The evening world., 1893-11-23

l.kpiy. We laughed and cnatted pleas
lIhtly," she added.
NM. Peckham tried next to find ou
when @ Mss Say aef sbe sot t from
liable in Eighteenth street instead o
ear her Harlem home.
4" Well, because / had very dea
Ire. RS Thomas Marley. and ! may hav
BEN there. or 1 may have been down
bwn shopping. / am earning yer!
bkir allowance as a teacher of music.
Besides, my friend, Ida NJ. Groyer
had an account at that stable"
Mrs. McGrath-Bates got confused
yain when asked to exactly locat'
he couldn't, Then Mr.. Peckham asket
Ibid you receive visits from your
fiends at Mrs. Grover,s? ,s ,
hlls there"
hf'Centiemen friends?"
k..Yes. perhaps"
f"well, no; have not many gentlemen
tiends."
A.Receive them one at a timer,
Il ilffsawyer Hogwitz leaped 70 his feet and
ktempt to impute. a bad character to
..The question of character. does not
hter here" he insisted. NO matter
hay y her character If she is the wife OF
Charlie Bates, leaning his double chin
a his fat hand. smiled at this PROPOSE.
tion OF the lawyer for the plaintiff, and
he chappies behind him smiled. too.
lBut Judge Freedman ruled that the
nestion was proper In cross-examina-
ion.
4"Don't you receive your gentlemen
Eiends at your nat, where you now re-
2de? asked Mr.. Peckham.
f"No, SIR" positively.
3Then Mrs. Bates went back to 1889 and
aid she was sure she was with Mr..
Kirover In the Central Park restaurant
Ilct. 10, 1889, because she was twenty
Ibree years old on the 18th.
I'VE were driving in the Park that
fternoon. We saw Mr.. Bates. We met
I'm. He turned around and followed "a
he. restaurant. where / was introduced
n him."
Y F''If you didn't. speak to him how do
ion account. for his following YOU
~ account for all the performances of
ifharlie Bates guess I'd
n Charlie smiled again in a fat way as
ne witness huundered for n word to
4 Mrs Bates denied ''empha tically" that
he had gone to house In Lexington
venue and spent most of the night with
Gates there week after her introduc;
rtreet, nor to Pickett's Hotel, but sud-
|ienly recalled that she had been to her
,,iotber's furnished-rocm house In Lex
ligton avenue for a few minutes. and
= road-house or to play the piano.
'.Once when we came out OF a theatre
j'e met a woman named Banks, with
,hom Mr.. Bates had had some trouble.
|hoot him. and SO he told the coachman
d drive home as fast as he could
i The witness said she understood that a
iotei was place whore one could rent
xvhf1A n rnad.hnnQn only
lace to stop and rest and get drink.
K he expressed In a sweet, girlish voice.
Uncertainty as to whether she and Bates
ented room at one of the places Wis
led.
Then. when Mr.. .Peckham asked her
y explain her confession tnat she had
OF had manv gentlemen friends the pas;
wo years. she warbled, snappishly:
,fanted me all to himself"
Mr.. Peckham handed up a long letter
Ind asked the witness II Il wer not In
The roseate Mana read the letter
through, womanlike, before replying
hat she thought Ii was.
Z Other letters took the same course.
he lawyers growing because OF this
rick OF the female witness.
/ Mrs. Bates had denied any knowledge
! 4 the hotel known as THE Widows" a
)ne Hundred and Sixteenth street road;
Widows as she was ''in dire disgrace
I'd home again" She thought the letter
vas written before the alleged mar
.lisgrace was.
3"Yes. I went to The Widows alone,
nd IL you want to know the reason
ally and impera lively objected 10 MIR.
5ates's calling to see me at my home
o nanv times n day. at all hours, and
n all kinds OF equipages. He came
ometimes with four horses and brake.
ometimes with tandem and all that.
nd he created great furore and ex-
itement In that quiet neighborhood. The
shole neighborhood was set to talking
bout It,"
4 Charles parents Obliged him to dine
ID his home in the Dakota, and some
lines he would send his brougham, with
iveried coachman and footman, after
Dakota, where l called for him to Sc
70 the theatre or elsewhere" testified
he beauty.
II really caan't recall chirrupped the
ady when asked what she meant in one
etter to Charlie, In which she said: 81
rave got dead mash on Doc" She
couldn't remember who Doc" was
maybe her brother. the physician.
.ause he thought Annette too long.
Jerome of Emile Zo.a's book of tina,
ttiey asked Mr.. Peckham.
Or that" laughed the witness gayiy.
A letter read by Mr.. Peckham was
lated. after the fashion of women
Thursday" and the witness could no,
ell what month or year that Thursday
1 The letter followed very severe
overs quarrel" she testified.
|, 1t said that Mana was sorry for tn,
quarrel. but glad that 1t had come before
heir relations had been revealed Il
Mamma. 1t suggested that Charlie
woman, and that she would be bettel
IN, too. to return to her old friends
ihe had faith TO believe that those friends
would never discover how wicked she
"Our auarrels were because | found
,ut that he visited disreputable places
We had no relations that ] was ASHAMED
~ The letter was written before oul
I Mr.. Peckham insisted on knowing
che lady evaded the question for a long
lime. Then said she thought her in.
ormant was a man named Farley, Mr.
7Ates's friend. Then she had tough
Of fit It ,eJ explaining hoy WorrI. and where
led man. also told her.
Mr.. Farley was a rival of Mr.. Bates
'or her favors. but she hated to say
whether Mr.. Morris was Il rival or not
Finally. she said the married man was
llso Mr.. Bates's rival for her affec-
what did you mean when you wrote
feel rocky, and have had to take q
Turkish BATH" " asked Mr.. Peckham.
Il probably referred to a late supper
,uppers"realiy. CANT" explained
.Ts that your writing?" asked Mr.