The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-05
FAY TEMPLEroN IN IT AGAIN,

Revelations Of . Chicago Divorce Case
MRS. Greed Haymond's Stockings.
Chicago Special, March q.
In the divorce case of Higgins against
Higgins, which is being tried to standing
room only in Judge Tuley's court, Mrs.
Higgins said her marital infelicities had
begun at Fremont, Neb., where she and
her husband lived some time. It was her
husbands custom to entertain her with
accounts of his amatory conquests, and on
one occasion he told how he had made ter
rible inroads in the affections of a Mrs.
Greed Raymond, wife of friend, with
whom he travelled to California in a private
car.
''She could play the guitar and sing like
an angel, )" said Higgins. I'VE did Omaha
together and we rode on the rear platform
most of the way. Once Mrs. Raymond
put her feet up on the railing and told me
that the natives could tell the time by the
clocks on her stockings as We swung
around the curves
Sarah S. Higgins, the frail defendant,
was put on the witness stand by her at
torneys, Messrs. Maher and barrow, and
kept there under an almost constant vol
ley of interrogatories. 1t must be admitted
she told the story of her alleged wrongs
and her unhappy married life in a capital
manner. She was dramatic, romantic,
pathetic, sentimental and fearful by turns.
And there is hardly any doubt that she
had many sympathetic listeners in the big
crowd that filled the court, though Young
Mr.. Higgins and his sisters showed no eve
of pity. When she spoke of her separation
from her child, Bessie, her throat was
choked, her bosom heayed, and she was SO
overcome by emotion that for q time she
could not proceed. Tears rained down her
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itself with painful and deathlike contrac-
ton. Several times this fearful and affect
ing scene was repeated. and even the Judge
turned an eye of commiseration upon the
grief-stricken creature. Her gray-bearded
father, from Findlay, o., sat near, as did
other friends, and listened keenly to her
recital.
81 was teacher in the Findlay public
schools before married Walter Higgins
she began, IN answer to questions by Mr.
Maher. 1--WE were married January 8, 1882,
and went to Fremont, Neb., to begin our
married life. There was almost constant
trouble from the day of our wedding till
We separated. The epithets that Walter
has from time to time applied to me were
so vile that pray the court to excuse me
from repeating them here. We lived at
Fremont four years. Every time any gen.
tleman showed me the slightest attention
/ was accused of being unfaithful to NV
"iaAosS NO"s. w Suiiu was bOEu at re-
mont, only my mother and doctor being
present at the time. Walter has since con.
fessed to me that he spent that very night
Bessie was born with an actress named
Fay Templeton, at Atchison, Kan. This
/ first learned from letter written to Wal
ter by a travelling friend Of his named
Brown. The letter / found in Walters
satchel. One of the passages in Browns
epistle ran like this: The charming Fay
Templeton tells me how you had to ske-
daddle that night, because your wife was
sick Walter and the actress were having
champagne in her apartments, but don't
know whether it was his treat or hers