The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-30
Hobbs and Miss Wray Lived
Together as Such.
VERY PECULIAR RELATION
THE DEMANDS MADE UPON
KEARNs FOR MONEY.
Mrs. Kiipack, Mother of Eula, Tes-
titles and Very Graphically and
Amusingly Tells of Her Various
Interviews With the Defendant.

The plaintiffs side Of the wray-
Kearns seduction case goes merrily on
". A Hobbs resumed the witness
stand yesterday morning and it was
Well on in the afternoon before he was
excused by both sides. Then Mrs. Xii
pack, the mother Of the plaintiff. was
called and by adjourning time she was
under rosS-examination and will again
take the stand this morning
There are yet a number of witnesses
to be examined for the plaintiff, and
from present appearances t4le trial WIZ
run well into next week
Yesterday morning, w A Hobbs, on
further. cross-examination by Mr. Va
rian, said he was looking through the
north window of the waiting room at
the o. s. /. depot when he saw hearns
give Miss Wray the roll of bids on the
morning she was to have gone to Butte
Did you watch Kearns so away at
ter he gave her the money!" asked Mr..
Yarian.
mo; I came to look after the girl"
Did she get on the cars when Rearns
went away"
Yes"
And you followed her?"
eyes; went onto the car and spoke
to her.
What did she say?"
"She was crying and said she didn't
want to go TO Butte alone, and told
her to go home and tell her mother
about it. and she got off the car on the
east side of the train"
did you go to the depot purposely
TO take her back?
NO; I didn't"
Did you 90 home with herr"
No; I went home about Y o'clock"
Did you see her at your home that
day."
Yes"
MADE AN APRIL FOOL OF
-KEARNS.
What did she say them"
she said something about having
made an April fool of Tom Kearns. It
was the LIST of April, and she fooled
him by net going to Butte"
Did you have any talk with her
about the money she received from
Kearns?"
No"
Didn't you ask her for the $S5 you
claimed from Kearns?"
NO: I told her I would get that from
kearns if / could"
Then you had some talk about the
money!"
she offered me money
How much2"
one QlUtl say
You felt you had a claim on
KearnS?"
4 felt he ought to pay me what he
owed me-
and if he didn't you felt it right to
threaten him with exposure to his fam
lily ard friends? '
Yes"
What claim had You on him?"
"Just what he told me. that he would
do the right thing if 1 took her along
with rue to Colorado; that lie would
pay her expenses. He didn't, and I
gave her money for her expenses and
stood good for her hospital bill of $50"
You were determined that unless
Kearns came to your terms you would
expose him2"
Il thought he ought to pay me-"
Was anybody behind you in this
natter"
No
Did you say that two good men or
two bad men We're behind you?"
NO"
You told about meeting Kearns in
the street after you came from Colo
rado?"
Yes"
What occurred them"
He said: Hello; [ thought you were
in Colorado replied: Wei, hardly.
And I asked him when he was going to
10y AAtI tAAC eCo, eliAQ AAC OctIU L u CrOu
sake let that DROP and he promised
to see me in a. day or two
You got work at the Kedive mine
near Ouray?"
YES"
And put up a little cabin?"
Yes"
IN the month of January you
worked q days at the mine, gave an
order for $50 to someone and received
$33, the balance coming to your
I received about SS3, 1 think, in
money"
Did you gamble that money away?"
"No."
Did you borrow $40 from Mr.
Wheeler and tel IlsTn it was TO pay yoalr
w1fe's board at the hospital?"
Something like that
DID you ask Dr. Stadler slow much
he would charge to attend your wife
during her confinement
Yes, something like THAT
Did Eula say that you was the
father of the clltld?"
No, not that remember"
Did she say to DR.. Stadler THAT you
and she were married in Mayo
Not that know Of
did DR.. Stadlea- tell you that he had
TO make out q. certificate of the birth
Of the child and did he ask you for the
particnlars?"
REPRESENTED EULA AS HIS
WIFE.
You, represented to people that Ella
Wray was your wife?"
yes"
@-Dtd you then represent that you
were not the father of q child born to
yAour wife?"
81 said nothing about It"
t1If YOU had been asked, would YOU
have put yourself in the position of be
ing the husband of a woman VINO had
a child of which YOU were not the
father"
4 don't know what I would have
done"
Did you write to her mother that
Eula and the baby were destitute and
wdtfloalt cl0thing?"
mo. she wrote about some clothing
and they sent some for the, baby
when asked to pay a. certain bid did
you say you had to protect your wife
and child before paying bills2''
No, said nothing about the child"
They were both there2"
Yes
Other testimony showing that Hobbs
and Miss Wray had passed as hus band
and wife in Colorado was introduced.
What We're You TO be paid for going
of With her and passing as her nus
band?"
There was no specific amount mem
toned
When you were leaving O,ray. you
wrote 20 your mother TO send ticket
for Ella to go back to Salt Lake?''
Yes"
You were too honorable to marry
Tom Kearn's mistress. but You did not
hesitate IN send her IN 1-717-- r,,r,1l,e,-