New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-01
processes has something to do with the action
of many of the Pttsburg men.
SARAH ALTHEA'S BLTGHTED HOPES.

C1hdH an ma DbiuLi III hNf 1<S'
A dispatch yesterday stated that the Supreme
Court of California has rendered decision
which permits ex-senator Sharon to appeal from
the order of the Superior Court allowing Sarah
Alhea Hill fees and alimony. The dispatch
perhaps ventures too far into the future in
stating that the Supreme Court on appeal is
certain to throw the whole case out Of court,
but it is reasonable expectation that the
plaintiff will not get her alimony and counsel
fees, and it is certainly not improbable that her
suit may be brought to q sudden termination.
Indeed, ii is time that if such an outcome be
possible it should be brought about, for the
annals OF litigation contain nothing approach
ing this extraordinary suit for scandalous
proceedings. Outside the central suit have
grown up n thick crop of side suits, each and
all having their origin in some charge OF
perjury or misrepresentation or some other
wrong or fraud committed during the trial OF
the main issue. In the course OF these sub
trials many curious revelations have been
made. and it nay almost BIO said that their
cumulative effect has becu to upset theplaintih's
main contention.
Nearly all her original witnesses have
deserted her, and most of them have gone over
rank perjury in their statements about the So
called marriage contract and the relations
between Sharon aud Sarah Althea, and among
these rccreants are the two most vital witnesses
for the plaintiff. In fact, she has been dis
credited to such an extent that it is difficult to
see what ground there is left for her to stand
upon. She has made desperate efforts to
prevent the contract from being su bmltted to
an expert even going so far as to send the docu-
mcnt out of the State, or at least 10 swear that
she had done So and enduring n days imprls-
Onmcnt for contempt Of court. THIS extreme
fear of n critical examination of the contract
upon the strength Of which her whole case
rests, coming on the heels of the declarations
of her former friends to the effect that she
forged the document herself, seems to reduce
the plaintiffs case to microscopic dimensions.
Public opinion has been more indugent to her
than she deserved for the illogical reason that
Sharon was anything but popular. Had her
suit been against Il man who was liked there
can be no doubt that harsher and more just
criticism would have been passed upon her.
Blu, her persistence is largely attributable to
the logged tcnacity and pachydermatous in
difference to ccnsure of her principal counsel
Tyler. and it is commonly Exported that funds
have been raised by some such means as were
resorted to by the "Claimant in England.
However that may be, it is now apparent that
The beginning of the end has been reached.
The action of the Supreme Court destroys the
last hope of securing the remarkably liberal
alimony and counsel fees awarded the plaintiff
by judge Sullivan, and this will probably CON
vince even the obstinate Tyler that the battle Is
lost. If. however, this tangled sken of ltiga-
ton is unravellcd, and its astonishing cloud of
incquity cleared away, without any one being
consigned 10 the penitentiary. it is to be feared
that the lesson will be rs dcmoralizins almost
MS though perjury and fraud had positively
triumphed in the courts. OF course 1t cannot he
said that the case shows all rich men to b. ex-
DC scd to similar assaults. because such attacks
can only be made on men whose own impru-
dencc or vice has made them vulnerable. Bat
il has shown that the courts are virtually
powerlcss to deal with perjury when it is en-
ployed artstically and upon wholesale scale