The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-11-23
THE SELLS DIVORCE.
A witness Failed to Appear, and the
Deposition of "a HostIer Was
Read to the Jury.

Columbus, o., Nov. 2O.--The hearing
In the Sells divorce case was resumed
Monday morning. 1t is thought the
trial will cover at least three weeks
more
William H.. Fish, nevt-door neigh
Dor of Sells, was the first witness.
He is at the head of the Fish Pressed
Brick Co. He saw a man answering
Harris d. Lyons description enter the
Sells residence in the fall of 1897,
about 8 o'clock in the evening, as the
witness was going to a Shriners' ban
quet, and he saw him leave when Fish
went home in cab long after mid
night. He told of other occasions
when he saw this same man come out
of the Sells residence after midnight.
Fish said Sells was not in the city at
the time he saw these things.
Fish told of Peter Sells one Sunday
evening being driven to the depot by
his daughter Florence for the purpose
Of going away from the city. A few
minutes later Mrs. Sells appeared at
a window at the rear of the house,
as if watching for some one. Soon
Lyons came up an alley and was adj
mitted to the residence by Mrs. Sells.
The man was covering his face with a
handkerchief.
He saw Mrs. Sells several other
times watch from this window for
Lyons. He also told of Lyons visits
at n time when Snowman Sells was
seriously i'll with a fever in 1898. On
two occasions Miss Florence Sells was
at the witness home, and observed
Lyons enter the Sells home.
She betrayed nervousness and look
ed in another direction. Lyons was
seen to enter at the rear of the house
at times when Miss Florence was sit
ting on the front porch with her COM
pany.
Fish also said that he saw William
Bott cali at the Sells home several
times in the fall of 1899. He first
came shortly after Peter Sells, on
Sunday evening, had left to take
train. Mrs. Sells was also watching
from a rear window on this occasion.
Bott was seen to leave the Sells res
idence about midnight before Sells
returned home before breakfast the
next morning.
Columbus, o., Nov. 21.-The plain
tiff in the Sells divorce case had ar
ranged to place Mary Kell, domestic
in the Fish family, on the stand Tues
day morning, but she failed to an
swer the summons. For what reason
is not known. Having no other wit
ness on hand, the counsel, after a con-
ference, concluded to resume reading
dispositions, and that of Fred John
son, who was employed from 1896 to
1899 as hostler for Sells, was
taken up.
In the opening statement he said
he lived in the barn, having a room
in the upper part. From window
in the rear of the Sells residence he
said he commanded an excellent view
of several of the rooms in the rear
part of the Sells house, and also of
the side entrance to the house
johnson said he could look from
his window into the bath room of
Miss Florence Sells room and the
"den." Mrs. Sells hired him. She
told him what to do and advised him
to mind his own business and not to
be news carrier. She warned him
especially against talking too much.
Mrs. Sells did not want him to car
~ basement key His work caused
him to enter the house occasionally
He saw Harry Lyons there once in
1897. He was talking with the fam
lily in the parlor. At that time he
got a good look at Lyons. The girls
employed there had told witness that
Lyons was visiting Mrs. Sells when
her husband was away.
That was why he took good look
at Lyons. He saw Lyons after that
visit the house two or three times a
week during 1898, when Sells was not
at home. Lyons generally took an
observation on the rear of the house
and then darted right in.