The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-24
The Cause CeIebFe.

From the Gazette we learn triat the
greater part Of Thursday was consumed
in empannelling jury in the cause
celebre of Immogene Dupont VS.. Perry
w. Meadow, in which the plaintiff sues
the defendant for the sum to ten thousr
and dollars for breach of promise of mar
riage. Owing to the standing of the
defendant in the community, and the
length of his residence in the territory,
it was difficult matter to obtain twelve
citizens who had not sufficient bias or
prejudice for or against either of the
parties to give fair and impartial YER
dict, but finally the following gentlemen
were accepted and sworn in; Henry
Firth, Thos McGirl, Celeb Rich, Paul
Van Cleve, William Allard, Henry
Sanderson Nick KlOss JAS H. Graham
Andrew Campbell, Ed. johnson. The
case was proceeded With until about nine
in the evening and resumed next morn
ing The plaintiff is the proprietress Of
the park hotel and went to Billings about
year ago from california to prosecute
her suit, The defendant is one of the
leading merchants, and the promises
which are the foundation of the suit, are
alleged to have been made in Bozeman
and renew in California where the part
les resided together. A large mass of
correspondence from defendant to plain
tiff is laid before the jury. The defense
was to the effect that no promise to
marry was made but that the plaintiff
was merely the mistress Of the defend
ant. Since the alleged promises he
has married. case of such interest
attracted large crowd and the atmosp-
here of the court room was at times stiff
ing and necessitated the tmporary adjourn
ment for the relief of the court and jury.
Hon. Andrew F. Burleigh and O. F.
Goddard there the attorneys for plant
if, Judges Conger and McGinness for
defendant.
From Friday morning until O'Clock
in the evening was occupied in the ex-
animation Of the plaintiff in the case in
Guiding the reading of about one humid
red and thirty-fye letters from defendant
to plaintiff. The letters evineed a con-
siderable degree Of intimacy between the
parties and freedom ofexpression Almost
every letter contained allusion to REMIT
ances Of money, which def, sent with
the greatest liberality. Sam Alexander
was introduced for the purpose Of ident-
flying defendants hand writing the court
room remained crowded during the
whole day and considerable interest was
manifested by the audience in the reading
of the epistolarys.portio of the evidence
all day long Saturday the ercss-examina-
ton Of the plaintiff dragged along and
continued until the court adjourned at Q
p. M. On Monday morning the cross
examination was resumed and lasted until
the noon adjournment. The testimony
in the case ofDupont vs Meadow closed
about O. clock Monday when the court
to p. M After the ADJOURN
ment O. F. Goddard for the plaintiff,
spoke at some length, and was followed
by Judge Conger for the defence, who
spoke until the hour for adjournment. He
resumed his address in the morning
speaking from until ll:20. A. F. Bur-
leigh then commenced his closing address
for the prosecution and spoke until 4 |
o. clock when the Judge delivered his in
structi0ns and the jury retired to delibe- /
rate on their verdict. The jury came into /
court at IL o. clock with a verdict awar
ding that the defendant pay 1000 DANA
ges to the plaintiff and the costs OF
court.