Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-02

4ef father died. HsnTy u. b<owa ssnt-
II 10 bcrrow SIC, oQ3 en- hls own cote.
La considerations thai Henry already
Dad 5000 OF her fathers snoaey,
sltness told Henry .hat she tnfoagat
& WAS too muea 70 ASK on personal
asts- Henry u. Brosn told witness
tnat Il she dsdn't divide the property
Nth Alice that fheEe would DC the
egest scandal that ever was, slso tnsI
sllee witness bad been brought up 80
,,oosiy that she woaldn's know how TO
enjoy the money. whereas Alice,
aaylag been brought up well and In
society," would know BOW 10 Zee u as
il should be. Witness had replied that
i vas her duty 70 execute bel father's
wishes IN the matter. and that her
| father would rather the lawyers would
have stthan Alice. Atone time wltness
| bougnt . dress TOR Alice and had Il
made paying for all with her own
money.
she Dada's Look Cranky.
Witness had heard the expression
s'to look cranky" bus was not con-
seious OF looking that way. Witness
| had never been intimate enough with
| Mrs. Neahr 10 talk TO ner about Alice
~ Mrs. Nearh had testified. Mrs.
Seaht's testimony being untrue In
every particular. When asked 10 the
testimony OF several other people VINO
had been on the stand, witness Declared
| this testimony To be false. The witness
said that Mrs. Florence Howe WAS dis
charged from her fathers house tor H.
! competency. Witness never talked
| with Mrs. Howe about her sister Alice.
and her father had told her the woman
would come In her night dress and SIT
on hls bed At night and tell him she
wanted to be IAN old mans darling"
and that he was afraid the woman
wanted him to marry her. There never
were any key holes IN the doors OF the
parior Of her fathers house. The doors
were NJ present IN the same condition
as during her fathers life, and she had
never peeked through the key hole b.
cause there were none 10 peek through.
! Mr.. RUSSELL requested the court to
allow the jury 10 visit the house and
examine the doors for themselves.
Went the Jury Relieve the Witness?
| The court asked Mr.. RUSSELL If he
didn't think the jury would believe the
witness. Mr.. Russell thought the jury
would, but that since key or no key
was what the testimony of Mrs. Howe
was based upon, he thought the jury
! should be allowed to 60. The court
ruled that II would be unnecessary for
the jury TO 60 at present. Mr.. Smiley
/ agreed that it was unnecessary Tor the
jury TO 60 TO examine key holes,-that
| one of these days the counsel on the
other side might ask them TO 20 to
GTandville or some other distant place.
!, Witness never talked with Mr.. Howe
about her father. mother, sister, the
will or the various other things to
which Mrs. Howe had testified. Witness
had never cnnveYssd with Alice upon
the subject of DR.. Hoyt, of Adrian. be-
| ing her father. She never told Alice
| that their father was intimate with two
aunts and had never heard of it until
| in the court room. She had never talked
with Alice about her parentage. She
! never said In answer TO her mother &
invitation to come into the house, do
you think I'll 60 to house such as you
keep? Never told her father not
to talk to Alice. Never told Alice
that she was an unwelcome visitor at
the time of her birth. Her father said
| that he had lost good many hundred
| dollars by the elder Mr.. Hayden, and
that both the Haydens were improvi.
dent. When Mrs. Hayden asked hel
father for money on the last visit home
he said that Alice had had all the
money she was going to have. but wit
ness herself had saidphothing whatever
ahoutit. Witness never SAID anything
to Will Brown about Alce's resemb-
lance TO DR.. Hoyt,-had never even
mentioned the subject to him. The
subject as to whom Alice resembled
had never came up. There was no
resemblance whatever in Alice to DR.
noyt. Witness never said to Will
Brown or anybody else that her mother
was not good woman.
Never Said Alice Was Iiiesftimate.
She never said that her mother would
cry and have mysteries for the sake oil
getting money o1t of the old man
One day Alice came into the room
where witness was doing the family
mending aud said, 'Pa, I want to talk
with YOU" Her father said, "Weli, ge
ahead, )" and then Alice pointed to hel
(witness) and said, II can't talk with
that thing in the room," whereupor
witness left the room. She never said
anything to any person about Alica'i
legitimacy, except to her first husband
aud had never said anything to preju
dice her father or mother against Alice
respecting Alice's part IN the will OF
anything else. Neither did she evel
say anything to her father to prejudice
him against her mother. When hel
father would talk before people against
Alice and her mother, witness would
tell her father not to talk that way, fol
it didn't sound well, but that he would
swear and say that 1t was the truth
aud be would tell tho truth let IT Gu
where it would. She first learned tina
her father intended TO make . vii
when he brought the agreement TO hel
70 sign,-the agreement that made Mr.
Ransom and herself co-executors. Wit
ness had never had much conversation
with Mrs. Schlemb, had never talked
with her about Alice, or Will Brown
never spoke of any tnefts in the house
or letters, or INDUCED IN any of the
conversations testified to in the deposi
ton OF Mr.. SchIemb. In short, thu
whole testimony Of Mrs. Schlemb wa,
false.
said Everybod swors Falsely.
In the probate court the witness had
be- On called 10 the stand by Mr.. Smiley
who represented Mrs. Hayden's eide Al
that time. She declined to answer tn,
questions put TO her, but was compelled
10 by the court. On cross-exanliDatior
by Mr.. Smiley, witness reafiirmed tha
the statenents made bv Mrs. Schlami
were untrue, and that Will Brown
testimony in regard TO Alice's resem
bsance to DIR. Hoyt were untrue.
| Mr. Russell objected TO the form o.
Mr.. Smiley's questions, saying that th'
witness thought she WAS swearing tina
part Of the testimony was untrue