrs. Anna IL
Wetmore was on trial before Recorder SmEt IN ior
marrying Nathan L. H2wes SHOWING r n nar to Of o the
dav with her bonnet off, displaying mass OF nght
hair arranged with studied negligence. In one
.orncr nf the room sat Nathan l.. liaWCS ny inc
woman who holds first mortgage on HIM in the
shane of marriage certificate W hlch antcdatcs the
snStilercater of the, wei welded Anna Anna,
sal Assistant United states Auorney-Gencral
Thc cross.cxamnatop of Mrs Wctmorc was con-
tinucd She denied even having been IN MoNamen-
sing Prison. Philadelphia, or under indictment IN
Lawrence on lcycnworth, Kan She denied ir,-
nucntnr the Empire Garden or rom Gould =
h9nor store. TO her sorrow y she admitted know
ing several men. 10y all of whom She suffered hnal-
ciaily. These were Joseph !. Peacock, George J..
Hooper. and a man named 3cnkcrt 10 the laSt
She SAID that she lent $4,000 to start IN business
aud had tn sue him 10 recover a large quantity oi
deeds mortgaY's' o9ndS ",V mm'' od f. She rycr
lived iu Dalton Ga, rs NOilic UcntlcS, the WHO
of a Rebel officer she said that she never had, ana
never know Captain Thomas fcldstcin.n nor lienten-
ant Frank Sipplus, ct the dSth NeW-l"ik N"iuh-
tCcrs. - D., . ,.,..,,, =, Nr
Nv mother was his sister," the witness an
svcrcd proudly. and visited hm IN Washington
when he was Senator ana a'so at Ms n'"'' III
Trank Smpims. detective at Lion Pari, brewery,
Testified that lac knew the u'l'uudul a. H'ii'
C,utlcs nt Dalton, Ga. IN lNt1 al the time Whch
.hc testified that she was IN Macon, Ga.
Colonel pruiumond. chief oi the lmtcd states
Secret service. Treasury Department. tcstihcd NAV
le knew Mrs Netmorc IN Philadclphia M lNn0'
Her reputation for Ner1cttN was had. Sh'
had informed him that one HCnk'rt was
smuggling at the rate of TloooOo year
Mis-. Nctmorc was af crVJrd indicted Tor attrmpl-
Inv Ia hacknail lcnkcrt. aud the Jury STOOD ceN'h
Tor con ictlon aud one for aCqulttal.
Mrs tcccla llawCs. of No Ol Lawrence ST.
Utooklvn "A little hlack-cNcd woman with owe
,omnl,Ninn, testified that she Was married u"
Nathan t. llnwcs in 1900. and produced Her corfu
}rntc. Mrs Mclmorc came ia her mousse IA brook
lyn aud cried when she saw the witness 4 marriage
certificate. III ,
"Sho called again with man whom she called
her Uncle john and SAID that he wanted I" take
my cert iicato to send to IAN francl go To prove
thnt | was married. told her could do that my
self when the time came. she Aaid lh'' Sh'
wouldn't trouble me any more could nave la
all To myself =,
edward Frauklaucr testified that he never told
Mrs. Mctmorc that Halves was married man , ,
Nathan l.. HAYES recalled ana idchtihcd
two OF three letters received from the dclchuaht
i'm which she called him her darling little nus,
band He denied the Concy Island story, ana
also that he ever introduced the defendant as his
wife tie did not know Assistant District Attorney
john L. shorter, of Brooklyn, and never pald
INN 5000 to railroad Mrs WetmOrc.