Evening star., 1894-04-12

not what the defendant had done. If the
plaintiffs story was true he had tried to
shut for her the gates of heaven and open
before her the bottomless, yawning chasm
of destruction.
:. But this was not true. He did not think
ne was paying too high tribute to wo-
manhood when he said that if the plaintiff
had been high-minded girl and he had
made improper advances she would have
called him a lePer and ordered him to drive
her back.
And 1 say to you," he shouted earnestly,
turning toward his client again, that you
would not have taken her twenty feet fur
ther; care not what they say of your
Establishments. your silver tongue, your
destructive eloquence end all thatr
From that point Mr.. Butterworth went
on to consider the plaintiffs actions and
bearing in Cincinnati to show that through
out she had made no effort to protect her.
self, but was willing enough to meet him
half way. Her conduct was inconsistent
with virtuous principles.
Mr.. Butterworth maintained this line of
argument at length and with great earnest
ness.
Nr. ButterwOrth Continues.
After the opening of court this morn
ing Mr.. Butterworth again took up the
thread of his argument to the jury In
commencing, he expressed his regret that
so much of the time OF the jury had been
spent in this case, but more he regretted
that the case was such as to demand SO
much time. If the case however. was of
as much Importance it is said to be.
then II is of the greatest interest to the
parties and to the community that it be
decided upon it's merits and upon convic-
tons based upon a careful consideration of
all the facts
sodes that occurred in Lexington and Gin
cinnat as bearing upon this case. Strange
ly enough the plaintiff, who had stated
that since she had gone to Miss Hoyt's
az ad hnH oft ,r1
stated that she received assistance from
the defendant at the same time that she
was naking demands upon Rodes. She
had said that this old wretch" had be-
come positively Objectionable to her. Then
she should have bowed herself out of his
life, and she would have done SO If the
only tie that bound them was the one i'm
piled in the contract. What the tie was
he would leave to the opinion of the Jury
Throughout she had claimed that she was
trying to keep her whereabouts and actions
a secret from Rodes. although, based upon
the theory of her relations to him ex-
planned by herself, there was no more rea-
son why she should consider Rodes any
more than the khalif of Bagdad. Her
letters gave clear insight into this and
the truth was really there like the pillar Of
cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
One might leave out altogether all thought
of the so-called Establishments and efforts
of the defendant. The actions of the plain
tiff in twice resisting the defendant in
Cincinnati and then travelling seventy
miles to Lexington to again run the risk
Of yielding showed beyond all doubt that
she was another sort of woman from the
one she had tried TO make herself seem.
As the matter stands the whole affair is
removed from the possibility of being a
case OF deliberate attack upon virtuous
girl and is made the simple meeting be-
tween two people who were ready for what
ever might happen.
Plaintiffs Letters to ROdes.
Mr.. Butterworth then read to the jury a
number of letters that were written by the
plaintiff to Rodes in the fall and winter of
/ lSSi-'SJ. in which she made constant and
| urgent demands for money, at a time, Mr..
| Butterworth said. when she claimed that
! there was neither moral, legal nor friendly
obligation resting upon the old man. And
these letters, he said, wer written on the
| very eve of her departure for Cincinnati,
| whittier she claims to have gone for the pur-
pose OF giving birth to child the paternity
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