Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-02
WITNESS ROSE BAER.
LADY COLLINS MAID TELLS SOME START
LING STORIES.
On the Guss Examination she Repeatedly Con-
tadiets Her Previous Statements and Frs-
qusnty Rscants Turning the Tide in
Favor Of the Fair Plaintiff.

the drawing room. Witness never saw
any familiarity between Lord Colin Camp
bell and Mary Watson. Lady Colin had
instructed witness not to leave letters to
her mistress in the hall, but to take them
to her. Some of the letters witness
carried to plaintiff the latter
burned, others she placed in box under
her bed. In June, 1881, Lady Colin, who
was at the time in the company of Lady
Miles, called witness. Lady Miles told
witness she had blackened her mistress
character and must leave, and that if she
did not 90 at once the police would be
called to put her out Lady Colin gave
her ZOE, "a only being due, as wages, and
told witness to tell the servants in expla-
nation of her departure that her father was
i'll and she was going home. Lady Colin
added, witness said, that she considered
witness sister and not a servant, and
kissed her good bye, saying it was Lord
Colin Campbell who had dismissed her.
Witness had posted letters daily to the
Duke of Marlborough. She sometimes
took them to his house. Lady Colin used
to leave the house at So'clock in the even
ing and return as late as three o'clock on
the following morning. On some of these
occasions witness would accompany her
mistress short distance from the house
and there be told to return. On these ex-
peditions Lady Colin usually carried along
felt hat concealed under her cloak.
Once witness found a gentleman's hand
kerchief in Lady Collins room at Leigh
Court. Plaintiff said she knew to whom
it belonged and took it.
Once witness heard somebody
AFTER MIDNIGHT
ascending the stairs. Lady Colin coughed.
The person then entered the door of the
room adjoining plaintiffs, the door of the
room was shut and witness was dismissed.
Next day witness found evidence that the
room had been occupied by two persons.
Once witness heard the Duke Of Marlbo-
rough in Lady Collins room during the af-
ternoon. On one occasion, while witness
was brushing Lady Collins hair after mid
night, somebody on the outside of the
room tried the door, and finding it locked,
departed. Witness saw Chief Shaw walk
ing outside the house, with carriage in
waiting. The carriage went away and
Chief Shaw entered the house. Witness
often mailed letters to Chief Shaw from
Lady Colin.
Being cross-examined, Miss Baer admit
ted that she cried when she was dismissed
from Lady Collins service, and that she
said she was sorry she had talked to the
servants. She denied, however, that she
admitted she had beena wicked gossip"
She admitted that she had written TO Lady
Colin both from abroad and after her re-
turn to England, and that the plaintiff
never answered her letters. She denied
having threatened to expose Lady Colin"
when the latter allowed witness letters
asking for money to remain unal swered.
MISS BAER's RECANT.
At this point, counsel for the plaintiff
cross-examined Miss Baer very closely,
and she admitted that two weeks ago she
had signed statement that Lady Colin
Campbell dismissed her because she knew
too much about her, and that she had
thought it necessary to tell Lady Colin
that she would expose her. Being asked
TO explain how it came that she signed
such statement and now admitted that
il was untrue, witness said 81 thought it
true then. think it untrue now." This
recantation caused sensation among the
audience.
Continuing, under close cross-examina-
ton, witness admitted that the Duke of
Marlborough always called upon Lady
Colin during the usual Wis iting hours.
He came twice, thrice and sometimes five
times weekly. Witness posted letters TO
the Duke of Marlborough every day, and
sometimes twice day. On the occasion
when she took the letters to the Dukes
residence, she put them into the letter-box,
rang the bell and ran away home. She
had been instructed to do do this on these
occasions. Witness then admitted that
the statements she had made on her direct
examination that she had found in un-
dressing her that
LADY Collins DRESS
was open at the back and her skirt disar-
ranged and her petticoats out of order on
occasions when the plaintiff left home
early in the evening and returned in the
early morning were not true. Witness
had not found Lady Collins dress unlaced.
She had found petticoat unlocked once.
Being further pressed witness admitted
that it was not a petticoat but that the
skirt was simply unlocked so that she
could see the petticoat beneath
the skirt, that was all.
under further pressure Miss Barr admit
ted that she had never suspected that
anything wrong had occurred between
Lady Colin Campbell and any person bnt
the Duke OF Marlborough. Witness adj
mitted that in 1884, and six weeks ago she
signed statements alleging that went TO
Leigh court during the Christmas holidays
with Lady Colin Campbell and describing
the rooms occupied by her mistress and
by the Duke of Marlborough as adjoining
and further alleging that the Duke paid
great attention to Lady Colin. Witness,
however, now admitted that that was o
mistake, that it all occurred ut Easter.
ANOTHER SENSATION.
Counsel for plaintiff added more pressure
and Miss Baer finally admitted that the
Duke of Marlborough was not at Leigh
Court at Christmas She also admitted
that the statements size had made in her
direct examination about hearing some
one ascend the stairs after midnight one
night and enter the room adjoining Lady
Collins and finding agentleman's handker-
chief in Lady Collins room next morning
and other indications that two persons had
occupied the room, were untrue. Witness
in the original statement, she contended,
did not say that two persons had occupied
the room on the occasion referred TO.
Witness only remembered this incident
last week. Nearly every one Of Miss
Baer's admissions under cross-examina-
ton provoked excitement and sensations
in view of their damaging effect upon that
side of the case which was largely built
upon what she had previously stated in
writing
Cross examination Of Miss Baer was
A