Evening journal., 1898-02-25

never saw any improper relations be-
tween Williamson and my mother
never saw him make love TO her.
Here the boy began crying again.
Mr.. Cooper asked him If he believed
that his mother would have improper
relations with any other man.
Mr.. Ponder objected, saying that II
was the province OF the jury to deter
mine that from the evidence adduced.
The objection was sustained.
ct was after the divorce was grant
ed that Williamson reprimanded me
for swearing before my mother, said
the boy. 81 was AT fault in the mat
ter. II was only once that ! saw her
out riding with Williamson on her BIZ
cvcle. That was before the divorce
and two or three wears after father and
mother had separated They were rid
ing up King street at $50 O'Clock.
saw them out walking together on
Market street one night and once Will
hanson took her and sister out TO call
on Mrs Appleby Whether mother
was nursing for Mrs. Appleby l can't
say.
"The ring was broken up last week
in our house on Fourteenth street.
my mother paid the rent out OF
money earned by my mother and my
i self. | went TO work on January 3,
/ 1894. and have been working steadily
ever since at Dr. McKay's, and at J. q
]. N. Harmans. l was. prior to the
divorce, making 81 a week at DR.. Nc
| Kay's. and since / have been at Har-
! mans / have been receiving SO a
| week"
SHORT KNEW BUT LITTLE.
United States Marshal John Cannon
Short was sworn. He said he had
known Prettyman for forty years, but
never knew Mrs. Prettyman person.
ally. He knew nothing about the per-
sonal relations Of the couple.
SAW WILLIAMSON THERE.
| Ambrose McVey. millwright, who
had a room at Prettyman's when they
lived at No. S27 and No. S26 Orange
street four or Ave years ago, was
| sworn. He never took meals there
"I saw Williamson around No. S27 q
few times and at No S26 quite fire.
| uently, mostly in the daytime Once
went for my horse blankets at IL
o'clock in the morning. Williamson
was sitting in the dining-room. Or
he opposite side Of the sewing ma
chine sat Mrs. Prettyman. They wer,
| lust sitting there. don't tmnl
there were any children around
IL have seen him there whel
Prettvman and the children wer
! | at home. I never saw anything i'm
uroper in the conduct OF Mrs. Pretty
: | man and Williamson"
: william Steward HOptOn was swOrr
"I know Mr.. Prettyman," he said, "an
. | also Mrs. Prettyman and Williamson
Nv place OF business Is at No. SOl Oi
1 ange street. From March, 1888, {
1 Nav. 1894. | saw Williamson visitin
i / Prettymans house several times
7 / weelx-sOmetime six times week.
\ | was in the daytime-never at nigh
Sometimes his manner was as II \
{, was watching for someone before &
: ing in Prettymans house. If he sa
= the someone he would not go in.
/ not. he would. / don't know what
| was going there for.
~ Charles Melchoir testified that
lived al No. 1926 Orange street and hs
/. lived there for eighteen years. /
y knew williamson, and when the Pre-
= svmans lived near him he saw WI
4 hanson go to Mrs. Prettyman's hous
. 4e went there pretty often--near
= every night. Witness would see hi
m from his front step or parlor windo'
/. lie did not see him leave the hous
y What year 1t was he could not tell.
Ida Perry. short. stout, color'
woman, living at No. S2S Oranl
No street for the past eighteen years, WI
~ he next witness. She said she sa
~ Williamson around No. S26 Oranl
- ,treet when the Prettymans liv'
sr here. Sometimes she saw him IN q
morning and sometimes in the afte
noon. His visits were irregular in the
~ duration and she saw them I
:. I yether in the dining-room. She new
he saw Williamson upstairs.
ed Mr.. Hayes asked her II she saw
ve | nan close the shutters upstairs snol
.r- " after Williamson went in the hou'
% Mr.. Cooper objected, but Mr.. HAY
\, | worked in an affirmative answer wh
lg l ,he objection was pending.
81 The court said that Mr.. Hayes Wor
ni have to show a closer connection TN
IN the mere fact that Williamson went
A / the house and that shortly atuerWal
We man closed the shutters upstairs
81 Witness said she had seen Willia
- son leave the house by the front dc
40 1 inst as Prettyman went in the all
Il 0Ilt rdW Nllrs AAhtf man
he / husbands clothes out the windo
ON Prettyman was out in the yard wh
IN Ihey were thrown out. She never s.
90 Prettyman and Williamson talking
m gether. She knew nothing about M
Prettyman doing domestic worR
ara | Williamson's mother.
Of Albert b. Crossgrove, Of No. S24
ange street, was sworn. He said
knew the parties to the suit He 8
,,d Williamson frequent No. S26 when
,a4 Prettymans lived there. He had 81
M Williamson walk out Of his own ho
,en and straight across 70 Prettymai
~ He Seemed to make no bones about
led Edith Dillahayi an aged colored
man. whose home is at No. S26 Oral
.ho street. said that often she saw v
5iS Hanson going in and out Of Pret
mans house Sometimes he went
,bs the front door, but oftener she {
Il, him 90 in the alley, because the al
~ gates were together. Prettyman :
- - lway at work. She had seen him
nc | ting in tho dining-roOm and kite
~ - and had also seen him in the yard
Court adjourned until 10 o'clock