The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

won't always have an opportunity with me.
| for myself. I will avoid strictly making
handsome home for the unworthy: The
law expects you TO pay my bills 1t is a
| town nights with a hotelkeeper. Do your
! best to bring her down to your own level
! and you will have the pleasure of reaping
"A TERRESTRIAL HILL
ers there ene was absate 81 sness IN
| courtroom for few minutes. while law
yers, witnesses. and auditors took deep
from under the weight Of establishment that
oppressed them. Then one of the attorneys
in the case arose and said to Judge Bishop:
Home for this family has been terres
trial hell"
1t was a new kind OF hades. but the audi
ence agreed with the lawyer. and so. TOO.
did the court, judging by the expression
of his eye
Mrs. Vaughan's lawyer. Eugene Brown.
admitted that he was the ''Cre Brown" re-
ferred to in vaughans cross BIN OF com
plant against his wife.
Mrs. Vaughan took the witness stand and
began bravely enough.
at was four years after he married me.
in 1876" she began bravely enough, that he
struck me in anger. That was"
blond head that had been held SO jauntily
fell forward into the two gray gloved
hands Sob and moan and convulsive shud-
shattered dreams tore the witnesss heart.
Il can't go on; l can't" she sobbed to
would be like this
You must go on now that you have be-
gun." the lawyer urged.
Take time to recover yourself. said
the Judge: with sympathy.
Across the ROOM where he sat with his
attorneys. the husband bowed his head and
toyed with pencil during his wife's break
down.
., A beautiful girl in modish gown, who
listened dry-eyed all day to the testimony
and lo-
an entire stranger to the principals in the
divorce case. She spoke to neither, yet
she was Marie Vaughan; the 17-year-old
daughter, and against her her mothers
lawyer launched flood of accusations SO
startling that the courtroom rang with the
volleyed objections of the fathers lawyers.
MISS VAUGHAN FAINTS.
When Attorney Brown called her thief,
and worse, his opponent thundered:
This beautiful child is not on trial! You
may be, but she is not. and to blast her
name with the venom of your charges is a
crime.
That is right" declared the Judge; "she
is not on trial.
But the girl was not to escape so lightly.
II The =, next day Marie Vaughan vas called
Tiers behalf
After giving damaging testimony against
young girl tainted in the witness box. Her
mother was the first to reach her side and,
In her anxiety for the girl, forgot the bitter
stand against her own mother Mrs
Vaughan seemed to forget for the moment
also; how she despised and hated her hus-
AS they bent together over the prostrated
form form, Of their daughter; their heads al
caressed. When Miss Vaughan @ % opened pan,s ha her
eyes she spurned her mothers attentions
Court was adjourned.
much reluctance. When Attorney Brown
rose to cross-examine her. he asked her
character. The situation was peculiarly
dramatic. One moment a daughter had
sworn sSo 70 statements EN- most Damaging to her
tempting to destroy her daughters charac-
,srs. ter Through i all up to the time she col
pcsure remarkably well.
HAD OTHER ADMIRERS.
More excerpts from Mrs. yaughan's diary
were read. "Oh, but despise the creature
Of flesh and blood that I am tied to-" was
one of these.
Another was:
November 1s.-Mad; so mad at empty
head, and keep it up. too, until he IL
not endure another year year Of this Is life eWqtS %ta
me out.
Then followed the reading of some letters
to the jury which 1t is claimed were re-
ceived by Mrs. Vaughan. and which would
indicate. that she had perhaps larger
sex than one might suppose.
Dear Friend one of the letters read.
If agreeable. please meet me at Fifty-frst
are there first wait. II / get there first l
will wait 1t was signed "B.
|. One letter calls Mrs. Vaughan Dear
Venus" and the writer makes an appoint-
ment at Fields. sit in rocking chair
near the elevator. l will wear light soft
hat and you will know me by my side
burns, which are very gray"
Meet me at the Post Office" is another
instruction near the center window. Carry
a handkerchief in your left hand and look
as II you were expecting some one / will
wear q black suit and black Fedora hat"
HUSBANDS RECITAL.
The husband occupied most of the early
half of the day with his recital of the in
dignities and abuses he declared he had re-