Arizona republican., 1899-12-21

| desired to allay apprehension in this territory on account of his absence from home, and recognizing The Re publican as a newspaper of general circulation, forwarded those New Eng land papers to this office in the hope that that part of their contents in tended to relieve uneasiness regarding MT. Hull might be reproduced.
 The essence of the story is con- tained in the following from the Prov idence Evening Telegram of December | 6, describing what is suspected to be a design upon the judicial system of the state of Rhode Island:
 "A daring attempt to work the Rhode Island supreme court for the purpose of dissolving a matrimonial compact was brought to publicity in a hearing which took place before Judge Stiness in the appellate division today. About two weeks or so ago George w. Hull of Arizona filed petition for Q divorce from Margaret J. Hull. He is Q multi-millionaire and owns twenty or more large and profitable mining plants in Arizona, including the big United Verde Extension Gold, Silver and Copper Mining company, the Mus eel mining claims and other equally well known enterprises, from which he is said to derive an immense revenue.
 Mrs. Hull was living in SomervilIe, Mass, at the time. A citation was served on her. The person who served it simply held the paper, with the top turned over, so that she saw only the bottom part. Luckily, however, her eye caught the name of Matteson. C. E. MattesOn,' she thought it read. In the meantime her counsel, Robert Cushman and Hayes Lougee of Boston, had telegraphed and written from Maine to California in an effort to find out at which place a, petition for di- vorce might have been filed. Hull had threatened a resort to divorce proceed ings, and when he suddenly disap- peared and failed to return for a num- Der S days she grew suspicious and engaged the attorneys to take up the matter.
 She told Mir. Cushman about the name of Matteson. He is a Rhode island boy, and it occurred to him at once nat Hon. Charles Matteson was tar chief justice of the supreme court of tAis stare. EutunS two and two to- ee-her it was surmissd q that the court here held the secret. The telephone vas called into service and communi- cation established with Archibald c. 1tatteson, Esq, of Providence. The latter moved with characteristic promptitude. He learned that a peti- tion had been filed in the appellate di- vision. He was authorized to enter an appearance for Mrs. Hull. Following up his discovery, he ran upon an en- velope containing a deposition. As he or the Boston counsel had received no intimatiOn of an intention to take depo- sitiOns and the shortness of the time within which it had been filed after the filing of the petition seemed remark able, he repaired to one of the judges of the appellate bench and submitted the facts. The envelope was ripped open and the deposition extracted. With it was the citation for taking dispositions, very unusual circum- stance, as citations go with the papers in the case and not with the deposi- tions, which are sealed up as soon as taken.
 Tn the deposition a still more curi- ous discovery was made. It was HulI's deliberate assertion that he had been a domiciled inhabitant of the state of Rhode Island for at least a year. As NIT. Matteson's information was that Hull had been in Rhode Island only long enough to pass from one border to the other in a train, the declaration of residence struck him as queer, and he resolved to watch the case constant ly lest something else out of the com mon turn up. Hull in the meantime ascertaining that a contest was brew ing, and that able counsel had been re- tained to make matters warm for him, became alarmed and directed his at torney to move for a discontinuance. It was the motion for a discontinuance which was before the court today
 ''The extraordinary conditions at tending the case were outlined to Judge Stiness, and a claim advanced that before Hull be permitted to back down completely he be required to pay the expenses his wife had incurred in getting ready for the impending con- fict, something like $1,10O. These ex- penses were for medical attention. the services of nurse and the charges of the attorneys named and others who had been consulted at different points in the first endeavor to locate the base
 
 force the man to stand the cost of his wife's preparations would be only fair, since it was his own act that had obliged her to take such steps. It was stated that he was a man of vast means, who was perfectly able to pay the amount submitted.
 The fact that Hull had been sued in Boston for damages of $500, 900. which amount had subsequently, been reduced to S125.0O0, was cited as one evidence of his financial condition. One of Mrs HulIs counsel characterized HuITs proceedings as crooked Counsel for Hull thought that the amount claimed might be excessive, though he was willing to leave it to the court For Mrs. Hull the statement was made that undoubtedly counsel for the man was ignorant of any scheme to hood wink the court by a false representa- tiOn of facts. and acted in good faith.
 Judge Stiness said that in his mind there was some question as to the