Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-08-04
WITNESSES SAY HE GAMBLRD AND WAS 4 GAY YOUNG
 MAN.
At Ore Tine, It Is Said, He staked His shoes-D Dispositions in the Altheimer Blvoree
 Suit Received.


 Judge Klein's court.
 The depositions were those of witnesses taken in Pine Bluff, Ark. where the Altheimers lived for q number of months.
 A. H. Reeves, Pine Bluff saloon keeper, deposed that he had seen AT theimer up stairs over his saloon, in q gambling room. He was gambling for his crayat and his shoes, he wit ness said
 Sim A. Levy deposed that Altheim- CT was in gambling room on one occasion, when his father came in.
 The old man was very much exeit- ed and demanded that Ulysses go home with him. The son did not go immediately. he said, and he and his father had TOW.
 John Portis, of Pine Bluff, Ark, keeper of a club room at that place, testified to an altercation which took place between Ulysses $. Al theimer and his father in September, 1895. He said Ulysses was asleep in q room adjoining the club room when his father entered and re- preached him for not going home.
 On May 9, 1S9a, Mrs Altheimer, then Ophelia Scharff. who was con sidered one of the prettiest girls ill St. Louis. created a sensation by clipping with and marrying Uyesses Altheimer.
 They went to Pine Bluff, Ark, the home of Altheimer's father, to live. They lived together until April ,, 1896, and she filed suit for divorce on March 13 last.
 She charges him with irequenting gambling houses, drinking. neglect, non support and general abuse.
 She asks fer the custody of their child, Virginia, and her maiden name.
 Altheimer, in his answer. charges his parents-in-law with alienating i his wife's affections. He denies the charges in her petition.
 Ails Althemer also charges in her divorce suit that when she was about to become a mother, she vas compelled to seek refuge and go to her parents home in St Louis
 He often left her at his fathers i house she says, while he went to gamble and drqnk. Sine and his fam ] fly had to go in pursuit of him at night through fear that he had been 1 injured He also refused her the or dinary attention due wife, she says, and compelled her to live on the charity of his or her father. i While at her own fathers home she says, her husband abused her and threatened to iniure her and her child.
 One of the most sensational depo- sitions was that of F.. A. Peterson, a sanitarian Of Pine Bluff He stated that he had often met Altheimcr in saloons.
 The plaintiffs attorney then asked him:
 Since the institution of this suit, have J ou made q proposition to me- by which, upon the payment of Il certain amount of money to Althei- mer. this suit could be obtained?
 Yes, sir, made a proposition ta YOU for Mr Altheimer.'
 .'I wish you would now state what that proposition was.
 Well, he seemed to be getting tired, l believe, of this shit, and said he was out good deal of III oney in some way or another in regard to this divorce business, and that he would settle for a certain amount.
 "What amount was thato"
 Well, l think it was $2,500 to the best of my knowledge.&
 "Did Mir. Altheimer send you to me, as the attorney representing the plaintiff in this case, to make that proposition2"
 Yes, sir
 On cross examination the witness was asked by Altheimer's attorney:
 "Have you ever. at any time, from any person interested in this suit or from any one pnrporting to be rep resenting the plaintiff in this suit, had an offer to pay you if you would procure testimony against Mir. Al theimer?"
 "Ycs, sir.
 "Who?"
 '.Well, don't care about answer ing it."
 , The plaintiffs attorney urged him $ to answer, and the witness replied:
 IN. T. White"
 "Who is N. T. White?" ' "Lawyer at Pine Bluff. F "Is he representing the plaintiff in t this case"
 "That is my understanding. h "Did anyone ever offer you or pro pose to pay you if you could get Mr , Altheimer drunk, so that it might h' a used as evidence against him.? I No, sir; | cannot say that. ,o Did any one ever tell you tha ,+ you would be paid money II vol :, could induce him into a disreputabl