The herald., 1897-01-24
CORREsPONDENCE ADRIFT.

SOIlle WOildH, with SoiiV
CORRESPONDING ADRIFT.
While Mr.. Newton was in Chicago his
wife accidentally came across some let
ters sent him to Mrs. Spencer, the
tendency of this being of decidedly
discriminating character. The first was
handed to her by her little girl, who had
picked it up, and the letter was in the
open envelope. Mrs. Newton, thus hav-
ing had her suspicious aroused, found
in the garbage can number OF pieces OF
paper which upon being pasted to-
gether formed other letters; this cores
pondence, in it's entirety, forming q
strange compound of business '(Mr
Newton was selling portion OF the
orange crop for Mrs. Spencer), love, re-
ligious fervor, salaciousness and bias
phemy.
Judge Lamme protested against such
testimony being admitted, and stated
his Willingness to produce in court all
the correspondence between Newton
and his client, every letter. too, being
in the original envelope. Being asked
if he had never seen the letters referred
to by witness Judge Lamme warmly re-
piled that such letters had never existed,
but he believed he had seen what pur-
ported to be copies of certain letters
which had never existed, were perjurles,
and never existed other than in the i'm
agination of Mrs. Newton.
This was putting it rather strongly,
and Judge Van Dyke called counsel to
order for thus rejecting upon the We
racity of a witness upon the stand. Mrs.
Newton had stated that the pieced let
ters had been attached to her deposi-
ton in the divorce suit, and counsel for
plaintiff explained to the court that
both letters and deposition had since
disappeared. AS consequence re-
lance had to be placed upon copies.
Judge Lamme went upon the witness
stand and stated that the deposition in
question had been taken in the office Of
Wilson & Lamme. but that no such ley
ters as described had ever existed.
While his firm represented the defend
ant Judge Wilson had charge of the
case.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
p. A. Pillsbury was put upon the
stand and combated this latter state
ment somewhat. Witness stated that
at the time of the Newton divorce he
was member of the law firm that rep
resented the plaintiff, Mrs. Newton.
Several letters were attached to her de-
position, and several of these showed
that they had been pieced together,
while others, so far as his memory
served him. had never been torn at all,
but were stained as if they had been
soiled in some such place as a garbage
can. Witness corrected Judge Lamme
by saying that Mclaughlin & York had
represented Mr. Newton and Judge Will
SON was present when the deposition of
Mrs. Newton was taken.
District Attorney Donnell upon 60
ing upon the witness stand, testified
that he had at late date been retained
in the Newton divorce case, in the cause
of the plaintiff. He knew that the de-
position in question had been filed IN
court, and upon the conclusion of the
trial tried to recover the letters, but
learned that they, having been written
by Newton to Mrs Spencer, had been
returned to Newton's counsel
At this point the chase after the miss
ing deposition, with the racy garbage
can letters attached, was suspended and
the case went over until Tuesday.