The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-14
MOST SWEET LABOR.
Long Task of Kissing Under.
dertaken by Miss Belanger.
SOME LUSCIOUS LOVE LETTERS.
Old Mr.. Crasswell Bushes With Shame
Three Judges to
Elect.

In the trial of the Belanger-Crasswell
breach of promise suit in the United States
court Yesterday, the plaintiff completed
the story OF how the aged defendant won
her heart and then ruthlessly flung it
away. Then the defense produced some
"mighty interestn' readin'" in the shape
of number of letters written by the lady
TO her lover. which went TO show that the
former was an able second at the love-
making business.
The plaintiff having closed her case. the
defense began introducing evidence by
reading dispositions from the Rev. William
Ralph Cruickshank of Montreal. who was
10 have married the couple, in which the
minister stated that he had been engaged
10 perform the ceremony. but the parties
had altered their Intentions, and he did
not marry them. A deposition was also
offered in evidence, in which servant girl
at the hotel in Montreal gave testimony
regarding the conduct of the parties.
When Robert III. Crasswell, the defend
ant was put on the stand general stir
was observable all over the courtroom.
The aged man told his name and resi-
dence, and gave q general recital of his
relations with the plaintiff He endeav-
ored to show that he had at one time
promised to marry the plaintiff if she
would Join the Presbyterian church. of
which he was a member. but that she did
not do so and had put him off from time
TO time, and that he did not think ne was
in duty bound TO marry her under the cir
cumstances.
Early in the day the defendants coun-
sci began reading series of letters writ
ten by the plaintiff to the defendant.
When asked for his recollection of the re-
plies which he made to these loving
epistles, the witness had no recollection.
Miss Belanger's letters 70 her aged lover
were very tender and just the sort that
are always produced in eases of this
kind. One time she sends him a
million kisses. This would take about
four years, if the party giving the kisses
were to work twelve hours a day seven
days in the week at the job. and take no
time off for meals. She aludes in one of
her letters to the defendants jealousy,
swearing that she loves no other man. but
she must needs be sociable in her business,
She refers continuously to one McHugh,
who is reported as exceedingly anxious to
marry her, but although this would-be
lover had been left 100000, she vows she
will have none of him on account of her
perfect devotion to her "sweet Robbie"
At other times the letters contain vivid.
though not altogether grammatical de-
scrlptlons of how hard is her lot on
account of her devotion to ''dear Robert"
She states that her father wanted her to
marry McHugh, but she would rather
drown herself than for momen. prove
false to the man of her choice.
One of the letters written some time in
1886 becomes thrilling and pathetic. as it
contains description of how brother of
the defendant lost his life in a great fire
that swept away the town of Cold Harbor,
but the writer had an eye to business, be-
cause her missive contained minute direc-
tons as to the best way that the defend
ant could adopt to secure his interest in
the property which the deceased brother
had left behind him. Again the plaintiff
wrote to the defendant asking HIM to send
on money with which to buy wedding
Dress She said she had plenty of fine
black dresses, but she thought it unlucky
to wed in black and for his dear sake she
wanted everything bright and pretty. At
another time she wrote him reminding
him of a certain corner in her mothers
A""oO sACtoiia Al tucy were III
the habit of INDUCING extensively in
Spoons"
During the reading of some of these
elusive letters one of the jurors quietly
went TO sleep. Each juror near him tried
to arouse tie sleeper by a soft kick or
silent nudge. but the man slept on and
had his nap out.
Your letters have quite a soothing
effect" said Judge Tyler for the plaintiff
to Judge Greene for the defense.
Perhaps on the jury at this juncture."
replied Judge Greene, land then again.
perhaps not on your side of the case in the
ultimate result"
The old man defendant, while much of
the gush was being read-tirst by Judge
Greene. until he grew tired, and then by
MI. Undiscovered his face with his
hands and bushed in humiliation.
The plaintiff held whispered consulta-
lions every few minutes with her lawyers
and frequently shot a meaning glance
rom her black eyes to the witness stand,
on which sat the man she had sworn a
thousand times to love till death.
The letters were still being read when
court adjourned. More VIII be submitted
today.