Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-08
NEIGHDORS TESTIFY.
Proceedings In lha Gt.fln DlYOlCs
Trial.
ryE WITNESSES ARE UNANIMOUS
In Saying Mrs. Griilin Was MOI Given
10 Getting hrunk-0,hcr
Court Matters.

utssss, frienus anu nelkhDofs CI MIS-
Or iii q, 10 pr We that che Is not adj
aicled to drinking and that her con.
duct has alwoys been such as ehcuid
become true wife anu good neigh.
Dor.
The case opened this morning by
the recalling OF Fiederlck Sommeref,
no has previously testified in behalf
Of Mr.. Gtfiio.
He saig lie lived with Or fin In
July. 1895. Mr.. Cir fiji q wac away for
about tHa weeks, ~ vieit to his
iAthtr. NIs. Dlckton was stepping
with Mrs. Or fiji at that time. Ms.
Gdfliu, Mrs. Dickson, MI. Bower
anu Harvey went to the lake one
afleruuou. Witness met them st the
depot On their return. They had not
been drinking 80 far as witness knew.
That IL the only time he remembsI.d
Mrs. GrifiiI gong away during Mr..
Or fiil's uosence.
Ia answer to Judge Lo0fboIouw,
SommeTeI taiu the matter was brcush
to biz mind by a conversation ne I'D
with DR.. Payne anu Mrs. Or I'll
Mira. Gnfii suggested the date 10 han.
whicu was between the ct anu 4 h OF
Juy.
DR.. Mary Il, Van, a graduate OF the
University Of Mich gau, eaid she first
met Mfs. Cir fiji ib 1894. rreateJ her
rom Nov, 1885, to Jam, 1896. ID u
not regard bifs. Gritfin as person su..
fer,pg from the effects vi alcoholism,
UnJef cIoss.exsmination u Q witness
SAID sbs had had case OF chronic
alcoholism IN her own family,
ana had studied the same al
college. Mfs. Gnfiln might
bave bseu addicted to the use Of
lqucT, while witness wac treating her,
a. d she not know 1t, but the hardy
thought II possible, Tor TIE Complaint
sue was being treated for would have
shown II.
Samuel ChittoCk testified that he
lived xt door n0r,h OF Mn. CIR fin
anu mad known her ever .iDee che
came here. During the whole OF his
acquaintance with her he had never
seen her Intoxicated or when SHE
teemeu as though she was. He did MOI
claim 10 know that Mrs. Gtifii u uiJ
not drink,
Charles Oruzlt said he lived one
III ok from .Mrs. Or f1iD and hal
k aUwn ner Tor the pat. five year,. In
me summer inns he hau seen her a.
often as twics day. Had never see.
ncr the worse for IiquJr.
Stewart Stevenson testified to hay-
In. attended "stag" psr,y al IN,
Cir I'll resi- lsncr. MIS-. Griifi Ia was
TINS only lady pr,ssni. He uiu not see
her trunk,
Sussnuah Roxoury sald che lived
next door but to the Griffins. Hau
never known Mrs. Cir iii to driub.
Sac would have known 1t IL she had,
ior the children woulI have TOLD her
anu she would have observed 1t her :
self.
Court here adjourned until O'clock.
Mics Alice AmundteD, who gave
ner age as seventeen yesit, YVES the
first witness called this afternt u.
Shr testified that che lived with tn,
q flo as domestic for alb ut six
we.ss, during the year OF 1894.
Never saw Mrs. Griffin drunk.
5ne remembered Mrs. GNfll
and q party going to tue
lake. Mis-. Cir fin was not under the
It fiuenGe OF liquor when bho returned.
Iuls testimony cofrOboraies what
Sommerer testified 20 this morning
and is IN direct cOufiici with the tssti.
moby of N tOTman Mitchell and Com
| Guctur HarTell, who said MIs. Cuff u
WAS drunk wnen che boarded tueir car
| The witness also said that Mrs. Gift
| I'm was Kim TO her HUSBAND, and
he always behaved himself kindly
towards his VITO.
The witness was being crosf-exam.
iueu by Judge Loo bJurow when the
| NEWS report closed.
! Ailer the NEWS report clossd yes.
| teIday, tue deiense put on eight wit.
Besste and read the depositions Of an
other. Juuge Hiles held nm evening
session and adj urned at $3.50 until
this mCruiug. Nothing additional wa 9
ELECTED from Mics Hatch yesterday
afternoon, save that MIR. Griffin oil.
why's Eclsu "surly ana crOss."
MIs. Laura q. G,TnBtt was next
call.I, anu said she had known Mrs.
| I'll flu since 1855. and during the
whoie of that time hsd never seen her
under the influence OF liquor, nor had
ever heard oil her 1Iinki0g,
| On crIss.exs nina ion, witness ed.
mltted that Mrs. Gntfin might have
drank and che not know II.
w. .. Nh1luI, ltttcr carrier, ealu
he hau sstn Mrs. GrIfli u almost daily
Sit Co 1892, and hau never saw her
drunk, nor had IL ever occurred to
him that she was q drinking woman.
Mrs. Lucy Cole, next door neigh
Dor OIL blrs. Gr flip, test iisl that sh.
had known Mre. Gntfil for several
years, anu had never seen her upder
he Influence OF liquor. John Cole,
Mr.. anu Mrs. Samuel J. Paul and
Hans Hansen, testlts similarly.
Dr. Payne, the father OF Mrs.. Grif-
I'm, took the stand Vt last evening"
session Of court. He said he cam o
usre iu May, 1895, In response to let
teIs from MS soD-in'law, who haJ
called bis wife d drunkard, liar, e. c.
Wnen he reached here, Gritii wBnteu
tim 10 take his daughter home with
him. He denied having said thst he
could not take his Osug hter becaut.
sue HLd her mother couldn't get slpug,
| or that he advised she he put In q
saui,arlum Tor tT'a'men,.' He had
retcrlbeu HOUR Tor MIs. Grlfiin as a
| pbyslclsn.
Cnsfi,s Robbins said he had known
Mrs. Guiil" slice 1892. He Ian Il
grocer shUp near Il c GHtiin Iesiaeu ce.
| Has never tecn her under tue in
iiuelce o. liquor. Had sold her oigai.
| q lee.
On being crots-exsmined witness
ADMITTED hsv ng had words with MIR.
6IIin Uuce anu that neither Of them
sp kv for over year, Lut at all was