The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-05-18
TOM CAMBELL'S
WIDOW SUED
On Money Advanced Him by
StGnOgrapher
Debt IS VIGOROUSLY DENIED
Miss Dorothy Klelmeyer Claims She
Advanced $4,000 TO Former
Cincinnati Lawyer.
WAS IN TOO MANY PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

New York, May l2. Pursued by liti-
cation even beyond the grave after a
lifetime Of trying experiences with
litigeous enemies, Col. Thomas C Camp
bell, who for years was conspicuous in
New York and Ohio practice and poll
tics. yesterday acquired posthumous
notoriety IN connection with a suit his
stenographer. Miss Dorothy Kleimeyer,
began sgainst his widow. says the New
York Press.
Campbell in life had almost as much
business with courts in the role Of de-
fendant as he had as a lawyer, although
he was counsel in several Of the coun-
try's most celebrated cases.
Miss Kleimeyer yesterday painted
the attorney in a new light that Of an
employer who borrowed thousands from
his amanuensis She sued Mrs. Emma
J. Campbell. the widow. for 800 she
said IS still due her, and demanded $50
more for services rendered to the de-
PENDANT herself. Ms. Campbell denied
vigorously that she ever had availed
herself Of the stenographer's services
and fought the other claim as
earnestly.
Indeed. the widow did not content
herself with a mere denial. Her son
threw a questionable light on side is
sues in connection with the plaintiffs 5
alleged loans to the Colonel. An at
tempt was made for instance. to show
that Mrs. Campbell did not approve in
every detail all her husbands IDEAS as
10 the duties Of a shorthand writer.
George b. Campbell. the son. said he
interfered to prevent Miss Kleimeyer
from accompanying his father on the
younger mans yacht. Il was in the
loss Of that same Yacht. the Roamer.
on a Bahama key. that Colonel Camp
bell suffered exposure from which he
died in the Skenc Sanitarium. No. 759
President Street. Brooklyn. on January
5. 1894.
The Colonel's fate was Of public in.
tcrcst in several States, He Il was
who was most active in the prosecution
Of Gov. Gocbcl's murdcrcrs. and who
melted the Cincinnati riot that cost
100 lives that grew out Of his success
In obtaining a verdict Of manslaughter
for young Berncr, charged with murder.
lie was president Of the Hamilton Re
publican Club In Harlem and a political
leader in the Buckeye State,
Miss Kleimcycr testified she was not
only the Colonel's stcnographcr, but
his managing clerk. She loaned him
s., 600. she said. Of which sl,60O was
protected by claims against realty he
left in Ohio and Kentucky. Miss En-
ma Kleimcycr. the plaintiffs sister,
and Mrs. Klcimcycr. mother Of the
young woman. gave testimony intended
10 cotruboratc her story.
The defendant tcarfuly asserted she
begged Miss Klcimcycr 20 stay away
from her home when Campbell was
brought here in the steamer Orizaba in
a dying state.
Il once found my mother" George
Campbell testified, ''in her home IN
Brooklyn in a hysterical condition be.
cause my father had asked Miss Klci'
meyer to accompany him on yachting
cruise. Ny father was III at the time
and was going to take the cruise with
my mother | told Miss kleimeyer
tha, was the owner Of the yacht and
that she could not come with US. en-
gagged a stcnographcr named Wilson
for the yayagc. and Miss Kleimeyer
remained in New York"
Campbell denied Miss klcimcyer had
any claim against his fathers estate.
A s,aisi verdict was ordered.