The herald., 1896-02-08
IS DRAWING 70 A CLOSE
The Testimony in the Holiday
Damage Suit
1T IS NOW NEARLY ALL IN
Hack Driver Christy Tells of the Wild
Nights Debauch
The Daughter Of the Lats Alien q. Thurman
Regretsul.v Aimts That at Times
She Drinks Liquor TO Excess

The trial of the Holiday damage suit is
drawing to close. The curtain will be
rung down toiay in so far as the taking of
testimony is concerned, and on Monday
the jury will hear some very able argu-
ments as to why Mrs. Fannie Holiday
should receive large sum from the
defendants as balm to her wounded feel
ings, owing to her eight days imprison-
ment at the instance of her brother-in-law.
Yesterday the testimony taken was for
the defense, and the purport of it all was
to show that in causing Fannie LIS inn
prisonment the defendants were not in
fiuenced by malice, but were impelled to
take the action through fear that Fannie
L. would do them bodily harm and destroy
their property.
Here, Mrs. Fannie L., the witness, gave all
| the details of the vicious manner in which
she had given her temper full rein with
| placid Indifference. She smiled and smiled
| again as witnesses told how she had oper-
ated at the Holiday mansion with the
deadly parasol, greatly to the detriment of
the furniture and brc-a.brac.
In the afternoon William Il. Christy, the
hack driver, made some fun for the specta-
tors. William is quite comedian in his
| way. He took the stand and in a very
| blunt way and in very plain language he
told about the wild ride of bug" Holiday
| and Mrs. Fannie L. on the night of August
| 10th. Mr.. Christy's relation was quite
amusing, and when he concluded the court
adjourned until today.
Mrs. Holiday, at times you drink intox-
icating liquor to excess, do you not?"
This was the question Hon. w. j. Hun
saker asked the daughter of Allen G.. Thur
man on the witness stand yesterday morn
ing, and her answer was:
"Yes. sir, l very much regret to say that
do"
Then Mrs. Holiday left the stand and
again took her seat to the left of her
counsel.
General Johnstone Jones, chief counsel
for the plaintiff, was placed on the stand
to show that the application for writ of
habeas corpus for Mrs. Holiday was based
| upon technical errors, and not on the
ground of the sufficiency of the evidence
upon which she was committed.
The second co.defendant. bug" Holi.
| day, was placed on the stand TO give again
| the details of the experiences with Fannie
L., according to his version. ''Bug" sat
on the witness stand about three hours.
He crossed his legs and took things very
easily. He gave this version of the visit of
Fannie l.. to the Holiday mansion on the
evening after she completed her campaign
of destruction in the household:
II was in front of the house when some
one threw her arms about my neck and
said Edward I saw it was Fannie, and
told the coachman to grab her. She said,
You don't need TO do that replied that
l didn't know about that. / told her to
come in the house and we would see what
this was all about. We had wine during
the evening. After asking Fannie why she
had done this, and her reply that she was
not sorry and would not tell Us unless we
sent the servants out of the room, 1 told
her she was thief, and she threw glass
of wine in my face.
"Some time after she had been taken
home by Mr.. Oliver left home and walked
down town. / think l got in a coupe and
drove home. Then 1 told him to drive to
Fifth and Hill. | wanted to see if she was
watched. wanted the driver, Christy, to
go near the house, but he drove right up in
| front.
"a window went up and Mrs. Holiday
put her head out of the window and said:
is that you, Edward?' l replied that it
was, and she said it was good thing 1 had
burned our house. I replied that it was a
| good thing. She said she would be down
in minute, and did come down. She got
| in the hack with me. She made no objec-
tion to going with me. l said I wanted
bottle of wine. Christy said it was late
and he would take me down to his house.
had never been there and knew nothing
about the place. We had two bottles Of
| wine there.
afterwards we went to a restaurant
and had something to eat. 1t was Jacks
restaurant. wanted to drive around
town and kill time until daylight, and see
| why lnsley had not had her watched.
Nothing improper or wrong occurred be-
tween Mrs. Holiday and myself that
night. After leaving the restaurant
drove around. Finally we went to the
Hollenbeck. wanted to go there and tel
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day in Jail, but her threats to burn down
the house alarmed me.
~ telephoned to Mr.. Oliver and he hap
pened to be sleeping in the Insley office
and came right around. When he came
told Oliver that Mrs. Holiday had threat
to take charge OF her; that his detectives
were not watching her. After we went
back to her Mrs. Fannie Holiday told me
looked sick and had better get a room at
the Hollenbeck and she would come up
and nurse me; that my wife was in no con-
ditlon Tor me to go home. l told her l
would not do it, but would go home.
1.-The next day we consulted Mr.. Hun
| saker to see what was the best thing to do.
We wanted to do the wisest thing and
thought some one outside would be able to
advise us what was best to do. Mr.. Hun.
saker told us he thought it best to put her
under a peace bond; that she would cool
down in few days probably, and then she
could be sent home to her people in New
YORK state. We did not want to bring a
criminal charge against her, but to let her
off as lightly as possible, and thought the
peace bond would do that.''
Gen. A. B. Campbell, the plaintiffs
counsel, subjected "Bug' to very rigid
cross-examination, which was really devoid
of practical results.
Fred Hopkins. the negro servant of the
Holidays, gave q relation of his expert
ences in endeavoring to appease the un-
quenchable anger of Fannie L. when she
was at the house creating havoc with her
parasol.
w. e. Howells, the constable who
arrested Fannie L., told how he did and
what Mrs. Holiday said and did at the
time. &. 30
The eminent Hawkshaw, J. Smith Oliver,
testified as to his employment to watch
! Fannie l.. and his endeavors and efforts to