St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-25
SHE KISSED HIM.
The Famous Schmidt Durham Sc
ductiOn Case on Trial.

ductiOn Case on Trial.
The noted seduction and breach of prom
Use suit for SO 90 damages. brought by Miss
Emma Schmidt against Norris Durham.
brother of Aid George a. Durham. in which
she charges him with seducing her under
promise of marriage, was commenced yester-
day before Judge Smith. Miss Schmidt was
accompanied by her sister.and 10y Mrs. Paine,
police matron. All the time she was in the
court room she sat with 6owncast ewes. as if
aware that she was the center of all eyes
After the preliminarieS had been disposed of
she was called to tell her story. She told of
her first meeting Durham and Of the subSe-
quent acquaintance She rccOunted the
story of his attentions 10 her; said he came
regularly TO see her. ana that he gave her
presents and his photo. One Sunday he
look her TO Lake Calhoun and there proposed
to her.
"Willyou be miner he asked. kiss me
for yes"
What did you do"' asked her attorney.
II kissed him, !" was the biushing answer
The wedding was set Tor Christmas, but
there were numberlcss postponements on
account of Durnam's business Then came
the testimony of the night when he kept her
IN bis rooms ell night. and when she lost her
virtue She said she stayed because he had
kept her so long that she could not go home
and besides he told her that she was the
same as his wife any way. The next day and
the day after she was so Ill that she could not
house. '-'-D
Inc story Of her meeting Mrs. Durham
after durham had returned with his bride
and her subsequent mental arrangement
was detailed at great length. When she
went to work at tie club house she wrote 10
Durham to call, but it was at his request, she
said. After B. j. Mcintyre, Durnam's attor-
ney, mad made number of unsuccessful at
Iempts 10 get an affirmative answer 10 the
question, Did you not go to the shop several
times and ask If Mr.. Durham was there. and
on being told he was up stairs went up
mere! she was allowed to step down from
the STAND.
Annie Bush, who worked with Emma at
MI. Yerxas, said that she always considered
mem lovers, as did Mrs. Catharlne Jones. of
Il3 Fourteenth avenue south, an employer
at one time.
Other witnesses testified in the same line
and then Mrs. Paine was called. She de-
scrlbed very Intimately Miss Schmidts appear
ance when brought into the Lookup on Oct.
IL. the night that she heard of Durpam's
unfaithfuiness. when she was picked up on
The street by Officer McNulty. The defense
objected TO hertestimony, Lut the court ruled
II competent. Then the prosecution rested
for the time being. Mr.. Mcintyre when ad-
dressing the jury IN opening his side of the
case, said that no attempt would be made to
assall Miss Schmldts character but he would
snow That her testimony was faulty in that no
promise OF marriage or anything that could
De construed to appear like Il promise ever
passed between them. In regard to the ring
ana photograph that Miss Schmidt said Dur
nam gave her, he was prepared to show we're
never given by him, but were taken from, his
desk BY her. Mr.. Durham was then called
10 me stand. and, after few preliminary
QueStlOnS. court adjourned until Monday