The Portland daily press., 1897-10-04

driving with him and On these evenings
1ne conversation was repetition Of the
conversation of Monday. They drove up
Main street, Lewiston, as far as Senator
rryes ';n uhat occasion he said be
supposed 1t was our last drive said /
| supposed it was. He talked freely about
my marriage. asked him WHARF he heard
of it and he said he had heard of IL some
time before. He said that he Wa su,,
prised at my taste and that he had been
at Mr.. Hadley's hotel. He said he knew.
the gentleman and said that he tbonoht
better go out there and stay all winter
with my parents before l married him
He said he was surprised at nv marrvino q.
a man with two children.
Mr.. Melcher spoke of being at Mr. Had
ley's hotel at San Diego. He didn't think
she would like out there. 1t was quiet
place; nothing like San Francisco. She
knew Mr.. M. and wife visited California
lie asked me If didn't think L was
treating him rather mean and l said no.
We had SO many difficulties that it was
no use continuing"
What did he say as he bade you good
byeg''
''He said, Louise, I hope you will be
will like hotel life / hope your husband
will be generous to you in regard to
money matters and all will be well. We
part the best of friends. :"
did your mother hear this?"
'She did,
"Was there any embracing?"
Not that [ am aware of and I'd likely
to have known it, (Laughter). -
The witness testified as to the wedding
and her subsequent goings and comings.
Then came a long cross examination by
Mr.. Libby, during which some of Mrs.
Dingley's answers greatly amused the
spectators. The testimony was the fol-
lowing:
"In your earliest youth you knew the
plaintiff?"
"Yes.'
'You have know him as well as any
gentleman in the citys''
"When you wrote coincidence letter
you did 1T out of sympathy
81 did"
"When your affections opened they were
true, were they not?"
Yes
"When you became engaged 1t Yves for
no mercenary motive on the part of either
| was it?''
mo, sir"
"Up to the last of his correspondence
| it was sincere, was it not?''
eyes"
$50 far as you know it was sincere to
You on his part, was its''
Yes
"This continued up to a week of de-
parture, did it?''
"With the disagreement to which I
| have testified. -
| "You have heard your mothers testi-
mony. You came back from his house
| alone( and said in view of what had taken
place, you would not marry him?"
II told her / would ask him to release
me-"
"Did you hear her statement that you
came back from this plaintiffs house say
| ing that he had treated you in an ungen-
| tlemanly manner and that in view Of ex-
listing circumstances she approved Of it?"
| Eyes"
"What did you say9''
81 asked Mr.. Melcher why he had the
Intentions published. told her that we
were both Indignant over 1t. 1t was six
and half dozen"
Ibid you go with him to the florists
and buy flowers and take them to the
cemetery to put on his wife's grave"
Certainly we did.
The witness said she didn't take any
pains to conceal Mr.. Hadley's presence
here.
Glad he sent you letter received by
you at his house?"
"No sir.''
"You didn't know that he was coming
to see your"
! s'No SIR
"You had his photograph"
| 81 had SEVERAL
81 was engaged to him seven years be-
fore''
docs that seven years of famine of
affection referred to in your letters, mean
this man?''
ooh, I loved several in those seven
years (Laughter.)
"Then you hadn't confined your affeo-
tions to the PLAINTIFF
| "Oh, dear no.
"You didn't tell Mr.. Meloher that you
had intended to marry Mr.. Hadley''
II told him that there was no engage
ment at that time.
"You had no released"
''Only that he didn't care to marry me,
that he asked me to accept the friendship
ring and the talk about the parlor car
pets.
Mrs. Hadley testified that after the
breaking OF the engagement Mr.. Melcher
said that he would look upon her as his
sister Lucy.
Nobody of your sex had come in be-
tween you on his partT'
when he penned the words of June
20 did you think the writer wrote the
words Of his heart?''
No do not. -
"You think it was put on then do you,
like your seven years in the wildeFness?
In his testimony, Hon. ]. Dingley,
Jr., father of Mrs. Hadley, denied en-
phaticany several important statements
made by Mr.. Melcher in regard to con-
versations by him.. He never gave his
consent to his daughter to marry Mr..
Melcher Mr. Melcher denied to him max
ing certain statements credited to him in
the morning Sun at the time when Had
ley was announced as sayingtfI had no
reason to say what the paper has said,
because the engagement with Louise has
been all settled Mr.. Melcher said
further that he was afraid Louise had
made mistake in going to California.
Everything Mr.. Melcher said seemed to
indicate that the marriage contract be-
tween himself and daughter had been
cancelled some little time before.
At the afternoon session OF the Mel
cher Hadley breach of promise case, Mr..
Melcher was called in rebuttal. He de-
MED many of the statements of the de-
PENDANT and her principal witnesses and
affirmed HIS own testimony. -
Mrs. Hadley was called and denied the
statements of Mrs. Berry and Others
This closed the evidence and the court
suspended toMonday when the arguments
of counsel win be given. "a
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