The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-09

& March. when Mr.. Kieran began to pa
9 principal.
v-eee~@aa>~~e-e-e's.sses
when the ssion opened yesterday morn
ing the room was packed, as II had been
on the previous days.
Mr.. Kiernan was recalled and continued
his testimony. In answer to questions
Mr.. Herman said: 1T was a little after
4 o'clock that DR.. Sullivan entered my
office that day" He then repeated what
he told OF that interview Tuesday. Moth
IN was said about the public library as
q place of meeting. Nothing was said of
breaking the engagement or Is years
eourtship.' didn't say IL Mary want to
break the engagement she can, nor speak
of putting OF the marriage or OF 'filins
myself up with whiskey.'
"I used TO be very friendly with Dr.
Sullivan. He wasonce our family ply
sician. He never said to me that he
hoped my calling on sse Mcponalds
meant more than my visiting at certain
other places, and never answered that ;
all right. The way IL was. one evening
In 1855 on South Main street he asked II
Mary and / were engaged. SAID III IL
happened I'd let him know.
.'Dr Decouagne was a dentist. always
supposed Mary Mcdonald did not tell ME
OF his sending flowers to her. l heard II
yesterday for the. first time. She told me
on evening while very much disturbed in
mind. that she received a note from DR..
Sullivan about DIR. Decouagne's visit. 1
told her there must be something back
OF II. or Dr. Sullivan wouldn't NEEDLE,
and not to feel hurt at DR.. Sullivan.
GOOD BYE. LOVE.
"It became a parting word to say
good bye. love, and God bless you
Jokingly she asked me to sign my letters
that way and i did IL. / had never ask
ed her to marry or intimated that 1 IN
tended to marry her. or told anyone that
I was engaged TO her. She never at any
time seriously spoke to me of her engage
ment Sometimes in joke she would say
Come, let us 20 and get married IL
usually happened after having little
lunch OF wine and crackers and cheese.
Mr.. Knowlton began the cross-examina-
tion of Mr.. Giernan by asking
did you ever get married7"
"No, SIR" replied the witness.
"You visited other women"
Eyes, SIR"
"Any relations with other women
"Yes"
Any letters of the character of these
written TO other womenT
None"
''They lived away?"
Eyes. SIR"
"Did the last affair end before this
one commenced?"
Yes, ] think So"
.I regarded our intimacy as beginning
when she was 13 or IA years old. visit
ed other women socially before that.
-. - ~
I meant the money / sent her as loans.
"You wrote, so when we are one,' etc
Did you write that tokingly?"
Eyes did"
GOOD by. love, and God bless you.
Was that a joker"
Well II meant n customary expires
sion. 1t meant kindness"
"Dr Sullivan is your friend?'
eyes"
ANY reason to think otherwise?"
"Oniy her testimony of yesterday"
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
One letter read in court was:
dear Mary, tell me when your bill
come due Is there anything you want
There is something l want that yo'
can't send me by mail What does tha
mean?'
The answer was inaudible
The question was repeated and was an
swered: II wanted TO see her.
Mary Macdonald, recalled, identifies
postmarks and said she cut out som
that were absent from letters receives
40 as 10 save them II she should destro.
the letters.
'I kept the postmarks and just tn
amount Of money received on the back
because IL waSa debt / expected TO pay
The DeCouagne incident took place jus
after Dr. Sullivan moved up to Provi
dence."
"When was that7"
MAY / ask the doctor?'
"You cannot" said Mr.. Knowlton.
Mr.. Jennings-When was that. doctor
Mrs Sullivan--That was In 1890.
was DIR. O'Connor married when yo
went to ride with him2'
''IIe was a widower."
Arguments for the respondent. Patric
Kieran, were begun at 1925 a. m. Mr.. Jer
nIngs reviewed the evidence and went ir
TO details He said In part TO the jury:
"If YOU do not ind that there was fol
NAL engagement on the night when the
stood upon the porch when Mary MAJ
Donald claims to have verbally accepte
MFR. Kieran. then the whole fabric fail
Her words: accept you and his, then
is aeflniteiy agreed upon that We are er
gagged were too legal TO be true. III sh
had thought Il all out and arranged e
This suit she couldn't have made II soun
moro binding. I don't know how man
of Won ever proposed. gentlemen, bt
what do you think OF that for prop'
sai? Either that took place as Miss Ca
Donald said II did. or II didn't accur Z
all. -
Here is a girl q years OF age, Mr.. Ki'
ran AZ years Of age and her folks glad
have him as a son-in-law. What would
the fret thing she would do when she ha
made what everyone IN her family wou
consider a great catch7
Mr.. Knowlton then opened.
sGentlemen-If IL be true that this ma