Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-06-14

SECOND EvENING'S PROCEEDINGS
IN THIS CASE.

More Fun than at 4 Circus Judge An.
derson Wants the Room Cleared
His Honor Compelled to Decide
Against Him on Nearly Every Point
No Damaging Evidence Introduced
Mr.. Hall's Proposition 10 His Wife's
Attorneys.
The hearing in the case of Hall vs..
Hall, in which Mrs. e. b. Hall of
Bellevue sues for divorce from her
husband on the grounds of extreme
cruelty and failure to provide, was re-
suned in the District Court last
evening, at half-past Z o'clock. The
proceedings were watched with in
tense interest, by quite q number Of
gentlemen, not lady being in the
room except those subpen@d, and
they hurried from the room as soon
as they had given in their evidence.
The evidence was remarkable from
the fact that not a single incrimina.
ting or really suspicious circum.
stance could be proved. Whenever
a witness seemed about to testify to
some suspicious act or other, one of
the counsel for the plaintiff would
jump to his feet and object on tech
mical but sound grounds, and the
witness, nonplussed. would be com.
PEELED to silence. Bruner Parsons &
Bruner appeared for Mrs. Hall, and
V. S. Anderson for Mr.. Hall. Mr..
Anderson had hard time of it. In
the FIRST place, he had the disagree.
able, unpopular, difficult side Of the
case; and in the next place, be had to
contend with three ambitious, rising
lights of the bar bent on winning case
that has caused much stir on Wood
River owing to the husband allega.
tons Of in6delity on the part of the
wife. It was Judge Parsons's re.
entry in court since his departure for
England, two years ago; and his deep
bass voice was never more sonorous
or his brief pleas never more persuas-
i've than when, last night, he sought
to convince the court and counsel
that the evidence sought to be intro.
duced was totally inadmissible; tina,
much Of it was gossip, and the mos,
Of the remainder were suspicious base
less IS the belief that the iniquitou.
division bill can stand the test of tbs
courts. Judge Anderson tried t.
make the most of bad case, ant
gained some advantage when op
posed single-handed by either on
Of the opposing counsel; but whe'
two or all three of them attacked
him he evidently felt the hopeless
ness of the struggle, and yielded hi
point. He fused, and fumed, an
fretted, and farcically mumble'
something about "truth and justice,
but this did not avail him. Big drop
of sweat triokled down his classi
countenance, and he looked at time
as if he wished the ground to ope
and engulf him. At the conclusion
of the sitting the janitor probably ba
to mop the floor where the learne
advocate had stood, so tremendousl
: had he perspired.
1t was the husbands side of I'll
? case that was presented last nigh
He was put on the stand, but wi
\ nearly through testifying when tn
J reporter reached the courtroom, an
I. the only important point Gillette
, after that was that about the 23rd
? March last Mr.. Hall had offered not
3 contest the wife's application if 81
would agree to pay his debts al
hers, give him $500 cash, and cham
i the grounds Of application 70 cruel
and desertion.
Mrs. Aubrey was sworn.-Abo
the last Of October, 1883, in q CO
versation about the trials and trib
las,ons Of married life, Mrs. Hall u
,. held Mrs. j. L. G. Smith for shooti
her husband, and added that VIII
her husband accused her wrongful
and abused her she raised earvin
10 knife and cowed him.
- On DISCRIMINATION Mrs. Aubr
!. admitted that Mrs. Hail had said Il
10 IL was in self.defense. az Mr., II