The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-08

in style as the word Hickey on the
envelope
E. w. Holman, an elderly gentleman,
called by Mr.. Bell In rebuttal, testified
that he came to st. Paul in 1857, and
went to Traverse county in 1880, and
had known Mrs. MintZer since 1857. IN
1890, he came down to the state fair,
and got hard-up." He hunted two
days for her, to get a settlement with
her, for she owed him money. He had
found her, and asked for money, and
she said she had none. She said she
was going to be married to a man
named Waters, an ex-policeman. He
had said that she was an old fool now,
and she would be bigger one, if she
got married. She had said that the
man she was going to marry was
nice man, and dressed we'll He had
also had a conversation with her at the
time Of the Grand Army encampment,
in 1895. He had been hunting for her,
and met her on the street. He told her
he wanted some money, and she had
given him $40. He had asked her about
the man she had intended to marry,
and she had said that he was a bad
stick and no good, and that she was
going to get rid Of him. That he had
already cost her $1,000.
The witness, under -eXamina-
ton, said he had talked about the mat
ter in an Isabel street saloon and yes
to-day had talked to William Thomp-
son.
That closed the testimony.
Mr.. Bell proceeded to make his ad
dress. The question before the court
was whether this order to show cause
should be discharged, and the matter
sent to final accounting. No appeal
should be allowed from the decision
here, but should rather be permitted on
the final accounting. The marriage
certificate stood as presumptive evil
dence of the marriage and must be
overthrown by the other side The GER
tificate had credit on it's face. It had
taken microscopes and magnifying
glasses and almost telescopes to detect
evidence of forgery. He was not able
to find the indications of forgery and
he doubted if the court could do so.
The fact that a certificate blank was
not used was a point in favor OF Mr..
Waters. Had Waters proposed for
gerry would it not have been natural
to use blank At the time Waters
called on Father Thomas the certificate
was in the hands of Mr.. officer and
contained all the signatures. Waters
had called on Father Thomas to look
al the records. His call was in evi-
dence Of his sincerity. If the marriage
certificate was to be sunk to the bot
tom of the sea, what even then was
Browning, Germond, Burgess and Hol-
man? The marriage certificate comes
in as a corroboration of this testimony.
Sanford and Capehart testified that
this was the handwriting Of Burgess.
Mr.. O'Brien, addressing the court,
said he was astonished at the light
ness with which counsel brushed aside
the question Of forgery. He had not
presented one argument to show this
valid instrument. fit was claimed
that this is valid certificate, then 1t
must be concluded that Justice Bur
CESS has twice committed a crime
once in not recording the marriage on
his docket, and again in failing to make
his return. Waters story was SO i'm
probable, inconsistent and contradic-
tory that his own counsel had nothing
to say for him. His story was so in
coherent that it was not believed by
anybody, not even by his own counsel
The only explanation was that he is
so old and broken that he could not
distinguish truth from falsehood, or
right from wrong. 1t did not appear
what assistance this wicked old man
had But it should be examined before
another tribunal.