The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-10-17
WILL BE RICH EVIDENCE.
The holborn Divorce Case Will be
Sensational In the
Extreme.
A South Dakota Hotel Keepers
affidavit Charging Mrs. Hol-
born With Infldellty.

a South Dakota Hotel Keepers
Affidavit Charging Mrs. Hol-
born With Infldelity.
James F. Holborn, the plaintiff in
the divorce case of Holborn VS.. Hol-
born, in the district court for Dickey
county, South Dakota, has been around
Redwood Falls during the past week
securing afidavits from certain par
ties touching on the career of Mrs.
Holborn in this city. The idea of
these afidavits is to put check on
Mrs. Holborn's request for $4,000
permanent alimony, made in her an
swer to the complaint, denying nearly
all OF the allegations set forth in that
document, and while admitting de-
sire for divorce asked for the alimony
mentioned. Mrs. Holborn is now re-
siding at Little Falls in this State.
There are some exceedingly racy
depositions or af6davits taken and
given in connection with the divorce
case and if the same is not settled in
chambers there will be some rich evi-
dence for a jury to ponder over. Prob
ably one of the most important in this
line is an affidavit from G.. A. Cole,
proprietor of a hotel at Hecla, South
Dakota, where Holborn and his wife
stopped on one or more occasions
while Holborn was attending to some
of his collections in that section. The
affidavit is taken before A. E. Clark, q
notary public of Dickey county. Cole
has been resident of that county for
live years last past.
According to the affidavit Holborn
and his wife, Mamie Holborn, were
guests at the hotel in question during
the month Of October, 1894, occupying
room on the first floor of the hotel.
Holborn was frequently in the habit
Of driving in the country for the pur-
pose Of attending to collections. Some
times his wife accompanied him but
more frequently she did not. Mine
Host Cole swears that on the occasions
when she did not accompany him she
conducted herself around the hotel in
a very bad manner. He saw her in
company with the, ever unfaithful
travelling man, gu ssts of his hotel, and
swears that she was continually firt-
ing with them in that highly interest
ing manner characteristic of the wo-
man. On several occasions, the hotel
man swears, she invited them to her
room.
On particular occasion, in October,
1884, just as Holborn was about to
drive away from the hotel, and his
wife was standing on the stoop or
porch of the hotel, and in the company
and in the presence of the affiant,
she said:
There he goes; (meaning Holborn).
Well, [ don't care the snap of my fin
ger for him. l married him for his
money. and that is all I want of him,
and if had his money l would skip
out and leave him too quick"
In concluding the affidavit Cole
swears that all the time Mrs. Holborn
was at the hotel she conducted herself
in very disgraceful manner, and to
such an extent as to cause severe re-
marks against her character by guests
of said hotel; that this deponent over
heard on several occasions transient
guests of said hotel speak of her as
follows:
Where did that come from?
who is the new ? "She is
pretty flip but wouldn't let her work
me-
And SO on. She was constantly ca
tering to any man that would pay her
any attention.
The affdavits taken here nearly all
touch on Holborn's devotion as hus-
band to the woman, newspaper articles
published at the time Mrs. Holborn
left his home and commenced residing
with her mother, and incidentally on
her connection with her former hus-
band, Commodore Lawrence Ger
raghty. They also speak Of the time
when Commodore Gerraghty sur
prised Mrs. Gerraghty and Scharles
the tailor and tore the flesh on the