The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-17

went into his store to ask him to give
back to her some articles of furniture
which he had and which belonged to
her mother. She states in her deposition
that DR.. Gray knocked her down, kick
ed her, and dragged her out of the store
by the hair of her head, as an answer
to her request. And remarked Mrs.
Gray to the attorney taking the depo-
sition, that woman Hulda Payne sat
there and watched the whole thing"
You were not on very good terms
with Hulda Payne. were you?" asked
one of the opposition attorneys. of Mrs.
Gray, seeking to show that Mrs. Gray
was prejudiced.
NO, l didn't like her bit" replied
Mrs. Gray, frankly. She robbed me of
my husband. I know she did because
she said so. Besides 1 have eyes, and
can see. 1 saw her there at my hus-
bands rooms repeatedly And when l
met my husband in Chicago, and there
on Congress street, got right down on
my knees and begged him to come back
and live with me. didn't he tell me that
he couldn't because Hulda Payne was
in the Way?"
The evidence showed that DR.. Gray
lived in some furnished rooms back of
his drug store 1t is claimed that Hulda
Payne, who was % years old, lived
there with him. The deposition of 6.
w. Carneys was taken to prove this
state of affairs to exist al the present
time. Carneys is a deputy sheriff, and
he was given a subpoena to serve OH
Hulda Payne at the time the depOSi-
tons were taken, July 6, 1903. He found
her lying on the bed in the room back
of DR.. Gray's drug store. He served
the subpoena on her and she demanded
1 her fees, and would not appear to give
her testimony.
B. F. Stotts. attOrney-at-law at Gar
den City, gave a deposition in which he
stated that Gray's reputation was bad.
He said that about seven years ago,
when he was county attorney, he was
called out in the country to investigate
the case of a girl named Jackson. who
/ had supposedly become involved in
some sort of an affair with Gray. He
was unable to get sufficient evidence to
use it as a basis for prosecution, but it
served to arouse his suspicious of DIR.
| Gray.
Mrs Gray obtained a divorce from
her husband in the Finney county dis
trict court naming Mary Remington as
| correspondent.
Mary Callahan, at whose house Dr.
Gray once boarded. testified in a depo-
sition that she had seen Mary Reming-
ton in the rooms occupied by DIR. Gray
at his drug store.
Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Gray both
testified that DR.. Cray was addicted to
the use of chloroform. They said that
ne inhaled it, and when he went INTO
one of his ckloroform sleeps was unable
to work for a week afterwards. The
testimony was that he used the chloro-
form very frequently. Mrs. Gray said
he had used the drug ever since a grad
uate from Rush Medical college, and
presumably she knew he used it when
she married him.
AS TO GRAY'S REPUTATION.
The following dispositions are among
those taken at Garden City on July 6,
and pertained to DR.. Gray's reputation:
w D. Carter, mayor of Garden City
testified that he had lived there IS years
and had known Gray for Is or II years.
He said: ''Gray's reputation as a
licentious man was not the best"
J. G.. Collins. proprietor of d repair
shop testified that he had lived in Gar
den City II years. and had known Gray
all the time. His reputation is bad,
said Collins
O. V. Folsom. ex-county clerk, has
lived in Garden City since 1885, and
knows that Gray has a bad reputation.
s. G. Norris, one of the proprietors Of
the Garden City Herald, testified that
/ Gray's reputation is bad
Hamer Norris. a brother of s. G. Nor
/ ris and editor of the Herald, said that
Gray had a bad reputation.
! W c. Self minister. was the only
one put on the witness stand who stated
that he did not know what Gray's gen.
/ eral reputation was.
/ G. w. Wardin, dry goods merchant,
did not think much Of Gray's reputa-
: ton He heard the noise of a fight in
I Gray's rooms in 1899.
A r. Downing, a banker, who had
lived just outside of Garden City for Is
years. and had known Gray all the
/ time. testified that his reputation in the
community was bad.
G. W. Miles, a retail lumber dealer,
said Gray had a bad name in Garden
City
! A. B. Wardin. a son of G. w Wardin,
had a deposition which verged on the
ridiculous He said Gray had a bad
reputation, and when asked how he