Telegram-herald., 1890-03-22
FOLICE And COURT
Lights snd Shadows OF ths Grand
Rapids Tribunal
TIE PHElFTER. WlLBRIpCE CASE
Creates Considerable Interest Among .
Large CROWD er Spees.teFs-w iiiiam
tshtsrRaeh ia Court As4ta-
fhe trsapton Matter.


selves elected that the time has srriyed
Tor bringing their relations ID the sur
face. The story has been told re-
peatedly IN this column, of the arrest
OF Harry Pheiffer on the charge OF as
sau.Ung walbrldge with a knife, near
the Warwick Hotel. As often turns
out. the incidental history, brought out
on the examination, Is Of more eonse-
quence 10 the world than the main MS
tory Itself. Walbr.dge and Miss Miles
swore that pheittcr attacked the for
mer with an open knife, whcreupon
WalbFldge threw him down and beat
him. Other witnesses, including Pheif-
fer, swore that the knife was closed.
Now the cause OF all this quarrel IS
remarkable story and reveals how long
low people who wear good clothes may
associate with decent people by the
observance of little cunning conceal
ment. Hypocrisy Is the tribute which
vice pays to virtue; and among moralists
1t Is always a mooted question whether
'twere better to let hypocrisy 90 IN her
concealments, 80 that decent eyes may
he not offended, or TO drag the rank
truth 10 the surface and let all men
point the hnger OF scorn Tor warning
that Others may not do likewise. Wal
bridge testified that hc has a wife and
family IN ~. Johns, with whom he has
not lived for several years. His more
intimate eiaIlons with Miss Miles began
about five years ago. She IS sister of
Mrs. Pheltler, and 1t IS wholly on ac
count OF the relations between Wal
bridge and Miss Miles that Mr.. PheIfier
broke friendship with Walbridge. For
an indefinite time, by the testimony of
both parties, Walbrldge bas been in the
habit of spending Sundays in Grand
Rapids, largely III social intimacy with
Miss Miles. Phetfcr tells a long and
clrcunstantial story of the liasons of the
two which Is SIMPLY monstrOus, If
true. He says that since last July,
and when he lived on Cass-st. Wal
bridge was IN the nabit OF visiting his
house on Saturdays, and he was lnvarl-
ably accompanied 10y Miss Miles. There
= over was any trouble between hlm and
tntlr gong together TO his house. He
had to send his little girl away from the
house to sleep, because he was unwIil-
ing 10 let her witness the things she
would have TO see there. ON one occa-
son, when Miss Miles came there sick g,
he found Walbrdge in bed with her
He was positive of this, and was equally
positive that their relations were bad
and shameless. His protests were so
Outspoken against their conduct and
their coming TO his house that an
arrangement has occurred between
himself and his wife on account of IT,.
On crOss-eXamlnatIOn 1t was sought 10y
Mr.. Knappen TO show that Phef fer 5
brutality IN his family was the real
occasion OF his wlfe's going from him
to Saginaw. Many strange actions of
former days were fixed upon him with
more or less certainty. but 1t was also
brought out that Pneffer has been an
inmate of the Illinois Insane asylum,
and also twice an inmate of the Mlchl-
gan asylum at Pontiac. MIR. Ward
Phclficr's attorney, undertook to INTRO
duce letter recently received from
Saginaw from Mrs. Pheiffer, in winch
she expresses unboundcd sympathy
with her husband on account OF this
prosecution by Wdlbridge and Mss
/ Miles. The letter was not admitted, but
one OF two extracts are mere gwen to
snow It's drift. Referring 10 the story
O Pneiifer arrest. Mrs. pheittcT writes;
Il told ner the wnoe story, and she
with mC wishes YOU may escape
them. / am very sorry you let your
temper get the best OF yOu and quar-
rel Il with them Oh the street, but since
YOU did, don't want TO see YOU in Ial
for the dirty adulterer. In the papers
they make II appear that the trouble
was over the divorce, and they know
/ better tlcv know 10 Is a lie 70 begin
with. Luck 10 vou. dear. CARRIE
During th, g wing Of this testimony
winch wOul nave made most Young
/ girls vii with shame. Miss Niles sat in
I court with no other apparent emotion
I than that OF irritation At the exposure
/ She even talked IN whispers To Wal
/ bridge as unbushingly as Il her name
! had been coupled with his on'y
/ I'm the most unsuggcstre way
She took the sand with the finn.
/ ness ot soldier. and denied
the story of Phietfer with About
! the same manner a. would have beer
/ stirred by the jeopardy OF q iivf~doiial
note. In Tepgse, and 0rgettug ths
present surrounding of her ilte, VI =
Miles face IS 2 sweet and pure-loosml
/ one 0f the GreCiau model. IT thcl
should ever succeed IN sending
Pherffer to the peuIteutary. their r.
vcug vii never he sweet enough e
+ take taa awful htt ues- from the cuI
winch they have prepared for one poo
Hfe. which m gbt have been saved non
+ tais exposure. Ine case VII be con
f tsnucd ~ 10 81 clock t,day.
The story that would include hotl
sides OF the family troubles AuZustu
I Campton, mentioned n TINS colUmf
yesterday. could D. s1atched out q
any moral mud hl abandon. I
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