Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-03
THE WEYSE CASE.
THE PLAINTIFF CLOSES THE IN
PRODUCTION OF EVIDENCE.
The Defense Wants Time to Procure
Dispositions from the East-The Court
Refuses the Request.

the attention Of Judge Wade in the SUI
perior court. Yesterday morning John
A. Bernard testified that he had known
both defendant and plaintiff. In 1883
or 1884 he heard screaming, and in COM
pany with another went to the Weyse's
house. Through the window he could
see MI. and Mrs. Weyse. Mrs. Weyse
was screaming, and Weyse had his arms
about her neck. Witness went to find
telephone to try and reach the police,
and when he went back everything was
quiet.
Edward B. Maud testified that he was
the son of the former husband of Mrs.
Weyse and had known Mrs. O. G.Weyse
about ten years. Continuing, he said:
II had conversation with o. 6. Weyse
in the fall of 1888. 1t was in the Tenn
pie block. / had not spoken to him in
six years. / was surprised at his speak
ing to me. He told me that his wife had
left him, and made proposition to me
that he would ruin his wife and compel
said that was in a position to get the
IL
go in with him. He understood that |
was about to bring suit against her."
The witness then told about a letter he
had copied at Weyse's request, to be
sent to his people in France. This letter
was defamatory of the plaintiffs charac-
ter, and after he had copied it Weyse
took it and placed it in letter box.
Witness tried to get the mail carrier to
give it to him, but was refused. He then
went to Postmaster Preuss, who returned
the letter to him. This letter had been
burned when his house was destroyed by
fire. Soon afterward Weyse brought
him another letter to copy and forward
to his grandmother. The copy was to be
sent to France, but witness did not send
it, and short time afterward when
asked for it by Weyse, witness told
him it was lost. Weyse said: "My
God If that letter should ever get into
my wife's hands,"
Cross-examined, witness said: II am
the son of the deceased Maud. | have
never made an application to the courts
for portion of my fathers property.
My mother brought an action. She was
beaten. The property all went to Mrs.
Weyse. / never made any proposition
to the defendant. He first sought me
out. 1t was at the corner of Market and
Spring streets. When he asked me to
copy the letter he stood looking over my
shoulder, and when finished mailed it
himself. got it from Mr.. Preuss the
next morning. / never had any CONVEX
sation with the defendant in which l
said that Mrs. Weyse was trying to get
me on their side. / never knew that
Mrs. Weyse was here until the defend
ant informed me. never brought any
suit against the estate"
AT the afternoon session of the court
the following letter referred to by the
winess Maud was read:
Los ANGELES, September %, 1889.
Madame Marie Orbert Bouriese:
| MY DEAR GRANDMoTHER-Here it will
soon be eight years that my poor father
| is dead, and that it has been necessary
for me to wait for the justice that God
seems willing to make as much to me as
| to him, because / will tell you that
knowing what l have learned since the
month of May was wrong in blaming
my poor papa for what he has done to
me. No matter what father it is he
would have acted in the same manner if
they had told him that his son was bask-
ing in coffee houses, amusing himself at
billiards at the time that his father was
calling him to his bedside to listen to
his last words. From my heart beg
his pardon for having blamed him, and
l will take the most severe measures in
order to rectify the wrong they have
made him do, and that he himself would
refuse to do ii he was alive. Here is the
infamy of which have been the vic
tim: When my father felt himself near
the end he instructed M. Weyse to give
me money for my railroad ticket in order
that go to Santa Monica to him. l went
there, but on arriving at the door my
cousins told me, "You cannot go in ];
your father is sleeping" remained
on the porch the whole day and every
time wanted to go in they gave me the
same answer. The night arrived and
they told me that there was no bed for
me, and had to take the train in order
to return home without having seen my
father, who they all tell me at present
did nothing but ask for me the whole
day. My cousin answered him always,
He is at the cafe, and he is spending
the seventy-tive cents at billiards" !"
Then the former exclaimed: "The
infamous, ungrateful fellow, / curse
him, and the result was that my cousin
succeeded in making him make the will