The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-11-21
His Perambulating Pcll-Mell Past-W'
Mrs. Fisher says Eighme Held her
Hand and Gave her Money-Judge
Steiner Instructs Jury not to Read the
Daily World During the Trial.


nation of Ira Thomas yesterday, Dee
Fisher, plaintiff in the sensational
$4,000 damage suit against V. l..
Eighme, told tale of a checkered
career that reads like chapter from
the life of Claude Duval.
The case of Fisher VS.. Eighme pre-
sents some unusual aspects; the
plaintiff is asking $4,000 damages
for the alienation of his wife's af-
fections, alleging in his complaint
that between March 10th and June
18th last, while V. L. Eighme made
his home with the Fisher family he,
Eighme, made love to Mrs. Fisher
urged her to leave her husband, ge;
a divorce and marry him, and actu-
ally let her have $1O0 for that pur-
pose.
Eighme's answer, filed through his
attorneys. Corbin, Kemp, Thomas
Marsh and Parr, states that the Fish
ers moved into the Eighme home
and that he, Eighme, made his
home with them for some months
That Mrs. Fisher often toll: he
1,eeLles to NJ. Eiehme, and re:it
n to him her Miongs at the hand:
of Dee Fisher.
The answer further alleges thai
plaintiff Fisher changed his name sc
that his wife might not recognize in
him the same man who was mixed
up in a murder case in Montana sew
e,al years before, at which time he
had been sentenced to be hanged
The answer further alleges that the
Plaintiff, while living with his wiff
in the east, seduced a girl relative
os hers who had come to make heI
home with the Fishers, and tha'
Fisher fed the country to escape
prosecution.
Tells of the Montana Murder.
In calm, steady voice, and
with distinctive conference, the plain
tiff, James Ely Fisher, or dee.
Fisher as he is called, told of the
murder OF McCrary and John Adams
the two Montana sheenmen, fol
whose murder he was tried and sen
fenced to be hanged, but afterwards
exonerated and set free, when it was
shown that a witness against him
had been guilty of perjury.
Happenings Of Long Ago.
Interrogated by Mr.. Thomas, Fish.
er told of his various wanderings
from the time in 1897 or '9S, wher
he left his boyhood home in Syca-
more, Howard county, Indiana, and
drifted gradually westward. He
was .21 when he left home, he said
Dee Fisher then told how he had
worked from town to town, through
Wisconsin, North Dakota and Mon
tana, sometimes at Butte, sometimes
at Billings, sometimes elsewhere.
He also testified that at various
times he had played piano for q
living in dance halls run in connec
ton with houses of prostitution.
"Did you leave Billings along In
September, 1898, On a hunting trip?'
asked Lawyer Thomas.
eyes," said Fisher. "And we kill.
ed a couple of.deer, went fishing
and hauled hay one day."
"It was abaut this time that some
thing else happened, was 1t not:
asked Ira Thomas.
"Yes; something happened then
"You were arrested charged with
the killing of McCrary and John
Adams, were Sou not?"
YES"
According to that testimony you
admitted that you did the shooting
which resulted in their deaths?"
81 did not; no. sir"
"What was the result of your
trial?"
Il was sentenced to be hanged"
Were you hanged?"
Il don't think So
Witness then told in detail how. al
the point of a Winchester rifle, be
had been compelled By the Calder