The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-22

bruises and asked if 1 might not sit in the
room. Miss Howard said no; the doctors
orders were to leave Mrs. Aver alone, ex-
cept when necessary to give her powders.
"Dr. Teuffel, because Mrs. Aver would
not obey some of his instructions, ceased
his visits, and for three days no doctor
came One morning / found Mrs. Aver
partially conscious. Miss Howard mad
oversight and was not there. Mrs. Aver
said she was dying, she thought, and asked
what she had been taking. l told her, beg
cling her to take no more. She said she
would not and told me to see that she was
not compelled to- She did not take any
more. Miss Howard came in to give her
the powders. Mrs. Aver closed her teeth
and declined to take any About the third
day after, DIR. Teuffel ceased his visits.
During Mrs. Ayers Inconsistencies Miss
Howard declined to allow any of her SER
wants to assist me. Several times Miss
Howard herself assisted me to lift Mrs.
Aver from the floor to the bed. She said
she did not wish her servants to come into
Mrs. Ayers room"
Mrs. Aver in her affidavit says: while
sick at my residence in New York, the de
PENDANT James M Seymour, recommended
me to take bromide of lithia. He brought it
in bottle and mixed the doses. After
taking several doses / found the effect to be
injurious and | refused to take any more.
consulted Dr. Schrady, my attending
physician, who directed me not to take
bromide of ithia. Therefore, although |
communicated this instruction to Seymour
he continued to mix doses of bromide Of
Iithia and to persuade me to take them"
Amelia Fuller laundress, in her affidavit
says: Two weeks after the departure of
Mrs. Aver for Europe, James NJ. Seymour
called at the house and said that Mrs.
Aver had left some valuable papers, which
she wanted sent to her in Europe. She
gave him a DOX containing the papers.
After examining them he took away Il
paper Two weeks later he called again,
saving he wanted to search furtherTor some
papers that Mrs. Aver wanted. He went
there for some time. As soon as he had
left. Miss Fuller went into the bedroom,
and found that the door of the closet, the
key of which she had in her possession,
had been broken open and papers scat
tered about the place. The door of this
closet was locked when Seymour went up
stairs.
The affidavit of DR.. ]. W. Pinkham
MOntClair accompanies the affidavit. Mrs.
Aver was placed under Pinkham's care by
DR. Schrady Pinkham treated Mrs. Aver
for heart trouble. He found Seymour's
visits to the patient so Annoying that he
requested him to cease calling. Pinkham
says that while Mrs. Aver was in Europe
Seymour called and showed an order pur
porting to be signed by her, in which the
writer instructs the doctor to allow Sey-
mOur TO see certain letters III the doctors
possession. The order of Mrs. Aver, the
affidavit says, was forgery.
The two motions, one by the defendant
to set aside the complaint in the action
brought by Mrs. Aver for an accounting,
the other by the plaintiff herself to make
permanent . temporary injunction restrain
Seymour from exercising the rights and
ownership in the ReCamier company, were
argued before Judge Daley in the court OF
common pleas. Mrs. Aver was present
during the proceedings. She looked pale
and anxious. Lawyer Obin obtained leave
to read portion of the testimony of James
Seymour in the suit in which he recently
testified that he owned none of the stock of
the Recamier company, and no financial in
terest in the concern.
Roger a. Pryor entered into a long argyll
ment on the technical issue. He claimed
the court had no jurisdiction to interfere
with defendant.
Supplementary aftidavits will be handed
up to-day.
Lawyer Cahil. after the proceedings
were over. said the charges Of attempts to
rob and prison were entirely without foun-
dation. He said the suit was an attempt to
blackmail Mr.. Seymour and predicted
startling revelations.