The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-02
c0RT CASE SETTLED.
Satisfactory Arrangements for
Disposal Of Children.
!. cusTopY or 4 THIRD PARTY.
r.,,,.a slater WIN rake Care or
r..r. for . Yesr-The franklin
Miners. Suit Reminded.

.1vnu. case. which has been
-, !. a. .,,reysoy court for several days
-. fn,rs.hed abundant food Tor scandal
-. v..sardsv reached satisfactory settle
-s,t ~ vh,eh the fwo children are 70 De cared
=. hy ne,sher the father nor the mother, but by
: third person. Nm Eagles the sis'e' Oh 'onn
Cort 49, ,.,,,.ns.,.
y 80 ~. vifh continuation Of Mrs. Cort's
sf ma witness had donned the tea
. - ,vorr On the night that Cort surprised
ss~rs 4 ii, house, and which Cort and the
10 ..s MIN an that occasion testified was IN
aa1 n front The dress ~ exhibited In
ssnss ID no buttons or opening In front, and
- 80 introduced In evidence to impeach the
1rstimony Of these men.
~ cort testified that upon the same night
- ~ trouble cort had become reconcIlsd and
sromised to forgive her. but notwithstanding
~ had Afterwards continued to reproach her
svery dsy about f. The skeleton keys, about
vhich her father had testified, were borrowed
srpn him 20 enter Mrs. Thorndyke's house
whsie she was away and prepare her q sUpper
- 4 surprise. The witress and Mrs Thompson
IA zone 70 the house, but foEnd that Mrs.
fhorndyke had returned. She net Thorudyke
Suice after the Sunday night trouble Once she
merely bowed when passing, and the second
tine she met him on Pike street when out driv-
frr and stopped to talk With him for two or
shrce minutes. She had never met Kim as the
mwmili. a. sworn to by John Cort and John
Baker. She never told any one that she wanted
70 marry Thorndyke and never had any such
thought. When she began her relations with
Cors he told her be was single, sad afterwards
when she learned of his wife he promised 70 get
divorce. At one time in Chicago she had ac-
cspted an engagement with show in Fargo
and tickets had been tslsgraphed TO herself and
= fpforf Cssyffr told har N ~ nd en- ant rwfrh
company he was recognizing, and had taken
the tickets and sold them aud had gotten her
into trouble because they were not returned
At this juncture George K. Coryeu, Of tie
printing house OF Ingraham & Coryeu was
called. BE explained the imprint. which APP
psars on blank forms, giving the name and adj
dress Of the printers The alleged marriage
eertidcats Of cort was shown Mr. corysll, and
be pointed out where the imprint had been
se1nfched out
Nm Cort again took the stand and told OF I'm
proper language Cort had used In the presence
etbs children. The witness was subjected TO
another very rigid cross-exsmination by Mr..
GiimsE concerning her relations with cort
ehs admitted having sworn, in Jaw suit four
ysau ago. that Ccrt was her husband.
The court took . recess from u O'Clock until
p m, but at that hour the testimony OF the
ease was not resumed. Instead, the
torneys, went with Judge Lichtenberg into
his chambers. and for over two hour. the ex-
pectant crowd in the courtroom were busy with
conjecture. When finally the conference ended
\ settlement had been reached which was I'M
to the best interests of all parties
The children were allowed to re-
main In charge OF Mrs. Eagles, Corts married
sister. who lives on q ranch near Renton. Cort
10 70 pay for the support OF the children and
also TO give Mrs. Cort allowance of so O
month. The father Ii to have the privilege of
visiting the children on every Tuesday Of each
week, and the mother on all other days. This
arrangement 10 TO continue Tor one year, at the
end of which time further provisions that are
suitable will be made. The suit 10 not dis
missed, but IL continued until this time next
year.
BY this settlement IL tiid not become necessary
for the court TO PASS upon the principal issues
of the case, and they still remain undecided.
The frst of these is: Are John Cort and the
woman who has passed for his wife, married?
The other 10: Should the father or the mother
be the guardian of the childrens