The herald., 1897-04-04

qulreu senator Wnlte upon crosS-eA-
animation.
mo, sir, was not but had fallen into
a morbid state"
When you went to commit suicide,
was the weather too cold for a watery
bier?"
No, sir, that was not my reason"
"Then, when you threatened suicide
you were bluffing, weren't you?"
mo, sir, l was earnest enough at the
time 1 was just feeble in mind"
Now that you are not feeble in mind
you remember all about when you were
feeble in mind?"
Yes, SIR
Have you ever talked with Miss
| Holmes about future state?'
Il have heard her. but took no partic-
| ular interest, and consequently don't
remember details. My object in going
down to the meetings was less from
desire for religious instruction than to
distract my mind from its morbid con-
dition. 1 have hsard her, however, say
in general way that she believed ami
mails have souls. have no opinion on
the matter and think more of the things
of this world than of the next"
You would like to be comfortable in
the next world, thought"
Yes, sir; If could do anything to en-
able me to be SO, would do it"
Are you a vegetarian. Mr. Taylor?"
II eat vegetables and not meat, but
not because 1 think the eating of meat
would harm me. dislike the cruelty in
volved"
You don't want to encourage the
slaughter? Does that apply to all ami
mals?"
Yes except as to reptiles perhaps, or
dangerous animals"
Have you any belief as to their
souls?"
mo. sir; have not"
GATHERING UP THE FRAGMENTS.
In sur-rebuttal, a letter written by
Miss Farnsworth to her mother was sub
mitted in evidence by Senator White. 1t
explains, in some measure, the strained
relations existing in her family and her
determination, as expressed while upon
the witness stand, of not accompanying
her mother east during the present
month. The letter read as follows:
belmont HALL, March 6, 1897.
MY Dear Mamma: l returned from
the country, where I had been nursing,
Thursday morning, and your letter in
reply to mine came in the afternoon. 1
told you l would go east with you on the
conditions you named. provided you
would visit me here, and have 1t under
stood in New London that 1 should be
allowed to make full statement of
what has occurred since l have been at
Belmont hall. To neither of these plans
will you consent, so 1t is you who have
made my letter a refusal to go, not T.
for stood willing to come to you in the
east later in the season, If the time of
your departure had to be hurried, had
you complied with my request-that has
been my attitude in the matter.
II am sorry TO say it. but would have
had more respect for your excuse not to
come here had you said frankly you
did not want to come, instead of saying
you were not able physically to make
me visit, when no work would be re-
quired of you, when you are going east
for the purpose of helping Della.
How long is it going to take you TO
realize that I propose to go steadily on,
in spite of your plans and schemes to get
me away from here? Just so
long as you hold in your mind
what you do about me, just SO
long are you going to suffer in that di-
rection. In regard to past events in
Austin Newcomb's house, I do not see
why the action of others there in past
years should control mine today. You
speak of our having peace and har-
mony here in our household. Now. I
am going to tell you how that peace and
harmony is obtained-it comes from the
exposing of disturbing elements, and
for a short period we may have dis
turbance, until the atmosphere is
cleared. I never told you we were per-
feet here.
II am going to tell you what this fam
lily misunderstanding of ours makes me
think ola cesspool. You are all trying
to fill it in with dirt to hide the smell,
but the cesspool is still there. My plan
is to clean out the cesspool, and when
ever 1 begin to dig in it 1t smells, and
the more I stir In it the worse it will
smell. but it is going to be cleaned until
there is no longer cesspool, but
sweet atmosphere. 1 told you in San
Francisco I would go to the bottom of
this-yes, If ii takes years for me to
obtain a garment of protection, so l
will not be covered with the mud of that
cesspool. / do not believe in keeping
skeletons in a closet. 1t is one of my
fundamental principles to uncover evil
where l see it and have the right to do
1t. So, you see, you would curtail me in
the exercise of what you call my relig-
ious belief
Nothing that you have said in your
letter has hurt or grieved me.
Il hope you will have safe comfort
able journey and am glad you are to be
with Della. With love, LOTTIE."
Attorney Kendrick was next summon
ed to the witness stand to tell what he
knew regarding the wherea bouts of
Dalton Wheeler. He stated that to the
best of his belief the gentleman was not
in the city. He had a subpoena out for
him but did not know whether it had
been served or not.
Miss Holmes was recalled just for the
purpose of allowing Senator White to
prove by her that Mr.. Watson had been
in the court room during the trial, and
was then present, but had not been called
as a witness; and that in the case of
Mr. Nevada shs had met him during the
week at his office but had not seen fit to
summon him, either.
Both sides rested.
THE OPENING ARGUMENT.
General Chapman opened the argu-
ments in behalf of the plaintiff His ad-
dress was more of a review, with run
ming comment of the case, than an anal
ysis or a criticism of the testimony put
in by the defense. He did draw atter-
ton, however to the fact that Dodd, the
detective, had in his deposition, given
Miss Holmes credit for believing in God
as the supreme power and Christ as the
redeemer, matter impugned by some
of the witnesses. He defined the law of
libel, and then with running comment
the general went through the alleged
libelous article. The allusions to the
pictures were rather funny, considering
the fact that the Jurors are, supposedly, |
possessed of an average amount Of per-
ceptiveness. The counsel stated that
Mrs. Van Auken exhibited them as spir-
it pictures. Miss Holmes dead sister
painted them to while away time dur
ing her last illness, and naturally they
were highly valued and considered Won