The evening world., 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.

BUT VI waiter II. Iantz Ior absolute
divorce from Cornella A. Gantz began
before Judge Dugro and a jury In the
Superior Court this morning the court
room was crowded.
The first witness to-day was Thaddeus
8. Eason. of Newark, N. j., a friend of
Correspondent Hayward, to whom Hay
ward swore he had given Mrs. Gantz's
letters to him when her husband began
the action for divorce in 1891. Mr.. Eason
swore that Hayward gave him a large
aTckkase Of letters 70 keep for him. 49,,
In a package, which was sealed, and he
did not know the contents OF the letters.
Witness had never even seen the ad-
Witness swore that ne placed the pack
age Of letters In a .~pasteboard box and
placed the box In his trunk. His trunk
was kept locked all the time.
Early In 1892 witness said he moved HIS
place of residence, and after moving
took the box with the pacage OF let
tiers in 1t and placed 1t on the top shelf
or 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 Alhugat, who keeps a cigar
store, was the next witness.
Were any letters for Hayward left
~ jun StoiS uuiilS low Ut 1851
he was asked.
II cannot say as to the years, but 1
know there have been letters left there
for him and they were delivered"
was the next witness.
He was then shown about a dozen let
tiers. which he said were In the writ
a marked for Identification. A letter
which was among those identified by Mr..
Gantz was then read 10 the Jury by
lows:
A.. n Wednesday Morning, July 0. 1890.
NY Dear Asner: Well. hor did you get along
thing terrible here, but to-day 1t is lovely. l
know YOU would enjoy q hers; OF course. you
1 How i j would I" 81 loved to h.v. son. with you
before ] came away. but l had to get home to
We'll. ! haven't taken a drink o, ANYTHING
sa,s,n no, 'san IVA, SateT since IN /. have been here !
Well. there are three nlcs-lookins young ladies
II you were here with those eyes Of yours.
Don't say you feel sad yet. Won't you please
love you. It wasn't because l didn't care for
you that I didn't come and kiss you, l left very
Well. I hope you received the new ~eiastics all
try next month to come to New York for a day:
some one won't know 1t.
! am going to stop writing and take this
letter to the Post-omce. so you will get it in
the morning when you reach the store.
So good-by. 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 you hus-
YES"
When was that?" d.
"ln the Summer of 1890. I think June
did you tell her that you objected to
your husband calling on herr"
did you ever follow your husband
and Mrs. CAN'T on an Elevated train
after that?"
II can't remember"
Witness hesitated and then replied;
Lawyer DALEY then showed Mrs. Hay
ward some letters and asked II she had
ever We. seen them before;
"Where?"
Il found them in my husbands
Did you ever find any other letters in
the same handwriting in your husbands
Yes"
At this point Mrs. Hayward's exam
nation was interrupted and her husband
called to the stand.
He was asked e he had in his :, p posse ns
olllllih W " lCtt't ~ ~ AhiAt
81 have not replied Hayward. en-
MTs. Hayward then took the stand stand
copies of the letters which she found in
her husbands pocket.
Witness was shown a number OF mem
the books into which she had copied
the letters she found in her husbands
pocket.
.I triad m mako pprrprt comics and
to the best OF my knowledge the copies
How many letters in all did you
"About eighty" J.,
81 offer these copies in evidence" said
Lawyer DALEY,
The lawyer then succeeded in getting
Mrs. Hayward TO admit that she had
copied the letters sometimes in the
kitchen, sometimes in an ante-room of
cellar She did 80 occasionally by gas
light, and at other times by candle
light; She also admitted that she cop,
afterwards recopicd them into the
You ssSI,pied the letters hurr'edly, did
Yes: naturally | didn't want my hus-
band to catch me copying. them
Lawyer Seecher then objected to the
admission OF the copies on tho ground
that what was offered were not copies.
Judge DugT' overrulei 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.
The letters began My Dear Abrer,"
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:
~ suppose you think nee a day Is
often enough to see a person.
In another letter she said she had just
returned home. and got her usual scold-
ing from her husband.
She addei:
ii told him T. shut up, and give his
tongue a holiday. He flew out, ! sup
pose, TO ind his papa and tell him. !
wonder what he would think II he saw
US together"
In another letter she ~
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