The morning news., 1897-08-06
THE VICTIM OF A VAMPIRE.
MIKE DALEY ACCUSES HIS PRETTY
WIFE OF CRUEL INJUSTICE.

Having Good Time With Young
Men at Homeland Now He Knows
"She Never Could Understand"
Some Thrilling Testimony in the
Suit For AIimOny.
| Testimony in tho Daley case-rich, rare
/ and racy testimony TO perpleX
| twelve jurors, and entertain a crowded
court room in the superior court yester-
! day.
Mr. Daley himself, who is being sued by
wife who calls herself abandoned, ana
who demands alimony was one of the star
/ witnesses. Another star witness was the
alleged correspondent who is a handsome
young fellow Of pleasing address. good
clothes ready wit and an Incompatible
amount of nerve and self-possession on a
witness stand.
The statements Of Daley while on the
stand were pretty much along the line of
the testimony that was rendered the day
before. He claims that he did not aban-
don his wife when he went west on the
contrary she went to the train TO see him
Off and kissed him goodbye No sooner
had she kissed her husband goodbye than
SilS luiHtH away IOlu the departing tram
and went home under the escortage of
young man who had gone with the party
to the train, and he is said to have been
given the key TO the house. There is a
split in the testimony of the wife and the
husband, The wife claiming that the young
man was a friend of her husband and that
her husband gave him the key. while the
husband states that he did not give the
young man the key to his house.
AT any rate an occurrence happened
| that very night, for the young man claims
that he lost the key out of the pocket of
his macintosh coat and it appears that
when they reached home he had to per-
form some acrobatc feats leaping over
transoms and sky-lghts to get inside and
open the door.
Several young men were put on the
stand to explain their visits TO the house
of Mrs. Daley after Mr.. Daley had gone
west The task was not difficult, the gem
eral chorus being in this wise
oh well, we were just callers, same as
others who call on young ladies' Mrs.
Daley had two young ladies in the house
with her and we found it a pleasant place
to go and spend the evening-thats ALL"
Such was the nature of the general ex-
plantations of the young men who were
visitors al Mrs. Daley's house, and il was
clear straight story OF innocent social
enjoyment they made out.
During the taking of their testimony the
blue-eyed plaintiff looked squareiy in the
faces of the young men, now and then
touching her counsel on the sleeve ard
whispering to him some question to ask
the witnesses. These questions always
were square hits. They told with what
unspeakable shrewdness Mrs. Daley looks
clear through the gist of an issue. She
was particularly apt in putting questions
TO the alleged correspondent through her
counsel. lie is the only man that has
been accused by the husband of spending
an entire night at his house during his alb
sence, and the young man in question. as
We'll as several other witnesses. explained
this by stating that he was there al an
| entertainment which broke up between 1
and o clock in the morning and rather
than walk two miles to his home, he ask
ed the privilege of sleeping on a sofa down
stairs. The young man, himself was not
so clear in his testimony as to having
asked consent to stay there. He simply
said that he went to sleep on the sofa
and walked up there next morning. When
ss-questiOned and asked how he made
| his toilet he laughed as though amused
at the extreme inconvenicnces TO which he
had been put, and replied that he had
gone into the kitchen and turned on the
water in sink and washed his face and
that one of the young women who was
staying with Mrs. Daley had poked a
comb and brush through the door TO him
He was asked by Mr.. Richards. counsel
for the husband if he had never gone to
Mrs. Days house in the day time, and re-
| piled by narrating that once he had been
at Tybee where he had seen Mrs Daley
and She asked him when he came back to
the city that night if he would not 80 to
her house the next day and get her tooth
brush which she had left in her closet lie
took the key from her and the next day
Went to the house while NOBODY was there
/ got the tooth brush and came out. That
! afternoon he went back TO Tybee. taking
with him the tooth brush and giving it
/ with the key back to Mrs. Daley
"Have you ever been in surf bathing
with Mrs. Daley?" asked Counsel Rich
/ ards.
"oh yes, on several occasions"
"Where?"
at Tybee Warsaw and other places
] But. don't put il down that we went in
the surf alone. 1t was in a crowd and
Mrs. Daley CHANGED to be one of the
/ crowd"
did YOU ever dance with her?"
"On many occasions. Ii is nothing
wrong to dance with married lady, is
I it,"
while visiting Mrs. Daley's house did
you ever have occasion to be admitted
| to her own room?"
yes. 1t was on the occasion OF her
furniture being taken out Of the house at
the direction of her mother-in-law. /
| chanced TO be out there the night after
| wards and one of the young ladies OF the
| house asked me ana "a number of others
/ 10 so upstairs and see Mrs Daley, who
( was very much distressed about her fur
/ niture being taken away"
SO you went mp GO console Mrs. Da-
ley?"
Now, .ook here. (smiling) don't twist II
round and say ] went upstairs to console
Mrs Daley / did go up stairs. yes. but il
was with several other people. young men
and young women. We found Mrs Daley
lying ON a mattress in the room crying
and sobbing, and we an consoled her in a
I way"
The witness. being chief among the young z
men who visited Mrs Daley to testify In
the case. was put 20 a very close exami-
nation 10y both Mr.. Stubhs for che plainun
and Mr.. Richards. counsel for the defend
ant lie acknowledged that he had been
a frequent caller. that he had been there
on two occasions when beer and wine were
served. but ne did not drink any himself
for the reason that he had quit drinking.
and had not been taking anything 20 drink
for year. lie acknowledged TO having Of