The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-28

unless she were convicted Of some i'm
proper conduct: and with q desire that he
might lead her into and fasten upon her
some imprudence, which might be con-
strued as lending countenance TO the the
ory upon which he proposed grounding
his application for divorce. he employed
detectives at a large expense and imrne-
diateiy set them upon her track to watch
her every movement and to trail and fol-
low her wherever she might go. These de-
receives, OF whom there were sometimes
three and sometimes four. remained in DR..
Dawson's employ until February !. when
he abandoned his home. and during the
whole OF the time they were on watch day
and night. there being regular relays for
relief. They watched in front of her house
by night and followed her footsteps by
day: and while she was rehearsing a part
10 be performed by her IN religious can
tata, requiring her frequent attendance
both day and evening at the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church. they would follow
her from her home TO the street car into
the street car, into the church. where they
sat during the rehearsals. and at it's close
again 10 her home, greatly embarrassing
and humiliating her. She charges further
that DR.. Dawson at great expense en-
pioyed attorneys and detectives in Califor-
MIA and spent much time and money in
San Francisco. Oakland, Alameda, San
Jose, San Bernardino and Los Angeles in
an endeavor to discover something derog-
atory TO her character. DR.. Dawson him.
self, she says. spent several days visiting
all these places and conversed with all
friends or persons with whom she had ever
visited and former servants employed BY
her. striving and endeavoring by every
means at his command to fasten some i'm
proper act upon her character.
she says that while she and her sister
were living with her children in Oakland
DR.. Dawson. without previous notice fol-
lowed them. and although arriving in the
morning. he remained without her knowl-
edge during the whole day and until late
In the evening, when quietly and stealthily
he entered the residence.
On February ]. of this year. DR.. Dawson
Is said to have falsely stated to Mrs-Daw-
sons brother, William Coffman that she
had been committing adultery for years.
and on the following day to have made
the same statement tosCharles Almond
and on February 3 to have repeated the
same charge to her sister. Mrs. Alice All
mond.
Some time In October. of last year, she
says that DIR. Dawson contemplated rent
ing furnished house and desired her to
: examine ii. For a long time prior the
house had been occupied by a feeble and
unfortunate old man. and was permeated
and noisome smells. The house was in
every way in an unfit and unsanitary con-
dition, and she was instantly sickened
upon entering it: nevertheless Dr. Dawson
insisted upon occupying the house as a
home.
During all her residence in California. in
1893 and 1894. Mrs. Dawson says she wrote
her husband at least three times a week.
1t is now impossible for her to remem-
Der all the places she visited.
but in her letters is to be found complete
account of what she did while absent. All
of these letters. she says. are material TO
her case, and It will be necessary for DIR.
Dawson to allow her to Inspect them AID
make copies of them.
She alleges that she IL the proper person
for the custody of the children, she Is very
devoted to them, AMI t,ev are warmly and
devotedly attached to her. For years one
of them has been In poor heath ana reeds
the constant care and attention OF his
mother.