The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-10
- SHAFFER'S CASE.
r.ry Witnesses Appear to
Clear Her Character.
.nlaaAN GETS 4 NEW TRIAL.
-, % The City IN Ballard Cssnsu
n..sest-aoks Saith Bsssss Tsn.
Der spseslsseFs.

.,nneod In Judge Langiey's court The
~ hahess corpus suit II revived and Nra
- I. Skaters petition 70 vseats Judes
1870 fnal order and take the chil.
- svsy from her husband, AdeIbert w.
-. on the plea that she IVES not given
esoestunity 70 tell her story 10 being
- The case was tried partially yestsr-
- sssning and viii 60 on again Monday
eeDiug.
Yhs testimony was not far removed
- bssng rscy yesterday, bat it was not
zach 20 ~ the neighbors Of the couple
- we're in the court room seemed 10 ex-
~ The first thing done VAS TO read
=. shsiier's petition filed last week, in
uhieh she alleges that when she went 70
1,etoria and took with her her little Girls
y aid not mean TO disobey the order Of
lrdes Humes, and that when Judge Lang
- granted her husband . writ Of habsas
rrpus he was not served with notics 70
spcsar and deny the charges made
esinss her, with the result that
- lost the children BY the
nourts decree. To support this claim
[sIasss number Of Witnesses testif;sd. =.
II. Nnldoon. who knew the Shaffers In
ENiaaeapolis, and 1. A. Nsdeau, who lived
next ueighbor TO them when they were liv-
on Ninth street. both testified that Mra
ElAsdsf was o good. industrious woman
Lad kept the little girls looking neat and
Eejssn, also that she VAS Of good moral
character and 1T to have the custody Of
Ethem again. Mrs. Skaters feIIow-lodeers
8 the Silver State lodging house, kept by
#Aw siepmother. Mrs. 8. w. Clark, tessi-
/ fed TO the same effect. Then more wit
[psnss we're called to prove that shaffer
Ekimsslf was all that his wife wasn't, but
EsAs worst abou. him Was that he once sd-
mitsed to one Of the witnesses that be had
visited low resort. and that he was ac-
esssomed to swear and kick the chairs
shout when he got mad.
Nn. shafisr's last witness was her step
nsshsr, Mrs. Clark. She swore that Mrs.
DhaEtr was the best mother she ever saw !:
epald and would work the hardest and
make the least complaint OF any woman
~ sver saw. She testified that after Mrs.
eAa6sr Vas compelled to abandon her hus-
lsnd's home because he wouldn't pay the
mat, she worked - chambsrmaid in the
Silver State lodging house. This last
y
Examine with regard to the has
bsnd's statements st the former
tnal thar his wife Was loose In her
conduct with some Of the dodgers. espec-
|ially II. L. Sharp. and would visit their
rooms and eat her meals with them there.
Ma. Clark said that il wasn't true, for
her step daughter never was in the rooms
|sxcept in tina daytime. when she WAS about
|i9 work, and when she went with her
children and other third parties TO visit in
She evening and take supper. She also
6saisd Shaifer's statement that last sum.
snar his wife put on mems clothes and.
going out Of the lodging house on Third
and University streets. paradsd oil one
Isvsning on Pike street. The fact vas, Mrs.
Clark said, that Mrs. 6haffer was about TO
70 With Mr.. Clark up to Skagit county,
shere she had . timber claim, and had
bsen told that the trail was SO rough that
shs conld not wear skirts. So she got an
old suit of mems clothes for the trip. and
10 fun tried them on that evening and
Knocked at tho front door Of the lodging
house 10 "fooi" Mr.. Clark when he opened
IL Mrs. Shaffer WAS not out Of the house
Eve minutes. Mrs. Clark said on further
denomination that Mrs. Shalfer did
20 M to the claim. wear the clothes. an1
IN the end make several hundred dollars
out Of the timber.
Two or three witnesses for Shaffer were
Of the opinion that Mrs. 6hafEer Was un.
daily familiar with real estate man whose
Office she visited occasionally. but before
any more Of them were called JUDGE Lang.
ley adjourned the case to Monday.
Mrs. shai.er. who IL tall. rather pretty
young woman with blue eyes and light
brown hair. thin nose and Q determined
boxing mouth. paid close attention to the
tss.imony and Was constantly giving her
attorney pointers" as TO questions he
should ask witnesses. Shaffsr is good
locking young man with . shock Of yellow
hair, but has too much OF the determined
look of his wife. The little girls, who are
ths UNIV lifting cause Of oil the trouble. are
Also pretty and intelligent