The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-27
Her VOICE DEMANDS A REST
MRS. STOCKING COMPELLED TO
LEAVE THE STAND

Part of the Time Occupied Yester-
day I'm Reading the ARectionate
Letters Written by Mr.. Stocking
to the Defendant - Amdavits
From Physicians Who Treated
Her During Her Trouble.
The direct examination Of the de-
PENDANT in the divorce case Of Hobart
M. Stocking against Blanche Clare
Stocking was still unfinished when
court adjourned yesterday afternoon
and Mrs Stocking had been the only
witness called to testify since Wednes-
day morning, although she was excused
from the stand for several hours yes
terday, owing to the fact that the con-
tinual talking had caused her voice to
give way. and when she finally left
the stand she was barely able to make
herself heard
The excusing of Mrs. Stocking from
the stand made necessary a change in
the programme Of her attorneys, and
the greater part Of the day was taken
up in reading letters and affidavits the
latter from physicians that had treated
Mrs. Stocking for the malady referred
to by her in her answer to Mr.. Stock
IIlS . COlilpldIIlt dIlO LeSIlIl6Q about On
Wednesday. The letters and affldavits
were all Of sensational character.
Late yesterday afternoon, Mrs.
Stocking informed her attorneys that
she believed that she was able to take
the witness stand again and she was
called to identify several letters that
had been written to her by her hus-
band. In answer to questions she said
that her husband, after she had left
him. had written her a great many
letters asking her to return to him.
She was asked if he had done any
thing else in his endeavors to have her
resume her place by his side, and she
SAID that he had. but Mr.. Stockings
attorneys objected to her going into
details, and were sustained by the
court, although they admitted that
possibly Mr.. Stocking had tried to in
duce his wife to return to him by other
means than writing her letters.
Mrs. Stocking said that at one time
after she had left Mr. Stocking he had
come to see her and had remained
with her four hours. He had brought
with him certificate of his good
health, and, after exhibiting it, mad
told her that he had entirely recovered
from his sickness and begged her to re-
turn to him.
of his health" said Mrs. Stocking,
and he told me at that time that ne
had not told me the truth about him
self, that he never had pyrae, but had
been salivated when he married me. I
told him that l could not understand
why he had not told me the truth at
the start, but his only answer was that
he had fully recovered and that he
would get certificate from a dentist
if l wanted it. I told him that it was
useless, for 1 would never return to
him. He begged me to allow him an
otner interview, and I told him that he
might see me again if he desired, but
anat the visit would simply result in
another painful converse ton, as I had
determined not to go back to him.
When Mrs. Stocking had finished tell
ing of that interview with her hus
oand she was called on to identify a
letter that had been written to her by
Mr.. Stocking while he was in Eau
Claire and shortly after she had left
him.
In the letter Mr. Stocking upbraided
himself for censuring his wife about
ner habits. An extract from the letter
was as follows: What could saw
about your habits. You are as pure q =
the driven snow. A mans life would
not be safe in my presence if he were
10 even intimate that you were any
thing but the purest of women. I know
you to be the most virtuous and chaste
all its forms''
An effort was made by the ATTORNEYS
Tor mrs. Stocking to introduce a num-
Der OF letters in evidence that had been
written to Mrs. Stocking by her hus-
band after she had announced her in
tention of never returning to him. Mr..
Stockings attorneys objected to admit
ting the letters, for the reason that
they were immaterial and they were
SucceCSf1JI I'M fo1r -
ters out, but Attorney Tighe was al
lowed to Introduce number of them.
ana was reading them to the court
When the time for adjournment came.
During the early part of the morning
session Mrs. Stocking was taken over
the ground touching the malady that
she alleges she contracted from her
husband and was called on to identify
a letter that she had received from Mr..
Stocking in answer to a number that
she mad written him in regard to her
health, and in which she had told him
OF her serious Illness She had told
MIN that she had not dreamed of the
existence of the disease until after con-
SITUATIONS with several physicians. She
had told him that she feared that he
mao communicated to her the peculiar
dsease In his mouth and had reproach-
ed MIN. He had then written her the
letter which she was called on to iden-
THY, in which he told her that his first
impression of his own trouble had been
wrong. His dentist had told him that
the trouble was only local and that he
mad been cured by three local treat
ments and that he thought her physi-
c'ans must be mistaken and that the
trouble with her mouth must be some
thing else, as he was sure that she had
not peen kissing any other man. He
toid OF his love for her and enclosed
her a check for 500, and then upbraid-
ca her for remaining away from him.
he said that he had made every effort
to control himself, but had, in spite of
hlmseif, become very angry at her.
MRS. stocking had been called on to
read parts Of the letter, but before it
was dropped she was excused from the
witness stand on account of her failin o.
voice.
While Mrs. Stocking was absent from
| the stand. the affidavits of her physi-
clans We're introduced in evidence and
read.
The first was the deposition of DR..
Henry c. Allen, of Chicago, who had
treated Mrs. Stocking. A part of the
deposition was most sensational in
character
1t developed that Attorney J. D.
O'Brien had been present at the taking
of the deposition of DIR. Allen, and had
questioned him closely on behalf of
Mr.. Stocking.
The defendant also introduced the
deposition of DR.. c. R. Butler, of Cleve-
land, taken in April 1893. DR.. Butler
had been the family dentist in Mrs.
| Stockings family. His deposition
stated that he had been familiar with
the general condition Of Mrs. Stocking
prior to her marriage, and that her
health had been very good. A year
| after her marriage, Mrs. Stocking had
called on him, and he had examined
| her mouth and had bean S1lrraricad and