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| agreement between them that the girl
should occupy her room when she was
the sickness of the girls, but admitted
! that she always took the meals and medi-
| cine to the girls by his own order, Her
| husband. she said, made 100000 q year:
How do you arrive at that igure?".
Because he told me he made $50 a
day" ana
interviews to local calling
your husband names 1t seriously afrected
| your husbands business?" asked Mr.. Cor
bin, who offered a clipping from OF
the papers.
DON'T you think interrupted the Vice
Chancellor, .that these interviews would
| seriously injure his business?" but witness
aHe always supported your asked Mr..
Cozbia
Didn't the doctor give you carte
blanche at Brown & Van Anglens store?"
mo, he went there and stopped me or
dering things there"
is it rot a fact that you preferred 70
| go. to New York stores2'
mo, indeed"
Mrs. Baunlann said that she had bills
| with Brown & Var Anglen's and a Few
| stores in New York, but the doctor RAISED
a row with the stores and she was
obliged to nay cash.
AT this point Mrs. Baumann's counsel
put in evidence a copy of her reply to the
doctors invitation to come and live with
her at No..T2 Wayne street. and the let
ter said that the writer could not come
because of the cruel treatment she had
experienced at his hands.
Counselor Corbin said that his client
had never seen the letter. Mrs;
got a receipt for it. The original was
burned, She SAID, by the doctors boy. This
closed Mrs IBaumann's examination.
Mary BjornSen was next called: Sne
was a servant with Mrs. in the
Fifth street house. She saw the doctor in
the house daily, but he never took his
meals there, and only slept once. He was
| always auarreling with his wife.
Miss Margaret Wildwood, cousin OF Mrs;
Baumann. came next, and she, SAID tnal
! doctor came in and used filthy language
to his wife about their child. She, Mrs:
BaumanIl, would speak to the doctor, but
he wouldni answer.
Joseph Wildwood, whose wife was q
sister of Mrs. Baumann's father, said
that one day he called at the house on
the door. She was weeping, The doc
tor said, why she is drunk
WAS she drunk2 asked Counselor
Never, sir. and 1 have known her since,
she was a little girl" emphatically re-
piled the witness.
-Did you tell that to the doctor?' asked
the lawyer.
Mrs. Moore. of No. 23s Newark avenue.
| said that she had worked for the doctor
and his wife and the doctors conduct, she
said, wasn't nice. He called his wife
names, she said, and was always quarrel
ing with her.
Hugh Miller. a canny, cautious Scottie,
an old friend of Mrs. Baumann, came
next.
Il knew her" he said, from the night
which she was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES |
wuz at the house when the doctor went
across the road in Wayne street, and he
said: iEf you want to come over you'll pc
after bringing your w bed and you can't
eat at the same table with me- and that's
what he said to his wife, and he wanted
to take the mirrors and he wanted to
smash them because he couldn't get his
own lamp, and - =
He was in a bad humor them" inter-
posed the Vice Chancellor, amused at the
volubility of the witness.
"He wuz, sur; he WIZ"
you called on Mrs Baumann when she
en- cross-examination.
AAnd she Frank beer with your"
"No, she didn't"
"Who paid for it,"
me" replied the witness, jingling his
money in his pocket.
Mrs. Jane Caldwell of Millerten, Dutch.
ess county, New York. and mother of
Mrs. Baumarn, when called to the stand
wrenched the Bible out of Sergeant-at-
Arms Haggerty's hand. gave it a loud
smack when she was asked if she would
| swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
81 called upon them" said Mrs. Cald--
we'll, when / heard of the trouble, and
the doctor told me she was drunk, and !
told him that it was not so, and l told
him that if they PARTED my daughter
could come home to me, and I hard the
worst row between them that l ever
baird in ma life
Mrs. Caldwell here gave some testi-
about DR.. sending a filthy
liquor in a crock to the country instead
of whiskey which he promised to send.
DID you ever see your daughter drunk !"
asked Mr.. Garretson.
Never, sir" /.
You nave seen her take a glass of
beer?'
ION aye. of course repeated the wit
ness shaking her head reproachfully at
her son-in-law.
"Di the doctor tell you to put tartar
emetic in her beer to nauseate her?'
asked Mr.. Corbin.
HE told me to put stuff in it. and he
told me that he could have killed her
many a time. and I told him that if he
did he would get a position along with
DIR. Buchanan Mrs. Caldwell, and her
testimony closed the plaintiffs case.
DR.. Baumann, a few mute before re-
cess, was called to the stand a~ndsexamin-
ed by Mr.. w. H. Corbin. said that his
wife had acquired a strong taste for in
toxicating liquors.