Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-08

tfty, but that is all over; come back
to US. and all will be forgiven!'
I say man who would bring this
sort of law suit against his own
father and mother cant be q sane
man. Sane men don't do tnat sor. u
thing. He may have suffered, but
money will not restore his reputation,
if impaired-but all he wants is
money, and to get it he brought this
suit.
exhibiting letter. 81 submit to
you that this letter contains the gross
est indecency and lewdness of which
the human mind is capable. Those
who prepare obscene literature for the
depraved never conceived anything as
vile as that, and yet it is addressed
to his dear mother And the OBJ
scenity is coupled in the next sentence
with a reference to the Scriptures!
Here is the strongest evidence of IN
sanity-mother, the Bible, and the
grossest indecency coupled in one let
ter and sent to his mother-it was
even crime to send it through the
mails.
81 ask you to recall his manner
when that letter was read. At first
he was amused-he thought it was a
good joke-until he saw what was
coming by thequestions, and hesought
for an explanation, and he said: l
wrote it to my mother, but she is in
decent. herself, and Is used to such
expressions!' and thus openly accused
her on that stand of being indecent,
and to prove it he brought in this let
ter Showing it)-the one written by
her telling how the children were
dressed and how we'll they were fixed
for the wi4f-about her new dress
and that she had the boys pictures
taken in their leggings and overcoats
"a pure, chaste letter-a mothers let
ter to her boy. But we find on this
letter-but not part of 1.-THE
page turned upside down-not over
the signature-a little bit of what enc
would call coarseness. And you will
recall that she said: That is my let
ter; l don't remember having written
such a thing, but it's there 1t is en-
tirely unlike all the rest of the let
ter, but it Is on letter he had in his
possession, and brought into Court.
"You cannot find verdict for the
plaintiff in this case unless you find
that the defendant made his charge of
insanity through malice, or instigated
the lunacy proceedings without pro-
bable cause. If it appears from the
evidence and you believe that he was
not good and peaceable citizen, you
can't allow him damages, because of
the homily truth that you can't spoil
a bad egg. He cannot obtain money
on account of the loss of his practice
for he had no practice. His Office
was closed, and was before he went to
Germany, and on his return the only
practice he had was that of trying to
get his fathers money. If
he would go back to his practice, and
people would not call him into their
homes, it would not be because they
feared he might be insane, but because
they would fear to introduce a seduc-
er into their family circles. And I do
not use that word in the manner of
mere epithet. There is law in this
land-it is not in the books, but it is
nevertheless the law of the land-that
the seducer-the man who goes into
home and wrecks it by stealing
away the virtue of wife or daughter
may be shot down. and the husband
or father who does it goes free. And
yet he has gone on the stand and adj
mitted that he wrecked about the first
family he obtained an entrance to.
and you will recall that the father Of
that family said If he had had re-
volver there would have been no trial
here!
HE was a member of the honorable
profession of medicine. In that pro-
fession great trusts are reposed. That
profession deals with events the hus
band and father may not know. He
betrayed that trust, and then explain
ed it by saying: She was willing'
That is a towards plea! A man who
is a seducer ought not even to say
that! There is a Southern maxim
that in such a case a man ought to
lie like a gentleman, and protect the
woman, and yet his plea is: She was
willing and he was willing to say
that here to you for 100000! He is
a moral degenerate, and no woman's
chastity or reputation are sacred in
his eyes when he is trying to get
money"
Mr.. Howard then took up the case
of the plaintiff and Miss Sandrock with
particular reference to the trip to Mar
tins Ferry and Bridgeport, following
the meeting at the railway station in
this city, and said if the plaintiff had
been possessed Of plain, ordinary horse
sense and had been simply bad, he
would have allowed her to go home
when he knew she was wanted and was
being searched for, and yet he went
around on that trip, trying to get into
hotels, and finally, with the Island
astir and the police force called out,
he took her to his office and kept her
there until daylight, stirring up half
of Wheeling Island and getting out the
police, and this in the community
where he intended to practice medi-
cine. And when Miss Hillman went to
him and told him he had ruined the
girl, and that he ought to make such
reparation as was in his power, by mar
rying her, he struck her, in his own
fathers house! He was bad, and he
didn't seem to care who knew it. He
acted like fool, and at that time there
was very strong suspicion of his
moral degenefacy. The moral nature
was perverted-the natural love was
not there-it is gone. The mind is so
obscured that he forgets the mother.
He sits here and assails his parents.
Instead of being their friends, he is
their enemy.
"He has lost all sense of truth IT