The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-29

on their way to Detroit. But each
time. she fatly rcfuted the sugges-
ton.
You left your home. expecting TO
marry Mr. Adams? He always spoke
of marriagp in his letters?" asked
Bumps. getting an Affirmative reply.
Did you ever mention marriage In
your letters TO him. he continued.
II never mentioned marriage, but
spoke of being with him always, and
/. wouldn't do that without marrying
him." the g.rl replied.
Asked IL she had shown Adams let
ters to ner mother, Rosa said she had
not, because ner mother couldn't read
English. Attorney Bumps then asked
Rosa why size had destroyed Adams
letters to her.
Didn't Attorney Stricken tell you
to destroy 'hem. so that you couldn't
testify to anything that you wanted IL
without being afraid of having the let
ters produccd?" was asked.
No, sir" said the witness, prompt
~, Il neve.' had such a talk with At
torney Stricken. Il destroyed the let
tiers because Mr.. Adams asked me
to-"
Rosa's first romance, with one Cliff
ford White. 20 whom she was engaged
after going with him for a year. was
brought up.
Didn't you plan TO run away and
marry him?" Bumps asked.
She denied 1t.
When your engagement was brok-
en- off, didn't you threaten 10 bring
suit to force White to marry your"
was asked, and denied.
Then Bumps took up Rosa's trips
with Adams, step by step.
He asked her il Adams hal not
helped her to wash. and take down
her hair. when she arrived in the
Palace hotel, Cincinnati, travel STABBED
and tired.
why, certainly he did not" the
witness said, CURLY. With the sane
spirit, she denied Bumps insinuations
that her conduct with Adams in the
hotel was not proper. Rosa admitted
that she had not decided ON maria ge
when she reached Cincinnati. II just
went to look him over, and see
whether he was as he represented him
celf," she said.
IF he were, you wanted to marry
him." asked Bumps.
well, wasn't going to ask him.
| II he asked me to, was willing.
Every question about her move
lumbus was a blunt attack on the
girls character. but she refuted every
|irsinuation with a decisive denial.
"You posed as his niece In Coluc1-
bus?" Bumps asked.
"He said 7 was; | didn't" was the
reply.
Didn't you call him uncle?"
IL did not"
"Yet you never protested to anyone
that you were not his niece?"
II was never introduced to anyone.
In the week | was there, | never spohe
TO anyone but Mr. Adams"
Adams kissed You and Rugged you,
| in his room?" she wss asked.
Yes" she blushingly answered.
"And you kissed ard Rugged him?'
Yes. did," shortly, but not as
much as he kissed me-"
Again Bumps tried to get her to al
NIT that Adams had made improper
advances to her, but she said. HE
did not. He never suggested anything
wrong. wouldn't nave kissed him
except that | expected to marry him
Adams first improper remark to
her, Rosa said, was made on the train
going to Cleveland, when he asked her
to let him register her AS mis- wife In
a hotel, ito save the trouble Of getting
"a separate room for her." She told
him that she would not allow him to
register her as his wife, until she was
his wife in fact.
There was something in the simple
manner OF the pretty little Kentucky
girl which was brand new to the reg
ular courtroom crowd of loiterers which
filled every available space In the biz
room. There was no finesse about heT
testimony. Her answers were trans
parent. laying bare the real personal
| ity of a young, untutored girl whose
very trustfulness In human nature
made her the central figure in story
OF wiles and Establishments.
Are YOU familiar with the down
town districts Of I4ouisvil.e?" Attorney
Bumps asked her, insinuatingly. al
WAYS edging toward the suspicion that
Rosa REM was not the innocent yome
woman which the prosecution states
| he: to be.
81 know where some of the bis
stores are" she replied promptly.
used to go there with my mother. Bu'
| IL is a big town. and | don't kno"
them all"
Rosa cried when Attorney Bumps
vrung from her an admission that sh'
had written letter 20 Adams. stating
that she did not intend 20 tell hei
mother about how they had met. AM
those tears. shed over the little decep
ton which she had practiced unde'
the promptings of Dan Cupid. seemed
10 wash all of the triumph for the de
fence out of the admission
Attorney Bumps endeavored TO es
tsblish. "Wednesday morning, that tn
nart,es had agreed 10 i've together
lthorehy constituting common-laV
marriage. but the court wasn't Inn
rreysed and the line OF defense iailed
Miss Renz's cross-exannation wa
concluded shortly before ! o'clock, an
when the trial was resumed al
O'Clock her redirect examination be
gan.
"rd Rather Die, Doctor
than have my feet cut OF. said ". I.
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