Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-02
The Weyse Divorce Case Still
on Trial.
The Alleged Mistreatment of
the Plaintiff.
The Water Works Question Before a
Committee.
The Matter Discussed at Considerable
Length-Other News of an Inter-
esting Character.

The trial of the Weyse divorce case
was resumed before Judge Wade in de-
partment 8 of the superior court yester-
day morning, the plaintiff, Mrs. Louise
Weyse, being upon the witness-stand for
cross-examination. In addition to the
facts elected from her testimony on di-
rect examination, the following informa-
ton was obtained from her by the de-
fendant's counsel:
When she left her husband she re-
ceived $775 per month, cor something
like that" from him. She had no COM
munication with either her husband or
child after the night on which she left
Los Angeles. She first went to San
Fernando and remained there several
days with some friends, at which time
she only had the clothing worn by her
on her visit to Madame Ballarde's
house. Thence she journeyed to AL
bany, where she remained about
twelve days. Her trunk was checked
to Montreal, but instead of going on
there, she went to Omaha, whence she
subsequently went to New York, and
from there she went to France. During
her travels she was not accompanied by
anyone, except that man named josef
went with her as far as San Fernando
She had given Mr.. Dooner an order on
Weyse for $50 per month for the child,
but this had been rejected on presenta-
ton. On learning subsequently from
her sister that the child was in need of
the necessaries of life, she sent dis
patch to Dooner to draw 500, which he
did.
On redirect examination Mrs. Weyse
stated that her husband had
told her that she ought to
tell the servants to be more economi-
cal as the bills were too high. On one
occasion she had told a servant to pur-
chase some stamps and charge them in
cheese. This was done because she
wished to write to her mother without
letting her husband know that she had
done so. After she had left her husband
in 1888, she wrote to him for her clothes
and sent an expressman to the house for
them; but he sent the man back with
her empty trunk.
Mrs. Weyse was then withdrawn tenn
pnrarily, and Thomas Key was called to
the stand. He testified that in 1888 he
was in the employ of R. G. Weyse. He
knew O. G. Weyse and Mrs. Louise Weyse
when they lived at the old place on the
corner of Eighth and San Pedro streets
He was watering the flowers in front OF
the house one day in July of that year,
when he heard slap, and turning
round saw o. G. Weyse standing over
his wife, who was sitting in chair on
the porch with handkerchief over her
face. He saw Weyse slap his wife again
and heard him talk angrily in French to
her, whereupon he went away.
At this juncture Mrs. R. G. Weyse
was called and testified that the plaintiff
was her sister, and that her maiden
name was Julia Maud. She knew the
defendant, who married her sister in
Hoboken, N. j., on May 2, 1888. She
lived with them for eighteen months
after their marriage, at their home on
Staten Island. Weyse began his harsh
treatment of her sister about three
weeks after they had been married, and
from that time he frequently struck and
abused his wife.
The witness was temporarily with
drawn at this point, as the de-
fendant brought an affidavit into
court purporting to be that of Thomas
Key, sworn and subscribed to before a
notary public, in which he stated that
he knew nothing whatever about the
case, and Key was recalled. He testi-
fed that the notary, Conrad Jacoby,
read something to him and asked him to
sign it, and as he was unable to write,
induced him to touch the pen with
which it was signed; but that he did
not understand the nature of the docu-
ment. He was then questioned in de-
tail as to the circumstances surrounding
his visit to the notary's Office, and at the
close of his testimony Mrs. r. g. Weyse
was recalled and examined in detail as
to the various occasions on which the de
fendant abused his wife, which occupied
the attention of the court until the houl
of adjournment. The case will be re
sumed this morning.