Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-07-11

character for chastity, / was pronounced
by the court to be the wife OF William
Sharon. After judgment was gwen In
INV favor Mr.. Sharon moved for new
trial. and has filed affidavits of bell boys
porters and chambermaids of the Bald
win hotel rejecting on my virtue. These
affidayits were procured by the unscru-
puous use of money, and are false. Not
one of the persons who have been hired
to make thee, dared take the stand as
witness on the trial. Some of these
affidavits connect my name with that OF
Reuben II. Lloyd, member ofyour Or
der, in such manner as, without point
edlv charging, would lead to the inference
that improper relations existed between
him and me. Mr.. Lloyd knows how
utterly false such charges are. Any
right thinking man would at once con-
Guide that he would be prompt to
contradict them, but though he has been
applied to by my attorney, Judge Tyler,
to make an affidavit to The truth as 10
those charges, he has, through cowardice
or a verse motive, refused TO 90 SO.
Under these circumstances i appeal 10
Won TO use your influence to induce Mr.:
Lloyd to testify to the truth, which is all
| desire. | ask no favor of him. All
that | ask Is an act of simple justice
which no honorable man would hesitate
10 perform.
THAT MISS HILLS FORMER FRIENDS
are dropping away one or two at time,
excites no surprise. The only wonder is
that she has held some of them as long
as she has. Most of the perjurers and
mercenaries in this city enlisted on one
side or the other at the outset and II they
are massing now on one side Principally
il is because they believe that profit Is to
be found there. The perjury on both
sides in the original suit was so great
that Judge sullivan, than whom there is
not more highly respected judge in the
state, resolved to sweep it all away, and
base his decision on the famous marriage
contract which he held to be genuine
and valid In spite of the hercnlean efforts
of Sharon's attorneys to throw doubt on
it.
Sinca that trial Sharon has had q
famous Chicago expert out here, named
DIR. Piper, and he has made several very
interesting microscopical and photo
praohic experiments with the contract,
all of which he claims, of course,
SHOWS THAT IT Is A FORGERY.
When he demanded the production OF
the contract in court while ago, that he
might remove some of the ink in order
| To subject it to chemical tests to show, as
he said, that two or three different
kinds of ink were used, Miss Hill refused
to give it up and she was sent to jail for
twenty four hours for contempt, the
court having made the order. Since
| then operations in that line have been
suspended, and Miss Hill keeps her pre-
cious document in her own hands. DIR.
Piper is arranging his testimony and
| DIAGRAMS, and when he goes on the
stand it is expected that he will submit
a mass of evidence which will have no
parallel in the matter of scientific analy-
sis of chirography.
The confession of Nellie Bracket,
Miss Hills boon companion in the
earlier stage of litigation, in which she
admits that all
HER TDTIMoNY WAS FALSE,
is not new, although it was widely tele.
graphed The truth is, nothing in hei
] testimony when it was given was calcul.
ated to help Miss Hill much.
Nellie Bracket is the daughter o.
respectable parents here, who had nc
idea that she was acquainted with Miss
Hill until the scandal became public
and they have done everything in theil
power to get the young woman out of The
scrape Her confession of perjury, there
fore, where so much perjury is all bu
admitted on both sides, is not thought
much of here. Miss Hill is now doins
business in this line on credit, though
she has noneyed friend in old NANNY
Pleasance, the colored fortune teller, wb'
has never lost faith in her claim. 1t il
said that this old woman, who is as blacl
rs coal, is worth about million dollars
and that, while she is not making an,
lavish OUTLAWS, she enjoys the fun wei
enough, and hates Sharon and his law
yers, who drew her over the Goals, witt
sufficient intensity to make the sacrific'
of enough money to pay actual curren
expenses. If it was not for her it j
probable that Miss Hill would hav'
snccumbed long ago. San Francisco
Correspondence.