The herald., 1897-12-01
Morgan Found Plaintiff in
the Tenderl0in
Mr.. BEcKMAN NOT SCARED
COMPTON's DEFENSE FOR FOR
gerry Is NOW ALL IN
grill's Little verdict-Two Burglars
Are Shipped to Folsom for Three
Years-New Suits Filed

The trial Of the suit for divorce insti-
tuted by Ed r. Meloy against Ida w.
Meloy, in which charges and counter
charges of infidelity are made, was re-
sumed yesterday before Superior Judge
Van Dyke and the washing of dirty
family linen was renewed with unabated
vigor. At this stage of the proceedings
II is more particularly Mr.. Meloy who
ia undergoing the scrubbing process.
L. w. Morgan, an electrician, was
called by the defense. This young man
said that in July of last year he had
piloted a couple of friends-strangers
in Los Angeles-throush the intricacies
of Chinatown. While emerging from
the labyrinth of tumble-down shanties
that constitutes this city within city
into Ferguson alley, Morgan saw Meloy
entering the alley that runs parallel
with Alameda street and in which are
located the tenements known as cribs.
Meloy spoke to one of the women who
tenants these cribs; she opened her door.
he went in and then the door was closed
and the blinds were drawn. Witness had
TGCOSHlZeO pldiitiiL PSi-SNeiy 'N-A >>--N-
commented to his friends upon the sin
of a married man in frequenting such
lewd resorts.
There was material for scene IN one
of the so-called comedies in the de-
ecription which the witness gave of his
introduction to Mr.. Meloy. Owing to
his propensity for adopting new name
to suit circumstances, Mr.. Meloy at one
time became Mr.. Richmond and Mrs
Meloy, as a dutiful wife, also assumed
that cognomen. Later Mrs. Richmond
became landlady of the Monterey lodging
house, and stuck to the aristocratic
name, while her husband resumed the
more plebeian one of Meloy. One day
while Mr.. Morgan was talking to Mrs.
Richmond in the office of the Monterey
the plaintiff in the present suit walked
in and Mrs. Richmond introduced the
two. After Meloys departure Mr.. Nor
gan inquired who the man was, and
Mrs. Richmond stated, with a smile,
that he was her husband. The be-
wildered Morgan had hard time Of it
to reconcile the discrepancy in names
between husband and wife, but after he
had given it up Mrs. Meloy Richmond
explained the conundrun, and thus it
was that Meloy's countenance, including
freckles, was indelibly fixed upon the
mind of Electrician Morgan.
Counsel for the plaintiff in his cross
examination of this witness and young
man named Fisher tried very hard to
make out that they were the recipients
or had been so, of the bounties Of fallen
women. Strenuous denials were made
to these charges, put in the way of
questions, by the witnesses, and the
court was not inclined to countenance
such line of inquiries.
An effort was also made by the plain
tiff to prove by Mrs. Shaw of San Pedro,
an elderly friend of the defendant, by
whom she had been called as witness,
that 1t had been currently reported in
that town that intimate relations had ex-
listed for a period of eight years be-
tween Mrs. Meloy- Richmond and a man
named Niles, now deceased, while she
was cohabting yet with Mr.. Meloy, but
the court would not permit such an in
vestigation to be conducted in this man.
ner.
Other witnesses were called by Horace
Appel, Esq, the attorney for Mrs. Meloy
to account for the whereabouts of his
client during the period that she is al
legged to have been criminally intimate
with one Beckman, in order to prove
that no such relations existed
Mrs. Streets, daughter of Mrs. Meloy |
by former husband, claimed that Mr. |
Meloy was in the habit of abusing and |
ill-treating his wife and taking her |
money away from her while they re-
sided in San Pedro.
George F. Beckman, the alleged CO.
respondent, was recalled and told how |
Mr.. Meloy used to sneak around in the |
Monterey and peep through keyholes |
One night Meloy said that he had seen |
witness take Mrs. Meloy's hand, to |
which Beckman replied that he was a |
liar. Then Mr.. Meloy exclaimed that he |
could shoot him for that. Beckman was |
not scared, but told Meloy that if he |
would lay his gun on the floor he would |
break his neck. He denied all criminal |
Intimacy with the defendant
The case will be resumed today