The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-27

nearly a week. SheHexplained at one
time that she had visited the family OF
John b. Tillotson; at another, with Mrs.
Hastings, mother OF Charles A. Hastings;
at another she claimed to nave been with
Mr.. and Mrs. John g. Carlisle, visiting
friends at Far Rockaway.
Dispositions were presented by counsel
for complainant from John @. Carlisle,
and Charles Hastings Of Greenwich, Conn.
in which they testified that Mrs. Bassett
had not visited their families in the month
Of July. Mr.. Carlisle testified that he
did not know Mrs. Fanny Rice Bassett.
Charles +. Hastings, whose deposition
was read, testified that he was a nephew
Of E. c.. Benedict, and knew the Bassetts
and the Rev. Mr.. Hunt; that after trouble
arose between the Bassetts he anne to
Washington and had a conference with
Hunt at the New Willard, at which the
minister said be had advised Mrs. Bsssett
that -dishonor was preferable to death
and had assured her that he would see
her through with her troubles II he had
to go through hell. The minister had
explained that the remark -dishonor was
to be preferred to death was based on
the statement Of DR.. Mckay, Mrs. Bassett's
physician, who said that she could not live
six months under the surroundings with
Bassett and that he had told her that the
dishonor Of divorce was to be preferred
to death.
The court took a recess at 1890 until
1880. When IL resumed he dispositions
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Morse, keepers of a
boarding house in Baltimore, were read
telling OF the visits of the Rev. Mr.. Hunt
TO Mrs. Bassett while she remained at the
boarding house just prior to the birth of
her last child. Morse's deposition said
that he had required Hunt to take Mrs.
Bassett away. The defence tried to 9
that thisr request was made because OF the
impertinence of Mrs. Bassett's son Chester,
a boy of s or 0. Both testified that Hunt
visited the house daily and remained in
Mrs. Bassett's bedroom. The door was
usually closed. Sometimes the boy, Ches-
ter, was in the room, at other times not.
The defence showed hat Mrs. Bassett
was not able to leave her room to go to her
dinner.
Belle Mitchell, a servant In the Morse
boarding house, testified hat she did the
work of chambermaid, and saw Hunt fire.
quently in the room of Mrs. Bassett. The
door was usually closed and she knocked
to secure entrance. usually responded,
saying: -Come in" Mrs. Bassett was
usually scantily dressed. Once she was
putting on a gauze shirt (the only garment
she wore) in the presence OF Hunt.
The dispositions of Rosa Parker and Hattie
Dorsey, servants in the Morse boarding
house, testified to the frequent visits OF
Hunt 70 Mrs. Bassett.
The depoeitions Of DR.. Henry NJ. Hurd,
superintendent of Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, and Of William Nj. O'Brien, book
keeper OF the hospital, were read, giving
the records Of the birth of the fifth child.
The important point claimed by the com
p~lainant's counsel was that in the record
Mrs. Bassett's address was given as
Fanny Rice Bassett," not Mrs. Charles
c. Bassett, I" and her address as Little Rock,
Ark. The evidence was objected to and
the objection was sustained on the ground
that there was no evidence given to trace
the authority Of b entries in the records.'
Nancy Elicott, a nurse at Johns Hopkins,
testified that Hunt visited Mrs. baSsett
in the ward Of the hospital, that they acted
toward each other AZ very intimate
friends" and that their conduct was GER
tainly unconventional
Mrs. McCracken, a Baltimore boarding
house keeper with whom Mrs. Bassett
lived after she left the hospital, testified
that Hunt visited Mrs. Bassett, that the
latter told witness he was her adopted
brother and that Chester Bassett, the
son, called him -uncle."
The attorney for Mr.. Hunt succeeded
in having the Court rule out the evidence
in the form OF a hospital memorandum, re-
produced from Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, on the ground that there was
no proof that the record had been made
by proper authority. 1t tended to prove
when Mrs. Bassett entered the hospital,
for what she was treated and gave the
record Of the birth OF her fifth child. Other
evidence was read to show hat Mrs. Bassett
had denied to three Of her ~neighbors, among
them Mrs. Rutherford, wife of a retired
army officer, that she had given birth TO a
hfth child.