The record-union., 1894-01-26
MRS. TRUTHS LENGTHY DEPOSITION.
Attorney Jones Completes the Task Of
Reading 1t.
Further Testimony In the Gilman
s'Bee'' Libel Suit-Hostler Pat
Barry as Witness.

At the opening of Judge Catlin's court
yesterday morning Attorney Jones re-
sumed the reading of the deposition OF
Mrs. Lulu Stella Truitt in the suit OF &.
II. Gilman against the publishers of the
Bee for $4,000 damages for alleged libel.
The contents of the deposition are mostly
unfit for publication.
She admitted that she returned TO Gill
mans house after the alleged assault, and
that matters went along as usual. She
did not tell any of her friends in the
meantime of her trouble with Gilman.
Neither did she tell Mr.. Madison, the
man whom she regarded as her friend
and suitor. Mr.. Gilman asked Madison.
when he found him in the house: "What
are you doing in my girls room" There
were some words about Madison's visit,
and Mr.. Gilman said he had told me not
to have men call on me at the house.
The witness then related how. more
than a week after the alleged assault on
her, she went to Gilman's store to pur-
chase some goods. On the Monday fol-
lowing the alleged assault, Mrs. Truitt
said, she asked Mr.. Gilman to let her
take his horse and buggy. When she
went to the store on the following Friday
Gilman declined to let her have goods on
credit, but told her to call little later
and get what money was due her for
wages She would not have had Gilman
arrested had not other persons talked
about the matter and urged her to do so;
she supposed it would take money to do
that, but was assured it would not cost
her anything. She denied having asked
Gilman for SIS on the day she left his
house and went to the store; also that the
man Madison had been keeping her. In
reply to other questions she further de-
MED having once been in the barn with
Gilman's hostler when wanted by Mrs.
Gilman.
1t was 1880 o'clock when Mr.. Jones
finished the reading Of the deposition,
which was begun on Tuesday. 1t was
listened to by a courtroom full OF people,
including some youths who should have
been elsewhere.
Mrs. Bush, who resides at Nineteenth
and q streets, was the first witness called
for the defense. She said she lived next
door to Mr.. Gilman. The first time she
talked with Mrs. Truitt was on the side
walk in front of her house at the
time Mrs. Gilman was at the springs. She
saw Madison call at Gllman's house one
Friday the day before Mrs. Trultt LETT
there. She heard the latter tell him to
was there about five minutes, and she
heard loud talk coming from the Gilman
house. The next day Mrs. Truitt called
on witness and complained OF Gllman'S
alleged ill-treatment OF her.
The prosecution objected to the witness
relating the details of the story recited
by Mrs. Truitt, but she was permitted to
tell the nature of the complaint made by
her.
Thoaxapoinotion of UitnaSS was verv ta-
dious, owing to frequent objections made
to questions asked and arguments result
ing theretrom.
ON cross-examination by Mr.. Johnson,
Mrs. Bush said she had always been
friendly to Mr.. Gilman. On second
thought. the witness said it was on
Thursday, and not on Friday, that she
knew it was fish day, but she remem-
bered now that she had fish on that
Thursday. Prior to that time witness
had spoken to Mrs. Truitt but once.
The prosecution then called Patrick
Barry, the hostler referred to as in Gill
mans employ. but he failed to respond,
and John A. Sheehan, a former attache
of the Bee, was placed on the stand. He
testified that he called on Mrs. Truitt on
the 10Th of August, 1892, at a house next
door to Gilman's. There were several
women present, also Chief of Police Rod
gers and Reporter Healey. The women
all appeared to be excited. Mrs. Truitt
complained that Gilman had criminally
assaulted her.
The witness identified an article pub
lished in the Bee of that date as contain
ing the substance OF what Mrs. Truitt
said on that occasion, but contained some
things told the witness by Reporter
Healey, who had been there before the
witness arrived and who said he had
heard all that Mrs. Truitt had told.
Mr.. Sheehan was asked if he had shown
his copy to the publishers before it was
printed. He replied that it was custom
ary to hand all copy TO the managing
editor, and he was quite sure he did it in
this case. He told Mr.. McClatchy that
Mrs. Truitt had said she was going to the
police station to make complaint against
Gilman.
The witness was told that warrant
had been issued, and so informed the
managing editor. He was quite sure he
did not write the headlines to the article
In question, or at least portion of them.
On cross-eXamination the witness said
Mrs. Truitt appeared to him to be a
woman of robust health and weighing
about 140 pounds.
Patrick Barry, the horseman, testified
to having been in Gilman's employ at
the time Mrs. Lulu Estella TruitU was a
domestic in the family.
While describing the Gilman residence,
the witness was asked by Mr.. Jones:
I'm coming up the back way, how
would one enter the house ?"
The witness did not crack a smile as
he replied: "By the dure, Oh suppors.'
He and Gilman had some words the
day the family went away. Gilman
seemed to think he Barry had been
holding criminal relations with Mrs.
Truitt, and told him he might leave then
and there.
On the night of the alleged assault on
Mrs. Truitt the witness hear voices in the
house, which he distinguished as those of
Gilman and Mrs. Truitt He went up
the back way into the house and saw
them in the hallway. He could not say
that either fell down. He saw no occa-
sion to interfere, and Immediately went
out.
The day Madison called on Mrs. Truitt
Gilman told the witness to go into the
house and see what he was doing there.
Witness found them in one OF the bed
rooms. Madison was standing there
talking to the woman. Gilman came in
and fred the intruder. Gilman re-
mained in the house and took a bath.
The witness did not hear what, if any
thing, Gilman said to Mrs. Truitt, nor she