The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-05
DAY WITH SKELETONS
THOSE OF THE FAMILY VARIETY
EXHIBITED IN SPADES CASE
The Witnesses Have Their Histories
Subjected to Very Strong
Search Light.

The private character of Grace Frances
Patton. the plaintiff in the Spades damage
suit. was attacked by more than a dozen
witnesses yesterday. The plaintiff heard
the impeaching testimony without visible
emotion. One of the principal witnesses
was eirs. Nellie Fetrow, elderly and quite
gafluious woman. She has a boarding
house at No. 22S East Louisiana street and
takes in sewing. She had three days ex-
per.ence with Grace Frances Patton in the
year 1894. She thought it was in April of
that Year and remembered that it rained
nearly all month. The plaintiff came to
her house about s o. clock one night The
girl was wet and her skirts were be-
GraggIed. She asked for nights lodging
The witness questioned her closely and
ELECTED a strange story. The plaintiff said
her mother was dead and was buried in
Crown Hill Cemetery. She had formerly
lived in Kentucky and her father had
moved back there. She told the witness
that she came back to Indianapolis to
secure a position and had found work in the
Windsor Block at s. a week. The plaintiff
remained with the witness that night and
engaged a room for the week The follow
Ing night she came in about II o'clock
Witness told her that she could not stay
there unless she came home at a proper
hour. The plaintiff promised to conform
With tie rules of the house, but two days
later turred up in the morning very early
Sac presented sorry plight and was wet
and muddy. She told the witness that she
had Keen out fishing with Peter Conway
The cross-examination by ex-Judge Cox
developed the fact that it was at the home
of Mrs. Fetrow that Mary Mulery, the
seventeen-year-old girl, who eloped with
Albert Scott, few weeks ago, found shell
ter. The witness declared that she harbored
the Girl in good faith, believing that she
was married. She did not know that the
police were looking for the couple.
Don't you read the papers, Mrs. Fet-
ROW." asked the attorney.
No, / don't have time to read the pa
pers, replied the Witness II have to make
ID. Didn't YOU hear your neighbors talking
4 don't talk to my neighbors; / have
something else to do
The witness on redirect examination was
given an opportunity to explain the part
she took in the Mullery affair. Here, the
good woman went into exhaustive details.
susie sic James, VINO is married ana Iives at
ing character witness. Mrs. James wanted
it understood that she did not "pelong to
the crowd that testified before" Il don't
associate with anything and everything that
comes along, she said to the attorneys.
The witness lived across the street from
the woman, Clara Morris, while the plaintiff
lived there. She thought the plaintiff was
a ''bad GIRL but had never. seen her do
was Employed by the Citizens Street-rail-
road Company in 1893 and frequently car
she came in from Armstrong Park with
two women and their escorts lie knew
and classed the plaintiff as such. He based
his opinions entirely upon her surroundlngs.
testifed i that She knew Grace Frances Pat
ton when both were children. She SAID
that when the plaintiff was but twelve we years
Quoted herself improperly. On cross-exam-
ination the witness was soreiy tired AZ
torney Cox asked her If she was q sister
Your brother is in the penitentiary,
isn't hep queried the attorney
He is serving his second term, too,
isn't hep
xviii You tell me where your mother
is?'' The witness began to cry, but the
at INV mother the i IS dead she sobbed
Where did she die?' continued the un-
sshe died in the insane asylum
Now, I'll ask you if it was not the BAD
conduct of her children that drove her IN
IT guess it was on account of my brother.
who was the only bad one,' replied the
Harry Hathaway, a neatly-dressed young
man, testified that the plaintiff had been
Year 1888 Hathaway has been mentioned
frequently during the trial. His mother
is Nellie Ogden, the keeper OF "a. a Itrsa3
The witness was verv reticent about his
family affairs and it was after a long
siege of examination that he adj
mitted he was a son of the Ogden woman.
He wept when questioned about his
II am sensitive about these questions
and don't like to answer them," he said to
yes I notice you are sensitive" re-
torted the attorney. "And yet you come
into this court room and tell all about
an alleged intrigue with this young girl.
The witness denied that Spades was to
set him up in the cigar business for testi-
flying in the case, but admitted that he had
asked one of his friends to testify as "a
favor to Mr. Rocker
Joseph S. Jordan who testified the other
day that he had treated professionally the
plaintiff in the case, was allowed to cor
rect his statement He said that the girl
he had treated looked like Grace Frances
Patton ana she was introduced to him
under that name. The doctor was spared
by the plaintiffs counsel. Police Matron
Buchanan and patrolman Scheigert both
testified that the plaintiff was morally bad.
Patrolman James Pope was also called to
give the same line of evidence. Edward
Eaton, a hostler. employed at Prays livery
stable, had been greatly shocked at the
conduct of the plaintiff He had often
seen her in Peter Conway's saloon. He
feared that she had little regard for the
proprieties. She allowed gentlemen in Con-