The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-11

anonymous letters TO Df. ASWetfs vile,
with view TO black mailing him. then
not satisfied with all the damage she
had done, came to New York and in
voked the aid OF the Grand Jury"
Coroborating the statement of Ssnator
Daily came statement which Mr.. Howe
next proceeded to read. from Senator
Stuhr.
Your Honor can see," said Mr.. Howe
proudly, as he shot defiant glance at
Assistant District Attorney Townsend, /,
who was nursing his wrath I'd keep it
warm" Your Honor can see what M
portant and prominent citizens of this
defendants city come forward in his be-
haIf.n and then he read
"This woman knew DR.. Atwell was a
married man. She knew that he had
wife and child iu New Jersey. She was
even at his Wedding and knew his whole
family and his private affairs as well as
his own wife. She was more guilty than
Dr. Atwell."
HoBoKENITEs' PETITION.
This document, as was that of Senator
DAILY, was addressed to Senator Cogges-
hall. Senior Counsel in the defense OF Or.
Atweli. Mr. Howe unfolded formidable
document, and with majestic wave of
his hand, shook the document in the face
of the Court.
~ have here" said he, ga pr ;tion for
clemency signed by number of promin-
ent citizens of Hoboken, among whose
names you can find those of the Mayor of
that city, Lawrence Pagan, Detective
Stack, and various members of the city
boards-of education aud other DEPART
ments, and setting forth the good char
acter Of this defendant
This with the two other documents
were handed into the keeping of Judge
Ingraham. Then came, per Mr.. Howe.
the affidavit of DIR. Jones Atwell HIM
self.
ATWELL's AFFIDAVIT.
In 1t it qe stated that he was born on
July 10. 1858. at Wateryille, Oneida
County, N Y, at the age of twelve
he was adopted, was graduated
from the New York Homeopathic
College. On October Is. 1887. he was 4 sr.
ried to Belle Middleton. He atten ed
Mr.. Hamilton. She asked him to mt ny
her SO that she could show to her parents
the certificate and be received into the
bosom OF her family as good woman.
Sue understood, and been SO informed,
that man could have one wife in New
Jersey, and three in New YORK.
'She met me-" went on the rector's
affidavit, "at the Sinclair House, and
then we went to St. Edwards TO have
the pretended marriage performed.
She attended nv marriage in
1887. and she knew full we'll that was
living with my white and child She
wrote me when I refused her demand for
money:-'Yon are public man: il Il,
let the story out you know what it
means"
DISAPPOINTED AUDITORS.
Mr.. Howe then produced the anony-
nous letters and Mrs. Hamilon's letters
to the DOCTOR They were ia a big wallet,
but Mr.. Howe, having that great con-
sideration for the Court for which he IS
SO justly famous. said
Il shall not trouble the Court to look
at or read these letters unless the Court
sees fit to do SO, nor shall read them uu-
less the Court so ORDERS" at which there
faces of the audience Mr.. Howe
alluded to the suit pending for $50 900
in Jersey City for abandonment, and al
luded to the fact that Mrs. Hamilton had
applied to the Corporation Attorney for
support for herself and her child, and this
brought the case into notoriety.
MR. TowNsEND'S- INNINGS.
Then Mr.. Townsend, for the people,
TOOK hrs innings. He reviewed the his
tory of the case, and said that he saw tue
affidavit of Rev. DIR. George C. Hsughton.
who had married Mrs Hamilton, who
had also baptized her child and mad bur-
led her husband, to prove that sne was a
good woman until she was inveigled
into the "mock marriage" by DR.. AtwelL
he only Wdut6u W pOS5OSS uols SdlQ
the District Attorney, ''and was not con.
tent until ne had secured such possession,
even by mock marriage. l have here
the affidavit of Jonas Knapp, ninety
years old, who knew her father. and
knew hel when she was cnild, and who
tesrifes to his good reputation. | have
the statements here of her school chum
and lifelong friend. Ann s. BooksIeivers,
who testified that tor four weeks
she didn't know who was treat
ing her tor assesses in the
ear, and she furnishes testimony how he
abused her by striking her in the breast,
and how he took advantage of the wom-
an in his capacity Re medical adviser
have proof that he bought tne wedding
ring in Tiffany's; thar he married her uu-
der the name of Jones; that she became
pregnant three times by him; that he
struck her repeatedly"
He compared DR.. Atwell to DR.. Jekyll.
and said that a greater rascal didn't
walk the earth.
Judge Ingraham at this point said he
would take the papers and adjourn the
case until two o'clock this afternoon,
when ne would sentence the defendant.