Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-02

xastsr Dunninstoa rakss Hand in his
own Behalf

Edgtsr Dunnington Takes . Hand In Ri
Own Behalf.
SxSriSYL 0FncE,
GRSProS, MAY l. 1885.
DHs Editor q ne Rsgiar.
Inotice the following clipping from III
Psrkersburg State Journal in to-dsy's REc
IsrER:
Huntington, the chsmbermsid, went I,
Washington, secured copies Of the letter
Mccormick had written to the department
reformed home, and the next day sent hi
article to the Inteligeneer and Pierce hat
q summons issued, no declaration bein,
filed, against Mccormick for $4,000. Tn,
case VIII never be tried, but is only part o
the damDable scheme Of Hart 4 Co. to ge
Democrats IN Office as soon as possible
Hart wants Atkinson's, Mccormick s, Flick s
Gof and Hugh Sterling's scalps, and dom
care how many Republicans suffer for il.
do not receive the State Journal upr-
my exchange table and am consequeing
deprived of the pleasure threading the and
eHusions of Its brainy but intenselys r the
native editor. 1t was not until the Z by q
published the above item that fch result.
aware OF the fact that it we from the
around. In justice to ,IIoyids for or
the complainant in the suie was not and
Mccormick, / desire to saylrs. Beveriin al
60 10 Washington to rs for divorce, aud
letters upon which thu much rare and racy
that my visit to WaS taken, Ia her com
whatever to do witbleges that she was mar
matter being a pant on June 9. 1861, in
l will say that IT, by q Justice Of the Peace,
the suit being hume Of the marriage she was
street IN thnsme being Elizabeth Foster,
morning AIRING her said married life with
OF the N, they resided, first one year in
Mr.. Haye county, nine months at Philppi,
OF Yopoour county and the last twenty and
CoSg years at and in the vicinity of Grafton.
Critic return of her husband from visit
g Pittsburg on September 20, 1884, she
says his manner toward her underwent
complete and startling change. He was
surly and cold, would not eat at the same
table, his conduct hard and cruel, etc., and
that after remaining at her said home en-
during all manner OF mistreatment and
wrong for three weeks he finally compelled
plaintiff to leave her home and children and
seek shelter with friends
To sustain the charges of the bill the de-
position of Mrs. Beverlin aud several others
have been taken. Mrs. Beverlin states in
her deposition substantially the allegations
Of her bin. On her cross-exauinstion the
defendant sought to show that her former
husband, Edward Foster, was living at the
date oE her claimed marriage with BeV.
erin, and that he died near Bellaire,
Ohio, in 1873. This she de.
MED having any knowledge Of 1t
was developed that Foster aud his wife
separated about the year 1851, Foster leav
ing tie country with another woman. Mrs.
BtyerHn, then Foster. met Beverhn at
Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1860, and became &C
uuaiLted, which acquaintance developed
into an afft cton. Mrs Foster instituted a
suit agsins: hex former husband for divorce
in BtlGont county, which was not
hta.d or tried Tor the resson, as Mrs.
Beyeylin claims, that Foster had Left
the country and had not been heard Of for
several years AMI the further reason that
Beyerlin would not consent to wait for o ter
mination OF the suit, claiming that Foster
Was dead and was so importunase that she
finally consented and went TO West Liberty,
Pa, where they we're married, thence back
to Wheeling where they took steam boat
TO SistersYills, thence going to his father
in Doidridge county.
To the bill Of Slaintif, Beyerlin fled his
answer on Tuesday last, in which he says:
That plaintiffs true name is Elizabeth
Foster; that she is the widow of Edward
Foster, deceased; that she was married to
said Foster in Belmont county, Ohio, on the
18th day Of January 1888, By Charles S.
Barron, Justice OF said county, and files
a certified copy of the record Of said mar
rlsge.
he further says that plaintiff was never
divorced from her said husband, Edward
Foster, although she attempted at two diff
ferert times to OBTAIN q divorce from him
Beverin says Edward Fostsr diedin Bellaire
October 81, 1873 He further AYERS that it
is not true, as charged in the bill, that he
and plaintiff were married in June, 1851, III
Washington county, Pennsylvania, but that
plaintiff was in fact at that time, to wit: in
June, 1861, the lawful wife OF Edward Eos
ter and had been for more than Is years,
and continued TO be the wife of said Ed
ward Foster for more than twelve years
after June, 1861 He says there never was
any pretense Of marriage between them
during all the years they have lived to-
gether.
The answer Of Beverlin to the allegations
of the plain if, from which, as printed in the
Grafton Eagle, the above summary is taken
was sworn to on Thursday of this week.
In connection with the case the deposition
of Isaac Anderson, of Bellaire, has been
taken. He testi6es that he was acquainted
with Edward Foster and Elizabeth Foster,
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lash
lev; that Edward Foster died near Bellsire
about the year 1878; that Foster and his
wife separated in 1858 or 8. The first |
knew of her living with any one after~ard
was with Mr. Beyerlin, and she continued to
live with him up t. some timein 1884. Eos
ter and his wifsIhsd never been divorced
that | know. q"
The case has created tremendous sem
Sa, ION at Grafton.