The morning times., 1896-06-02
REVEALED IN HIS LETTERS
Judge Hollis Loving Missives to
His Little nieces.
MANY READ TO THE JURY
He Used the Most EndearIng Terms
and Showed a Tender and Affec-
tionate Nature-Som Mixed Up
Metaphors That Caused the Court
to Smile.

Letter reading was again the feature OF
the day In the Holt will trial when the
third week of the contest began yesterday.
There were three witnesses OIL the stand.
during the day, all called TO testify for
the heirs at-law. Ellen Foster, formerly
the colored cook of the Holt mansion, COM
pleted the testimony she began last Thurs
day. The queries flashed 10y Mr.. Darling
ton with Aray intensity in his cross
examination failed TO reveal any flaws
i'll her first statements.
A niece OF the deceased in the person OF
Mrs. Margaret E. Bowmer OF Kentucky,
was III the witness chair to tell a bit
OF the family history and to repudiate the
statement tnat the war severed che re-
lati1ns Oh that KlEsiI peXIstihg Deu " eenJ uuge
Holt and his family. She aIso looked at
the alleged viii ana said that she did not
believe Judgc holt wrote II though she
was unable TO state her reason Tor her
COuClusl ems.
RELATIONS WERE CORDIAL.
Miss Mary Holt, daughter OT Washing
ton y. holt ana Il great niece OF the late
Judge advocate general, was the tinrd
witness. She had opportunity, however, 10
reply 10 but FEW interrogat Ories, for While
she sat in the witness chair the letters
were read.
III ItSpOutiDE 10 JuuRe NHsoH : cAdllH-
nation IGe young witness told or l he very
cordial relations that existed between
her fathers family and his uncle. He
loved the Old home down on the h entuCky
shore OF the sluggish ONO. The place had
been 10 the family for i century and he
hoped II would never pass Into strange
bands.
Miss Holt recited, too, her visits to Wash
ington and the entertainment given her.
Wupu school her Huclp
footed many OF the bills and when she
went to Europe with her mother he paid
the passage. There was no cessation I'D
these friendly relations, other than were
necessarily caused by the ill-health OF
Judge Holt until the time OF his death.
Judge Wilson aud Mr.. Worthington al
ternated III reading the letters. They
covered considerable space or time, were
addressed TO Miss Holt, her sister, Miss
Rosa and TO their mother and tic la wyers
had only begun to read when court ad-
journed.
1t is seldom that family letters are inter
| esting.
Still to the Jurors, trifling, unimpor-
+ tant aud distant from the subject as the
! letters seemed to be they went vast dis
/ tance in revealing to the jury the DISPOSE
/ tion, characteristics and inner nature of d
! great man.
! HIS LOVING LETTERS
The letters TO the Young ladies, then
! girls In their ear! yteens. We're master pieces
/ OF simplicity. All We're filled with wealth
! OF tenderness that must have made the
hearts OF their recipients thrill with JOY
every time the post dumped one of the
. miSsives at the door OF their Western ONE.
Every subject was talked about by the
writer from natural history to orthogra ply
! and from the green fence around the Old
home place 10 the appetites OF the whole
/ Holt family. Like a father or a teacher
COrrcCts a child he told one OF his nieCes
( in one OF his letters TO change "looslng' to
losing and TO add a letter TO stopped
and make it stopped"
Il sent you Aesop's Fables" he wrote
! Miss Rosa. You may have read the
book but read it again. 1t is full OF
excellent morals. Learn them and quote
them often in your speech and in your
wriling.''
In almost every letter he used some en-
( dearing sentiment to express his feelings
| toward his nephews family. Once he said
| he wanted TO come and pay them visit.
| Though my rheumatic limbs will not be
| there my loving heart WILL he said.
HIS LOVE OF DETAIL.
Again he upbraided his great-niece for
! not dating her letters ana failing to place
the address in the caption. Il have a
I great fondncSs for detaiis.'' he wrote.
Il don't like generalties. Please remem-
Der this
When Miss Mary came TO visit him she
! told him he must remember sh was not in
I his house only but in his heart also.
( When she went back 70 Kentucky he wrote
that, indeed in the role OF spiritual at
tendant l am at the old home almost con-
stantly."
He sent the girls some pocket money for
! Christmas. 1T is so small its dissipation
is impossible" said he, ''and that may be
! its chief virtue"
on one or more occasion he displayed
his fondnesS for dumb creatures He had
two dogs, TO which he was very much at
/ tached. He said lie was afraid people
would begin TO regard him as a dog fancieT
as the two CANNES trOtted beside his car
rage. He thought the animals so iEtelli-
gent il was hard to believe there was not a
hereafter for them as he believed there
is for human beings.
Referring to a heron the father of the
witness had killed the distinguished letter
writer said he was so sorry to hear it had