Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-23
MRS. SELLS DECLARED SHE
RAISED FLORENCE right.
NO MATTER HOW BLACK SHE MIGHT
BE PAINTED, HER DAUGHTER
is PURE GIRL.
ELIZA MoNAHUE's GRIEVANCE.
ONE OF THE WOMEN ALLEGED To
HAVE IsIPERsoNATED
MRS. SELLS

Special to the Register
COLUMBUS, o., November 22.-"I
would not blame Mr.. Sells if he took
a revolver and shot me-
This is the practical confession OF
guilt which Eliza Monahue, house
keeper, testified Mary Sells made to
her at the time of the separation Of
Mr.. Sells from his wife. Eliza testi-
fed to many other things and while
she was on the stand it was plain that
Eliza and Mrs. Sells have a frank
aversion for each other.
Possibly statements in Mrs Sells's
answer to her husbands petition havs
something to do with ELIAS dislike
OF her former mistress.
In this answer Mrs. Sells asserted
that on July 20, 1898, Peter Sells took
Eliza with him to Chicago, the hous-
keeper travelling as Mrs. Sells and
being registered as Peter Sells and
wife, at the Leland Hotel. Also that
on August 2Sth he went to Chicago
and brought Eliza home.A
Eliza is "a, fairly good looking and
wears hair on the border between yell
low and red. She was a chambermaid
al the Park Hotel when the Sells fam
lily stayed there and for four years
was heusekeeper at the Sells residence.
She told a good deal OIL the calls OF
Lyons and some little about Bot,
whom by the way she did not know,
contirmatory of previous evidence.
Once at the Park she say Lyons come
out of the Sells apartments at 1880
D. m. and hardly a minute later Mrs.
Sells, attired in night gown opened
the door to take pitcher of water
from the bell boy The only time
Lyons made one of his surreptious
entrances by the side door while Mr.
Sells was at home, was one evening
when Mr. Sells and daughter were sit
ting upon the front porch. Some one
spoke TO him and he left the way he
had come.
Many times soon after Lyons had
come in secretly Mrs. Sells had come
to the kitchen wearing her night dress.
Mrs. Sells usually told Eliza she was
tired and would retire Later the house
keeper would see Lyons leaving and
afterwards Mrs. Sells would come down
to the kitchen still attired in her night
dress and tell Eliza she just had her
first sleep and was feeling nervous.
She would ask If Eliza had been walk
ing about the house. Though the
housekeeper never had seen anybody
about the house smoking cigarettes,
she often found cigarette stumps in the
crate in Mrs. Sellss room. Mrs. Sells
made the two silk night shirts for
Lyons, which she had Eliza put in
the laundry.
Harry Lyons brought many packages
to the house and when cleaning the
closet in her mistresses' room during
her absence the housekeper found
large number OF bottles OF wine, whis-
key and gin. One time Mrs. Sells ask
ed her j. she knew Bott, when she
replied she did not, said You
should know him, he is swell dress
err"
At the time Mrs. Sells is alleged to
have confessed 10 her housekeeper.
Eliza added that after she had seen
her lawyer she talked differently, say
ing Mr.. Sells ought to be shot and told
her that Peter had induced her TO
sign away $3.50, 900 she held in trust
At the time OF the separation Mrs.
Sells had said:
"No matter how black | am painted
my daughter is a pure girl. l have
raised her upright, whatever they
saw"