The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-13
UNDERGRADUATES CASE.
Counsel for Plaintiff Have An Inning Miss
Walker on the Stand

she drink some port wine. telling
her, she claimed, thai il was soft
drink and would not hurt her. She
drank some of it and lost her senses.
Edwards apologized graciously,
telling her that he was very sorry
indeed, but that the boys had in.
tended to play joke on him, and
unfortunately it had fallen on the
girl. They accepted the apology.
The men also had beer on the ride,
but she did not know ii until after
they were on the road.
HER FIRST LOVER.
When witness was asked if she
had ever had lover before Col.
Edwards proposed TO her, she re-
Piled that she never had, and broke
down and cried. Edwards told her
that he would be the happiest man
in the world if she would become
his wife, and she informed the
counsel, with tears in her eyes,
that she was then the happiest
woman in the world.
She stated that after she left the
Battery Park Hotel Edwards Sc
cured a closed carriage and they
went out past Biltmore. Edwards
had some wine, of which they both
drank. Said the wine did not effect
her as did that she drank on the
tallyho ride. Edwards had h is
arms around her most of the time,
and was constantly kissing and
hugging her. Then h broke
down, and wept, telling through
her tears of her ruin, the plaintiff
insisting that they would soon be
married. She said she had implicit
confidence in Col. Edwards, and
that her affections for him were
such as any woman would have for
the man she expected to marry.
She feeling that her shame would
be known by every one she remained
in her room until IL o'clock the fol-
lowing day, weeping most of the
night. She asked the plaintiff why
he did not make her his wife, as he
said he would do, and he answered
that her aunt, Mrs. Cullen, would
be opposed to the match, as she
had not liked him since she drank
the wine on the tallyho ride. He
would go to New York in a few
days, and she could follow him, and
there they would be married. He
was afraid to try and take her with
him for fear Mrs. Cullen would stop
them. She insisted on an immedi-
ate marriage, and not gong to New
York. He told her that he had a
friend, Dick Weaver, in whom he
had perfect confidence, and that he
would give Dick money with which
to defray her expenses, and that he
would take her and her trunk to the
depot and buy her Pullman berth.
Q n request of defendant, Miss
Walker took servant girl into her
regarding the proposed
eloPement, and this girl assisted
her off About 9 30 Weaver came
Tor her trunk, and they got in a
lack and were driven to the Bilt-
more station. The train was late
ind again Weaver gave her instruc-
ions about what to do, and gave
Ter twenty-five dollars, which the
defendant had given him for that
purpose. Col. Edwards told her
hat if she couldn't get out the
.runk. Why all right, that there
we're plenty of clothes in New York |
ind he had plenty of money to buy
hem. She was to meet defendant,
Who had gone to New York, at the |
doffman House. Weaver cautioned |
Ter very earnestly against letting
t be known that he had anything
o do with the elopement, should
Ter aunt stop them. or the affair in
my way prove a fiasco, claiming
hat 1t would damage his business.
Her aunt boarded the train at
Asheville, and found her niece in
Ter berth and endeavored to make
Ter leave the coach with her, but
he young lady refused to do so.
cling Mrs. Cullen that she was
DING to New York to marry Col.
EDWARDS. The conductor stated
hat the young lady had paid her
are and that Mrs. Cullen nor Off
ers who attempted to have her re-
urn should take her from the train
IRIS. Cullen then went as far