The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-15
DE. arNNrNG,s pENlALs.

male member Of the Bedford avenue Baptist church of Brooklyn appeared early in Justice Van Wyck's court. in Brooklyn, this morning, where the suit of Mrs, Mary c. Cunning for q separa- tion from her husband, the Rev Josiah II. Cunning, was continued,
 Dr. Josiah IT. Cunning, the defend ant, who rather made spectacle of himself on the stand yesterday, and al- together created. a very bad impression, took the witness chair when the trial was resumed this morning, and the direct examination was continued by General Almet F, Jenks, who looks as Edwin Booth might have appeared had Booth looked different.
 "The very first thing that the rever- end gentleman did was to contradict his testimony os yesterday, and on two very important points-one, as to the length of time he had known the pres ent Mrs. Cunning before he married, and also as to the place where the mar riage ceremony was performed. He testified first that he had known Mrs.
 
 married her in the Grand Central hotel. He had known his wife six months, he said to-day before he married her, and it was the engagement that had lasted "a month, and they were married in the Grand hotel and not the Grand Central. Then Dr. Cunning related a lot of trifllng incidents, which were of no mo- ment, either individually or collectively, and were hardly the things which one would expect man to pay attention to. He said Mrs. Cunning had told him the law was with good women, and that she would teach him lesson and secure alimony.
 Then the delectable Harry Cunning came into the matter again. Mrs. Gum hing, the minister said, had complained of Harry, and said the young man ought to be whipped. He refused to punish Harry until he could ascertain all the facts. She had gone out, and then come home and told him that others said he didn't manage his child ren with sufficient firmness, and that she should manage them
 That arrangement he opposed, where upon she stood and called him an old fool for full hour steadily. Then he was turned over 10 ex- Judge Tenny for cross examination.
 Mir. Penney on the jump developed the fact that Dr. Cunning was not a D. D., but got the title of doctor from the fact that he was an M D,
 "Then,' said MT. Penney, you are a Baptist preacher" Since he had been in the ministry the witness said he was Baptist preacher. Dr. Cunning said cinal purposes only.
 T am temperate" he said, but not a total abstainer." Some of his hear CTS smiled, others looked grave. MT. Penney wanted to know then if the dominic hadn't known his present wife a year and half before he mar ried her-if she hadn't sung in his choir in Boston for year or more before the wedding.
 He said he didn't remember that such had been the case. Then he was asked | if his son Harry hadn't been accused of setting fire t6a barn in'Nyack. No, he said. Harry had simply been trying | to bake some corn in a wooden box to accomplish that purpose. The whole l thing took fire, of course.
 Well, you thought she was a very l fine woman when you married her, didn't daitiff | you ?" asked Mir. Penney. return | ing to the subject of the present wife Yes, II think so yet" was the answer. She was a woman of superior intel | ligence?"
 | "A fair degree of intelligence; I l I should say. I wouldn't say she was q woman of superior intelligence" | Wasn't she woman of culture?' "She wouldn't be so regarded by scholars. I am giving you my impre- sions
 "M-m-h-a," calculated the old ex- 1 judge in tones deep with significance, while he regarded the witness curiously. He changed to another tack. Now, l you have hanging on your walls" he 1 asked and leaving out a couple of I words that made the question a start i ling one. your two former wives, have 1 you not?"
 No, sir" answered the witness, promptly. Then MT. Penney got his question right by referring to the pie l lures of the two former wives of the l dominic.
 And they are dead?' asked Mr Ten ney.
 ''Undoubtedly." was the answer The reverend gentleman then told l how he had been at the head of an l insurance company known as the Am erican Protective league, which went to pieces after while. He was sued | by the receiver of the company for s1,5o0 salary which had been paid him. He said that all those claims had been paid by him long ago. MT. Penney wanted to know if the witness had ever kept $1.000 entrusted to him to be dis- tributed among the poor. of his church. l He said he had not; that the church was too poor to give such an amouat | to the poor. But the church gave him a salary of $4,000 a year, and a MT. Ford in that church gave him $1 ,0oO on the side, as it were, for having ac- cepted the call to go to Boston, so that 1 he received $5,000 year in all. He left that church, however, because he and the directors of the church differed as | to the way the church should be con- ducted, and Mr. Ford suggested that the doctor resign the pastorate. He re- l signed. Mrs. Cunning, he admitted was 8 superior musician-sang, played the organ, piano and violin some. In Little Rock the natives gave her an ova- l ton when she visited her home. Then MT. Penney made every one of the dear, good sisters jump forward in eager anticipation when he asked