The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-13

Hrs. Cunningham Causes . Sensation
Shaffer habsas C0Ppus Case.

Hrs. Cunning ham Causes . Sensation In
shafTer hsbsas Corpus Case.
The Shaffer habeas corpus case was 70.
lumed yesterday afternoon before Judge
Langley and proved a ard of stronger
|idraving powers than the trial Of Krug in
another department. The evidence was
only racy in one instance, but that made
mp any deficiency. The case OF the hus.
band il before the court and the wife has
her turn to smut him this morning.
Judge Langley took up the case, which
had been continued from Friday. at 2:3o
o'clock. Mr.. and Mrs. Shaffer and the
little girls and roomful Of nsIghbors be-
Ing present. Homer Marshall, the first
witness for Snaffer, testified that the lat
ter Was a good. sober. Woodworking young
man and had no bad habits Then shaffer
took the stand himself. He told some
pretty bad stories of his wifss actions
9th roomers In the Silver State lodging
house on Third street, whore he aud his
wife lived at one time. He said that on
one occasion he went into room where
trend Of his named Thompson lived and
found his wife and Thompson sitting on
the bed. which aroused his suspicious and
caused him to chide his wife when they
were alone for being indiscreet On cross
examination Shaffer admitted that he was
borrower from Thompson at that time
and soon after asked for another loan of
sso The effort seemed to be to make
shafer admit that he Was trying to trade
on his wife's relations with Thompson,
but there was nothing definite In the testi-
mony.
With Mrs. II. w. Cunningham, how
ever, the case was different. and when she
was eross-cxamined Mrs Skaters attor-
new found that he had caught q sharper
attorney on the witness stand than he had
anticipated. She in fact. did the cross
examining herself She was a large, ford
woman wearing q long blue macintosh
coat and a mans soft felt hat Her self
control was not perfect. She said that she
had position in Seattle and didn't want
10 be mixed up with no such dirty cases."
sa, now that she had been forced To come
into eour, as an unwilling witness she
would tell all she knew. Ii developed
tasi she was the wife of the Mr.. Cunning
ham for whom Mrs. Shaffer had done cler-
ioaI work in British Columbia. Mrs. Gun
bingham sad that last winter she had
heard that her husband. who was the
agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Com
psay IN Vancouver. vas carrying on" ur
taeFs with woman. She left on the next
eoas ITO see about that" and when she
sos 10 Vancouver and her husbands Office
sure enough il was true. There by the
Ire sat ths; woman there. she said, shsk-
ing hra&ny band at Mrs. shatfer. mot
aoiag scratch OF work with PEN" The
sudden irruptiou Of the irste wife seems TO
have caused = scattering in the of'ice-
When Il Vas over Cunningham, in an ae@
Jet slii.uie promised never TO have any
tang more Ia do with Mrs. Moore, the
haFn5 by which the witness testified Mrs.
ehaiieT had been introduced. Mrs. tGn-
bingham said however. that she aid nos
ihiak mach of the promise and few
days after she walked suddenly into Mrs.
Matters parlor at tho hotel in Van
souver aud there found her bus
esad srd Mrs. Shaffer talking very
eon6dentaily. And here Mrs Cum
bingham again showed how with her
enlifisc umbrella she had driven Mrs
saaffsr our II the room into another
ACROSS the ball. where she WAS glad 70 LOCK
hesss.f in tn escape the umbrella ~iecer
. Mrs. Cunningham testified that she gave
her husband a round lecture about his an
fsitatu.aess aad then with dasaing eyes
ere told how her husbands infssua'ioa
ier Mrs SaAtfer had led him 80 neglect his
Business aud even become . deiau.ssE In
BIS ACCOUNTS with his employers
On determination Mrs. Cunningham
aeased that she vas drunk when she burst
IN on hvs husband and Mrs sasiier al the
ia;iss's pArlor. Or that before sainE dosn
Gess she had bought a '.gan." She had
heard that Mrs. Shaffsr had made threats,
cat, - sac expressed it.
III I had known ,ha; she had gun IN
hsF hand would have walked right M IN
Aes R,.h So. ,,,,srafg. s,8 Aarsd her 10