The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
NEVILLS AND A BUNCH OF
 LETTERS New Disclosures in the AZhdaerOn Im- prisonment. A Woman, a Too Facile Pen and a Hold
 Up. Sensational Evidence Expected in the Two Fresno
 Suits. MRS. WILLIAMS A FIGURE. Lawyers Tell Tale That Savors Somewhat of Scan
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MRS. WILLIAMS A FIGURE.
Lawyers Tell Tale That Savers Somewhat of Scan
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 of the Azhdaerons by Capitalist Will liam A. Nevills in the Palace Hotel during the last week of March has yet to be told. It wi be remembered that two suits were filed in Fresno by John E. Azhdaeron against William A. New ills for false imprisonment and personal violence inflicted upon Azhdaeron while held in confinement in the capi- talist's rooms at the Palace.
 Various explanations have been given for the reason of the detention of the plaintiff in the case-some fantastic and colored as the rainbow others garish in their unrelieved vanality As the suit proceeds sensations are expected to develop which will draw aside the cur tain of mystery and unfold to the pub lie eye the old drama with it's ancient settings and its typical situations
 The lawyers are now at work hunt ing evidence. and due to their subtle designs new testimony has been discov- cred which they claim will be used for all it is worth. On Thursday two women left this city for Fresno and it is one of these who will cause all the trouble. She is a young woman with beauty of face and figure. Her name is Mrs. E. Williams, and if that bel IulIIOI, dllQ lHe dSSeTllOHS OI more trustworthy people be an ap prcximation of the truth, Captain Will liam A. Nevills was an ardent admirer of her charms and beauty. In Fresno they first met, and the prepossessing qualities of the young and dashing woman bewitched the captain. Not very long ago Mrs. Williams came to San Francisco, and here the interest of the captain for her not only did not Cr0 the increase
 Whether it was the desire to tear her sister away from the wiles, of Captain Nevills or merely to bring her to Fres- no, where she might testify for the 1 AZhdaeron side In the present suits is | not known, but certain it is that Mrs. | Williams has thrown off the cloak of intimacy with Nevills and returned to 1 Fresno.
 The story of the attorney of the Azh- daerons and that which he says will be brought out on the stand is totally diff ferent from what has been already told. The interview between Nevi!ls and John AZhdaeron in the Palace, in which after barring all exits the former as- stunned minatory attitudes full of sound and fury, was not for the purpose Of looking over ancient contracts, but as the lawyers will have it, to recover a bundle of letters written by Nevills to Mrs. Williams. This is the sensa-
 
 the killing stroke relied on.
 When Nevills sent his polite invita- tion to Azhdaeron to call upon him at the Palace he also attached a post criptum to bring these letters which were, as Nevills supposed, in the cus tody of John AZhdaeron. How these boomerang missives came in the pos sion of John Azhdaeron the lawyers eX- plain with readiness.
 Mrs. Williams and Nevills did not eke out the smoothest kind of exist ence even in the early part of their re- lations. An arrangement sprung up, and at this time the thought of using what letters she had for financial re- imbursement is said to have entered the head of Nevills' inamorata.
 An open rupture was, however, avoided but with instinctive alarm the letters were consigned to the care of Azhdaeron, then foreman of one of Nevills extensive vineyards. These letters are now said to be in the keep ing of Azhdaeron's attorney, w. D. Grady. Some of the letters that came trippingly off the pen of the wealthy ranch and mine owner were delivered to him in consummation of the first compromise consequent upon the initial breach of amicabie relations between the two. But Azhdaerons attorneys claim that many still remain. unstained and untouched by t. whitening flame show just why Nevills pl nned the recover them and that $75000 damages have resulted from that little episode, of which Detective Curtin was an eye wi