The herald., 1898-01-20

mterrogatory on Tuesday, the loloWint
lquestion:
MRS. Creede testified yesterday tha
you must have had some conversation
with her when she was asleep; is that SO 2
mo, SIR responded Mr.. Hunter, will
easy assurance.
State If you ever lived with the
Creedes?'
IT roomed there for about three weeks
Mrs. Creede came to me and told me she
was going south and asked If wouldn''
go UP and sleep at the house and keep MT
Creede company"
do you remember seeing Mrs. Creede
shortly after January 2, 1897?
yves sir; called at her solicitation al
| the Hollenbeck hotel. She then told me
she was satisfied with what she had got,
but she said she ought to have had s5Oco
more. She said she was going to leave
| Los Angeles, as she had never liked 1t and
didn't want to return. She said she was
going to Florence, Ala, to settle down
| there. She could buy little home there
for very little money and she could live
very comfortably, she said, on the income
of the balance of the money"
state If when you saw her she was ra-
tional?'
"She always appeared to be rational"
"She has spoken of your urging her to
leave this town?'
mo, sir; 1 never did"
NO ENLIGHTENMENT NEEDED
1T suppose the court would like me to
tell of my first visit to her?" said witness.
turning to the court and for the nonce
changing place with counsel
II don't know that 1 would" and the
court lay back devoid Of anxiety on the
point.
'well, just for the purpose Of enlight-
ening--" but the witness was choked Off
by Mr. Gage and the examination resumed
it's normal course.
what did Mrs. Creede say to you with
regard to Mr.. Lamme?'
"She told me about her acquaintance
with Lamme. She was going to see Creede
and had been advised by Harris that she
ought to get more money"
"You needn't go into that" suggested
Mr. Gage.
II told her." resumed witness, 'Lamme
was a good lawyer but didn't see how
she could sue until she had placed Creede
in the same position he was before the
contract was signed.'
"And then what did she say?'
"She said she didn't want any lawsuit;
that the lawyers would get all the money"
THAT was rather rough on the lawyers
well, that's ALL" said counsel and the wit
ness was retired.
On cross-examination witness said he
uary. A gentleman asked him why he
didn't get after Mrs. Creede as he under
stood she was making investments. Ac-
cordingly witness went to see her about
making a $1,000 loan. On that occasion she
didn't send for witness.
"What did she say at that time about the
settlement" quered Mr.. Hunsaker.
'She said she ought to have had $4,000
more"
wan vic tod hnr in, nxyfJ Joxyo
SHE CHASED AFTER HIM
"Yes sir: she called at my office and
asked if there was place where we could
talk privately. There was not and she
then asked me to call up at the hotel, as
she wanted TO see me. 1t was about II
o'clock that I called upon her. She first
told me she was about to get her ticket
and go away. l told her thought it
good idea; that as she and Mr. Creede had
decided they could not agree 1t was better
they should be separated. She then said
Mr.. Lamme had been up and wanted to
file suit right away, and that she had made
a contract with him. I asked If I might
see it. and she brought it out After read
ing it 1 asked her if she thought she could
recover anything; that l failed to see how
she could get anything without giving
back what she had got She asked me why,
and / told her that was common sense. /
asked if might copy the contract, and she
said no. that she didn't know what Lamme
would do.
"I next saw her on the 14th. She sent a
bell boy to me with note. in the forenoon
about 10 or II o'clock About twenty min
utes later I went to the hotel and again
met her. She said she wanted her goods
shipped to Florence. Ala. but didn't want
them shipped so that Lamme could know
where she was going. She asked me If
would mind stepping out and getting her
a box of cartridges, and 1 went over to
Tuft-Lyons and got box of SS-caliber.
U. S. brand, cartridges. She remarked that
old Creede was not going to live more than
100 years-or something of that kind-and
she reverted to the matter of the extra
$4,000 she ought to have had. l told her
would return about 2 o'clock and see
about shipping her goods. When I re-
turned at that time she had parrot in
a very large cage, and was sewing a heavy
piece of canvas to cover the cage, so that
peoples fingers might not suffer while the
bird was in transit. She was anxious how
to avoid Mr.. Lamme, and I told her
would get a carriage and meet her. She
said she didn't want Lamme to know she
was going, as he might attach any inter-
ests she had here. By the way" inter-
jected witness, "she told me on the 18th
that she had bought some bank stock and
she was frightened that it would be at
tached.
SHE HELD THE STOCK
"I advised her to transfer the stock to
some friend subject to her order She said
she didn't know anyone she would feel
easy about except myself. I told her
didn't want it if there was anyone else. but
If she transferred it to me would give her
full account of it,
'It was on the 14th she asked me how
she could get from under the Lamme con-
tract. and said that she was sick of the
whole thing. told her there was only one
way. in my opinion, and that would be to
write to Lamme and tell him to begin no
suit She gave me several sheets of paper
and said, You write it and I will sign it ,
One of the originals is in evidence. and two
others were made. She took one and I
took two. and one of these I delivered to
Mr.. Lamme next day"
What did you do with this copy?"
"I kept it until two or three days ago."
"When did you tell Mr.. Jones you had
this copy?'
81 think it was short time after got
it,"
"You knew he was Mr.. Creede's lawyer
and not Mrs. Creede's?"
II didn't know anything about the terms
of settlement. Mr.. Jones had evidently
met Mr.. Lamme, and the latter had told
him he had been done In speaking with
Mr.. Jones I told him didn't think Lamme
could do anything, and it was then he
asked If he might see my copy"
Witness went on to state that he had
done business for Mr.. Creede up to the
time of his death. The latter made point
of dropping into witness office every time
he was down town-almost every day.