The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-27

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lawyers. They refused. Then Shober
,eeIred an adjournment Of the return
day Of the writ and no Rndeavored to
prove to-day-hrst, that he was per
son Of fit habits to be allowed TO see his
own children occasionally, and, second,
that he was never drunkard, notwith.
standing his own alleged confession,
written while no was laboring under a
great mental strain.
A dozen handsome women from
Barrytnwn, who had been associated
in church work with Mr.. Shober, swore
that they never saw him under the iii-
Hnence OF liquor. Members OF the
sunday school, Of the choir, of the
guild and Of the Barrytown Thespian
association said the same thing. VIII
Lown was made 10 say, on cross'exam-
ination, that he never saw his pastor
"It would make very little difference
whether he played poker or not in.
terrupted Judge Barnard. dryly. Wed
have to separate a great many families,
/ guess, II We held to that point"
Mrs. Kate Brock, sister of the
wealthy Mrs. Aspinwali, was one of MI.
shober's witnesses. Mary Ellen Sulli-
van, Mrs. Shober's maid, was another.
Miss Sullivan is the young woman
whom'a Poughkeepsie officer found 1t
so difficult to serve q subpoena upon at
the Aspinwall mansion in North Wash
ington Square, New York. She, like
the others, said that MIR. Shober's
drinking habits consisted in taking
rock and rye for his lungs in cold
weather, milk punches and toddies pre-
pared by Mrs. Shober after the pastors
cold nivht rides. and an occasional
glass Of ale.
Miss Frances shober. Of Salisbury,
n. O., testified that her brother was
delirfous and had decisions every time
be was sick. II was family trait. DIR.
Cookingham gave similar testimony.
Mr.. Shober "saw things" some years
AGO when he was recovering from an
attack OF tonsilitis. DIR. Parker testified
that he only agreed with the diagnosis
of I'D. T." after being told by Mrs.
Shober and Carver that the minister
had been drinking so hard. DR.. Lang,
OF the Hudson River State Hospital,
who knows the "horrors," because he
has treated seven hundred cases OF
them, answered long hypothetical
question describing Mr.. Shober's case
BY saying that he thought the minister
had the grip last December. He
uldn't have had deliriun tremens, be.
cause all Witnesses agreed that he had
no tremor, an unfailing accompaniment
Of alcoholism.
DR.. ii. g. Wilbur, of Pine Plains, said
he had only seen six or seven cases OF
delirium tremens in the course OF
twenty-five years practice.
"H'm" said Lawyer Calvin Frost, OF
Peekskill, one Of Mrs. Shober's lawyers,
"Pretty sober out your way. amt they"
II don't know" retorted DR.. Wilbur,
bristling up. II presume there about
the same as up your way"
mo otfense." murmured the lawyer
dryly. Even Judge Barnard smiled.
Just before adjournment Counsellor
Frank Lown sprung what might have
been sensation, He called upon Law
yer Abraham I. Elkus who was assoc
ciated with Mr.. Frost in opposing the
suit. and asked:
''Do you know a woman called Mrs.
Eugenia Clidord?"
Mr.. Elkus said he did not know the
woman, never saw any letters written
by her, nor any letters written by Mr..
Shober to her.
Mrs. Clifford Is a blonde-haired, dash
ing-looking woman OF twenty-six, who
came TO Pourhkeepsie few weeks ago
and said she was a widow from the
West She wrote afTectionate letters TO
MIR. shober, which. by the advice OF his
counsel and Archdeacon ZiegenfuSs, he
answered, keeping copies OF all. 1t was
suspected that she was in the pay Of
some enemies of Mr.. Shoberand wanted
to entrap him into compromising
position.
The habeas corpus hearing was adj
iourned for week in order that the
testimony Of Mrs. Aspinwall and John
AspinwalI can be taken. They are now
living at Barrytown. Mrs. Shober and
the children are at Huntington, l. ].