The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-28
COME TO NE. BIRDIE!
How Eli Maple, Of Seattle, Made
Love to Mrs. Worcester.
ON TRIAL IN KANSAS CITY.
Ths Old Nan was KatsleA when
Caught-Injarsd Husband wants
Fifty Thousand.

KANSAS Crrr, March 27-lSpscial. 1.-The
second instalment of +. B. Naples trouble
came today in Justice Ehannon's court,
when he was put on trial for adultery.
The case occupied all afternoon and il not
yet through, and the indications are that
the Seattle real estate dealer will have an
other inning in Jail pending the grand
jury's action, unless he can furnish bail.
The examination will be finished tomor-
row. A great deal Of Sensational evidence
was heard today, and big crowd was
present. Maple was arrested at the Hotel
Andrews, March Is, in company with the
pretty wife Of Herbert Worcester, Of Mani
tou Springs. Col. Worcester had fol-
lowed the pair to Denver.
On the day when he secured Naples
capture by constable he filed in the cir
cult court civil suit for $50. 600 damages.
This has yet to be heard, and Is Mr.. Ma
pie il wealthy he will probably have to
pay dearly for his fun. Today's trial was
chiefly devoted to wranglings between sar-
castle ex-Judge Boland who il Worcester's
attorney, and the excitable s. w. McCas-
til, who il making Naples fight for him.
After the opening wrangle, q very long
one, the manager Of the Postal Telegraph
Company was ordered to protect tele-
grams sent from Maple in Kansas City to
Mrs. Worcester, at Denver, sending her
SOS. The telegram also named an appoint
ment at the Hotel Andrews and q fashion,
able house where no questions are asked,
and which was made celebrated last
November by the killing of David Greever,
. wealthy stockman, by Charles Donnelly,
the Pacific coast lightweight pusilist, who
caught Greever in his wife's room. Maple
had all along denied criminal relations
with Mrs. Worcester and claimed his
meeting her at the hotel was accidental.
The telegram greatly upset his equa-
nimity, however, when the deserted hus-
band, Worcester, q handsome young man,
took the stand. He told that he first met
Maple at Denver, and WIS iutrudnced to
him by his wife. Maple and Mrs. Worcester
seemed completely infatuated with each
other. He showed letters that he had
found in his wife's trunk, written to her
by Maple, making appointments and in
closing big drafts for money, and such ten
der sentiments az these ran through a
score or more of the letters: "Come to
me, birdie;" "Come where the sun always
shines" and "Come where ! will build you
a golden nest" He said the most surprised
man he ever saw was Maple when caught
with Mrs. Worcester in her room at the
hotel. He looked, he said, lust like .
whipped cur"
Throughout the afternoon Maple sat by
the side of his attorneys nursing . fancy
cane. A comparison Of the two men re-
fleets severely on Mrs. Worcester's judy
ment. The man she ran away with is
puny, addressed, shrivelled up, and his
frowsy whiskers have evidently been
assiduously dyed. The man sat motion
less and expressionless during the hearing.
His corpse-like whisker-fringed face did
not change once, not even when Worcester
told how the letters he found in his wife's
trunk were full of heart-rending adjectives
and soul-yearning endearments. Maple
will 60 on the stand in the morning and
make a statement. Mrs. Worcester was
not in court. She has gone back to her
home, and it is Worcester's intention. it Is
said, after the disposition of the case here,
to procure divorce. If he does, friend