El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-06
MUCH MERRIMENT
Caused by tine Answers of
the Plaintiff and the
Bouts With the
Attorneys.

The county court room was packed
almost to it's capacity this morning
when the taking of evidence in the
libel case against Mrs. Reba Long was
resumed.
The jurors were In their places early
and the crowd began to assemble
half hour before Judge Harper raped
for order.
The fair defendant came in wearing
a neat black suit and jaunty black
hat She smiled frequently and did not
appear to be greatly worried over the
efforts of the prosecution to prove her
guilty of writing the letter, which re-
flected on the character of Mrs. Ann
Augusta Perry.
Those of the spectators who came
expecting to hear sensational evidence
were not disappointed for the chief
prosecuting witness, Mrs. Perry was
again called to the stand this morn
ing and her pungent replies to Judge
Buckler and the fiuency with which
she addressed the court and the attor-
neys caused no end of amusement
Mrs. Perry is a woman of large pro-
portions and talks with emphasis. She
wore a gray suit and soft felt hat
creased in the middle. Swung around
her shoulder was a leather hand bag
of considerable size which was filled
with letters and papers having bear
ing ON the case. While testifying she
thrust her hand frequently into this
bag.
Testimony This Morning.
j. +. Williams was the first witness
introduced by the defense this morning
He testified:
ct am assistant cashier of the First
National bank. / have been engaged
in the banking business for twelve
years. Have had considerable exper-
ience in comparing handwriting"
The anonymous letters and Mrs.
Longs letters were offered to him for
examination and he was asked to give
his opinion as to whether they were
the same handwriting In reply he
said:
Il examined the letters in question
yesterday and in my opinion they were
not written by one and the same per-
SON."
On cross examination he said there
appeared to be a similarity in some
respects in the handwriting. but he
did not think it was probable they were
written by the same person He could
not say that he could see any evil
dences Of an attempt to disguise the
handwriting. He saw the letters for
the Erst time yesterday morning.
Judge Buckler brought them to him.
After comparing the letters in the re-
ceipts offered in evidence he could not
say that there was any remarkable
to the letters admitted to
b. Mrs. Longs.
Mrs. Perry, portly and smiling, was
recalled and took the witness box.
Il believe you said yesterday. Mrs.
Perry, that this letter Cthe one from
Mrs. Goshorn) was sent to you from
Cincinnati in this envelope, which en-
velope and this letter were enclosed in
another letter and addressed to you. :
Have you that ell -elopE?" asked Judge :
Buckler. |
Il don't think that have
Where is it?' |
Il don't know. In a matter of that
kind l don't pay much attention to the
envelope" I
But you kept the letter and Destroy
ed the enevelope?"
.! threw the envelope down on the
table; don't know what became of it,"
But you kept the letter." \
Il did"
Can you find the envelope?"
mo SIR"
Il went to Cincinnati sometime
about the middle of january. I CANNOT +
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