The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-04
GAVE HER A BAD NAME
SEVERAL WITNESSES TESTIFY
AGAINST GRACE FRANCES PATTON.
utatiOn to Speak of Them
selves.

the $4,000 damage suit against NJ. H.
Spades wasn't bad girl before she went
to work in the Windsor Block, she had
certainly been unfortunate in her selection
of acquaintance. All of yesterday was
spent by the attorneys for the defense in
attempting to break down the girls char
acter. Judge Harvey has ruled that evil
dence touching the moral character of the
plaintiff, prior to her employment by Spades.
will be admitted and the defendants attor-
neys propose to examine great number of
people who knew her prior to that time. 1t
is understood that large part of this
class of evidence is to come from the police
department..
Yesterday the deposition of Clara Morris
taken by the attorneys for the defense, was
admitted and read to the jury. The deposit
ton was taken at the Gait House. Louis
vile, Feb. u, 1895. Clara Morris formerly
kept resort at No. ia East Louisiana
street and it was to this place that Grace
Frances Patton asserted that she was sent
by Spades after she left his employment
The Morris woman asserts that she is EN-
ployed in a Louisville dry goods store. Her
testimony was chiefly of an impeaching
character. She first met the plaintiff in
June, 1894. The Patton girl came to her
house and was there week She remem-
bered the time accurately because it was
during the riots at the coal mines in the
southern part of the State. The night the
troops left Indianapolis for the scene of
the riots the Patton girl was at the de-
ponenfs house. She recalled this from the
fact that during the evening one of her
off to the mines, came down to tell her
goodbye. They drank several glasses of
bee beer together and while enjoying the beer
torney William Rocker called at the
house and the Morris woman brought
q
view between the attorney and the 4 girl.
hundred dollars out of Spades, The plaint-
if declared that she only wanted twenty
not interest himself in the case if there
was no larger sum at stake Rocker came,
back the next day with papers for the girl
the documents in the presence of the der
ponent. Center township was changed to
read township and the
Rocker told the girl that it would be better
for her if the case could be brought in
and ink and the document was signed.
The following day the plaintiff left the
the plaintiff came to her house one sunday
night in a carriage. She was with two men
and the deponent went out with them
While living in her house. the plaintiff told
the deponent that she was going to get
some money from Spades. She went away
said that SPADES had given her the moneS
and had warned her not to come back, that
he did not want to be annoyed About the
that Spades had not wronged her and added
mat he was a married man and was
Myrtle Anderson. an inmate of Matte
Douglass's resort, at Mississippi and Mary
land streets ni' was one of the witnesses
the PLAINTIFFS character. The Anderson
woman could hardly speak above Whispe,
and 1T was with difficulty that the jury could
hear her testimony. She said she was suf-
fering from consumption. The witness. in
SMgpteminer 1882 lived dat At No issA East
lodging house kept by Mrs. Ella Donahue.
of Peter Conway were rented by the plan-
tiff and her family The witness knew
d fs She anes ssated Patton story all ws ha
purpcrted to show up the latter as a
thoroughly depravcd woman. On cross-ex>
lived in four disreputable houses in this
city. She said she had been asked to ties.
tify in the Spades case by May Chambers.
Afterward she was Subpoenaed as Wit
ness.
Ella Donahue, a middle-aged woman. who
ly low tone of voice until aroused to wrath
by ex-Judge Cox, was another character
her second husband ard had raised eighteen
children. Her first husband YVES also named
Donahue. She said she formerly lived with
Myrtle Anderson and May Chambers ana
had an intimate acquaintance with the Pat
tons They lived over Peter Conway's
saloon. corner Washington and New Jersey
streets. The witness had often seen the
plaintiff in Conways wine room and haG
spoken to the girls mother about it. The
latter always declared that her daghter
was incorrigible. The witness had been in
the Sc Icon frequently. She went there to
get port wine for her husband no was
ILL., Conway had Il sign in his aloon which
announced that Furnished Rooms could
be had up stairs On cross-examination
the witness said she lived at No 269 East
Pearl street. She denied that she KEEP;
an immoral place on East Washington
st, eet. When pressed as to her domestic
affairs she admitted that she had marrieo
her second husband a month after the
death of the first.
Justice Appel, of Lawrence township, pros
duced his docket, showing that judgment
had been taken in his court against Henry
Spaeth" in June, 1891. The judgment wac
in favor of Grace Frances Patton. Justice
Appel said he was in the harvest field when
Attorney Rocker drove out to his farm
to have the judgment entered. He accom>
panied the attorney to the house.. where
the entry was made. Rocker copied the
entry on the docket and the witness signed
it, He received 81 for his services. Jan.
g. 1885, Rocker CT me- out and got the papers:
The Justice had no further knowledge of
the proceedings. The docket showed that
the plaintiff received A75 June 29 1871
Spadess attorneys said last night that
he would go on the stand ana testllF- lie
will be the IL st witness called.
The Season of the Passover.