The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-30
Mary Walsh Went on
Drives With Mr.. Hayes.
Providence Doctor Figures in
Spicy Will Contest.
Complete Costume Not Necessary
at Home of the Millionaire.

Boston, April 30 Additional testimony
was presented yesterday in the Hayes
willie in the Superior Court AT Cam
bridge regarding the habits of the testator
and his remarks concerning the paternity
of the child. An affidavit from Mrs.
Charles III. Pitts, "A sister Of the testator,
was read, and Eliot Lord testified at the
morning session.
After the recess Edwin G.. Wilder said
he worked at the house of Mr.. Hayes in
Ascutneyville putting a steel roof on his
house and doing other work. While he
was there he remembered seeing Mr..
Hayes come down stairs with nothing on
except his shirt and stockings to give
some instructions to Mary Walsh, who was
there when he came down. He saw Mr..
Hayes drive out with Mary Walsh on the
box with him and the footman behind.
Asa B. Warren, living at Ascutneyville,
who also did work at the house of MIR
Hayes IN the year 1891, testified that he
heard Mary Walsh tell Mr. Hayes that
the boy was not his Mr. Hayes replied
that the child was not his and that he
would make will and leave the child 81.
lie complained to witness about the as
sault committed upon him. He drank
three or four cases of beer a week. In
answer to Mr. Mosre, witness said he sat
ON the jury which heard the complaint
Oh Mrs. Hayes against Mary Walsh.
Hayes told witness that he had been
badly pounded by the Hunt boys.
William Taylor, newspaper writer, de-
scrlbod the circumstances under which
he interviewed Mr. Hayes i'm the summer
OF 1891. He stated that Mr.. Hayes told
him regarding Mrs. Hayes being in "A
boat with Providence doctor. and said
Mr.. Hayes alleged that the child was not
his, and that his wife had been unfaithful
70 him with an employe named Butter
Held, who was in the room when he made
the statement. y Mr.. Hayes accused his
vile or vile practices
In reply TO Mr.. Morse witness said he
was informed that Mr.. Hayes was trying
TO get divorce, and that there was n big
story up there in Vermont. He was regu-
larly assigned. He did not go TO get sen
sational story, but to get the facts. The
teSicles written by witness were published
in July, 1891. Mr.. Hayes told him thas
had caused the whole trouble by causing
his wife TO leave him.
Hayes said he knew that no was not the
father of the child. He knew that the
doctor was the father. He had found out
"a great many things since his marriage
that he did not know before. He men
TONED that he once missed his wife when
going TO catch "a train, and found her play
ing billiards.
The day after the publication OF the
article witness heard of the assault. He
had remained in order to get the pictures
OF the parties concerned. He did not go
to crafty love OF sensation. Another re-
porter corroborated with witness in writ
iHg the story OF the assault and of inter
views with the parties. Witness thought
the parties would not talk with him
again, and had got another man to do the
while he wrote the intro
duction.'
In reply to Mr.. Chaplin, witness said
Mr.. Hayes was Informed that he intended
to print the interview, and did not object.