The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-05-21
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O'Kooio and Ross II. Wlnans, the lal-
llnoTo millionaire, began tho heading
! OF the case NJ his office at noon to-day.
tuu plaintitl, handsome, elegantly a.
tired woman, wa GGco mpunied by Il
younger slstor and u Mrs. Thorno,
mildlH.aged woman, who
is said to bo an important witness for
Mrs. O'Keeiu. ENJudge d. Nj. Porter,
counsel tor plainul, was with the IA
dies. Mr.. Winans, tho defendant, was
present with his lawyers, Joseph ;
| Schoat, James &. Carter and l., q. Led
| yard, The parties 10 tho suit sat opDo
site each other, but witntss gave no slgu
OF recognition, but stroked his beard
neryously from tim6 10 time, while MS
alleged wife gracefully famed herself
The table oi the referee was strown with
| photographs 81 Winans, taken at var
| ious liNes in England. On the
back of one picture, where gdefendant
| appears as n well In a loud astraSan
trimmed coat, the following Is written.
40 Miss Sarlteld, rs help 20 rs'
member Ross X. Wiuan9."
On another the following is scrubbed:
"ro Ally, from Rosy, with the sweet
est at kisses and the host Of - -"
ana "From Ross 10 his little devil
A ice"
The iirst witness examined was the
complainant. She testified that she
first met MIR. WinanS nc the Langham
hotel, in London, In 1872. She was intro,
duced TO him aud he sent her books
and flowers. She left tho hotel soon
after, because Mrs. Hunt, by whom
she was employed as goyerness, failed
obtained position In the same capacity
with Lady Dukes, of Loves, England.
When she departed for Lewfs Winars
went to the depot with her. Ho told her
he WIS fond OF her and asked hor 70 cor
respond with him. He wrote 10 her ire
quent.y. She came 10 London; had
lunch and drive win him, Winaus
proposed marriage 10 her, bat she said
she could not wed him "a her mother
and family we're not there. When he
asked her a second time 10 marry
him she consented, but insisted the cere-
mony must take piGcein church. Win
ans said no was an American, and III
his country church ceremony was not
altogether necessary, and that nian
and woman who agreed To i've tCSothef
were regarded as husband and wife. He
anally induced her To acquiesce, and
they went to the GrosSyenOr holel in
london, where he gave her ring ana
,solemnly pledged Dimselfto take her as
u
They lived at the hotel as
man and wife. She was known
to the servants in the house aS
his wife. they then went to Cam
bridge, where mis- studies were com
pieIed. There no called her his vito ho'
fore the servants and others. The
couple journeyed back to London and
Went thence 10 Spae, Germany, where
they remained five or six weeks. Ar
;icles shipped To the plaintiff while at
Spae were addressed TO her as Mrs
Winaus. The defendant spoke Of her
as his wife and no introduced her to
Mr.. Latrabo and TO mis- (Winan's own
brother) as his wife. The plaintiff and
defendant came to this country on
the steamer Scotia, which arrived
here May 80, 1873. They We're
booked on the passenger list as Gross
WiDRns ana lady" They stopped at
the Brevoort house, and where tbs re-
spondent registered with his own hGuH-
writing: ar. r. Winans and WIFE"
On arrival Mrs. Winans, so.called, found
that her mother was living in Chicago.
She wanted q public welding, but he
demurred, alleging that his father was
very i'll and he did not want to break
the news Of his marriage to him. The
defendant consented TO n repe-
tltion of tho ceremony gone through
in London Just to ease her
mind. She then went to Chicago 70 see
her mother, while he journeyed to his
fathers bedside at Baltimore. He wrote
her every day while she was in Chicago.
They met again in the city after an ia
terval of a couple of weeks and went to
the St. James hotel, but subsequently
removed to No. so West Twenty-fourtn
street, where she was also known as
Mrs. Wiuaus. In addition to her we'd
ding ring, he gave her ring which he
said belonged to his mother.
NUMBER OF LETTERS.
from defendant to plaintiff were then
put in evidence. The following letter
was written from Baltimore while the
plaintiff was in Chicago, on June 4, the
day after arriy!ng:
My Own Sweet Duckey:
suppose by tins time my poor little
| pet is pretty near home. What long,
tiresome, lonesome, dusGy, hot journey
you must have he'd. MY poor little dar-
| ling, if you had seen Rosy as no ives
gong home on the ferry-boat you would
have pitied him moro chan yourself,
He went 10 the outaide OF the boat and
cried like u regular baby. I would have
! been ashamed Of myself II IL had not
| hae,, for ac GOOD an eN,
c cosh and [ let ny tears course
as last as they would, which waa freely,
can tell you. / swar that l regular
| boo-hood; so much, in fact, thab an ola
niger came up and stared 81 nae to see
what the devil was tho matter l ar
rived in Baltimore and found my
| brother in the station Ny sister waited
| IL the carriage willis Bill aEd l Waikad
| TO the carriage. [ ycm like, my little
duckey, you must not expect very loug
| letters, il / writ, every day. nope you
| b ave not got il as hot IN Chicago as 1t
Ii here. / am hR4f dead with toe bCug.
| H. l. ! - /
am of my little devil un8l now, that
n parted from h.r. But your Rossy
III not Oe parted from you longer than
he can help / hope TO goodness l shall
get one tomorrow. l must get up. now
for breakfast. Oh! how lonely it is in
this big bsd all by myself.
Well, my little darling, | must say
goodbye, with as many kisses as viii
last till tomorrow, and believe mo to
be,
Your loving Rosy.
RossY RANTS AND RAVES.
Counsel for plaintiff road the follow
ing letter for It's worth:
'Tuesday--My Little Darling;
/ have received no letter again to-day.
They must be disgustingly irregular
with the posts. You said some gentle
man asked you to 60 TO the theatre. MY
dear little girl, how in the world did
you ever allow Yourself to get so init
mately acquainted WIN thelI us " SlNo
him the right to dare ask you to do such
thing. You should have got
MAD AS HE'LL
at his presumption TO have ASKED
a married lady, on so short an scquslnt-
apce, such an ipsolout question:. lave
nothing more to Go with the
damned blackguard or he will want to
visit your bedroom next.
My darling, i can't imagine how you
ever allowed him to suggest such a
thing and to only say back that you did
not Tell well enough to go anywhere;
Why, what must no haye thought OF