The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-28
HIS STORY OF MRS. GoODIN's INFAT-
UATION FOR HIM.
Mrs. Kline, Who Threw the Acid,
Will Be Put on the Stand
To-day.

throwing ac1Q III ner race. van 4NutId WdS
on the witness stand for three hours and a
considerable part of this time was taken
up by Attorney John S. Duncan in the
cross-examination of the witness. Mr.. Dun
can took the witness at o'clock in the
afternoon and kept him in the ''sweatbox"
until nearly o'clock. Van Malta had con-
siderable trouble about recalling dates and
some times he was bothered about the par
ticular time of the year when his interest
ing interviews with Mrs. Goodin took place.
He did not remember whether 1T was In
October or May when certain incident oc-
CURED. Mr.. Duncan had before him the
voluminous Police Court record Of the
Goodin case, and he referred to it often.
do you mean to tell me. SIR" the attor-
ney would say, that you did not testify to
this in Police Court?" Then the attorney
would read two or three pertinent SEN
fences. All the time Van Malta was on the
witness stand the accused woman kept her
snappy black eyes on him. The witness,
however, seldom directed his glance over
her way. The plan of the defense yesterday
was to show that Van Malta at one time
was fond of Mrs. Goodin or, at least, was
making her believe he liked her. Mr.. Dun
can referred to an incident in which a
WATCH CudliA-dn dll0Seu gill AlOhi NoAA
Malta to Mrs. Goodirl-fgured According
to the attorney. Van Malta asked Mrs.
Goodin's daughter how she liked the chain
he had given her mother. He said he gave
it to her because she was a good girl"
Mrs. Goodin was present, and jokingly re-
marked: Eyes, I'm great GIRL amt I?''
well, you are my girl, anyhow" Van
Malta is alleged to have said. Asked If this
,of1 AL xxr{fn d.
MED all knowledge of it.
BREACH OF PROMISE THREATENED.
On another occasion, Van Malta, in a con-
versation with Mrs Goodn's daughter. is
alleged to have said: Bessie, how would
you like to have me for stepfather?" He
denied that he ever said this Van Malta
related the circumstances under which he
left the Empire Block and how he was
afterward embarrassed by the "atten-
tions'' of Mrs. Goodin. He told how she
came to his stable one day and said to him:
'If you don't come back to the block. 1 will
sue you for breach of promise" He replied
to her: go and tell your troubles to po-
liceman, or the court" He said she also
threatened to bring paternity proceedings
against him If he refused to come back
Mr.. Duncan asked the witness if, in 1897,
during the state fair he did not ask Mrs
Goodin to go out to the fair with him, and
tnaL Sne SAID she would not go. he Inen
said to her: I'll never ask you to go any
where again." She replied: Il never want
you to ask me to go anywhere with you"
The witness declared that no such CONVEX
sation was ever held between them.
During the direct examination by the
state. Van Malta identified two notes that
after he left the rooms in the Empire block.
These notes were admitted as evidence. One
of them read s1some down and let us have
our affair settled one way or the other. 1t
will only take me ten minutes to say what
have to say" The other note was as fol-
lows: please come in this evening at 7:30.
people have gone to Toledo preparatory to
moving, so I will soon be alone" Both notes
were addressed to Mr.. Van Malta" and
bore the signature respectfully Mrs. Good
in The witness, at the request of the
states attorney, told about Mrs. Goooin
coming to his room in the Empire block to
talk business" she said one of her form
er husbands" had been, ged in the livery
business and she thought she would like to
invest some money in the same. line. She
expressed a desire to become silent part
ner with him. She feared her son-in-law
would get her money and gamble 1t away.
Van Malta said he purchased his partners
interest in 1896, and informed Mrs. Goodin
of the vacancy. She told him she had loaned
her money, but would have control of 1t
again in February The witness said their
asked him If he ever let out rigs to
ladies. When he replied that he did, she re-
marked this would have to be stopped when
on this occasion: You can't take any more
ladies for a drive except me-" When he
business transaction a "love affair" she
said she did He then remarked: This deal
is Off" Van Malta, in his testimony, cor
roborated in the main the assertions made
by Prosecutor Wiltsie in his opening state
ment Monday. as to what the state would
show concerning the relations of the wit
ness and Mrs Goodin.
Van Malta admitted that he took Mrs.
Goodin to the theater once. They went to
see "A Temperance Town" at Englshs S.
This. he said was at the request of Mrs.
drive on one or two occasions. Mrs. Goodin
always paid for the horse and buggy. After
Van Malta left the Empire block, he went
There he met DR.. Aimee Haskinson.
THE NEW YORK-STREET PLOT.
States Attorney Wiltsie. in his statement
to the jury on Monday, gave the sensational
details of an alleged plot on the part of
Mrs. Goodin and Mrs. Lulu Kline to assas-
sinate Dr. Haskinson in house at 217 West
New York street. The plot miscarried the
prosecutor asserted, because Mrs. Kline, at
the last moment, declined to be a party to it.
Yesterday Mrs Mary Wright, who lives in
the New York-street house, was called to
the witness stand to tell of her experience
with the two women. The prosecutors as
sertion. as far as Mrs. Wright had knowl-
witness. She told OF the visit the women
made to her house on Friday afternoon,
May IL, to rent room for their mother
and OF how two women returned later in the
evening-one of them old and feeble. They
did not want to be disturbed the next morn
ing, and she waited until 4 o'clock In the
afternoon before she went to call them.
There was no one in the room when she
opened the door Mrs. Wright said that on
the evening the old mother" came to take
the room she did not recognize Mrs. Goodin,
but few days later when she saw the ac-
cused In Police Court she concluded it was
the same face, although the mother" was
disguised with white wig and wore spec
tacles. Mrs. Wright said. however. that she
Richard Kinklin, an East Washington
street wig maker, was called to the witness
stand. From a box Mr.. Wiltse took a
white wig and showed it to the witness, who
identified it as one he had rented Mrs. Lulu
by Mrs. Goodin in Disgusting herself as an
old woman: Mr.. Kinkln said the wig was
rented at his establishment by woman
who gave the name of Clara Scott. but
He prepared the wig at the request OF
CLARA Scott" The woman paid him 90
cents for the use of il, and returned ii on
the day after she took it away.
To further back up the states charge OF
plot to take the life of DR.. Haskinson in the
that Mrs. Kline and Mrs. Goodin were seek
ing a room on West New York street on
Friday, May IL, the state brought out the
testimony of Mrs. Eva Watterson. seam
stress, living at No 231s West New York
street. On the date above mentioned Mrs.
lived at No. 223 West New York
street. On the Friday testified TO by Mrs.
Wright the witness went to her door and
met two women who were DESTROYS of rent
ing a ROOM They told her they were from
rt md trya,-e hor. on t1c ho