Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-02
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Blackburn then demanded the explanation
of the New York incident, and defendant
declined, saying he could not make any ex-
planaticn then. In that conversation the
plaintiff said she was arranging to go to
New York. On the next day. the 17th the
plaintiff came to his hotel about lunch time
ana asked him to see her at Mrs. Thomas,
and defendant did so. There the plaintiff
expressed her qualification that they had
extrIca'ed themselves from their relations
with Mrs. Blackburn. She could, she said,
now go to New York and gradually drop
ner rel. tons with Mrs Blackburn. She
sara there was one thing she wanted to
ask The defendant, she claimed had left
on Maj. Moore's mind the impression that
she was an INSCRIPTIONS woman, and some
sort or improper character. She wanted
MN TO go with her to see Maj. Moore. The
oefendant urged that this was unnecessary;
tnat their secret was safe with him, etc.
She wanted him to say to Maj. Moore that
sne was going to New York and some time
after her child was born, and when it could
be done without scandal, theywere to be mar
ried. She wanted the defendant also to
tell Maj. Moore that she had never had any
thing to do with any other man. The de-
PENDANT while agreeing to the marriage
story, declined to say to Mai. Moore that
he had seduced her. In the conversation
she opened her jacket and disclosed a pis-
tol- The defendant said he laughed, and
said they were too near. She said that She
did not intend to kill him, but herself She
nnally agreed that she would go, and that
they would tell the story as he agreed.
The Second Visit to Mai. Moore
They thereupon, visited Mai Moore again
and he related the story substantially in
the form they had agreed She. thereupon
began making demands that he should
promise TO see her at certain times and
write TO her. The defendant thought she
was taking advantage of Maj. Moore's pres
ence to enforce demands upon him.
Il turned to her." continued the defend
uaht, ana SAID You know l never seduced
you. / took liberties with you the first time
L ever saw you and | slept with you the
next night, with your full CONSENT
10 this she made no reply. she, however,
took out her pistol. looked at Maj. Moore
and myself and then replaced it. Witness
suggested that she should give the pistol to
Maj. Moore. and she did so. The defend
ant left the office with her. She had agreed
10 go to New York the next morning AS
they were on their way from the office she
said that the articles she had ordered at
woodward & Lothrop's would be there be-
fore she saw him again. The defendant
thSreupon, gave her the money her seized ale
had called for, and offered her more. She
said, however, she did not want to reach
New York with any more money in her
pocket than enough to pay her weeks
board, as, she said, she was afraid she
could not resist the temptation to come
back. 1t was understood that she should go
money the defendant would remit to her
She was to make herself comfortable and
place herself under medical care. In the
meantime she was to perfect herself in
some study. The study she had in mind
Was china painting or some form OF paint
ing.
now She Was to spend the Summer
There definite plan as to how she
was to spend the summer. The defendant
thereupon left that night for Lexington,
Va lie considered then that the matter
between himself and the plaintiff was solv-
ed, SO far their sexual relations were
concerned. All that remained was that he
intended that she should be cared for until
the child was born, and then if he were
satisfied that it was his child, he had in
formed her that he would care for it and
raISe II and give it all the advantages posi-
bic to child born out of wedlock. This, he
SAID, was understood between them. The
defendant said re received az Lexington,
Va, dispatch from the plaintiff dated at
Jersey City The Defendant was then hand
ed the letters and dispatches he had sent
the plaintn during the trip he made after
he LETT Washington. These letters and tele-
grams were produced while the plaintiff
was on the stand. The witness said he had
gone TO Lexington to arrange some trou-
bleS into which his younger son, who was a
student there, had fallen. The defendant
read the various letters and kilograms He
left Lexington Saturday night and went To
CoVinSton, Va, where his daughter and
son-in-law We're. He telegraphed Miss Pol
lard, then at New York, not knowing that
she had returned to Washington. he left
CoVlngton on the night train for his home
He had received dispatches while at Gov.
ington, signed by Mrs. Thomas, asking il he
were at Covington and where letters would
reach him. He answered that he was then
at CoVlngton and about to leave for Lex
lnSton. He suspected that the dispatches
were sent by plaintiff in Mrs Thomas
name. and afterward discovered that that
was 50. The next he heard from the plain
TIL was when he was at Lexington, KY He
was at his breakfast when he received a
dispatch from her stating that she would
leaEe on the next train for Lexington. Then
the defendant wired her to wait for a letter
from him. On going to his office he found
there two or three letters from her one hay-
ing been forwarded from Covington. The
substance of these letters were that abe
could not get comfortable quarters In New
York, and that she wanted to come to Ken
lucky and find some place there where she
could be comfortable.
These two letters and the disDatcb he ra
ferred to he received within an hour
ThereupOn he sat down and wrote to her
the letter asking her to say where there
was any such sanitarium as she suggested
ana urging that she was more comforta-
Die where she was in Washington than she
possibly could be in Cincinnati Stating that
ne was then too much engaged to see her.
and saying that after what had happened
before she went to New York and what
she had promised he had the right to in
slst upon her remaining there
An objection OverruIed.
The defendant was about going on TO
state what the plaintiff had said in her
letter respecting the sanitarium in Cincin-
natl. Mr.. Wilson objected. He asked the
defendant if he had these letters from the
plaintiff, and the defendant said he had
destroyed them.
Thereupon Mr.. Wilson said that having
destroyed this evidence, having put it out
of their power to confront him with them.
he had no right to state their contents
Mr.. Butterworth said there was no such
rule of law between the lids of the books
He said there had been no suggestion that
the letters had been destroyed for the pur-
pose of destroying evidence. They were
not letters of a character one would be
likely to keep in his family records.
when were the letters destroyed?' ask
ed Judge Bradley.
LAS l received them" said the defend
ant. MY habit was when 1 received letters