St. Paul daily globe., 1885-04-14
SARAH SAT DOWN ON.
TIE Heroine of the Celebrated sharon
Dfcorce Suit Has a Free-for-AH Ffghe
With Her Laacyer.

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From the San Francisco Chronicle.
New facts are coming to light with refer
ence 10 the estrangement between the plain
tlH In The celebrated divorce suit of Sharon
against Sharon and her counsel. Geo. w.
Tyler When the attention of the ladv nlain-
tiff was called to Mr.. Tyler's explanation of
his omission to offer evidence in the United
States circuit court to show that Mr.. Sharon
was not resident of Nevada, she smiled do
risively and said:
Judge Tyler filed his plea on April "a.
1884, and Barnes filed his reply on May 5.
Then Tyler got ninety days. time to put in
testimony. He was not engaged in the
superior court, because the trial was sus-
pended there for six weeks during the vaca-
ton from the end of May till July ID. During
that time not only myself, but many promi-
nent persons, including one of the judges,
whose name [ don't care to mention, went
to his office and told him where he could get
indisputable evidence that Mr.. Sharon was
not resident of Nevada. But he neglected
the matter, and when the case came up in the
United States court there was DO one present
to represent me, and the decision was allowed
to 60 by default Mr.. Tyler denies that
have asked him to give me substitution, but
1 have the papers to show it. For that mat
ter, he came into the case without my desire.
/ never wanted him, and he knows it, He
forced himself on me, with the assistance Of
Nelson, and from the first we never agreed
and never got along together He talks about
my losing the sympathy of the public by
quarreling with him. Whatever sympathy
have received has been from those who be-
lieved l had just cause. Instead of gain
ing sympathy have been prejudiced by the
public knowing that Tyler was connected
with my case.
TYRANNY OF TYLER.
"Then as to his fling the contract that he
had with me. Certainly he cid ask me If
was satisfied with him after Judge Sullivan
had rendered his decision, but at that very
time 1 had already been informed by friend
that the. contract had been filed the instant
the decision was given, and so made no re-
ply. Besides, what did he want2 He did
not take up the case for charity or for glory.
He took it up for money, and Judge Sullivan
allows him ,000 Is not that pretty good
pay for the ninety-two days that he was actu-
ally engaged on the trial! Then look at his
dismissal of the Alta suit. He says he con-
suited with Judge Terry His agreement
| does not say that he shall consult with Judge
| Terry, but with me. He me often enough
and had plenty of opportunities to consult
me, but he did as he pleased without ever
speaking to me about it. The idea of his
saying that rasped him, and that he was
tired of being rasped. I think the public
well know what any one would get who tried
to rasp Tyler. The whole difficulty is that
Judge Tyler is an overbearing man and
wants to run everything his own way. He
wont listen to me-. nor any of the other coun-
| sci, although they have tried over and ove1
again to get him to change his management
and conduct of the case; and then he ask
for the ympathy of the public because he has
been fined and reprimanded by the court, as
if it were my fault that he did not know how
to conduct himself in court He abuses ev-
cry one that differs with him, and he has in
suited and abused me so often that judge
Terry advises me not to 60 to his Office any
more.
| A HAND-To-HAND ENCOUNTER.
"Why, if L were to tell you all that have
suffered from that man it would shock you.
He has cursed and sworn at me and called
me by the vilest names he could lay his
tongue to, land his son Willie has even struck
me. You must know Inever wanted young
Tyler to have anything to do with the case.
He was there entirely against my wi and
protested against his having anything to do
| with it over and over again, but his father has
| been trying all along to push him forward
| and give him prominence on the strength Of
my case. Well, when young Tyler com
menced his closing argument was talking
to Judge Terry and Walter H. Levy up in the
| city hail. and [ said that | did not want td
have that boy argue my case. Young Tyei
heard it, and the next day when | went to his
office to get the negatives of some photo
graphs which Judge Terry wanted to see be-
fore commencing the Alta suit, young Tyler,
who was reading small bound pamphlet,
said to me: How dare you come into my
office after referring to me yesterday as that
boy9' Don't you know that l am one of the
attorneys Of record in this case and can dis
miss it, if | choose, with q stroke of my
penP Aud with that
HE SLAPPED MY FACE
with the pamphlet. I told him not to dare
to strike me again, and he repeated the blow
with greater violence. l defended myself
and struck him with my parasol, when he
seized me with one hand by my back hair
and by my throat with the other, swung me
round and dashed me on the floor. Then he
sprung on me and sat on me straddewise,
and held me down on the floor, while with
both his fists he thumped me with all his
might on both sides Of the face until ii was
black and blue. He also struck me on the
throat and broke in pieces a $l75 gold enamel
pin which | wore. / screamed for assistance,
and Judge Terry and Nanny Pleasance
rushed in and pulled him off me, and Judge
Terry told him he was coward TO assault
woman. ] threatened to cowhidc him for
his brutality, but they got him out of the way;
and then told Judge Tyler that if his son
dared to attempt to finish his argument,
would get up and expose his conduct to the
court You will remember that when the
court opened again on the following Monday,
Willie Tyler absent and Judge Tyler
told Judge Sullivan that his son was sick and
had gone to the country, and he read the rest
of the argument from his sons manuscript.
was so bruised that had TO keep my face
closely veiled for several days after the as
sault. But instead Of being ashamed Of his
cowardice, he boasted to several Of his friends
around the city call that l had tried to bully
him and that he wiped up his Office floor with
me- "