The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-12-28

l. Will HUI engage your dUUcuUlOu
longer, gentlemen; my colleague will
speak more fully than 1 have and /
leave the case with you.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Attorney WEIGH opened the pro-
ceedings of the last afternoon of the
celebrated Saulpaugh case. Before
starting on any argument on the case,
he said some of Attorney Jones' state.
ments of the morning ought to be
commented on.
''Mr. Jones said it was not neces-
sary for his side to purchase evidence.
What he meant by this don't under
stand. Mr.. Jones next said: you
must strip this case of everything ex.
cept the question of PROMISE Do.
ing that, there was nothing left to dc
but return verdict for the plaintiff.
81 am astonished that he should
make such statement. A marriage
contract is like any other. Suppose a
promise is made between an innocent
woman and a man, and she falls from
grace. Is the promise still good? !
was astonished to hear my opponent
make such claim.
"There are other questions. Has
plaintiff done anything to relieve the
defendant from that promise? The
evidence says she has, she cannot
then come into court and claim dam
ages. When a woman promises to
marry man she must be true to him.
The same as the case of a married
woman.
'The right of action is in the man
as well as the woman. A woman
has been misled, betrayed under pro-
mise of marriage. Afterwards the
man deserts her. Law would be a
travesty were there no remedy in such
cases. An unchaste woman has a
cause of action only for actual dam
age. She can't stand on the same
footing as a chaste woman.
1.-THE only letter where marriage is
actually spoken of is the one Like
getting married over again. This
means only illicit intercourse, as de-
PENDANT testified. In view of the re-
lations between the parties, isn't this
a reasonable construction? The next
letter says 4 can't tell you about these
things until we are married. He re.
ferred in the same way to the same
matter.
"When the plaintiff told Samuels
and Jones of her case, the first thing
can say for her is that she lied. She
told them that she was virtuOus; ly
ing again. Her attorney came here
on the strength of her letters and
stories. With not single witness tC
corroborate her. She has lied from
start to finish in giving her evidence.
He reviewed at length the evidence.
ably touching strongly upon the
points about the woman's dissolute
character, and to have laid trap fol-
the defendant, a generous hearted,
unsophisticated boy; how he had al
ready paid her nearly 5000 in money
since the day he met her, and when
he refused to be longer bled by this
siren of sirens, she has the effrontery
to come into this court and demand
money of him for her unrequited love.
In conclusion Attorney Welsh said:
sThis woman means she was chaSte
during the life of the promise. II
you find that during the time the
promise was in existence this woman
prostituted her body, you must find a
verdict for the defendant. This is the
law and the court will so instruct you
'sThis is no Pollard Breckenridge
case. He met this girl, as pure as the
violets in spring time, he, matured in
| wears. old in experience, and instead
| of kneeling at the shrine of purity
and innocence he Systematically
ruined her, the verdict OF that jury
was applauded the world over.
Now as to this Stein woman, she
| was old and hardened in sin when the
defendant, big, green, good-hearted
boy, made her acquaintance. She had
cast to the four winds every attribute
of womanhood, and yet this is woman
who says her affections have been
blighted."
ssHe cited an instance in January,
'91. she was out to the Harris road
house dancing the "Can-Can" and
playing Clip" true and faithful tC
| lover!
care all these policemen of ST. Pau
liars? And all this time she was
waiting for Saulpaugh to marry heI
and was living true and faithful
life.
SIN 1872 she meets man from Du