St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-19
SAID He'd BOUGHT her
And That He Proposed to Do
With Her Just as He
Pleased.
Mrs. Carter Tells Court and
Jury Of Her Husbands
Cruelties.
Which, She Stoutly Main.
tains, Dated From Their
Wedding Night.
Suicide Of Sidney Walters,
Journalist and Man
About Town.

CHICAGO, April 1S.-In the Carter di-
vorce case Mrs. Carter resumed her tes-
timony this morning. There was a
large and interested crowd present.
Mrs. Carter testified that in 1881,
when her husband and herself
were at Cooperstown, he repeatedly
assaulted her, once striking her
a violent blow for tickling the baby's
feet. When she protested, Carter said
he had bought her and paid for her and
had right to do as he pleased with
her. Mrs. Carter then told of brutal
treatment she received in New York in
January, 1882, because she was i'll and
could not go TO a party. At that time
she was unable to sleep because of Mr..
Carter's ill-treatment, and was COM
PEELED to use OpiateS. In 1884 also Mr..
Carter behaved very badly to her and
told her he did not think she
would expose him because of
their boy Dudley. In August,
1885, her mind was in such a
state she was the victim of all sorts of
hallucinations. When she went to
Europe Mr.. Carter faithfully promised
her that he would not use that fact
against her. Mrs. Carter was on the
witness stand two and half hours and
consumed great deal of time telling
about visit she made to her husbands
house in 1888, after their separation;
about an interview with Judge Drum
mOnd, and afterwards with her hus-
band and Judge Drummond.
when Carter asked her to make
confession" which she objected
to, because of the term confession"
She was willing to make an ''eXplana-
ton" to her husband alone. but refused
to before third party, which Carter in
sisted on. She told of her stay at
Richelieu, where she received medical
treatment, and of her going to Oak
where she was "out of her head"
There she gained in health. and in
weight from 100 pounds to 143 pounds.
The direct examination was fin
ished at IL o'clock. and Mr.. Walker
started in on the crosS-eXamination.
Mrs. Carter was very cool and collected
throughout her dire ct examination, and
she was not diScompoSed or put out in
the least in her cross-eXamination
Edwin Walker, for Carter. took up the
cross-examination at 12 O'Clock, and re-
sumed 1t again at 2 O'Clock. Much of
the crOSS-eXaminatiOn was directed at
the charge of indecent practices, and it
was nearly an hour before Mr.. Walker
could get Mrs. Carter to say in plain
English what it was she charged.
Judge Jameson compelled her
to say what it was. which she did
with many grimaces. Mrs. Carter said
she was a school girl in st. Mary'S
school, New York, in which her sister
Anna was sister, and it was while she
was on vacation that she met Carter.
She did not tell her mother of Carter's
alleged practices, Mrs. Carter said, for
long time after they had occurred.
But you told your lawyers" said Mr..
Walker, "Yes, but mother is another
MATTER" said Mrs. Carter. She did not
remember exactly when she told Mrs.
Dudley, but she was satisfied that
Mrs. Dudley never understood the exact
nature of her charges.
"Were you not in this school in New
York in 1862"
II cannot remember"
"Do you mean to say that you do not
remember when you graduated?'
81 do not.'
sDo you remember the time you went
to WaukeSha?"
81 do not remember any dates at ALL"
''Were you ever engaged before you
were engaged to Mr.. Carter?'
Not positively"
"What do you mean by not posi-
tively?'
"Well, it was not with my mothers
formal consent, and it was not ire
trievably settled" Mrs. Carter said
she did not have as big a wedding
breakfast as she wanted.
''Well, Carter's treatment of you was
kind on all of the occasions except
when you say he made indecent as
Saults, was 1t not?'
''He was kind except when he was
unkind," answered Mrs. Carter.
Ibid you not say in your testimony
yesterday that you didn't have maid
when you went on your wedding trip?"
Il may have said sO.''
"Why did you have a maid before
your marriage?'
Il did in Washington. was supplied
with maid there by my host, but |
paid her." MI. Walker finally brought
Mrs. Carter down to the Cincinnati
episode, and it appeared that Carter
had only attempted to unbutton her
dress.
"Did you think that such thing was
unnatural in man who was just mar
ried?"
"In my then sick and weak condition
ana naVlnS DuU just Deen married and
not knowing anything about married,
life, l thought it was not right for him
to insist"
"You did not think that sort of be-
havior, proper for one IN your sta
ton, eh?"
Il did not"
.What station would it have been
suitable for?'
mo station whatever" Mrs. Carter
complained of the treatment she re-
ceived at the hands of Mr.. Carter's rel
atives. She said they treated her as a
stranger, and excluded her from their
discussions, and were generally
cold and Indifferent toward her.
Mr.. Walker went over and over
the charges made by Mrs. Carter and
several times he pinned her down to a
comparison Of what she charged in her
bill and what she stated on the stand.
There was discrepancy as to dates be-
tween her testimony and the bill, and
Mr.. Walker called attention to it. "The
bill was hastily drawn by sIawyer
named Burch," said Judge Smith. "And
your name was the first on it as Mrs.
Carter'S SOLICITOR" retorted Mr.. Walker.
Court adjourned at 4:30 with Mrs. Car
ter'S crOSS-eXaminatiOn not concluded.
She will go OH the stand again to-mor-
row.
MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.