Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-14
HOUSE OF ~HERSHFIELD,
The Senior Member Tries His Haud a. {
Letter Writer.

The Senior Member Tries His Haud a. a
Letter Writer.
The following letter appeared in the
Helena Independent Of last Saturday:
To the Independent:
There are two sidee to every story.
The recent Aaron Hershtield annulment
case is no exception to this universal
rule. The defendant, Mrs. Dell Hogan
hershtield, and others have spread
broadcast through the press a tissue of
perverted statements which have gained
credence with a certain class OF preju-
diced persons. Up to this time the I'M
dersigned and wife have maintained a
dignitied silence in the face of unparal-
leled vilitication and vituperation. They
believed that the long years they have
spent in Montana would prove
the only necessary refutation of the
visibly malicious and baseless falsifica-
tons of an unknown woman. coming
from no one knows where. 1t was, how
ever, against my wife, particularly, that
directed. Nevertheless, my wife feels
have known her for 25 years, with many
OIL WuOul bLo 6uoIOA tho SASieCitudCo VI
pioneer days, will consider these SANDER
vindictive and malicious heart. But as we
realize that our defamers are seeking to
m%isconstrue any dignitied silence unto a
lack of defense, we feel called upon to
make a statement. In the first place there
was d gross and wanton prevarication Of
the truth in all the outside newspaper re-
,,rvfo NJ tho OO,,rt rrnpaadinnc of ENornn
In fact, the Associated Press representa-
tive has been given a leave of absence
and is superseded by G. A. Lounsberry.
These palpable Misrepresentation were
engineered by the defendants Fargo
attorneys. Not only were the truthful,
unvarniehed reports of the court pro-
ceedings not given, but testimony which
the presiding Judge ruled out al ir-
relevant and not bearing on the case was
ingeniously and unscrupulously woven
into the accounts of the proceedings to
poison the public mind. Moreover, my
brothers. witnesses were inundated;
some we're debarred from entering the
court room by means of threats; others
we're bounded for giving their testimony.
In these wanton fabrications, which
have been SO zealously spread abroad by
the defendants adherents, much stress
has been laid upon the excitement
against my brother and his connections.
This feeling, t%ruthfully sifted to the
bottom, resolves itself into a m~aliciously
melted race prejudice, The defendant
and her followers harped continually IN
the strings of religious difference and
excited the heated feeling such discus
sions inevitably arouse. In truth the
closing address of one of the defendants
attorneys sounded more like a philippe
in an anti Semitic crusade than the final
argument in a marriage annulment case.
Much hue and cry has been raised by
the reported attempts to blacken the de-
PENDANTS character. The defendant, by
her own testimony, made such at
tempts unnecessary. On the stand she
effaced the picture of a simple, guiless,
unsophisticated maiden. blindly led into
temptation by an absorbing love. In it's
place she revealed a woman Of five and
twenty according to her marriage GER
t~ificate) with mature experience in the
wiles OF the world. l.. II. HERsHFIELD.