Evening journal., 1901-10-11
LOVE-MAKING
WAS COSTLY
Verdict Is Balm for Mrs.
jenkins Feelings
COULD NOT PROVE Al GLIDI
unprinciplCd Lover Tried Hard, Never
ihcIeSS- Paid Price Of a Fall
Bonnet as Damages

DVuuVt uN DulndEtN
For breaking" the heart Of Mrs.
Jerusha Jenkins, Francis IL. Hoffecker
was found guilty before the y. NJ. &. A
evening and fined S3.9S.
The 9S cents was allotted TO Colonel A.
V. Newton. counsel for the plaintiff, TO
contribute towards his ear fare TO New
ton. Mass. The court instructed the jury
to be easy on the plaintiff, adding that his
finances would be- at low water mark af-
ter he had made himself right with his
counsel
The mock trial interested a gathering
that filled the theatre auditorium and the
greater part of the gallery Judge"
Leonard H. Wales. Jr., presided and the
following jury was drawn to try the ease:
Alfred Gawthrop. foreman; William
lawton, H. W. Fem. IL. G.. Rettew Da-
vid Snellenhurg. Charles r. Rudolph,
! William NJ. Pyle. George w. Todd. Dan
iel Ross. +. G. Mccall Howard II. Wal
lace and James Cranston.
They were known as Mark Hanna,
John Wanamaker, Admiral Dewey,
| Richard Croker and other notable men,
and much applause greeted them as they
walked on the stage and took their seats
in the jury box.
HEARING THE TESTIMONY
! Mr.. Hofecker, who Is a prominent at
torney, assisted in his own defense and
his counsel was William $. prickett
] Captain George Black was court officer
i aud Harry G.. Mahaiy, stenographer in
the office Of the clerk OF the United
4 States Court, was clerk of the court
u The crier was j. a. Gallagher. crier Of
the United States Court. At the opening
OF the court, Colonel Newton read tn,
bin of complaint by Mrs Jenkins. VIII,
\ was impersonated by Miss Mahala Wells
in an amusing manner. He said her az
fectinns had been injured by Mr.. Hof
I. fecker and that he believed she was on
!, titled 10 damages to the amount of $89S
Mrs Jenkins on being sworn testifc
: that she kept boarding house in Wash
ington street. Then she related how tn
= defendant had told her that he loved he
deeply, madly fondly, wildly" and IL
% various other ways and asked her 10 be
3 come his wife She hastily accepted him
. but later there came n time when h
spurned her. As Mrs Jenkins told how
{ she had been wronged tears fell from the
eyes of all present the water pooling on
= the court room floor.
Miss Anna II. Lincoln also told Of ad
vances made to her 10y Hoffccker. Shl
said he proposed marriage 20 her and she
accepted. Her reason for so doing, sh
said, was because she dearly loved bar
gains and she thought she would be get
ting something very cheap in the defend
ant. That he was a cheap suitOr wai
intensified by the fact that he gave her
ring. valued at $1,000. as he said, which
jewelcr offered to duplicate for s25. Shl
also knew Of Hoflecker visiting Mrs. Jen
kins at her boarding house. known n
jenkins Paradise" and of lcapinl
through a parlor window when she ap
peared.
Robert 5. Glover a boarder nc tn
Paradise. corrob0rated the testimony %
Miss Lincoln. He testified that lIOi
4 fecker bad paid the plaintiff marked at
S tention. incidentally rcmarking that thh
! was about all he had paid her.
Miss Anna W. Simmons also testifel
( as TO the flirtations of Hofecker and hi
: attempt to cndcar himself To her Sh
now scorned him.
n For the defense Mr. Prickett said h
! would prove an alibi and he did so. Mr.
Honecker went on the stand and dene
4 that ON August 20 h. had proposed &
Mrs. Jenkins. lie said that mt that tim
g he was tramping through Virginia wit
4 Bishop Coleman. and therefore could no
! have been at the paradise"
lie added that ne had given the rim
10 Miss Lincoln. but explained that j
1stI H. as.1n ~ 81
serious intentions The only reason tina
he could give for being recognized in th
Jenkins parlor was that il might hav
been Willard Salisbury, man som,
( times mistaken for him.
DR." Howell $. England, poet; Mis-
= Jenkins, a niece Of Mrs. jenkins: G.. ,
. Peirce and $. G.. Horn were other wi
nesses. DR." England said he was
specialist in mental diseases, havin
e taken courses in New Castle jail an
y Farnhurst and that he would take
s postgraduate course at the workhOus
il it be finished while he lives. lie test
e fed that Mrs. Jenkins was mon
IS maniac ON the question Of love and ma
p riage. He further testified that Hoffeck,
had engaged him TO write poem 10 Mi,
s Jerusha Ray Jenkins, for which he ha
d received 45 cents.
J. J. Peirce, handwriting expert, sa
q certain notes and letters. purporting
u have been written by Mr.. Hoffecker wei
= not written by him.
+ 5. J. Horn vastly strengthened the all
by producing a telegram dated August ;
from Hoffecker, who then was in vi
ginia, containing the information thi
D two inmates had been obtained for S
y Michaers Day Nursery. lie said that I
a had attended a dog fight on the Weld
y farm on that day also. the dogs beir
= owned by Isaac S. Elliott and Jol
7. Lynn. While on his way home thinkr
= and wondering whether the City Audit'
would sign the check of the Water Con
missioners. he was startled by seeing
man jump from a window in the Jenkin
home. He thought the man was NJ
salisbury.
The fact that Mr., Horn had testih'