St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-11
HER HEART WAS TRUE.
Miss Van Wie's Deposition the
Feature of the Horton Case.

Feature OF the Horton case.
Yesterday morning the case of Walter
f. Horton, who is charged with the
murder of his wife, was resumed before
Judge Cory in the municipal court, hav-
ing been adjourned from the previous
afternoon. n. M. Thygeson again APP
peared for the prosecution. and n. o.
Martin for Horton. The prisoner was
seated behind bis lawyer, but did not
appear to be very interested IN the evil
dence brought forward. The feature of
the day was the reading of the state
ment of Miss Van Vie, the school
teacher, who was examined in Mime
apolis by County Attorney Egan and w.
W. Erwin, at the house of her sister.
The full deposition was as follows:
am forty years old, and have resided
in this state between four and five
years. | have known Walter F. Horton
since November, 1889, when | became
acquainted with him at Alp East Tenth
street, where we boarded. | knew him
at first as single man, and it was sew
eral months before he informed me that
he was married. AT that time he SIM
ply stated that he was married, and did
not say at that time or any subsequent
time where his wife resided, and L did
not ask him. did not at any time
prior to this trouble know where his
wife resided. He had not
Proposed MatrimOny
to me. / understood that he was a mar
ried man. but l believed that he held
out inducements of matrlmony in the
future. | don't think there were any
promises made; just all understanding
WI
thing was all right there might be such
thing, but nothing definite. Horton
lived at Alp when he told me he was
married. l do not know where he re-
moved to from there, but was informed
that he went to the Clarendon hotel.
The next knew where he roomed was
when he was at pa East Thirteenth
street. At that time | knew that he
also had rooms farther east on Thir-
teenth street. l resided at 234 East
Thirteenth street. We went there about
the same time. L went first and got
| the rooms, and board was engaged
there during the spring term of
| school. In June l went from there to
| Duluth to the house of Mr.. Williams,
30S East Second streets He called at
| this house, but did not remain. [
| went from there to West Superior to
| house of a friend named Mr. Brochon.
| He also visited me there. When l went
| to Duluth L expected to find Mrs. Will
| Jams there. She was not at home, so l
went directly to Superior and remained
week, after which | went back to Mr.
Williams house and made my visit
| there. He never made any statement
to me relative to his having children.
cannot say how near in the future we
| expected this matrimonial obligation to
| be fulfilled, because | do not know. He
| never told me where his wife resided
| and did not tell me her age. | first
learned of this affair of the drowning OF
his wife at Eau Claire. | went to Eau
Claire on the 18th of August and
Learned of the Drowning
on the following Sunday. l came home
here after my visit to Eau Claire. 1 re-
NAMED here a couple of days. l was
not visited here at that time by any one
nor was | communicated with to go tC
Superior or Duluth. | took my OWL
thought of going to Superior. | was
visited by man, but he did not tell me
to go there at all. He was tall. pretty
thick-set man, dark -eompleXioned,
think. l did not know him at all, but
he called himself Brown | went thai
night alone. Perhaps it was from his
advice that decided to go.
Mr.. Erwin then took the witness and
elected the following testimony:
became acquainted with Mr.. Horton
at this house, where we both boarded
and as became better acquainted with
him l thought him a fine gentleman
His ways were pleasing to me, and
developed regard for him. At one
time, after we had been at this boarding
house, Mr.. Horton expected to have his
4 father and mother come, and he went