The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-23
SELLS DIVORCE CASE.
one Author of Hot Love Letters Was
over sixty Years Oid-fhe
Court Room Crowded.

Columbus. o.. Nov. 17,--The Sells
divorce case resumed Friday with De-
tective Mahoney still ON the stand
under cross-eNamination. He said he
and his men put in In all 200 days
watching the Sells residence 70 see
who visited IL at night when Sells
was away. lie had already been paid
$500. and shere was 5000 still coming
10 him for the services. fhttle bear
ing on the quiet OF the defendant was
elected. The crowd in the court
room was as dense as usual. and many
were unable 10 secure admission.
Both plaintiff and defendant are pro-
cnt in court. IL is expected that IN.
r.. L. Potter. one of the correspond
ents. will follow on the stand for tie
plaintiff. He is a dentist here. Ned
Raymore IS dead. He was nearly 90
years old when he was writing he
hot love letters 90 Mrs. Sells. Bert
johnson. another correspondent. wns
also reported dead. but the plaintiff
has heard that he is alive and ~ New
Orleans He may be brought here
Columbus. o.. Nov. 20.--rhe hearing
I'm the Sells divorce case was resumed
Monday morning. II Is thought DE
trial viii cover al least three WEEDS
more.
William II. Fish. next-door ne a.
Dor OF Sells. was the first witnsks.
He Is at the head of the Fish Pressed
Brick Co. lie saw a man answering
Harris ID. Lyons description enter the
Sells residence in the fall Of i4b7.
about Sso'clock in the evening, as the
witness was going 10 a Shriners' tn-
quet. and he saw him leave when jsh
went home In a cab long after I'D
night. lie told of other occas Ems
when he saw this same man come Cut
of the Sells residence after midnith
Fish said Sells was not in the citd NJ
the time he saw these things.
Fish told OF Peter Sells one Sunday
evening being driven 10 the depo, by
his daughter Florence for the purs Sc
Of going away from the city. A Few
minutes later Mrs. Sells appeared a;
window az the rear OF the hotse.
as II watching for some one. 3on
Lyons came up an alley and wa, adj
miited to the residence by Mrs. \ lls.
The man was covering ms face wfh
handkerchief.
He saw Mrs Sells several other
times watch from this window for
Lyons. tie also told OF Lyons bits
At time when Snowman Sells Nvas
seriously ili with a fever IN 1885 On
two occasions Miss Florence Sells hsas
at the witness home. and obsef, ed
Lyons enter the Sells home.
She betrayed nervousness and box
ed In another direction. Lyons Nsas
seen to enter az the rear Of the hbuse
al times when Miss Florence va St
ting on the front porch with her POM
pany.
Fish also said that ne saw Wlriam
Bott call NJ the Sells home r&ral
times in the fall OF is9a. hrst
came shorfis after Peter sells. %
Sunday evening. had left to take a
train. Mrs. Sells was also watching
from q rear window on this occasion.
Bott was seen 10 leave the Sells res
idence about midnight before Sells
returned home before breakfast the
next morning. After Boit started in
on q series of three or four times .
week visits Fish did not notice Lyons
calling any more.
Fish said ne first saw Lyons call
at the Sells home in 1897 aud Bott in
the fall OF 1895. Sells built his Dem
nison avenue mansion in is95. Prior
10 that he lived "A the Park hotel. in
this city.