, 1888-01-07
The Case.

NEW YoRK, Jan. 6.-The fair plaintiff
in the 100000 breach of promise suit of
Miss Clara Campbell against Charles Ar
buckle, the wealthy coffee merchant, took
the stand again this morning. When ex-
Judge Fullerton began to read more of
the Jurisprudence between her and Mr..
Arbuckle she moved about in a restless
manner. Tears coursed down her cheeks
as her counsel read appeal after appeal
that she had written to her lover be-
seeching him to keep his promise, and
the answers that grew colder as the win
ter of 1888 and 1884 approached.
The defendant was not present when
court opened. but twenty minutes later
he came busting in and took his seat be-
side his counsel. There was no sign Of
recognition between the principles. The
court room was crowded. Many ladies,
mostly young, were present. The read
ing OF the letters caused much amuse-
ment at first, but the constant repetition
of hugs and kisses" and my dear bum
ME-" and then more of love and
kisses" grew tircsome at last.
On the redirect examination of Miss
Campbell she said Mr.. Arbuckle never
told her that anything improper in her
life was the cause of the breaking of the
engagement. Miss Campbell said further
that she did not remember that Mr.. Ar
buckle had sent her a letter stating that
owing to the condition of his health he
could not marry her or any other woman.
She believed he said he had malaria and
bronchial trouble, but she did not believe
he knew what was the matter with him.
Miss Campbell resumed the stand. She
said Mr.. Arbuckle proposed in this way:
Il want a home. have no home. Will
you help me make a homer" She said
she consented by saying: Il will accept
the home" She gave him to understand
that her father was in prosperous circum-
stances; and he was, too" she added.
Mr.. Arbucklc objected to her bathing
alone while she was in Boston, she said,
but she continued to battle. He made
the request with n laugh and a kiss. She
said he also objected to her travelling
alone. She said she did not go to a
strange town when she went to Northamp-
ton, and Il strange boarding house, to
study literature with a strange gentle
man. She had not given up the idea of
taking to the operate stage because her
voice was too heavy.
Miss Campbell said she had reason to
be dissatisfied with her lovers course. He
did not talk of marriage.
Mr.. Parsons inquired about her engage
ment to Arbuckle.
She said she first met that gentleman
Feb. -, and on April ~ became engaged
to him. Possibly she might have seen
him a dozen times in the interval, but size
could not say definitely without consulting
a calendar.
Counsel for the defendant at this point
tried to show that when she became en-
gagged to Arbuckle she told him she feared
her father might fail. This was more
than she would admit, and she had no
more reason for thinking hat her father
would fail than that Mr.. Arbuckle would.
Many questions about her alleged i'm
proprieties of riding on the front seats of
open horse cars, of going in bathing
alone. etc, followed, but the clever wit
ness happily parried each legal thrust.
Then she explained the circumstance of
bleaching her hair, and said that she
stopped doing so when her lover objected.
This subject was soon dropped, and the
i~nterrogations reverted to her stay in
Europe and return to America. Miss
Campbell CURLY informed Mr.. Parsons
that her acquaintance in Milan were not
operate people. Her instructor did not
sing in opera, and she only went to the
opera as a spectator.