The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-08

Almost the entire day in the district
court was occupied in the introduction
Of testimony in the Miers- Venard scan
dal The formers wife, who figured as
correspondent in the criminal proceed
IRE form which this action originated
faced the defendant in the chair and
was in turn faced by him. She swore
to one line Of facts and Venard to the
opposite. The evidence al times
threatened to develop into the very
Taciest kind, but each time the deadly
objection was interposed.
The plaintiffs case was renewed
With Mrs. Harry l. Miers nee May
Anderson, upon the stand. She teSti-
fed to having been employed at the
White house in April, 1891, where she
met her present husband, who was
employed as runner for the hotel. She
subsequently procured a room and
went to live there. she became ac-
luainted with Nenard as early as 49,
&c gave her tips at the tables of the
White house, frequently asked her to
go out with him and said he would
buy her a hat costing SIS if she would
accompany him. She declined to go
with him upon these inducements.
Tell the court if this man repre-
scented himself to you as a man OF
wealth. directed counsel for the plain
tiff.
He did. He never said so, but his
actions showed he had
How often would he ask you TO go
out with him.
Quite often-he wanted me TO go
: up town and get refreshments.
when did you first meet Harry
9Iiers?''
In April, 81. at the White house"
How long did you reside at 217 Sew
enth West south ~
About five months"
Did you learn of Harry'S arreSt?''
Yes. sir; Tom Venard told me. He
eaid it was my say. That if I didn't
want to prosecute him he would be re-
leased. He asked me to go to Idaho
with him, and offered 20 furnish me
with money / told him 1 would not
60 with him anyway until 1 saw
Harry
WHO. did he say. had Harry ar
rested?"
He told me that a detective had ar
rested him on complaint of the night
clerk at the White House
4 Witness denied that the relations be-
tween herself and Niers had been i'm
proper or that they had gone further
than the usual ATTITUDES Of modern
courtship.
Cross-examined by NJ. Zane. witness
denied that while employed at Ogden,
she had been addicted to running cut
at nights, that she drank TO excess or
that she had freqIented, indiscreetly,
the Hot Springs at Ogden.
DO yoI remember in 1891 of having
met Venard at the White House and
telling him that you had been on a
spree?"
A.No sir"
NAnd that you had been drinking
and remained at Hot Springs all
nighty'
] sshln
rs IL not a fact that you were dis
cha ygeAa lfiom the White House be
ecaase ~ noises taking place in your
room3 at Aatinely hours"
No, sir; Not that l know Of
Witness denied having drank any
thing Of an intoxicating nature while
rooming on Seventh West. Miers had
brought gin to her room, but It was
for a friend and was never opened in
her apartments.
Did you and Miers ever exchange
any endearments?"
INC sir
Didn't he kiss you"
Yes, sir"
How often?'
q never kept any register on his
kisses
Examined concerning Venard's visit
to her room in company with AIiers
witness denied that the defendant had
said TO her that it was his duty 10
make Miers marry her. That he had
made no intimation concerning an al
legged scandal a the White House, etc
When did you first learn OF Miers
6rrest?" continued counsel.
''On Brigham street standing on the
sidewalk, where he had come in
cab"
it?'' ~
Yes. SIR
Don't you know that the officer
went to your room that morning to
see If he was there?'
Yes. sir
''venard wanted you to so 10 Idaho
you say?'
yes, sir; he proposed it,
And the Hendrickson girl was to go
too?'
who. proposed 10 go to Montana"
You proposed to go to Butte?"
Yes, SIR
You was willing to co.
j told Tom I would never leave
town until I saw Harry"
The other girl said she wanted to
leave town on account of the scandal?"
Yes. sir"
what scandal did you think she
meant2''
Il don't know sir"
Witness again denied that venard
had ever lowered over her as the
guardian angel and stated that rs
ought TO marry her Denied hat -lg
refused to prosecute after conserving
to his arrest, etc.
Where was it he wanted you to go
for refreshments
To get ice cream and Coffee
And you declined2"
Yes, sir; I told him I'd had ice
cream and coffee for supper"
''Oh, you refused because YOU had
been TO ice cream and coffea2''
L refused because ] didn't want to
be seen on the street in Venard's COM
pany."
Mrs. Miers, upon her redirect exam
ination, stated that Venard had ac-
companied the officer to her room,
that the latter had searched the bed.
under the bed and every nook and
corner. Unable to find the object of
his search the Office, stated to Venard
that there was no ole within ard they
departed.
MOTION TOR A NON-SUIT.
Plaintiff resting, Mr. Zane. for the
defense, moved for non-suit, con-
tending that the plaintiff had failed.
utterly. to show that the complaint
made by Venard before the United
TStates commissioner was without prob
able cause and lacking in good faith.
Further, that the plaintiff had failed
TO show malice on the part Of the
complainant ia that prosecution, who
was the defendant in this.
Mr.. Tatlock urged the very act of
Venard in the payment of costs to the
commissioner as ample evidence that
tie commissioner himself recognized
the prosecution as one of malice and
went ezhaustively into the question OF