Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-04


Financial Worth.
Dr. Samuel K Hissom testified on di-
rest and eross-examination during the
greater part of yesterday, against his
father, j. R. Hissom, in his action for
100000 damages. Several sensational
and salacious features of the former
trial. which had not developed until
yesterday in the present trial, were
brought out in the cross-examination
of the plaintiff He went over the tes-
timony concerning certain term
which was frequently used in the His
som household, and according to the
doctors story, in correspondence be-
tween members of the family. The
term has a vulgar significance. A con-
siderable portion of the testimony of
this character is unfit for publication.
On his cross-examination, DR.. Hissom
was Intercepted as to correspondence
between him and his mother while he
was studying medicine in Germany.
One letter of his mother, read at the
first trial. was exhibited, in which Dr.
Hissom said he received among other
things on his birthday, check from
his father for $4,000. In another letter
DR.. Hissom asked for s400, saying he
would have to go to Italy before cold
| weather set in.
DO you still say your father wanted
you to go to italy,"
Yes. He wrote and said he would
not give me any more money unless l
went"
Your father gave you money from
time to time?"
He sent my own money"
DR.. Hissom said he had tuberculosis
last winter, but could not examine him
self, and therefore could not say
whether he had it now. He said his
| father paid a portion of his expenses
at Rush Medical College. He earned
the reainder by working in the Aetna
| Standard mill.
DR.. Hissom charged that the elder
HissOm tried to ruin his (the doctor's)
wife, and failing to accomplish his pur
| pose, drove her from the house in two
| feet Of snow, his wife dying from the
| effects o the exposure.
Witness admitted that after he grad
uated he opened an office on the Island,
| in house owned and furnished by his
father, and that his father equipped
| the Office.
DR.. Hissom was next questioned
about the woman who figured in an I'M
! enviable light in the former trial. He
admitted that she took trip to Cleve
land and other cities in company with
him, and that he was arrested on the
street in Cleveland. He admitted that
| the woman was in his Office on GER
| tain night, after he had closed the Of
! fee. She met him at the Ohio River
station, and they walked up to the
| Terminal bridge, where they talked for
| half an hour. They then went to Mar
tins Ferry and Bridgeport, walking
| back to the doctors office, where they
| arrived at one o'clock next morning.
Witness made no effort to avoid OBJ
servation. He denied pulling a re-
! volver in the face of the girls father
| next morning, and denied any i'm
proper motive in taking her into his
Office. There had been a scrap" in
her family, and she did not want to
go home. Two officers arrested him
in Cleveland. He said the girls moth
er thought she could get $4,000 out of
him, but the bluff didn't work"
Dr. Hissom reiterated his former
statements that his father made no Of
Ter of anything looking to his comfort
while he was in Jail, except two suits
of clothes before his removal to Spen-
! Ger. He was always suspicious of the
motive of the elder Hissom when he
did good act He denied that he re-
fused upon the advice of counsel, or
had consulted S. G. Smith as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of bringing an action for
damages: He never had a trial until
he went before Judge Reese Blizzard.
When Dr.. Hissom was on the stand
Friday he promised to bring into court
the machine which figured prominent
ly in the former trial. The machine
was exhibited and the doctor explained
its operation to court and jury. He
denied that he claimed to be the inven-
tor of it. He bought it after seeing
the uses to which it was put by physi-
clans and surgeons in Germany
rs your mother a truthful woman?"
In case like this, she is not"
Witness said all the Hissoms would
lie, but he thought his mother would
tell the truth if she were not afraid Of
her life.
What explanation can you make
about your letter to your mother in
which you mention $4,000"
1T was in reply to what mother had
written. We always wrote that kind of
letters to one another-funny letters.
She had said something about father
sending me $4,000 all in a joke, and
l answered in a joke that l had re-
ceived it all right"
Witness was asked where he ac-
CURED the term used in the letter,
which has been defined as having
vulgar significance, and he replied that
he never received letter from his
mother that did not contain the term.
1t was used every day in the Hissom
household. The doctor was asked to
produce a letter in which the term had
been written by his mother. He re-
piled that he had many of them in his
trunk, but that his trunk has been