The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-15
GOOD IMPRESSION.
MADE BY MISS WALKER WHILE
ON WITNESS STAND IN HER
OWN BEHALF. 5
Her Past Records Being Dug Up BY
Counsel for Edwards--Wrote for
Money and Said Delays
Were Dangerous.

Union City. Tenn, July 14-Wher
court adjourned this afternoon Miss
Lola Walker, plaintiff In he $50 00C
damage suit brought against Col ID
A, Edwards, of this city. was stjll on
the witness tand, having spent most
or the day under crossexaminat on
She stood the ordeal well. ana many
favorable comments are heard as t.
her testimony and demeanor.
7. n Pierce of s.. Louis, began tn
cross-examination, The witness t1Id Of
her living with her aunts Mrs. Bauer
In Chicago, ana Mrs. Cullin in Asbe
vile. In answer to questions she told
OF her mother And grandmother in
Ashevile, and her uncle. Mr.. Bauer
IN Chicago The latter could find no
time from business to bring suit
against Edwards was why the sniff
was brought through her aunt, Mrs,
Cnllin. Her father died in the Kanka.
kee asylum in 1902. The reason she
went 10 Ell Paso, Tex, was to engage
as bookkeeper with her mother and
grandmother who were conducting
cafe.
At this stage of the proceeding
eleven photographs of the sDlaintiff
were introduced and shown toS he
jury The pictures were in stage COS
tune They were made long after Ed
wards met Aer in Asheyille aHpaseaf
ried her To New York Her mofhei !
had married a man named stout br
there was separation AZ to .wAethe, |
or not the photoes were competent |
test mony the jury was exclu.f3d iron
the room and the balance t3f the
morning session wa taken up in argu
ment by the attorney on both Sides.
Counsel for plaintiff contended tina
anything done by Miss Walker af e
her meeting with Edwards in Ashe
VILE was incompetent The Judge
ruled the evidence competent.
Miss Walker identified a number OF
Of herself, taken in stag
costume after her parting from Ed
ward In New York and upon her EN-
ter'ng stage life She told in answer
to cross que ions CT the tally-ho ride
10 Willow Springs She had been to a
Battery Park hotel bah once befor
she had gone there with Edwards. On
he ride she sat between Edwards ansW !
he negro boy buglar. Sac denied that
Roy Martin. who was one of the crowd ,
poured her cut q cocktail She did no
fnnw pr ha1 rauof. mo- n r,o,. ,,,-x-
Z. p Evan. who deposition will b
cad, at the Battery park She wensi
0 the rel room where she drank. q
lass of lemonade. She wa: Grvinr
When Edwards proposed and was az =
opted. Size never yodc with .Mart1
fter' the tal'yho ride and never sav p
i'm again. She left loct2t at r cid :
ewelry store and Weaver was to SEND =
to her, bet never did so. Sho nevc~
DID any one that she was going to \
lew York TO get a place with tn 4
len Hur company She did not know Y
acre was such play. Her aunt no II
ny member of the family had az
len Of putting her on the stage. Sh. =
ever ii Gus ed with Weaver, ]. r.
orter. or any one. her intention L +
: on the stage. ~g4 !
a number of letters and telePranic =
on her to Edwards were shown and
entitled by her. ALTO a letter she n,
I'd written to Dick Weaver, telling
at all would be told if she did not
ceiYe assis Gnce, and warned him
at delays were dangerous. The othe!
ters to Edwards also called for
oney. .4H &c
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