St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-22
THE dixie SCANDAL.
Mrs. Crawford Continues Her Re-
cffal of Shameless CON net

cftal of Shameless Conduct.
LONDON, July 21.-Mrs. Crawford re-
sumed her testimony to-day in the Craw-
ford divorce case. She said that Sir Charles
Dixie declared that Mrs. Rogerson, at
whose house he used to meet witness. was
his mistress. Mrs. Crawford asserted that
she believed it was Mrs. Rogerson who
wrote the anonymous letters accusing wit
ness of adultery with Captain Foster, and
that her object was to screen Dixie. Mrs.
Ashton Dixie, sister of Mrs. Crawford and
sister-n-law of Sir Charles Dixie, after
Mrs Crawford had made her confession,
suggested quiet separation between her and
her husband, and offered to contribute to
Mrs. Crawford's income. A number of
servants testified that ladies secretly visited
Sir Charles Dixie. and that he made regu-
lar designations at the Warren street house.
While Mrs. Crawford was testifying under
cross-eXaminatien Capt. Foster entered the
court room and was seen by her. She be-
came less confident in her manner, and her
replies were often in stammering way and
after long pauses. She said, among other
things. that Sir Charles Dixie told her
that
HE HAD FOUR MISTRESSES,
Mrs. Rogerson, Sarah, Fanny and another
woman, whose name was unknown to wit
ness. Continuing, Mrs. Crawford reter-
ated her belief that Mrs. Rogerson wrote
the anonymous letters in order to screen
Sir Charles Dixie at the expense of Capt.
Foster. Mrs. Rogerson had helped witness
to secure some of the interviews she had
had at Mrs. RogerSon's house with Capt.
Foster.
81 have no earthly object declared the
witness, lin making all these statements ex-
cept to tell the truth
The jury asked Mrs. Crawford to de-
scribe the room in the Warren street house
in which she alleges Sir Charles Dixie used
to meet her. She took pencil and made
a diagram of the apartment. Mrs. Ashton
Dixie, on cross-eXamination, said that after
Mrs. Crawford's confession Sir Charles
Dixie came to witnesses house and asked
for ''Virginia' (Mrs. Crawford; that he
urged her to quietly separate from her hus-
band and so avoid the publicity and scandal
of divorce proceedings.
Sir Charles assured the witness and Mrs.
Crawford that if following his advice created
any financial difficulty,
HE WOULD FIND THE MONEY.
Witness became indignant, and refused
to assist in influencing her sister to do as
that she believed her sisters story, as told
in her confession, was true until she wrote
to Sir Charles, congratulating him on his
subsequent marriage to Mrs. Mark Pattison.
At this point counsel for Mrs. Crawford
read letter charging Sir Charles with hav-
ing had liason with another servant than
any yet mentioned in the case. George
Hillyer testified that in 1884 he resided
at No. 65 Warren street. He ldenti-
fed Sir Charles as the person he had
seen coming to the house to meet lady in
Sarah Davis rooms. Mrs. Hillyer testified
that Sir Charles met a lady in Davis rooms,
locked the door after she entered, and that
after the lapse Of three-quarters of an hour
Sir Charles and the lady left separately.
Miss Hillyer identified Dixie, but said Mrs.
Crawford was not the lady who came with
him. Mary Grey, housemaid of Dilke's,
deposed that she went to bikes bedroom,
and found woman there, and that Sarah
angrily forbade her ever to enter the bed
room again unless Sarah ac-
companed her. She failed to
recognize Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Rogersons
brother depoSed that he prohibited Dixie
from visiting Mr.. Rogerson on learning
that Sir Charles Dixie and Lady Dixie
were using efforts to influence her evidence.
He was sorry to be constrained to say that
he belives the anonymous letters were writ
ten by his sister.
DONALD CRAWFORD
testified that Virginia Crawford begged
him not to name Capt. Foster cores
pondent because, as she said, she did not
want to ruin more than one man. This
evidence caused a sensation in the court
room. When court adjourned it was under
stood that the evidence was closed