St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-26
DENIED BY DR.. HOYT.
Absolute Refutation OF Hps.
McClelIan's Sensational
Testimony.
Dr.. Hoyt's Story Laid Bare
Before the General
Public.
His Conduct Throughout
Was That OF a Gen
tleman.
What His Counsel Propose
to Prove in His
Behalf.

Or. Hoyt is not only innocent Of the
charge OF alternating the affections of
Mrs. Mcclellan, bgt he Will prove It by
prepOndcrance-nay. by evidence be-
yond reasonable doubt is the way
G. a. Severance put it in his opening to
the jury yesterday. He further claimed
that il seemed needless for tie defense
to present ITS case tc warrant the jury
In refusing the plaintiff damages. but
that they would leave no absolute doubt
ia the minds Of fair-ininded people that
the case was trumped up, after present
ing the defendants side Of the case.
He asserted that Dr.. HOyt would deny
that he ever made an indecent proposal
to the woman. He would show that
he was at his Office at the very
hour that he was alleged to be one
Of a quartetle at the West hotel IN
minneapolis. that Flei5chmann, ~ a
deposition taken at Milwaukee,. had
already denied being in the West MOTEL
party; that Mrs Sheckels had come all
the way from Texas when size heard
that her character had been aSsailed.
She will deny the whole story. She has
been an invalid for years and Is now
lying at St. JO5eph'5 hospital, I'll from
the long journey. and If she IS too i'll TO
be brought into court, the court and
jury will be asked to 20 to the hospl-
tai to
Hear Her Testimony.
AT the opening Of court By Judge Otis
Yesterday morning, the plaintiffs eYi-
dence was proceeded with. Matt v.
English. the waiter at the West hotel,
was submitted to a croSS-examnatlon by
Mir. Kellogg. lie was also treated to 4
surprise. The witness remembered the
date that the quartette took lunch there.
He did not serve any wine, neither did
he notice what was drank. lie stated
that he had not seen DR.. HOyt after
Nov. IA until he saw him OIL the trial.
He was positive as to that. Mi. Sever
ance then brought w. b. Wheeler into
the court room, and the witness, upon
inquiry, said he knew Mr. Wheeler
quite well as a bOaTder at the West.
Did you not serve Mr.. Wheeler and
another gentleman with meals in a pri-
vate room in the West some time in
March Iast?' asked Mr.. Kellogg.
Witness, Yes Sir"
Was not that other man DR.. Hoyt?"
ut looked like him"
The witness was somewhat mixed up
on his further examination as 10 Identl-
flying the doctor He was asked if he
had not stated. when his deposition was
taken on March II, that he had not
seen DR.. Hoyt since the l4th OF NOVem-
Der, and after some hesitate OIL admit
ted that he had so testified. He also
admitted 10 having testified that Dr..
HOyt had about as much hair OH his
head as Col. West, and that he parted
his
Hair on the side.
This statement caused some amuse-
ment among the jurors when they OBJ
served that the doctor Is very bald.
The witness, however, insisted that DR..
HOyt was one of the party at the West
Nov. II. In speaking OF MI FIeiScl-
manu. be said he had gone to Milwau
llee TO ''see this Jew gentleman" When
asked why he called him jew now,
when he called him German at the
time his deposition was taken, he said
he did not know the difference between
a Jew and German. He said, in de-
scrbine this man, that he had cut his
whiskers down since he had been in
Minneapolis and had cut his hair and
brushed it up pOmpadour style.
Minnie Shilling, the servant girl at
the Mcclellan house, testified that she
had seen Dr.. HOyt there three times.
He was there last fall about o'clock
one evening. He remained in the
house twenty minutes or half an hour.
He was there one Sunday after and
drank wine in the parlor with Mrs.
l., al fof bn haI
4 suspicion that something was wrong
Mrs. Sheckels was out of the room part
OF the time When out to the grocery
she noticed that the blinds we're drawn
down close. She went into the sitting
room. She heard Dr. Royt say DO
YOU know where the Grand block isl"
Mrs Mcclellan answered Yes" Mrs
SheckelS then said: You bet she will
find it," At that time Mr.. Mcclellan
Was at Duluth.
Mrs. Winslow testified that she rented
a room IN the Grand block to FleiSch-
mann. There was with him at the time
man who looked like Dr. Hoyt. he
paid her s. in gold for weeks rent,
and said he would send his baggage up,
but he never came to occupy the room
and never returned the key she gave
him at the time.
Mcclellan took the stand to say that
he has not lived with his wife since No
vember, and has not given any thing to
her support since then. He was salts
fed that his wife had been uufaithful
since the night of Nov. "A. That night
the girl Minnie Shilling told him she
did not believe that his wife had gone to
Mrs. Burdick's as she told him. He had
gone to Minneapolis to see HE wife sew
eral times, and had seen her alone once
or twice in her room. He and his wife
were known as Mr.. and Mrs. Harding at
her boarding place, 900 Third avenue
south, Minneapolis. His wife had sup
ported herself on money received from
a. policy of Insurance on her fathers
life. He followed his wife to 456 st.
Peter street the time she went there
with Forbes, and gave the Cameron
woman fright by charging that to be
the second time his wife had gone there.
The woman cried and admitted that she
kept shady house and did not want a
disturbance, because she said some
prominent people. were in the house at
the time.
''Do you know Mr.. McGinnis, engi-
neer Of the Germania Life buildingY
asked Mr.. Severance.
McClellan-1e S, sir
Mr.. Severance-Did you visit houses
of ill-fame with him.
Wellington EnterpOsed.
Mr.. Wellington promptly interposed
an objection to this question, and the
court refused to allow an answer.
The witness answered that he had
seen the man McGinnis Saturday, and
| told him he need not answer certain
| questions if called as witness. The
man had asked him, ana he advised
him as he understood the law.
| Mr.. Severance made an extended
opening speech to the jury.
Dir. Hoyt was called TO the witness
stand to testify in his own behalf. He
was self-pOsSessed when sworn. ana
took the witness stand deliberately, and
appeared entirely at ease. The examina
ton was conducted by Mr.. Kellogg. The
answers came direct and in firm voice
| lie said that he was born in st. Paul il
1854, and had resided here ever since