The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-23
FOUND THE COURT GUILTY.
RECOMMENDED THE PLAINTIFF TO
THE MERCY OF THE LAW.


satiOnai TrinI-Case of Trueheart
vs.. Darlington viii BE Famous in
the Records.
Many people who wanted to listen to the
sensational suit for breach of promise last
night at he Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, were turned away. The. seating
and standing capacity of the haH and its
galleries were taken up very early in the
evening. When those who were fortunate
in securing places to sit or stand left they
did so declaring the trial the most inter
esting they had ever heard.
To say the disclosures were sensational
would be putting it mildly, for the young
! lady plaintiff and the racsally defendent,
as the plaintiffs attorneys styled him, had
some of their worst points aired The fair
plaintiff was accused openly of being adj
dicted to the use of boomers while heaps
of infamy were thrown on the head of the
| defendant because he belonged to the
band of Washers that is doing so much
to render bleak and desolate the hearts
of the young ladies of Savannah.
When Judge Pope Barrow took his seat
on the bench Sheriff John a. Willink call
ed the court to order The decorum was
at once pronounced. The judge glanced
about to see if he could not make few
dollars for the commonwealth by placing
a few fines for some sort of contempt, but
the iron hand with which he ruled seemed
to be anticipated, and nothing that might
be construed as contempt could be dis
covered.
The Jury was drawn and the following
twelve good men and true were selected
| to settle the case of Violet Trueheart VS..
Louis Loving Darlington, breach of prom
ise T. ]. Davis, foreman J. A. Varne-
doe, Z. w. Cubbedge, ]. F. Bevin, H. c.
Cooper ]. B. Goodman, Fulton Sauss9,
A. NJ. Lucas, Jr., NJ Hood, Archie Mar
melstein, Gordon saussy and H. Wiley
| Johnson.
Clerk of Court r. L. Coldng called
Violet Trueheart to give her statement of
the manner in which her young affections
were blighted by Louis Darlington This
| she did In a manner to bring tears to the
| eyes of her hearers. Adrot questions
were asked by the attorneys of the plain
| tiff, Messrs. F. M. Oliver and Edgar Dem
| mark, and those for the defendant,
I Messrs j. Ferris Cam and George w.
Beckett. Laughter was ELECTED by some
| of the interrogatories and the replies
! they brought forth from the plaintiff.
| Mr.. Shelly Baggett made a very presenta-
| bic lady as Miss Violet, the mellowing in
fluences of age being the only thing APP
parent to make her just a little bit less
attractive to masculine eyes.
After the plaintiff had left the stand,
! Cornelius Vanderbilt Prosperity, imperso-
mated by Mr.. Albert King, appeared for
her. He was followed by the grief-strick-
en- mother Mrs Dolores Trueheart of
Yamacraw-on-the-Can An affecting
scene was this. The fearful face of the
| sorrowing woman, Mr.. Holcombe Bacon,
I queered the defense, who saw a once that
the jury was likely to be influenced by
her grief. The defense wanted to make
the old lady testify TO a matter she re-
garded as strictly private and sacred
from the touch of the law. 1t was in
sisted that she divulge it, but she an
| swered that the court was mo court
martial and she didn't have to-"
W. V. Davis, darkey hack driver, got
in some amusing testimony in behalf Of
| the plaintiff. and brought forth several
| laughs by the humor of his answers to
the attorneys.
The general trend of the evidence ad-
duced by the plaintiff went to show that
Louis Darlington had met the fair Violet
out at the Red Dragon the first of last
May. She had ridden out as the testi-
mony of the driver showed with Mr..
! Prosperity. She shook him for CARING
ton, and came back with that delight of
a woman's heart on his tandem This
was rough on Prosperity, but it proved
worse, in the long run, for Darlington He
| got his foot into it deep when he made
| the trip, for he became involved In the
trouble that eliminated in the court room.
| Things went on at a great rate with the
twain untl Darlington went to call one
night. He had been giving Violet compli-
ments, but this time he gave her a box
of candy, fve-pounder. of Huyler's, too
| She wanted to know why he didn't blow
himself oftener. lie replied What do
you take me for?" For better or for
worse she answered, and that was the
way she accepted him. She did not allow
her face to become suffused in bushes and
! say: This is so sudden" She had work.
ed that before. and stlll was dragging cut
an existence of single blessedness.
Things moved along all right between
fiance and fiancee until she began 10 wear
] boomers. This was too much for the
| acute sensibilities, the well-developed
| aesceticism of Louis Loving to stand. He
threw up the sponge, and said he didn't
want to go to the finish. After that Car
rington married and the bleeding and for
] lorn heart of Violet demanded money as
balm to heal its breach.
\
| Purse appeared as witnesses for the de-
| PENDANT, and Darlington himself finally
| took the stand TO make his statement. The
I attorneys then took up their arguments
and make things warm for a time. The
leading counsel caught the spectators with
| humor pathos and eloquence. First the
audience was plunged in grief and indig-
nation for the wrongs of Violet and then
the attorneys for Darlington got in their
work and made him appear more sinned
| against than SHINING.
After all the evidence was in, Judge
Barrow eloquently. though briefly, charged
the jurors, telling them they were to con-
slider the case on its dement's; that if they
| put any confidence in what the Witnesses
| for the plaintiff said they would incline to
| the defendant; if they put any confidence
| In what the witnesses for the defendant
said they would incline to the plaitiff il
| they put any confidence in what the at
! torneys for one side said they would be
| inclning 10 the other. Mixed up on this
| the jury retired to deliberate and came
back in few moments. The foreman
! handed the verdict over 10 the clerk, who
read: I'VE, the jury, find the court guilty
/ M rarop1nend fba r,laintiff 10 tbo r,nr1,,