The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-24

sey, asking him to meet her and beratlng
him for breaking an appointment. He
said it was not the note III question.
WouIdn't Debauch the Mother of His
Child.
In redirect examination witness said
he never told Mrs. Kelsey that two
parties at his Office were justices of tho
peace. He said the reason he had no
sexual connection witt her since March
1889, was because he didn't want to
debauch the mother of the child which
he was led to believe was his.
Witness said that he was induced at
the beginning to have connection with
her by saying she had told him they
were poor and that if he would take
care of her she would be his girl
Witness thought she had told him that
she had been seduced before, and he,
not wishing her to enter upon such
course without full knowledge of it,
explained the consequence to her be-
fore their connection commenced.
By Mr. Varian-On that night at the
Albany hotel in Denver after dinner
you took Mrs. Kelsey and her sister
home?
YES"
Did you take Mrs Kelsey back to
the hotel?'
Yes"
you left the sister at home and took
her back with you?"
Yes
why didn't you say that before?"
! "You didn't ask me-"
She stayed at the hotel with you that
night.
You occupied separate rooms of
course !!Tsg?;,
Mr.. varian then asked witness some
thing about the note the. plaintiff sent
h hlm' which occasioned Their fall in the
! It was not much of a fall for either of
| them.
Do you want it to stand as your tes-
timony that she told you she was a, good
| girl but got no credit for it, that they
were poor and that if she could get a
good man to take care of her she woul.
| good man, and that then you debauched
her in her mothers house?"
II did not think she was a virtuous
girl. She told me she was not
j. G. Gillespie on lie Stand.
]. g., Gillespie, the. partner of Kelsey,
! in reply to Mr.. Ellis, testified that ne
heard the conversation between Kelsey
! and j. E. Hansen of the News at the
office of the firm in 1894. The converse
ton was in the form of an interview IN
regard 10 what had appeared in the Den
yer papers. Kelsey told Hansen there
was no truth in the articles, that they
were MATCHMAKING schemes, ana IndI the
News had better not publish them or
the paper would be. liable for damages
for libel. He told him he had no wife,
that she never was his wife + He said al
had once been his wife, but was not
then. About year ago witness had a
conversation with the plaintiff in the
office of the firm. Her mother was there
and so was the child. Plaintiff said that
the boy was Kelsey's son, that Kelsey
was her husband She admitted then
fol- on
place, but asserted that he was her COM
mon law husband.
The Walker House Register.
j. G.. Bechtol of the Walker house said
he was proprietor of the Walker house
in July 1882. A Mrs. Kelsey registered at
the hotel about or 10 O'Clock one morn
ing. The register for Friday. July %,
1882, had the name of Mrs. S. Kelsey,
Omaha, Neb.," upon it. 1t was in the
Handwriting of witness. He didn't recol-
lect under what circumstances he made
the entry and didn't know how she came
to be described as from Omaha. The
Stayed there openly as Mrs Kelsey.
Mr.. Winslow, clerk Of the Walker
house in 1880, said there was no such
name as Mrs. Kelsey on the register dur
In reply to Mr.. Varian witness said
there was a transient ledger kept and an
the name might possibly be on 1t With
out being on the register.
The Plaintiff in RebuttaI.
Mrs. Kelsey was then called in rebuttal
and swore that the envelope. the direc-
tions on which Mr.. Kelsey said were not
in his handwriting, contained note
from Kelsey. At Brignton's Mrs. Brish..
ton never asked Kelsey or herself if
they were married.
Kelsey testified that Mrs; Brighton
asked that question and that the plaintiff
had said they were not
At Denver, at the Albany hotel Kelsey
and she occupied the same bed; The con-
versaton related to Kelsey as to her say
ing that she wanted a good man to take
care of her and she would be 'his girl
was false in every particular 1t was also
false that she told him she had been Sc.
duced before, land he knows it." added
the witness, with considerable veehee1mence
Witness denied the truth of GilleSpie'S
statement IN reference to the common
law marriage and i said that GILLESPIE had
ceremony and she said she had not. Kel-
sey had gone through her bureau draw
ers at Denver and destroyed a number
of his letters to her.
This closed the testimony and the argu-
ments win open at 10 o'clock this morn
! ing.