The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-08-11
CAPTAIN TAGGART ARRESTED
TO KEEP HIM FROM TALKING
Mrs. Taggart's Face Bruised and
swoIlen From Chastisement Ad-
ministered by Husband.
SECOND WEEK OPENS sRIskLY
With All Sorts of Sensations, Charges,
Counter Charges, and Some
More Dispositions.

Oh IS-yeaf-Olu girl came To-Day tne
first oral charge of Importance against
Mrs. Taggart in the divorce proceed
iDgs under way.
The girl, Fanny Everly, of Pitts
burg declared that she had looked
through the keyhole of the parlor door
one afternoon in May, 1900. She says
she saw Mrs. Taggart and Billy Tag
gart holding hands" The direct tes-
timony of the girl, which was a power
In itself for the prosecution, came as
a relief from the tedious reading of
dispositions. 1t may be that the fate
of the case will largely depend upon
children. If it does, 1t will be unique
chapter in the history of all litigation.
Perry Rope, boy of Is, has already
testified. Another boy from this dis
trict will probably be called to the
stand tomorrow.
Whether or not Culver and Elmore
Taggart, the sons of the opposing par
ents, will take the stand is a question.
The boys, however, speaking either
for or against the father or mother,
will furnish climax in this case of
unexpected sensations. Dispositions of
army officers read today tended to
show that Brigadier General Miner,
now retired, held Major Taggart in
confinement, having given orders to
arrest him and put him where he
couldn't talk"
Mrs. Taggart had claimed the major,
while drunk, had assaulted her, and
he was arrested.
Outside of the testimony of the
Everly girl, there was little that was
sensational brought out today.
Wooster, o., Aug IA woman's face
bruised and swollen. her husband un-
der arrest and forbidden by military
dictator" to see her TO seek reconcile
alton, the dictator conspirator with
the wife-these we're the features with
which the second week of the Taggart
divorce trial opened this morning.
Mrs. Taggart, as on Saturday, wore
a white waist with the rest of her
mourning costume. She looked fit.
For the first time she took chair
drawn UP to her attorneys table. She
sat down with her back turned toward
Capt Taggart. Not once did she turn
her eyes in his direction. Her party
was increased today by the arrival of
an assistant army surgeon, and hus-
band of Mrs. Taggart's niece. He is to
be one of her witnesses.
Aside from the testimony of little
girl who had been an Orrville playmate
of the Taggart children, that she had
looked through a keyhole and seen
Billy and Grace Taggart holding hands
In the parlor and that she had heard
Culver, otherwise Buster" Taggart
swear violently at his mother, the
morning session was taken up with
the reading of the depositions of two
army officers The scene was Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, and the events
we're those accompanying the skirt
tearing quarrel that spit the Taggar
family for keeps.
The deponents were Major Charles
G. Morton, now of the war college at
Washington, and Col. John Van Hoff,
assistant surgeon general. 1t was the
latter who testified that he saw Mrs.
Taggart's face bruised and swollen the
day after the engagement, The plain
Inns attorneys have admitted in court
that Taggart slapped his wife's face
with his hand open. Morton's testi-
mony related to the conspiracy, alleged
by Taggart, its reputed object being
the removal of Taggart from the path
pf Col. Miner and Mrs. Taggart AS
Morton put 1t, Captain Taggart was
arrested to put him somewhere where
he couldn't talk"
The testimony in the divorce trial
vas resumed this morning at the point
where 1t was abandoned Saturday
noon, in the middle of the deposition
Of Major Morton, now attached to the
war college, Washington, but formerly
Capt. Taggart's superior officer at Fort
Leavenworth. The deposition covered
raggart's department before and after
bis arrest on charges of intoxication,
which followed the Taggarts' final
quarrel and separation, in July, 1908.
Taggart's domestic habits had always
been excellent and exemplary, depo-
aent said, as was his reputation for
morality and sobriety., 81 think Capt.
Taggart's treatment of his wife should
be a model for every husband in the
world" Morton testified. "And his
!. treatment of his children was always
kind and considerate."
Testimony as to whether Taggart's
arrest and confinement were usual was
ruled out temporarily, though the
plaintiff argued that upon this arrest