The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-03

folds and that the secret clause
was appended later he put no
reliance in other than as indications that
the contract was written from dictation
In the awkward manner az described by
Mrs. Sharon He doubted the evidence
of the experts as to writing over folds,
and looked upon ths errors and erasures
in the contract as proof OF its genuine.
ness.
ALTHEA AT BELMONT.
Turning to the subject Of the k1own res
lations OF Mrs. Sharon and Senator Sharon
during the time subsequent TO the date
OF the contract, Judge Sullivan said that
he considered them "a Q whole eon92ss
ssnt With her claim. Sharon admitted
that he did not treat her az be trested ais
numerous other mistressss. He never
took his other misieesses to Belmont,
nor introduced them to- sIotsl geesss or
distinguishedtraveleys He did not iavSss
them to a. +s;s4 ghter's marriage. Sudge
Sullivan said that he regarded that Ia.
vitation to be present at Flora's wedding
reception as q proof Of Sharon's rsKs7AA
for plaintiff, and not as wrung from him
unwillingly. He did not believe that
Senator Sharon could nave been so vile
and base as to introduce paid mistress
to bis house and friends on the day he
gave his daughter in wedlook, nor thas
he could have sunk so low Is to tell
his son to. show special atten-
ton to common woman.
In the absence OF proof to the contrary,
he must regard Mrs. Sharon al = chaste,
Virtuous woman before the date OF the
contract, and the whole story OF her ao-
quaintance with Sharon forbade the idea
that chaste woman could so have con.
sentad to become paid mistress. He
rather thought that, overcome by the
force Of passion long uurestrained, Sem
ator Sharon marriei Althea, as alleged.
Judge Sullivan on this subject said:
WHAT SHARON MIGHT HAVE. THOUGHT.
s'He may have thought that by q few
brief months of kindness and attention
he would have so possessed himself OF
her confidence as to secure, in some I'm.
guarded moment, the slender support
on which her honor would stand in the
eyes Of the world. II he had taken this
view of the situation into which the in
tensity of his passion had plunged him,
he might by design have procured the
condition and appearances under which
court, appended TO- an alleged contract
of IN Erriage. IF he did attempt to make
sport Of the honor OF confiding woman
and the sacredneSs OF the most intimate
relationship known to human kind, he
ventured SO far that the law mi ht at.
tach permanently to his conduct the
character which he intended as a mere
temporary aspect for his RIGHTEOUSNESS.
'tBut it is more just TO him to read his
language as it appears, as written at his
6ictatipn; "a the language OF ar honest
man who intended the act as il stands
of record, the title deed OF q woman's
honor, the record of her claim to mans
faith and loyalty"
OTHER MATTERS.
In the matter Of the alleged introduce
ton of Mrs. Sarah Althea Sharon by
Sharon to Mrs. Reigart and others, ~
his wife, the court said he believed her
testimony willfully false; but after scor-
ing her for false testimony, her attorneys
for using false testimony, he said
that q woman, doubtful OF the legality Of
her plea, might be tempted to add to les
strength, and still the plea be just one
in other respects. ass
The court did not know which story to
believe about the socks and shirts. He
mistrusted the fortune.teller's stories all
through as to essential details.
In speaking OF w. NJ. Nelson's charge
that General Barnes had been consulted
by plaintiff and betrayed her. Judge Sui
livan said it wa, in his opinion, utterly
and maliciously false and
ENTITLED TO NO cREDENoE
At all, coming from Nelson, who on
che stand admitted having filed out and
Gdgned affidavits with statements he
knew to be false.
Judge Sullivan was still reading his
lengthy decision when the Posr sent this
extra TO press. The next edition of the
PosT will contain Judge Sullivan's de.
ciaion in full, and will be ont on the
streets as soon as an enormous force OF
specially engaged printers can put Il In
type. The decision is Of a most interest
ing character, and gives Judge Sullivan's
view Of the case, the testimony and the
witnesses In most exhaustive form.