The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-12-08
THAT FARGO TRIAL.
DISCUSSING THE TRIAL AT FARGO.
Also the Comment Of Fargo Newspaper
on the Deeison"An Interview
With Aaron.
TO The Independent.

To The Independent.
There are two Sides 10 every story.
The recent Aaron Hrshncld annuIment
chse IL no exception 10 this universal
rule. The defendant, Mrs, Dell Hogan
Hcrshhcld, and others have spread
broadcast through the press a tissue
OF perverted statements which nave
gained crrdence with certain ClnnA ot
prciudlced persons. Up 10 this limo the
undersigned and hla wife have mnin-
taine'i dignifed silence in the face of
unparalleled ylllihcatl0n and yitupcr-
alton. They believed that the long
years they have spent In Montana
would prove the only necessary refuta-
tion Of the ylHbly malicious and base
less falslhcations OF an unknown wo-
mnn, coming from no one knows where.
IL was. however, against my wife. par
ticularly, that the venomuus malice "
this woman WIS directed. Neverthe-
less, my wife feels sure that the citi-
zens and friends who have known her
Tor twenty-five years, with many OF
whom she shared the vicisglludes OF
pioneer days, VIII consider these SIAN
derous utteranccs as the outpourings of
Vindictiye ana malicious heart. But
as we realize that our dcfamers are
seeking to miscOnstrue any dignifed
silence unto a lack OF defense, we feel
called upon To make statement. In
the first place there was gross and wan
Ton prevarication OF the truth In all
the outside newspaper reports OF the
court proceedings at Fargo. In fact,
the Associated Press representative has
been given "a leave OF absence and is
superseded by Mr.. G.. A. Lounsberry.
These palpable misrepresentation were
engineered by the defendants Fargo at
torneys. Not only were the truthful
unvarnished reports OF the court pro-
ceedings not given, but testimony
which the presiding Judge ruled out as
irrelevant and not bearing on the case
was ingenlously and unEcrupulously
woven into the accounts OF the proceed
ings To poison the public mind. More
over, my brothers witnesses were In
tlmidated; some were debaTred from
entering the court room by means of
threats, others were bounded for giving
their testimony.
In these wantou fabricatlons, which
have been so zealously spread abroad
| by the defendants adhereuts, much
ment against my brother and his con-
nections, This feeling, truthfully sifted
to the bottom, resolves itself into a
maliclously melted race prejudice. The
defendant and her followers harped con-
tinually on the strings OF religious diff
ference and excited the heated feeling
such discussions inevitably arouse. In
truth the closing address OF one OF the
defendants attorneys sounded more
like philippe In an anti-semetic cru
sade than the final argument In
marriage annulment case.
Much hue and cry has been raised by
the reported attempts To blacken the
defendants character The defendant.
by her own testimony, made such at
tempts unnecessary. On the stand
she effaced the picture OF simple,
guileless, unsophlsticated maiden,
bllndly led into temptation by an abb
sorbing love In It's place she revealed
woman OF FIVE and twenty according
to her marriage certiflcate) with mature
experience In the wiles OF the world.
L. II. HERSHFIELD.