Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-17
A GOOD Day FOR STATHERS.
Continued from First Page,

consisting white sailor hat and light
travelling suit, trimmed in red.
Miss Green's story that she and her
sister left ON the east bound train for
| Washington, where they spent ten days
| together
| In her answers under cross-examina-
ton she gave a detailed account and
description of points and objects of in
terest coming under her observations
at the National Capitol. She was only
confused slightly in telling of her visit
| to Arlington Heights, but Prosecutor
Foster could not make her contradict
! herself in even the slightest detail.
Her memory was very poor as to
| some letters. however. She could not
describe the location of her boarding
| house or give the full name of her
| landlady Nor could she name a sin
| gle person whom she met in Washing
! ton. She testified that the ticket upon
| which she travelled was mileage book
mailed to her by her sister, Georgia,
at the time when Georgia was uncer-
| tain as to whether she could accom-
pany her.
Miss Green denied that she had ever
| signed her name Maud Stathers She
admitted that DR.. Stathers visited her
twice at her boarding house in Parkers-
| burg, while she was sick, and had sent
] in the city She admitted taking a
| drive there with DR.. Stathers. but her
| sister Georgia
| ACCOMPANIED THEM,
and they returned before ten o'clock.
| She denied writing letter to her sis
| ter, in which she said she had a good
time in ST. Louis; denied telling Robert
Carothers, hospital stenographer, that
she wrote such letter; denied that she
| told DR.. Snyder she had been to st.
| Louis with DR.. Stathers, or that she
| told him that the stories concerning
| herself and Dr. Stathers were true, and
| that "the half had not been told"
She did not remember saying she
was to get a position as stenographer
at the hospital when her education was
completed. She had not been requested
| to leave school on account of the
Stathers affair. She admitted placing
mistletoe over the door of the chapel,
and kissing DR.. Snyder after he passed
under it, but it was done in a spirit
of jest" and she denied that DR..
| Stathers told her the incident had
spoiled his happiness for the day"
| The introduction of DR.. James r.
Stathers was surprise for the prose-
cution. He testified that he reached
! Grafton on his way from Sistersville
to Weston and met his father, who was
| starting for st. Louis. He thought it
was May 6, 1898. He occupied a por-
ton of lower berth in sleeper as
! far as Parkersburg. There was no
| lady with his father.
When Miss George Green, sister of
Miss Harriet, went on the stand, the
purpose of the many apparently irrel-
evant questions by Mr.. Foster became
apparent. He took her over all the
evidence given by her sister with ref
erence to the Washington trip and Miss
George corroborated it, even down to
the slightest detail, giving more sat
isfactory description of several objects
of interest, but like her sister, failing
to remember many things.
I From the testimony of the Green sis
tiers it was very evident that they
HAD BEEN IN WASHINGTON
| together. as their accurate knowledge
could not have been obtained from a
! handbook guide.
1t is understood. however, that the
| prosecution will endeavor to show by
evidence in rebuttal, that the trip was
not taken in the early part of May,
] 1898.
| The cross-examination of Miss Geor-
gle Green was not concluded when the
board adjourned.
| 1t is now believed that two or three
more days will conclude the inyestiga-
| ton.
| The only evidence from the st. Louis
end that the prosecution has in connec-
ton with the alleged trip of DR.. Stath-
ers and Miss Green to that city. is a
letter to r. Ad. Hall from Edward C.
Runge. superintendent of the insane
hospital in that city, stating that he
| thought DR.. Stathers was accompanied
| by lady.
| The prosecution will insist when the
examination of witnesses is finished
| that the board subpoena Supt. Runge
at the expense of the State.
Harriet Green is very indignant con-
corning the charge in a Parkersburg
paper. by Morris Smith, nephew OF Dr..
/ Stathers. that she stole from his room
the letters from Mrs. Mary Sommer-
vile, which have been offered In evil
dence. She claims Smith has never
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