Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
PARKHURST WORSTED
In His Famous Suit and Also Roasted
by the Lawyers.
HATTIE ADAMS TELLS HER STORY
And Says the Doctor is Conspirator anda
High Kicker.
TIE JURY WERE UNABLE 10 AGREE

| fsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.1
NEW YORK, April THE six intelligent
jurors who listened yesterday to the stories
told BY DR.. Parkhurst and his agents Of
their visit to Hattie Adams establishments,
listened to-day to the woman's own story.
| Then they retired and wrestled for two
hours with the testimony. They came back
into court and said that they had been una
BILE to agree whether the house was
disreputable or not. They said nothing
about the connecting house, which was not
named in the dispossess proceedings.
Lawyer William Grossman, for Mrs.
| Adams, opened the case. "Mrs. Adams
kept a respectable boarding house. We
will prove that" he said, "and we will
show you, gentlemen, that this whole pros
ecution is the result of a conspiracy. We
will show you that the women who were
there on the night of Parkhurst's visit were
friends of Gardner, Parkhurst's agent,
who had them there in order to man.
| ufacture the evidence. We will show
| that Gardner got woman to
60 into that house to board, and that she,
this woman of Gardner's, had number Of
friends call on her that night 1t was pre-
arranged scheme, and what happened there,
if anything did happen. was without the
consent or knowledge of Mrs. Adams. This
man Gardner, gentlemen, this paid spy, is
man with whom DIR. Parkhurst should not
associate. He is man who does not live
with his wife because he does not see fit. ,"
Thought 1t Was a Friendly Call.
Mrs Adams testified that the two houses
were entirely separate; that one was her
private residence and the other boarding.
house of which she was proprietress.
"Are all your boarders single women?"
she was asked.
"Well, not particularly"
Mrs Adams lawyer took her In hand
again. She repeated that when the Park
hurst party got there they asked for Miss
Devoe, and that on the occasion of the first
visit, without DIR. Parkhurst, Mr.. Gardner
and Mr.. Erving asked for the same lady.
They could not have got into the house,
she said unless they had known one of the
boarders She called Miss Devoe, she said,
and remained in the room a few minutes
and then went out. She neither saw
nor heard anything improper. They re-
mained half an hour. Before they went
they said they had been visiting gambling
houses and had lost a lot of money. She
thought it was all right as long as they
were friends of Miss Devoe, and she greeted
them and Parkhurst, who struck her as be.
ing very mysterious person.
Parkhurst Played a Frog.
'T got some beer for them twice." she
said. During my presence nothing i'm
proper, disgraceful or wrong happened. 1
think they were there three-quarters of an
hour. was downstairs getting a cup of
tea when 1 heard them going out, and I
went up and bade them good night and
closed up the house"
Mrs Adams then declared that she would
not under any circumstances have permitted
the party to come into the house had she
known that thev wanted to see any enter
tainment other than an innocent one.
'Tell me what the girls told you took
place." said Lawyer Grossman. Mrs
Adams answered.: 'They said they had
dance, and one of the girls told me that DR..
Parkhurst played the frog in the leap frog
game, and that he kicked their hats. I
would not swear to that, you know, but
that's what they told me-"
= She said she was Mortified when she heard
of the exhibition.
s'Did you ever see any of your ladies
kissed by the gentlemen callers?" asked Mr..
Tallman.
Il guess" said Mrs Adams" that there
is not parlor in New York where young
ladies are not kissed"
Mrs. Adams was relieved, ard witnesses
were called to prove the good character Of
the house. They were all of them non-com-
initial except Dr. Putmen. He had been
there many times and had never seen any
thing out of the way.
A Roast for the Divine.
LAWYER Hirschfeld summed up the case
for Mrs. Adams. He sailed into DIR. Park
hurst, and called Detective Gardner liber-
tine and blackmailer. He talked an hour.
He concluded: "And now, gentlemen, the
fair name and fame of Hattie Adams Is in
your hands"
Mr.. Tallman talked 20 minutes in his
closing. He said, among other things: 81
don't know that agree with all that Dr.
Parkhurst does. / don't know that
it is part of the duty of a clergyman
to 60 and see vice in all its nakedness-to
90 quite as far and see as much as he did.
should have very grave doubts, ifa minister
of my church should 60 as far as he had
done, whether would support him, but
think he has power, courage and backbone.
The fair name and fame of Hattie Adams"
he concluded, "Heaven save the mark.
The jury returned twice for information
and instructions When they returned
finally, and the Judge asked if they had ar
rived at a verdict, the foreman said: 'We
cannot agree on verdict. We have argued
They were discharged. They stood four for
Hattie Adams and two for the landlord who
was seeking to dispossess her The trouble
was over the question whether both houses
were used for the same purpose, the dance
having taken place in 33 and the dispossess
being taken by the proprietors