The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-03
DENOUNCED AS A LIAR
A DRAMATIC SCENE DURING THE
PATrON-sPADEs DAMAGE SUIT.
Plaintiff Attacks DIR. j. $. Jordan,
Witness, Who Made Alleged
Condolences Public.

The largest crowd that has yet attended
the trial listened to the evidence in the
Spades damage suit yesterday. There were
not more than dozen women in the Curl
Gus audience At o'clock in the afternoon
the crowd that surged about the doors of
Room 2, Superior Court, threatened 10 tramp
upon the bailiffs in its effort to get inside.
When the doors were opened there was a
disgraceful run for the chairs. Judge Har-
vey watched the precipitous rush from the
bench and then gave the audience the bene-
fit of his observations. He ordered every
man out of the court room and instructed
those who could not come in decently to
leave the building. The occupants of the
chairs reluctantly withdrew, and then sui
lenly filed back into the room.
The proceedings yesterday were inter-
rupted a somewhat dramatic incident.
The trial was also characterized by the I'M
usual spectacle of physician making pub
lie the condolences of a client. 1t was
through this violation of professional ethics
that the court room for time was turned
over to impromptu Theatres. AT 2:30 clock
Joseph S. Jordan, who has an Office on
Washington street was called to the wit
ness stand by the defendants attorneys.
Jordan said that he was physician. As
he disclosed this fact he neryously stroked
MS moving cneStnut-cOlOred beard. lie
kept a doctors Office in the Griffith Block
in March, 1894. During that month Grace
Patton was one of his patients. He had
seen her in his Office, where she came with
another young woman. Attorney Spaan ex-
amined the witness closely and concluded
the examination by requesting him to detail
a conversation which he claimed to have
t had with the girl The doctor proceeded.
but was suddenly interrupted. The plaintiff,
who sat with her mother a few feet from
the witness, began to sob and quickly
the direction of the witness box she
screamed out:
That man is telling lie"
The girls lawyers sprang toward her
as she fell back in her chair and Jordan's
long slender fingers again sought his
wealth ,aha Of fs beard The girls s,obbings grew
and Judge Harvey instructed her mother
to take her from the room. Ex-Judge Cox
then took the witness in hand for cross
examination. From an Empire Theater pro-
gramme containing a picture of the Doctor,
the attorney secured some interesting points.
The advertisement of the witness said that
he was one of the most renowned physicians
of the country. 1t -ecounted his wonderful
other maladies that have long perplexed
physicians of even higher standing The
play bill further announced that people
came from all over the world to consult
rs it possible that this is true, Doctor
questioned attorney Cox with deadly
casm, but before the witness could reply
Attorney Spaan interrupted.
Mr. Cox, that is Empire Theater dra-
mates and l protest." exclaimed the at
"oh, never mind. Mr.. Span, we have
all right retorted attorney Cox. Mr..
Span appealed to the court. He thought
that Mr.. Cox had no right to call the wit
ness swift but Judge Harvey declined
to interfere.
II suppose" continued attorney Cox.
that people cannot find competent physi-
Chicago
to you? Am / right, Doctor" The Doctor
looked appealingy at Mr.. Span and did
the inquisitor continued:
Doctor, I have noticed that you have
ss eoaa IN Row. the will a yea kn name
them?''
The witness admitted that he attended
City Hospital while taking lectures. This
was the extent of his hospital practice.
great nea Success in diseases of the lung
Now, please tell me what disease of the
of the lungs"
Good; now tell me how many diseases
Some say there are three and some
Yes, but we want the opinion of SO
eminent a physician as yourself.
II think there are four"
"Ah. see: that's what has made you
famous is it
from the Indiana Eclectic Medical College
and the Beach Medical Institute. When
astsd Ie e hs sa 1T hnd
belonged to the State Medical Society. but
said The did not know where it was To-
did you ever hear of professional ethics,
Doctor?', queried the attorney.
"And yet you claim to have treated this
girl professionally and then come here. in
court and tell it. Do you call that profess
The witness attempted to excuse his
action He said that nd he the nto
leaked out somewhere.
August Meier. who admitted that he had
been sent to the workhouse for various Of
lenses testified as to the moral character
of the plaintiff before she went to work in
the windsor Block In his opinion the
character of the girl was unsavory. He re-
lated an incident in the life of the plaintiff
to support his assertion. On cross-examina-
ton the witness admitted that Mr.. Cox:
the brother-in-law of NJ. Fl. Spades, called
at the rubber mill, where he was employed,
some time ago and got him to go to attor-
ney Rockers office. There he made af-
fidavit bearing on the moral character of
isn't it fact asked attorney Cox.
that you recently told man named Will
liam Pellate that you were going to testify
against this girl and get s75 for it?"
mo. sir, l never said it, replied the
Judge Harvey permitted the introduction
of the deposition of Charles HI. Tilghman,
Tilghman lives in Cincinnati. He separated
from his wife some months ago. He testi-
fled that when he was with the family they
lived at No. 200 East Washington street,
over Peter Conway's saloon. His daughter
Grace, he said, was in the habit of leaving
home a great deal. Sometimes she would
be gone a week He once accompanied her
to Lincoln Park, where she drank great
deal of beer and seemed pretty intimate
with a barber named Morrison. The de-
ponent admitted that his wife and step
daughter used bad language at times when
n ftnr n; cnd
ly as to the character of the lodgings kept
by his wife over Conway's saloon, Thigh
| man remembered that on one occasion a
| railroad detective named Brady or
| Grady had occupied one of the rooms
| with woman. NJ. Fl. Spades. the de-
| PENDANT. will be the last witness on the