Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-14
AN INTER Es1iNG CASE.
aberdeen Produces "a Divorce seBss
ton With Interesting Textures.

Aberdeen Produces "a Divorce SeBss
iion with Interesting Textures.
Aberdeen, Oak Sept. 12-Fbe testi-
Hamilton We. Hamilton, ON trial before
Referee Potter III this city, was falshed
lassnight. Mrs. Ham,lton, WHO was Oh
the stand Tor several hours, told the
story OF her mani bus most nufor-
inmate marriage IN q qulet, Unaffected
Way. Her appearance and manner while
giving testimony were dycldedly III her
favor.
While The defendant would hardly be
described rs u handsome woman, she lis
CERTAINLY q most attractive one, u woman
20 Naturally command the admiration OF
men. Little wonder Is expressed here
that young Hamilton became
OF her. Indeed, one OF the spectators
yesterday expressed q common thought
by rsmarklng in sn audiple whisper.
He's d fuoi that he don't DISMISS his case
md take her home with him.
Rose Bionsky is no ordinary girl. Her
lace Low, however, shows the traces OF
the trisls she has undergone and the
anxiety that any woman must feel
when she is called upon to vindicate her
character from the gravest charge that
can be made against a M But not
withstanding this, Mrs. Hamilton, in o
becoming suit of ONE sea-green fabric,
looked every inch a wife and woman ss
shs told her wrongs. Ashspely figure,
graceful In every movement, supporting
q small, well poised head, with heavy
bands Ut dark brown hair ORA wn back
from a wide, low forehead; eyes OF that
gray quality which D can hardly dis
tIngulsn IRON black; a shapely nose and
a mouth and ohm OF unus ual hrmness
and beauty, made up a picture rarely
seen in the witness CHAIR. And she, this
fair, modest, refined looking womau was
there to defend her fair name from the
aspersIoDs of men SO low and brutal III
appearance, that any word or deaial
seemed unnecessary. The moral proofs
and the probabilities of her story told
in q quiet way, supported them.
She said she had known William Hamll-
ton from childhood, ana that for q long
while before her secret marriage to him
ut Fountain City he had paid her marked
at entIoD. Her parents were opposed to
the idea OF mafrisge, as were Bis. AT er
the ceremony they returned to their
homes, having agreed to keep the mar
rage O secret until her husband could
secure charge of q lumber yard at some
town in Dakota, when they we're to go
there to live. A week elapsed and the
secret got abroad. Hamilton saw her
q evening and it was agreed they
should announce their marriage to their
parents the following day. But IN the
morning Hamilton came not. A note
under the doormat told her he would
come later in the day. This was the last \
she ever saw of him-the man who was
her husband but ia name. Mrs. Hamll-
ton then told her story OF the incidents
which the plaintiffs attorney had twist
ed into the foundations for the charges of
unchastity-a simple story with not o
circumstance incompatible with her
innocence. How Reynolds, the arch wit
ness, forced his attentions upon her, got
q cloak for her one rainy night; met her
twice pretending he could tell her of the
steps her husbands attorney was taking
to procure a divorce; how the police of
Winona logged and haunted her foot
steps. and sill the details of this deter.
mined effort to get q divorce. whether
or no to satisfy the pride OF Hamilton's
family. Upon CROSS examination she
never faltered nor departed in any point
from her direct testimy. When her
testimony was concluded there were few
disinterested persons who did not be-
lIeve her a wronged and innocent wife
This sentiment manifested itself yeeter-
day IN talk upon the streets of giving
some of the plaintiffs witnesses short
notice to leave town. That Mrs. Ham
iltop's character and right will be vindi-
Gated by the decision ia O belief generally
en.e.ta.ned here