The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-20
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Ia CELEBRATED DIVORCE SUIT
Row on Trial In New York-A baltimore
Mmopslrs shown Up rs Gay Young
Loysr-A Case Where Discretion
should Have Assumed Ful Sway.
NEw Yonk, May l0.-stephen Nash,
the referee appointed to take testimony in
the divorce case Of Alice o'Keeie against
Ross R. winans, the Baltimore million
aire, began o hearing Of the case at noon
to-day. The plaintiff, handsome woman,
elegantly attired, was accompanied by q
younger sister and Mrs. Thorn, a mid
die aged woman, who is said to be an i'm
portant witnesd for Mrs. 0'Keefe. Ex-
Judge D. NJ. Porter, counsel for plaintiff,
was with the ladies. Mr.. Winans was
present With his lawyers, JosophS. Choate,
James @. Carter and L. @. Ledyard. The
parties to the action sat opposite each
other, but Winans gave no sign OF recog-
Il
while his alleged wife leisurely and grace
fully famed herself.
The table of the referee was strewn
with photographer Winans taken at varf-
ous times In London. On the back ofone
where the defendant appears as swell in
loud astralkan trimmed coat, the follow
ing is written: $50 Miss Soolheld as .
help for the remembrance Of Ross Z.
Rinans."
On another the following is scrubbed:
"To Ally from Rosy, with the sweetest Of
kisses and the best OF t---, from Rosy
70 his little devil Alice"
THE yrRsr wlrxESs.
The first witness examined was the COM
plainant. She testified that she FIRST met
Winans at the Langham hotel in 1871
She was introduced to him and he sent
her gifts Of books and flowers. She left
tie hotel soon after because Mrs. Hunt,
by whom she was employed as goyerness,
failed to pay her her salary. She subse-
quently Attained q position in the same
capacity with Lady Dukes, of Lewes,
England. When she departed for Lewes,
Winans went TO the depot with her. He
told her he was fond of her and asked her
to correspond with him. He wrote fire.
quently. She came to London.
had lunch aud q drive with
him. Winans proposed marriage,
but she said she could not wed him as
her mother and family were not there.
When he asked her second time to
marry him she consented, but insisted
that the ceremony take place in church.
Winans said he was an American and
that in his country q church ceremony
was not altogether necessary, and that q
man and woman who agreed to live to-
gether were regarded as husband
and wife. He fnalIy induced her 10
acquiesce and they went to the Grosyenor
Hotel in London, where he gave her q
ring and solemnly pledged himself to take
her as his vile. He put the ring on her
finger. They lived there as man and vile
and she was known to the servants in tha
house as his wife. They vent to Cam.
bridge where his studies were not com.
pleted. There he called her his wife be-
lore the servants and others.
OTHER PROOFS.
The couple returned to london and
went thence to Spa, Germany, where
they remained five or six weeks. Articles
shipped to the plaintiff while at Spa were
addressed to her as Mrs. winaus. The
defendant spoke Of her as his wife and he
introduced her to a Mr.. Latrohe
and to his tWinansD own brother
as Mrs. Winans. The plaintiff and de
fe1dant came to this country on the
steamer Scotia, which arrived here May
80 1871. They were booked on the pas.
seuger list IS Ross R Winans and LADY"
They put up at the Brew. oEt House, where |
the hefespondent registered in his own hand,
writing, "R. Z. Winans and wiie."
ed, found that her mother was living in |
Chicago. She wanted public wedding
but he demurred, alleging that his father
was very Ill and he did not want to break |
the news Of his marriage 10 him. The de-
fendant consented to a repetition Of the
agreement gone through in England. She
went 10 Chicago to see her mother while
he jonsneyed to his fathers bedside |
at Baltimore. He wrote her every day
while in Chieago. They met again in |
New York after couple Of weeks and
went to the st. James Hotel, but subse-
quently removed 10 Noe West Twenty
fourth street, where she was also known
as Mrs. Winans. In addition to her we'd
ding ring be bad given her ring which
he said belonged to his mother.
4 number OF letters from the defendant
to plaintiff were here put in evidence.
The following letter was written from
Baltimore while the plaintiff was in Chi
cago, June 8, the day after arriving:
a POINTER ron LOVERS.
Ny 0wa sgees Ducky:
Isuppose by this time my poor little
pet Is pretty near nome. What long,
tiresome, lonely, dusty, hot journey she
must have had. My poor little
darling. II you had seen .Rossy
as he was going home on
the ferry boat you would have
pitied him much more than yourself. He
went to the outside OF the boat and cried
like regular baby, and would have
been ashamed OF myself II It had not been
that the cause was so good. lswsar that
regularly "boo- hooed,n so much, In fact,
that an old niger came up aud stared at
me to see what the devil was the matter. !
arriyadin Baltimore and found my brother
in the station. My sister waited in the
carrisge, while Bill and walked to the
carriage. uyou like me, my little duck
must not expect me to write very long
letters Il / write every day. Ihope you
have not got It as hot in Chicago as It Is
here. lam half dead with the heat.
Do you know that never knew how
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