Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-28

sick, and went back after two days.
told him Was sick, and was not able to
work. He told me once that he would
bring me to California, but was not able
to travel. My character previous to my
acquaintance with Van Every was good.
At the opening of the afternoon session
the attorney for the defendant offered In
evidence a part of a document signed by
plaintiff in Kansas City, which he stated
was for the purpose of contradicting Miss
Dykes statement that Van Every pro-
posed marriage to her. The objection to
this was overruled, and the following
sentence was admitted in evidence: "He
never made any promise to me to the
effect that he would marry me at any
time"
Miss Dyke, in explaining the docu-
ment, said she had never heard the pa
per read, to her knowledge, and she did
not consider that it was relinquishment
of all her claims on Van Every. An
other document purporting to have been
signed on December 8, 1885, was Of
| fered by counsel for defendant, but was
ruled out. Both of these were handed to
her, but she said she could not read
them, as altogether she bad only been
to school for few months. She identi-
fed writing on an envelope and a card as
hers, and these were shown to the jury
men, for the purpose of allowing them to
Judge of the extent of her education.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION.
In reply to questions by her own coun-
sel, Miss Dyke said: "I am not married
and have never been married. lived
| with Mrs. Wylie here until | got into
trouble at Santa Monica. After got out
of prison l went to live with Mrs.
Wade. who got work for me at Mrs.
| Harmon's. l went to Santa Monica
to see Mr.. Van Every at his home, and
got into trouble in front of his house. |
had my letters with me at the time. l
met John Van Every on the way to the
house. He called me bad names, and
told me not to go on. said | was going
to see George Van Avery and went to his
home. Charles Van Every was in the
ward and saw me. He said to me Don't
come any nearer or I'll break your neck.
did not go any nearer, but stood by the
gate. He ran toward me, and as l was
afraid of him 1 pulled my revolver. l
thought he was going to kill me. Then
| Charles Van Every knocked me down
and lost my letters. l was arrested and
taken to the County Jail"
| In answer to questions as to why she
wrote the card and envelope at Santa
Monica, she said: 81 wrote to George
Van Every to see what had become of
my baby, which had been taken from
me at Kansas City. wrote to him to
come and see me, as l wanted to find out
what had become of my baby"
| In reference to the documents which
had been offered by the counsel for de-
fendant, she eaid 81 was with George
Van Every at Kansas City and was llv-
| ing at Mrs. Chamberlain's. One day he
asked me to go out walking and asked
me to put on my veil. | did not want to
| for l could not see so well, but he fixed
| il on for me. When we got on the
street we took car, as he said it was q
good ways to where we were going. We
stopped in front of large building,
where he said there was friend he
wanted to see. We went up stairs and
he took me into q room, where l saw a
gentleman named Allbrittain sitting at a
desk. He told me TO cit down and that
he wanted me to sign document. They
read some paper which contained MIR.
Johns name and asked me to sign it. |
did not want to, but Mr.. Allbrittain said
that Van Every would not do anything
for me if didn't. was sick and they
put pen in my hand and insisted that
should sign the paper. l did not have
any money at all at this time and was
sick and in delicate condition"
A this point continuance was taken
until Wednesday morning next.