The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27
ed at the Battery Park and Kenil-
worth Hotels.

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Asked if Mrs. Neff, the married
woman and companion of Weaver,
was not an old woman, witness de.
MED that she was, saying that she
was twenty-eight, and that they
never took old women on tallyho
excursions. Said he Rugged and
kissed Mrs. Neff, and that when
the horses had a fit the crowd sep.
arated and he didn't know where
Edwards and Lola went because he
had business of his own to attend
to. While Edwards was in Ashe-
vile he was out in one of witness
rigs with Lola every day.
Witness told of a three-seated
surrey ride, of which Edwards and
Miss Walker were members, also
Mrs. Cullen and man named Evans
and another woman whose name
witness objected to telling. When
pressed for answer he said her
maiden name was Weldon. The
Judge ordered him to give tull name
of the lady and he said it was Mrs.
Seeley. Didn't know husbands Civ
en- name, but he was railroad man.
Mrs. Seeley had lived there, but
was then visiting. On this surrey
ride Evans took along a bottle OF
cocktail. They went to the wine
room of the Kenilworth Inn and
got home about II or l o'clock.
Witness stated that Miss Walker
never told him what hotel she ex-
pected to stop at in New York. He
didn't remember whether it was his
carriage or not in which he took
Miss Walker to the depot when she
left to join the Colonel in New York.
Afterwards remembered tina t he
hired it.
Witness stated that he never re-
turned Lola's locket that he got
from a n Asheville jeweler wi h
whom she had lett it because he
never knew where she was, and
that when she returned to Ashe-
vile she never asked him for it. He
had the locket, and producing it
handed it to plaintiffs attorney,
who gave it to Miss Walker. Coun-
sci for defendant stated that they
would use the locket as evidence,
but counsel for plaintiff said he
guessed not.
" illness stated that he never saw
Mrs. Cullen in but one place of a
questionable character, and that
was in Coopers room one night.
Never saw Lola in any question
able place. Cooper was sport.
was asked if he did not
visit questionable resorts. He re.
piled that he did in his younger
days. He was asked if he did not
visit houses of ill-repute while in
Memphis last week and replied in
the affirmative. He also acknowl-
edged that while in Memphis last
week he rode in an automobile with
A woman of the red light district.
Acknowledged that he h ID been
been drunk several times. Said he
yambled, but not with gamblers.
Asked if he was not arrested in
Asheville in August, 1905, on the
charge of aiding nd abetting a
negro woman named Sarah Jane
Lightle in running an designation
house and fined FIVE dollars under
IN assumed name? Paid 6ne of
twenty-five dollars under assumed
name of Geo. Murphy for gambling.
Witness denied that he had been
lorse-whipped by a woman in Ashe-
lille.
TOOK WHOLE GLAssFUL.
The Edwards case opened
Monday morning with a full at
but not as large as the
irst day, when gentleman paid a
dollar tor seat. The first thing
was the reading of the deposition
il Roy Martin, taken in st. Louis,
Tune .. 1908.
Witness gave his age as thirty
me, and residence Little Rock. Ark,
where he IS engaged in business.
lie was in Asheville, August, 1903.
lie knew no one in Asheville at that
line except Dick Weaver. Didn't
,now the reputation at that time of
drs. Cullen aud her niece, Miss
lola Walker, plaintiff in the $780,
100 damage suit against Col. d. A.
edwards. He told of the famous
allyho drive, be being one of the !
'arty. There was present on that
ide, himself. Dick Weaver, Will (