Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-21
SENSATIONAL SUITS
FOR DAMAGES HRCoGHT YEsTER-
DAY IN THE COURTS OF JET
FERsON COUNTY
AGAINST A WHEELING MAN
Who Has Always Stood High In This
Community - Her Defendant is
Charged With Very Grave Offenses,
but Enters a General Denial to Al
legations by the Plaintiff.

legations by the Plaintiff.
A. ]. Goodhue, proprietor of the
stock yards on Tenth street, was yes
terday made the defendant in suits for
damages aggregating $4,000, bropght
in the courts of Jefferson county, Ohio.
+, The plaintiffs alle,ge facts of most
sensational nature, rejecting upon the
character of Mr. Gccdhue, to which
h eenters a general denial Mr.. Good
hue is well known in Wheeling, and
stands high in this community. His
friends are unwilling to believe tina,
the allegations against him are true
AS a simple matter Of justice to the
defendant, his friends and acquaint-
ances and the public generally will
withhold their. judgment in the mat
ter until his side of the case is pre-
/ sented An effort was made to Sc
cure statement from Mr. Goodhue
yesterday, but Register reporters
were unable to find him, up to late
hour last night, and it was learned
| that he was in Steubenville.
The particulars CT the suits against
him are contained in the following
telegram:
| Special to the Register
STEUBENVILLE, O., December 20.
| Four sensational suits for 10000 ag-
| gregating $4,000, were filed in Com
mon Pleas Court to-day against Arch
| ibald ]. GCodhue. Two were brought
| by Samuel G. HudIer on account of
his daughters, Mary l. and Emma L..
The petitions contain specific and
sensational allegations. All the parties
| are of Wheeling. The Hudler sisters
have been here for some time in the
millinery business. Thy lived well
here, and almost daily were seen driv-
| ing in a fashionable trap. Not long
| since they made an assignment to w.
c. Taylor, Esq, and shortly after A.
j. Goodhue began suit in replevin.
The suit was set for to-day in JUS
tice Kitchcart's Office and is lively
legal skirmish
w. c. Taylor and Erskine & Erskine
represent the Hudler sisters, while J..
| H. Mckee and Col Arnett represent
| Goodhue
Emma L. Hudler, 16 years of age,
brings suit through her guardian, H.
p. MCGOWAN, who was appointed in
Probate Court. She alleges that prior
to the time of the grievance she was
residing in Wheeling with her parents
and that the defendant was and is a
married man, aged about so years and
possessed of great wealth, and was
proprietor of stock yards in Wheeling,
where he also resided a great number
OF years, while her father was a poor
man, depending on his daily earnings
70 + e.,
| ant was acquainted with her fathers
family and their financial circum-
stances and has resided with her father
in a dwelling house located upon the
! stock yards controlled by the defend
ant.
| That on September LIST, 1899 defend
ant ''unlawfully, wrongfully, malicious
ly, corruptly and wickedly coptriving
to injure, distress, degrade and wound
plaintiffs feelings and to bring dis
grace and dishonor upon her and the
members OF her fathers family by de-
bauching and seducing her, did start
| her sister, Mary l Hudler, in the mill
merry business here and persuaded her
to accompany her sister to this city,
where she was employed to assist in the
| business. That plaintiff was a mere
| child and not knowing the evil inten-
lions, motives and designs of defendant,
left her home and came here and re-
sided with her sister and assisted in
| the millinery business. In their rooms
was only one bed in which they slept,
which was known to defendant,
That on November 9th, 1899, with
out her knowledge or consent, defend
ant sent her bedstead and all fur
| nishings and had it placed in a differ
ent room from that in which the other
| bed was located. That he made her
gift of silk dress and practiced
many other seductive arts and devices
upon her. That on the same night
defendant came here and got into the
bed in which she was sleeping and
| solicited her to have intercourse with
him, threatening unless she did to sell
| out her sisters store and would no
| longer retain her father in his employ
ment That by reason of his seductive
| arts threats and devices and the fraud
and undue influence practiced by him,
and on account of her extreme youth
i and injuries resulting therefrom, she
| was persuaded to have intercourse
| with him and defendant did then de-
| bauch and seduce her and has conein-
ued so to do at divers times since. She
has been greatly wounded in her feel
ings, her physical health has been
greatly impaired, she has suffered
great anguish and grief, her peace of
mind has been destroyed, she has
been ostracized from the society of the
chaste and virtuous, and has been dis
| graced in reputation and her charac-
ter ruined and has suffered from her
sense of shame caused by defendant
| seduction.