The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-29

its effect. HeF deeply-lined face and
tear-stained eyes showed that she had
all else her manner Of watching the tes-
timony and STi0ness was different.
In the pakt she has impressed the
spectators IS al girl, in spite Of her 40
years. She has apparently viewed the
trial in the giddyg irresponsible manner
of a fun-lovins girl of 10, who had no
thought that its results, no matter what
they might be might leave an indelible
stain upon her name Today she was
different Her eyes had been opened,
and she watched the progress OF the suit
pended on It's outcome. More than
once her eyes were suffused with tears
as her husbands words brought up ten
der memories but sEaN controlled her
come assistancetn eresa questioning her
husband.
MIR. Sells. I VIII ask you If you didn't
as Mrs. Ad. Sells rode. and Mrs. Eph-
Sells kept the books" said Mr.; Huling-
not want hersto ride. I never asked her
TO go to the grounds and learn to ride, and
if she ever went to the winter quarters,
In answer to another question Mr.. Sells
said he did not ask or require his wife to
go to the barn. He did not want her to
ride. The year Mr.. Sells saw his wife
riding in the red dress he was at South
rhinoceros cage down and the beast got
loose near Pittsburgh Then there was
hoodluns were so bad there that police
had to be called in so the canvas men
could erect the canvas. At East Liberty
was where Mrs. Sells is said to have worn
the red dress and was reproached by her
husband. Up to that time Mr. Sells says
he had not known that she was riding
in the parade.
That was the last time and the only
time he ever saw her IN the parade Ten
days afterward, Mr.. and Mrs. Sells met
and Travelled together the balance of that
.sDidn't you purchase at Pittsburgh q
trunk for her to carry her riding habit
in2" asked Mr.. Huling.
L did not Where had she been car
rying it before?'
Mr. Sells said his wife did not tell him
she was carrying her habit in Willie Sells
trunk. Mrs. Sells was supposed to asso-
ciate with the family; was to be treated
as one of the family and was not to have
rooms in hotels. as the sleeping accom-
lnodations on the cars were not of the
AS to dressing rooms Mr.. Sells said that
the tent was divided in the middle by a
canvas partition. This was divided into
sections The males had one quarter, the
women one quarter and the horses the
naif 7 vas meyer yer in The the womgn,s sec
put against the side walls The women
dressed in one part and the men over in
isn't it a fact. Mr.. Sells" said Mr.. HUI
ing, that you required your wife to learn
to ride; that if she did not want to ride
she could take her clothes and go home
to her parents2'
No. sir. never didr' was witness en-
said that the show people averaged up
with people in other walks of life
What was your objection to your wife's
riding with the show if the people were
all of such high character asked Mr..
The reply was. II married her for a
wife. 7 didn't want her to become a per-
former" Witness said he didn't care to
have her have anything to DO with any
enc but himself and family. Mr.. Sells
said he had never had any ambition him
self TO become an actor and didn't want
his wife to be rider
Witness said he had never stopped at
the MOnOngahela. house in his life, was
not in Pittsburgh inNJune of that year,
and consequently could not have told his
wife that If she would not ride she could
go to her parents He denied emphatic
ally that he had called her names at a
further that his wife had importuned
him to take her from the show. He de-
MED that he had been frequently drunk
Il don't think any drunken man could
have done the work / di5," said the wit
ness
Coming downto the time the sellses were
at the Tefft house Oow the NationaD, To-
peka, Kan, Mr. Sells denied ernphatically
would not live at Ad or Allen Sells
house in Topeka There was no quarrel
his wife in his life and had never cursed
her. or any other woman I am not a
Ad- Sells house, Mr.. Peter said, because
Ad told him it wasn't a meals at
came to Columbus. Mr. Sells said he
had been up all night with the baby.
WIle MIS- SellS slept never found 1t
hardship to wait on the baby or Mrs;
Sells, said the witness Ad- had called
him to breakfast just at the time he
1Peter) was trying to catch a little sleep.
This is the brother Mr.. Sells had law
suit with. He is dead now. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sells were at the Green's two winters and
Lewis was married in February, 1884.
From 1856, Mrs. Sells was with her hus-
band, he said, greater part of the time,
while he was on the road.
while you boarded at Mrs. MoIer's
didn't you strike your wife. and throw
her watch across the floor and break it?''
asked Mr.. Huling.
mo, sir was the reply. He did not
remember having a quarrel with his wife
about a theater trip, but said he some
ea1le tlLnes went h,, TO Wlse.s & saloon to play
there about 10 o'clock Witness said that
they lived at Moler's. he never cursed his
wife, never came home drunk. and was
during that time admitted to the Masons
Unfortunately some bad men some
times get into the Masons,'- said Mr..
ITO whom do you refer?" asked Mr..
Il do not allude to you sir. for I don't
know Whether you are a Mason or not"
Mahoney he was dazed and left the city
on sunday the next day. Miss Florence
took him TO the train. and witness went
70 Louisville, where he joined the show
Louisiana- Mahoney did not send any re-
ports to Mr.. Sells. Witness wrote several
letters TO Mrs Sells and one to Mr.. Safer.
I,he matter was a secret until November
Z: Mr. Sells continued to write to his
wife and came home on November "a The
letters Mr.. Sells had received he gave to
his attorney. Mr.. J. E. Safer.
When he came home that Friday Mrs.
Sells had packed his valise and he in
tended to leave the next day to go to
Topeka to see about a law case that was
UP with Willie Sells.
-Crhis was the suit for damages against
Willie Sells, commenced in the Shawnee
county district court by Sells Brothers,
because he called his show the Sells
show. 1t was afterward dropped.)
Some of Your Friends
are probably interested in the territory
which the Frisco line passes
its resources and possibilities Perhaps
they would like to know just how profit
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