The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-26
80 LETTERS OF LOVE.
Lawyer Daley Reads Copies of All
in the Gantz Trial To-Day.
Mrs. Hayward Says the Originals
Came from the Defendant.
Asserts She Found Them in Her
Husbands Pocket.

sun VI w after ouHIx LOT absolute
divorce from Cornelia A. Gantz began
before Judge Dugro and jury In the
Superior Court this morning the court
room was crowded.
The first witness to-day was Thaddeus
s. Eason. OF Newark, n. j., a friend of
Correspondent Hayward, to whom Hay
ward sw ore he had given Mrs. 0antz's
letters to him when her husband began
the action for divorce In 1891. Mr.. Eason
swore that Hayward gave him a large
package of letters to keep for him.
The letters. witness said. were tied
In a package, which was sealed. and he
did not know the contents OF the letters.
Witness had never even seen the ad-
dresses on the envelopes Of the letters.
Witness ewore that ne placed the pack
placed the box in his trunk HIS trunk
was kept locked all the time.
Early In 1872 witness said he moved his
eS s Saa ws and p ssr % o
tiers In II and placed II on the top shelf
Of a closet In his room.
The witness never saw the package
Of letters after that occasion. He looked
In the closet for the package Of letters
In December. 1893, and found that 1t had
disappeared.
Conrad Alhusat, who keeps a cigar
Were any letters for Hayward left
at your store during 1890 or 1872"
know there have been letters left there
for him and they were delivered"
George F. Gantz. father of the plaintiff.
ters which he said were In the writ
Ing Of the defendant. The letters were
each marked for Identification. A letter
which was among those identified by Mr..
Gantz was then read 10 the jury by
LAWYER DALEY. 1t was In part as fol-
Ny Dear Abnsr: Well. how did YOU get along
Yesterday with the hot weather. II was some
n1s s ssS ssu si': enjoy s' S.f
i nas. 20 u; be n.ss the water Have you been to
How / you'd OF loved 10 have gone with you
before l came away. but had to get home to
We'll, l haven't taken . drink of anything
stronger than water since I have been here. |
could not say that II you was here. I win make
'S1 there ss'a ar. e. AG nsas young ladies
here, ] suppose j would have many heartache
II you were here with thOse eyes Of yours.
love you II wasn't because I didn't care for
i you that ad.t come and kiss YOU left very
Well. J. hope you received the new eiasties all
right, and that you like them I am going to
some one won't know II.
am going to stop stop writing and and, take this
the mo To me sou reach Ss get
30 goodby. Your loving NELL.
Immediately after recess Mrs. Jennie
Hayward, the wife of the correspondent,
took the witness-stand.
Did you ever have any conversation
with Mrs. Gantz regarding your hus-
BANGS AY.s attention to her."
when was that?"
"In the Summer of 1890 I think June
did you tell J., her tina. you ., objected to
IBID you ever follow your husband
and Mrs Mrs. Gantz on an Elevated train
81 can't remember"
Witness hesitated and then replied:
ward some letters and asked II She had
ever seen them before.
~ have. said the witness
II found them in my husbands
IBID you ever ind any other letters in
the same handwriting in your husbands
pocket?
At this point Mrs. Haywards exam.
ination was interrupted and her husband
called to the st stand; ,,a n 1T. no.ss.
sion now any letters in a. handwriting
similar to a letter shown him.
II have not" replied Hayward. en-
p MTs. Hayward then took the stan. ST, I'd
copies OF the letters which she found In
witness was show number OF mem
orandum books. and Identified them as
the books into which she had copied
the, letters she found in her husbands
Are they correct copiesr'
II tried TO make correct copies. and
to the best Of my knowledge the copies
"How many letters In all did you
copySS" o., o,.,tv.
II offer these copies in evidence" said
ha II yob,ec ei''y shouted Lawyer Beecher.
The lawyer then succeeded In getting
Copied COP the letters sometimes in the
kitchen, sometimes in an ante-room on
the Kitchen, and sometimes In the
cellar. She did so occasionally by gas
| light. She also admitted that she cop
| led the letters on scraps OF paper and
| afterwards recopied them into the
You copied the letters hurriedly, did
Eyes; naturally I didn't want my hus-
| band to catch me copying them"
Lawyer Beecher then objected TO the
admission OF the copies on the ground
that what was offered were not copies
Judge Dugr' overruled the objection
and the books were admitted In evil
dence.
Lawyer Daley then proceeded to read
to the Jury the eighty letters which Mrs.
Hayward had copied.
MY Darling" and my Darling Sweet
heart" They wer signed Yours. Nell"
and Lovingly Yours Nellie"
In one letter she upbraided him for
not calling the night before and adds (:
II suppose you think once a day Is
often enough to see person.
In another letter she said she had Just
returned home, and got her usual sco!d-
ing from her husband,
She added:
ii told him - shut up and give his
| tongue holiday. He flew out. sup
nose, 10 find his papa aud tell him.
wonder what he would think II he saw
US together"
In another letter she says: