Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1879, Page 6

Th 9 : ; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1879---TWELVE PAGES, ; t a ‘. uta bo no, and ‘. PETE STEVENS. viPtite facta lhnve stated are proved you will her appearance there. Pater naked who she | accumulation of facts, which drove him wild. |‘agambler, Tnever gambled {n my life; nover | +" Report what it waa you sald to tim about | cither Mr, or Mra. dikfors, I loft my bro} was. Sho said, “My amu fa Mrs. Elfelt? | In the ‘Nellie’? letter was referenca | was ina gambling bots.” that, I want ro cet that graven here.’? ther’, all the facts, T have stated are prove vegid: | there was tintin horaopeatance-cthe painton | t0 Dolly. "Tell “Dolly to put ice | ‘You tay atnto whother or not) on that | “Casied tim if ate woshia wiles Sho didn't | tous 29) between Gand 7 gt blooded, willtal, brutal acmurderer as ever shot | her cheeks, and the qumber of diamond ringsun | on tls head.” Stevens found out | bench, In the brief talk you have spoken of, | make any remark.’ Sunday evaning, mot Miss Leo her fitiera—thatindieated that she was what sho | that he was Dolly, Ho was ao flat enso neh ‘t * * * ‘ a woman beeanse he was Jealous and felt stight- anythliuye was enid about meeting Mamie Sto | “ Wers youin any doubt on the anbject? and we started for Centenary Church, Tho Trial of the Wife-Killer Fairly | ta'ty her conducts und, Reet i Teed tons a Ing aflerwarda proved to be. *! What do you want | that he couldn't work. Ho hired a man. to | vons, or maklig an assignation swith hor"! 4 Tcan't aay whether f a3 or not.” early, and wo wont Into Jofforaon Park, p, ft not foltow logically, and in the Hight of your | with my wito?? sald he. An uusatisfactory ox- | watch her. 1 must have somo assurance that | "No, sir. ‘There was not ono word.” “You can’t go back to your frame of mind at | through the park, Miss Leonard catiea qit"® Begun consclencea, thnt, upon Peter Stevens must be | planation was given, and he believed, and had a | she taal rigit.? “Tfoly lone did your conversation on thle | thattime, Was any doubt that you had in your | tention to Mra, Beevons. Ieald, V3 el my ay . {nilicted the highest punishment known to our | right to belleve, that something was wrong be- | Ho went to Gilbert, who antd, * Why, I mot | bench continuet mind as to the existence of the marriage Tein. | tition to Mrs, Btovens. Teal, “ Whata toga, Jaw,—doath, which {6 ordained by the laws of | tween them. So that snine day or the next he | your wife in church, Don’t you know whol “Provably very nearly on hour.* ton between them one of the rensons why you “When vou discovered Peter Stevens, as you | were slow tn withdrawing when ho requested have descrfbed him, what did you dol? you to withdraw? “T looked bolifud me, and he sat upon the “No, alr. £ think it was -becnuse ho had round, and he rosa up and came sround usin | treated her ao mean that he might attempt to rout of the aunt.’ abuse her again’? : ‘CAL the moment you turned and saw him tn “What did you know about that?! the position you describe, of what subject were What sho had told mo about It.” iful girl’? Wo passed on, sat down ons near Mrs, Stevens, and wero there until fers. when it was too Into to Zo to church, and Mj, Leonard and I went out. Near the corner dt Throop and Adama Mre. Stevens camo up, yo Much oxeltod, and wa walled toward her hey, with her, We wero about throo or four boon? went to Shoyer & Co.'s, where Elfelt wasom- | aml, I sing in the choir,’ All these young ployed as bookkeeper, and asked how {t was | men who have left town with two excevtlons,— that tis (Elfelt's) wits was over to sce fils { all these women attended church. One of the {Stevens} wife. This was in February. The | pleasantest sights to my cycs fs a Christian homicide took placu in June, Mark how the | knecling atthe altar responding to_the Deca- efrctmstances nro Interwoven uo to the time of | logue, Tom not a churchman, I loft tho the killlng. Ho exhiblted ere bearance, | church when called upon to defend my own A God, and ded by the statutes of man, A Plain, Straight Opening by jade hiatal ins * Mr. LOVI’s YOUNG DREAM. - Mills, In opening for the defense, Mr. Trudo apoke substantially as follow: May it Bunase tux Count, GentLEMEN OF “And a Very Ornate One by Mr. “Af c d y fram hee mother’s homo wher te) ang Jury: For the first time, nnd before the | almost retreatea from the evident is wifo's | minister for Adultery. Gilbert sang in the choir, | you talking??? “Did she ask you to champion her cause? { N Steveny 3 gullt, his affection for her was go strong. Ele | and sald, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” |” ' None at that time,’ “No, air’? game up, ald tis, hand ou ber sho. Trude, proper tribunal, the Ins of Peter Stevens, | Fie rota hlin hehad no wife, that ho didn't | yet ho debauched the wito of Peter Stovens, and He Fos : der, nnd soid, Mamie, wa sneak to you's Sho sald, “You ceannun 4 he put bis hand tn bis hip-pociet, aud puja out his revolver, She sald, Are you Loluy shoot mo! Uo sald, * ¥ am,” ond fire, ‘Fhe ‘ball passed through her left shonide, Sho fell, threw up her arms, and ho started of When he su hor throw up hor arms ho turned back, and, while she was still on the eruyn, fired the sccond time, then running away to i tor ho came around and confronted you, “You were asort of yoluntecr in the business, through his counsel, speak to you. Up to thle what ins eid f werent you? (Langhverd a He put his hand in his yeat-pocket first, and | ‘The Court frowned. “I will say now,” ho sald, ‘You ara a gambler, aron’t youl’ Tre- | began, ‘that demonstration made Increases tn uted, §No, alr.’ Sava he, * What ara you solug yoluno {tI do nat check ft. 1 cannot permit with ny wife? He put his hand on my shoul- | anything of the sort. Thosa who laugh, or elya der. Fwas sitting down, and I raised up, and | any signs of thnt sort to the disturbauce of tho says 1, *{s sho your wifal? Ho made me uo | court, will bo put out by the balllile. Twant answer, but went and ent down bestdo her, She | you to understand that not. Proceed, Mr. twade the remark, *I guess not,’ und got uv, | Storrs." and walked out towards the parkgate. He sald, | ‘The erowd understood, and were henceforth ‘The best thing you can do ts to get out if you | allent, doing thelr chuckling to themselves want to avoid trouble Ie ran ogalast me, } whenever they felt that occasion demanded ft. pushed me, and said, ‘tho beat thing you can © Who mado you her champion, Mr. Adams, do fe to get out of here and avoid | or wore you aul! -appolnited ??? trouble” 1 anid, ‘Hold on. This fs o “ Neither way.” public place and Lthink I ought todo justas1 | «How longatter the first Interview. when no want to.’ Mamilo Stevens was at tho entrance of | protty peremptorily told yout that you had bet- the park, at the corner of Louimis und Adatns, | ter go, how long was it after that thot you met. alone, and Twalked upto her. As we wero | Mrs, Stevens again? Didn't you say upon your walking down the street, and had just crossed | goparation, ‘I'll sce you Inter, Mainfo!?!! Adams, some one cama running up behind ue, Shu looked and sald !—~ How close was Stevens? asked Mr. Milla, “ Very near me.” “ In what tone of volce did she speak?!” “ Very frightened.” “Loud or low!” ‘1 suppoge {uo moderate tone of voice. Ho as running, and was probably fifteen or twenty feet away. ‘He ran up behind mo and struck st me, As he did so LE turned around, and hoe struck moon tho chin, and says, *l thought I told vou to let my wife alone, Get out of here,’ and he pushed inv between the sidewalk and the curbstone, und out foto the street.’? “Why did you accompany her from tho parki!? She satd—" Mr. Storrs—You needn't state what sho sald, Because she was frightened." “Why was {t, when Stevens struck you on the face, thnt you made no revlatanco?”? ‘Because L thought of what sho had tola me that he was acoward: that be wouldn't dare to strike me without he bada revolver to de- fend Imeclf.” “What did you then dot? “Walked fnto und through the park, and Went straight home.” “That fa all, sald Mr. Mills. kuow Ars, Stevens. Petar then described his | his flight was a confession of bis degradation, wife, “Why, that is Miss Young," salt El- | To-day his atornoy ts in this court watening his felt. “Did ‘vou know ber?! Yes." “Hnyo.| futerests, you been with herf? ‘Yes? And Elfelt sald Wheru ig Nelle 8b. Clair, with whom ho also the other was Nellio St. Clatr—his girl, She was | tenined? No case was ever sv surrounded by ro hfs inistross, and hind learned that Elfelt was | inany obstacles, Every witness by which we paying, attontlon to Mra. Stevens, nud had | are to prove our case fa against us; all are with ber letters wherein Mamie proposed } brought hero under prozeas of the Court. Crazy to become his mistress; and she went | and wild, Stevens found that his wife the Satur- thera to hog Mrs. — Stevons not | day before the killing had gone to tho matinee, todoso, Stevens was crazed and made mad, | Ho followed her to the Tivoli, and broke into Happening to throw his clothes on a trunk at | the room, With Rehm it was champagne und home, the thought flashed on him that there | oysters. With Dolavy, who was with her tint wifght be more letters thereln, nud he opened ft. | day, {t was beer und oysters, One isn petricinn, Some milcht say that was a contemptible act. ft | nnd the other was in the lower walks of Ilfe. was tis plain duty, He ould have been na cow- | And when Mamio left thero she met on Clark ard, and acur, anda cuckold bad ho dono leas, | street the Gollath of devauctees, Did vou ever He found photographs and fotters, ardent, lag- | sec him? There {s but One of him in America. elvious, and tlithy,—terms of endearment,—too { A two-buttoned vest ant diamonds,—-a gay, foul to be addressed to 4 virtuous wife, Then | iccntious character, who may be seen day after Stevens went forth erazed and wild. From that ] dav in the yleinity of the theatres, and has been day until the minute of the homicide the toad | denounced again and again by the pen of tho was piled with closa consceativeness upon him. | journalist for bis moral piracy. He took one of thu letters to a fricnd—Mr. Palle at showed ait to pia, and, ashe. in MADDENED, whose handwriting it was. know ft," sald he, "ilies Chariey Sweet's” Stevens"aaid ithe | , From Satardey night, when he discovered had had improper relations with his wife he | that he was “Dolly,” Stevens was without would kil bln, Coffeen advised him to leave | thought, without Judgment. Sunday he watch- his wife. A manin the twilight of lite could | ed and saw his wife with another letter-wrlter. bare (lave: 1, unt Be Was young au, alent Sho had told her mother sho was coin to huitnd up in the love and affection of lis wite. f WAWVhnat would. you de if It was your witet™ | cure. Ho saw her in Jefferson Pafk, Sho “Don't make that illustration?” said Coffeen, | W88 in one of the little retreats with the man He yleldcd to the advice of Coffeen, and worked | for some tine. Stevens crept up behind them, Misiie aa Hay and fed to foreee Mor Bat ie He had a right to guard hie wife. To saw the ‘ain. Hocould not forget what wis to Min | ian, arma aroun her, and heard the ex- Worgo than the mirage to the traveler, He | pressions of endearment, nd he jumped up und Kew ie wos anton a as: bursting. He | struck at the nan: © This fa my wife.” “No, I knew that with lice there could be no happiness ” “ ” bub he tried sual gud axaln, and could bes weld Starla: »: ANE shane asthe HOG, Torgeb., Acts Care eg ttet,, IY | And then the hot blood was singing from tho vaule at the City-Hall, walking uo } neart to brain ite weit towards his: wite and down, frenzied, talking to bimsclt, When | and guld: “want to speak with you.’ askdd what waa the matter, ho made an Ineo- | to "away, you pin.” He beeme herentexplanation, The one who noticed him | frenzied nt the — accummlated wrongs, anid tou friend, “Pate Stevens will elther kill | gua is freuzy Iucreascd from the moment he hinasiton womebous. Ate, fs crazy on the sub- | pay the man with her, and did not die out until AcE Ot bis. olip's inate the shot had been fired. ie had no motive in Stovens saw Sweet, who explained that his | kiting his wife except thut based on strona af- expressions of love were platonic, not slnlater. | fection and never-ending love, ‘The dofense of No was anxious to believe Sweet told tha truth, Insanity in euch a casa as this fs not to be ridi- au ho ut cae fone 80.5 ive scon Mr. | cuted, ‘Take the case home to yourselves, You weet and Tthing hols more of a gentleman | would be colder than the wlutor's snow if you than uy of the others. They aro in fact not | would do differently from Peter Stevens, Kentlemen, ‘They aro pirates at whuse maln- | asic you to pass on tt carefully, vo to ft such mast is the Wack fag. nd thelr war 12 | condldaration and deliberatfoi ag you would ask body fwd been to Mamfe, and sho if on trial, Let the scrutiuy of your eyes bo told the same story. Ho lid talked with his friends, and went to hie wife with a flrm resolu- ton to have an explanation, und then a final and eternal separation, When he got within the range of her eyea, owaver, the embers of the old love stl! burned, Though covered with the ashes of tribulation, doubt, and suspicion, they were fnauned into flame by her health, and the fre burat forth anuw. Le was completely inher toils. Woman has ever played that part. She commenced it in Eden. It was her voleo thut caused the flrat man to fall, This resolu- tion of Stevens was made before he found the letters fn the trunk—April 8 or 9. : ‘ : hour he has sald nothing, done nothing, or caused. Who Pays His Compliments to the | potting tobe said or done In his defonso; has not ; Young Man of the Poriod. narrated the afliictions that have aseatled bit, . told to no person the heavy welght of his do- mestic tribulations—the sorrows that crushed Young Samuel Adams Js Tortured by | him to the earth, ‘Tho Atato’s Attorney apolta é of a clandestine marriage; wo say that {s not gis Stare, true, He referred toa child-wife; we do not * know her age, but wa do know that sle And Is Unable to Explain His Mental | was a woman well formed and de- Oondition, voloped, ond, at the time of her west. Ono of the jurors asked witness If she Stevens, ‘ited the park, skulking ar YH buahes, z Bormuth iw Cad the reply. 1 Mr. Trude conducted the croas-oxam! and srltiees, teatlfiod as fullows: toate, was not there In tho park that nicht anyone, I haye met a Mr. William renee in the park; it was once Inst sunimer, But thi, evculny we didn’t go thera expecting to meg anybody, I didn't hear Stevens tell Kitt Leonard that his wifa was in the park, and ts “keep still 4 Kittic Leonard had stepped oxy of the path aud into thearass. £ didn't nothy particularly how elose Adams and Mrs, Btoven were, nor did I notice that his left he was crossed over and on hor person, 1 cannot tell, either. that his arm ancircted her waist, ry had’ a cave in one hand, but I couldn't tet where the other hand was. Ihave talked with Mra, Young during the past day or tivo, oy nothing was anid as whit I should swear to, [ do not. know who the tady Ia whose pleture so, [Mr, Trude} now show me, [A young cresiun with banged hair and a generally vert look Trude alierwards told” the reporter 4 was “Sammy's” girl] The banch refered to was not an arbor, I think, althougt ther were trees back of it. Twas not in 9 position, bear what Stevens sald to Kittio Leonard, bs cauee Kittlo stepped out of the path, and{ didn't take any notice of Stevens, ‘There wore treus around the edge of the park, oud they wero pretty inuch all the trees then, was in the park. Kittte Leonard, whens steppedout of the path, walked off somo thre or four feet from me. marriage, was twenty pounds heavier than Peter Stevens, aud atnotime up tothe day of her Testimony of the Other Witnesses for the Prose- | death did she weigh lesa, Such statements are cutfon made for tho purpose of surrounding this wom- i ‘ an with a glamour she is not entitled to, And let ine state to you here that it is far 3 . FAIRLY STARTED. from our purpose to say anything derogatory of ‘The introductory course of the trial which {s | the deed. Our footsteps sholl not disturb the «trun fn the Crimioal Court for tho next two | griss upon her grave. We shall not injuro the weeks was Hatened to with attention, and doubt- feelings of the ee or. the, repay ation 260 so lesa relished by the large crowd present. Mr. | dead anymore thal v1 i ‘Mills made a brief, vlaiu, opening speech, which lately necessary {n deteuse of our clfant, and nm truthfully, was Ustencd to with erent attention. Mr. Tt ts necessary for me to Fe back to the time Trude, on the otherhand, evolved a congtomera- | of the commeucement of the arquaintance be- ‘tion which failed not to satisfy the wildest taste. | tween the defendant and Mamie Young, who He was very pathetic at times, and drow tears subse ently heeime his alte What. Lehall Fe from the eyes of Mrs. Young and Aunto Coon, cites t Fa aot eee ey tala: Beers who sat side by side allday. Stevens wasn’t | ons'vour vengeance. Wedo not clalin that he moved by referonces to his dead wife, but he | was Insane at the time of the shooting and no seemed annoyed at the State’s Attornoy’s char- | longer; but that the insanity grew upon him— acterization of him, ‘hd testimony for the prosecution was begun and half completed. As was not the result of jealousy, but warranted and authorized by absolute conviction. soon as everything was {n readiness, Mr. Mills opened bis case a8 follows: "1 don't romember that I made any such re- ark. “Did you make a statement of that kind to a Times reporter jo an interyiow with him{!? “Tneverhad on interview with o Times re~ jorter,!? * “What reporter did you havean {nterylow with? ~ A reporter of Tae TRinune.* “Didn't you tell that reporter, shortly after this occurrence, that you sald to Mra. Steveus, whon you first lefc her, ‘Will sce you Tater, Mamio't"” “No, str’? “And you didn't any that to Mra. Stevens?!” “F don’t remember that I did.” “Did you state that that night to anybody?” “J don’t remember that I did,"” “Haye you read the report in Tum Trinune of the Interviow with you!" *Yog, sir’? Js {t correct?” “Well, nearly so; Idon’t remember just ex- actly now." “How old tere you on the 30th of Inst Juno?” “Twas 19 yeare, o mouth, and a few days.” “ A young gentleman, 10 yaars of age, sud- denly covfronted by Mr. Stevens, after having had on hour's intarview with his wife, running up to half-past 8 o'clock ot night, in a public park, dusires to know whother the lady whom ne claimed to be his wife was his wife. That was your age, and those the conditions at the Une, were they nott"” Yes, str? Did he touch you when he first met you?” & Yea, sir: put lis hand on my shoulder." Pretty violently?” “No, slr.’? “Gentlyt” “Tle laid his hand on my shoulder.’* “Wos Its language complaisaut, polite, and Accorous, or a little vehement!” “Wetl, his language was yebement."” “You didu’t misanderatund bin at all, did you, in what he sald to you?” “No, sir? “You knew oxactly what he meant, didn’t you, und that was to get out?” djdn't think I was to be scared by bin.” yh, nO} you wasn’t scared; you were brave. But you knew what he meant.” He told you in yery: positive terms to leave his wife, didn’t uc: “He told me to *Get out of here’ if 1 wanted to avoid trouble.” “ Betrayed some excitement, didn’t it? “J don’t know as ft dld.?? “ Was tie cool und collected? © fig seamed to be very coul, and be had his hands in his vest pockets.” “Did you at once leave?” “No, not at onee.”? “What dit you say to him when he told you *ePcett htm Ie “Teotd iim It was a public park, andI thought Thad a right to remain there , ‘ * You withdrow, didu'’t you?” “ T want out to where his wife was atanding,'* “Tad she left you during this conversation}? jan’t you aay, as she was Ieaying, '* Hold on, Mainios Pt rejolu yout envied “Holds be in I87t Stevens was a deputy clork In the Superior Court of this county, and in that poal- tion won the love and esteem of his associates. Ho was attached to Judgo Moore’s Court, nnd on Saturdays Hstened to divorce cases, In thut room be met Mrs. Young, Mamle, auc another daughter, named Mrs, Filer, Sho was thero getting a divorce from her third husband. Mrs. Filer had in her arina a bastard child, In that kind of an stmospbere, with that kind of mora} teaching, with that kind of amother, with no father to give ber advico or maku sugges: tions, Mamie was brought up and_ educated. Peter patd attentions to her, and, io September, 1875, married ter—married her iu the presence of friends of Mra. Young, and went to her home, aud from tat time on double board was paid. The marriage was ot the suggestion, certatuly with the approval, of Mrs. Young. Stevens bore an excellent character—was a sober, {ndustrious, honest young man, Ho certainly could not have reflected upon the social stunding of n woman like Mra, Young. Nothing oceurred to disturb the marriage ro- lation until November, when Btoyens diacov- ered some of the letters of an old tover, ‘They aroused hts stispiclons—created jealousy, If you plense. Jealousy and love go hand-in-hand. Without the onu there canuot be the otlier. He talked to his wife, and Mrs, Stevens becaine aNilobe, and, amid ber tears, promised to sin no more. Ho haa confidence in her. Their troubles ended, and they lved in peace for some time. She showed a desire to dress herself clegant- ly—to bedeck her person with jewels; and he Yoved to sco her thus embellished, for she was beautiful, Possessed of a worm and ardent nature, symmotrical In farm, the owner of large, luscious, lascivious black eyes, thatacem- ed tu roll fn liquid fire, sho attracted, as you ‘wilt seo hereafter, the’ libertines and debauchers of thu city, To plense his wife and contribute to her enjoyment and his pride and pleasure (for he was proud of’ her when escorting her through the streets to church or to.a place of amusement), being poor, ho worked at night to get more money. : MR. MILLS’ TALK. ‘MAY 1T PLEASE YOUR Honon, GENTLEMEN OF mugsguny: After two days of inquiry und ex- amination, you sit here sclocted as jurors to try the case of the People of thu 8tate of Tilinois ecalnat Petor Stevens, who fs charged with the “nurder in this county, on the 80th of June, of aamie Stevens, his wifes and L ber to ossure you, in all candor und sincerity, that I am confl- dent you will cive to the investigation, at whose déor we now stand, a conscientious and careful consideration. ‘fhis, gentlemen, is no ordinary proceeding. 4t is indecd filled with an stmogphere of deepest solemnity, for it involves two tremen- ous sud ‘awful focte, First, the death of a young woman by the hand of her husband; and, * second, the Jegal fate in the presence of which the murderur now stands. However, you will alloy mo to suggest, now, in spite of my well-nssured conviction of your vonsclence and candor. that, from this time on, you will rlso above all the mere machinery of this trial, all the fancies of speech, all the In- sinceritics of wit on the part of couneel or others, abovo all minor things, to the bigh Iuvel of thonolemn occasion and the most solemn duty it Involves. This {s no controversy between lawyers, This {a no cunflict between the Stato’s Attorney and his sgsociates and tho most dis- tluuished counsel who have been ‘hired ta de- fond Peter Stevens, it is simply the caso of the Peuple of this great State ogainst a man whom they charge with the willful, cold-biouded, inexcusable, most unjustifiable, and brutal mur- der of his chitd-wife. “The queation to be answered {n the light of the detinition of murder and the facte which the prosecution expects to prove in this trial is simoly this: Is Peter Stevens guilty of tha . murder of Mamie Srevens ua charged in the in- dictment? The duty devolyes upen me, gentle- men; representing the people in this cause, Drlefly to outline the facts which wo expect to . fresent to your consideration, und to prove. At the early axe of 18 years, Mamic Young, g.slight, tender, delicate child, formed the ac- qquatntance of Peter Stevens, then n man crown, some years past the ago of 21 The ac quaintance ripencd into affections; the child was ‘wou by the mon; and before Mamie was 14, {f {£ am_ correctly advised, she tool ehelter under the wing—not a protectine wing, ascvents afterwards so sadly showcd—ant ‘was clundeatinily married to this defendant. ‘Sine went on; the months pnsaed by; the mis- take of thnt curly child-marriaga developed into misfortune, and thero was agradual lessening of the first affection, if indeed, there was ever a judicious und perfound affection between these ‘two, Fromm the beginulng, oralmost from the com- moncement of this married life of Peter Stevens, the grown man, and Mamie, the child, there appears to be a character of jealousy surround- ing the avcused. ‘The story of this jealousy to a ecrtain extent, under the Wmits which will be , placed around it by his Honor on tho Bench, y will be portrayed to you.’. . . Finally, the jealousy ripened into o hatred, a passion accompanying the passion of jealuusy on the pare of Stevens, and ascparation oo- curred. She rewrned to the shelter of the rout-tree of her mother; Stevens went hia own way. Voasibly, for hore we must all be candid, this young girl—taken so untimely from the protection, the guidance, and advice of her SAW TIE srroT. Fred F. Kraus, a boy living at No. 960 Wet Congress, tvatitled as follows: I reached hone that evening froma visit to a friend at sbon 10 o’clock, I was sitting on the batcony, ces ond etury, when three young Indies passed by, Soon T heard a shot, and. looking around, Lar Aman fire a eccond shot at a woman, ond thea runaway, When I got down-staire the womy was belng carried {nto her house on the oppo alte sido of the streat. ‘The man ran avi through the alley running froin Harrison Congress, Mr. Storrs cross-cxamined the witness, tryleg to corner him vn his previous testimony. Te witness testified as follows: Don’t remember swearing that the woman Was atanding up wea the second shot was ilred, but E may lave dost so. Itwas rather dark, und 1 couldn’t seedie tnetly. Iwas towards the west ond of the ba cony, with my back against the house. Thea the'frst shot. It immediately attravtcd my a tention, and I turned nnd saw the second, STORRS SAILS IN. Mr, Storrs cut off an extra chunk of John Ritehte's plug,” put it fo bis chesk, took the fivor, and sailed into the cross-examinatton. Everybody looked for something unusual, and everybody was gratificd—except, perhaps, the. counsel for the prosecution, =~ “ flow long before the Wth of June,” he be- gan, bad you known Peter Stevens 7” “T had never known him to speak to bim.'? “ Jlow long before the 30th of June bad you known him by sight 7? + About a year or mora.’? "Did you know that be was the husband of Manic Stevens?" “Thad heard that be was?" You had eyory reason to belleve that he was, hadn't yout” “Y supposed he was.?? “You supposed he was when you firat met Mamie Stevens and eat down on that bench with her that evening?” “Yea, slr”? , “T wuderstand you to say that vou sat there In conversation with her about an hourd"? ‘About dn hour.” “How long before you left that seat was tt that you first saw Poter Stevonst”* ident after 1 saw him aid the conversation took place betweon us. ‘Then [ left.’ “You don't know when he eame there?” “No, alr? + “Aud you won't undertake to say to the jury or Court tht be heard a single word of this con- yeraatlon that passed between yourself and his wited? +t Bwontt bay'positively.” "4 Wug your: talk so animated with Mra. Stov- ens that you would bayoe been apt pretty readily to discovor: the presence of any ane next to ut ‘ No, air, wo dido't talk animated.” Was it a slow utd deliberate table, or one in which she was very much interested 7 “She was Interested, and [ was lstoning.? “You cortainly wouldn't have carried ona conversation uf that character if you bad sup- posed the husband had becn listening to itt” 41 couldn't ea7 to that)? “Tlow well were you acqualuted with Mamio Stevens!” +] had Itnown her ever since Iwas verysmall.” “ How frequently had you seen hort”! ‘}Byory day when went to schoot with ber,? “Tlow Ad ently befora this interview had ou seen herf! “iiudw’t geen her for—woll, probably a month. “}ind she been in the habit of making you hor confidant?" © No, alt. Thad never spoken to her but very ttle after ber marriage," “Was that the first casein which sho ever mado sou hor confidant?” " upon the witnesses for the prosecution, aud look at the character of those for the defonse,— soine of them debauchces, samy of them pimpa, allof them immoral except those with whom Stovens worked, and thoso who will teatify to the condition of hifs mind, ‘The crowded }court-room at 8 o'clock showed how inuch public interest attaches to the trial. All the available sitting-room was occupied, and those who couldn/t get seats were glad enough to Haten to the proceedings standing up. ‘There was cone little delay in Botelug under way, but at Inst all things were ready, Judge Tree occu- pled'a seat Leskle Judge Rogers on the bench, ant manifested: considerable interest In what promises to bu, if:not auch already, a celebrated case. thy o—— YOUNG SAMUEL ADAMS, Mr. Mills callett Samucl Adatns, and thera was o geveral ¢taning of necks towards the wit- nose benches. “A ‘tall youn man walked up, took his seat i, {ue witness chalr, and looked around the room with a good deal of sclf-pos- session in his yeu. He had apparently made up his mind tha?in effort would ba made to shake him up ay WP stiow him In the unenviablo ght of that one pf Mrs, Stevens’ admirers who had brought on the culmination of the troubles. Anticlpating ie appeared to have scrowed DAMNING DISCOVERY. Subsequently he saw his wife on tho street with Nellie St. Clafr, and he followed them to a building the stalra of which are rarely trod by virtuous fect. In crossing the threshold ony bids farewell to virtuc. And this Nellie St. Clalr, the palnt-bedaubed and bejeweled har- tot, an inmate of Bell Demick’s house, had been to tho mother’s home and taken thence the child-wife to the arms of the dabauchee. When Pete saw ber go into thet place, and saw aman standing near by, ho rushed at him, and did what any one should hive done under the elrcumstances,—atruck him down. ‘I told you, sir, to “keep ‘away from my wife. You protilaed you would the other day. You have Hed to me? And the man, as mach stronger than Stevens ag Jaiter Cuprier. is. than myself, conscious of having done Wwrong—thut he was atresspasser upon the happincas and rights of another; the arm of the stalwart bully was paralyzed, and he retreated before the In+ diguant husband, ‘Struggling to eave his wife, befteviug then sha was true to him,—hu was not at the time conscious of any absolute Infidelity on her part,—he went to the Post-Oflice at tho autgevation of auother and called for a letter ad- dressed to Addle Encert. And he then discovered that his wife bad arop- ped the nome she hud taken ot the altar aud adopted that of Engert, and with that name all that itimplied. He found a photograph In the letter, audon the picture “Frank” and “ Youra without a atrugele.”? Think of this terrible discovery, He was mad. He went to the house (the house he rented), and walked up and down the sidewalk, Mrs. Young called a policeman, and liad him arrested. ‘Tho oflcer took = him oa short distance and offered to let _bim oo, but Stovens sald, “No, You tava brought me so far, You have (isgraced me in the eyes of ny friends; take me on,” lis pleaded guilty, and then asked for a change of venue, Morrison, sometiines known us ' Spectacles,” wreaked his yengeancs on bin and fined him $100, ‘The next’ day, and may tt be suid tothe magnanimity of his wife, she went tu Pete’s fricuds, snd clther got the fluo suspended or u pardon for him, He then rented. aroom of Mra, Bodwan, Munitu called there to see him, und wasasked what sho wanted. “I desire to see my husband. Lam wot to blaine for thy imposition of the fine, though IT WATCHING FOR NIS VICTIM. Mr. John A, Crouch, Hving on the 30th ct June Instat No, 313 West Congress sree, nearly a block cast of Mrs. Young’s house, t+ tiled as followe: I might have seen Mrs. Stevens before te murder, but am quite sure I had scen Steres ‘rhe latter, on the Friday preeeding the murde, passed uid repassead my house sovera) tloes Saturday afternoon he went up and down oi be fore, sud [ thought he had some one withba atone of those ties, Sunday attertoon bt was in the samo place, walking up aud dow, Wut Tdon’t know whether no went above (es treayonuc or not. This latter occurrence ra nbout 4 or 5 o'clock that Sunday afternus ‘Thot'was the Inst time I saw him 4 y. L was. looking: for robbers al that tis, and [sort of got my cya on Stevens, And kept it there, too)? put in Mr, Mills, ‘The witness continued: Stevens looked ui ho wanted, perhaps, to seo sume one. Mr, Mills asked if he was sauntering. “That might be it. Anyway. tho man mi _ walking along lelsurely enough.” “Ag if he was waiting to Hee hia wife," sil - Mr. Storrs, “if she camo out, and didn’t wt to miss herd" “Well,” enfd tha witness, “I was: nerd Jaced tn thut situation, and couldu’t sy? Laughter.) ENTER JEALOUSY, One ovening ho returned home and found she was not there. fle felt very bad indeed; walked to and fro, and was much agitated, and in great mental agony. After a while he learned that his wife had been ata ball in a disreputable place with 9 disreputable character, ‘They hnd another talk, and ‘his wife, on paper, which will be produced, asked to be for- given, and appealed to Peter, ant mado the same promises, and he again forgave her. In the meantime he had discovered letters from young men,— so-called respectable patricians of Chicago so- ciety,—men who havo left the county and are bevond the reach of the process of this Court,— and, though surrounded hy frienda, und In a po- altion to carn considerabis tnoucy, he decided to take his beautitul wife outot the reach of the libertine and the pinp. He sent her to his father's home neur Milwaukee, and said to him, “T love this womau, Lenn’t ive without her, Stand guard, and let Your protecting shadow fall between her and theae debauchers from whom Lhayo taken her. can't leave her with Mra. Young.” Mamfo herself hud said to her husbautd, Tuke mo away from my mother, This mau—giving part of hls naine—is here ut tho house, and you know what ho fa hero for. lic gives m; mother money.” ‘This la the yolce of | the dead daughter, coming from the grave: Mother, It Tam a cyprian, if L have gone with these young inch, you made me do it. ‘The prosecution do not know thut we can prove this by fetter, And in snother, speaking of her sister, ‘sho says: ‘sho is uo ft companion for me, Pete, and I anawer your prayer. I'l go to your uo his Intent cplitige to the stielius-place, put a bravo face op,§he matter, aud to be prepared for the worste:xpt - vEho direct-oxqminatton-avas plain sailing. “My name,” bifd ne, ‘ts Samuel U. Adame; {live at No, 378 West Madison street, und ama clerk for Williayy Young & Co., on the Board of Trade, I wll fe 20 years of ago the 28d of May, Iwas borin Lexington, Ky., and came to Chieagy in April, 1870. [ have been with William Young'4&Co., since April, 1875, Iknow Mamie Stovens‘td her Mfetime; aud flrat formed her avquaintadt} shortly after I came to this elty, in 1870. I j¥gs just 11 yoars old then—she was younzer—ntul.we became acquainted at the Clarke School,’ TE attended school with her about three or féur years, On the evening of dune 80, last year Law her In Jefferson Park. It was about #:80ructosls, and still’ quite Hight.” “Why were you In Jefferson Park?” asked Mr. Milis, Ka “1p was in the summer tine, and I went up there nid ent down to cuol,—it was in the cool of the evening. (“The park fs about five blocks: from my home, "When I went to the park I first went to the hind-house and sat down with some friends, were [ had probably beon ten minutes when Elen Mra. Stevens, We sat thera Juoling at’ ‘the fountain playing, and a judy went through the park and bawed to some one tn thy company where I was, and one of the gontlemen remarked, “There fs a lady speaking to some one of ug? I looked up and saw who it was and got up and mado the romark —! “Did you recognize,” asked Mr. Mills, inter- rupting lin, “Mamie Stevens as an acqualut- dlow Tar did she stand way from you when this conversation occurred?” “ Probably thirty or forty feet.” “Then you went and rejoined herd? “7 went and met her." “ Did you walk along with her? ue dust crossed the strect.? & Erew more excited, i thing went on?!” a Risele hs oe thle I don't remember hfs looks now." © Didn't he strike yout? “ tte struck at me.) “That betrayed somo excitement. Did he Mtyour? He dd.” “Did nu inflict any bodily harm on you any- where?" : “No, air? “Did ho push you Into the street?” “Yes, ele’? “ And then you left?" “Yes, air. “Whenhe struck you, you didn’t renew_your Inquiries on fo whether he was her husband! “No, sir. You let Stevens vo hia way, Mra, Stoyans her way, and then you finally went homo?"? Re : n't you, Inthe stract, as you Jeft her, say +111 seo you again, Mamtott?™ ‘ “I don’t remember that f did,’? “Did you ever uect her in te park before? “T don't remember that. [did.'” “Lad any public ov private conversation be- forot"” THE ARREST, OMicor James Ray, Star 220, one of theofl cera who arrested Stevens, testtiled: Ofc! MeMahon ran up, on hearlng the alots fired, tt the placa whence they procecded. MeSfabor was golng off. I saw somubody runnlug aloo the sto uf the fence, on Harrison street, be tween Throop and Loomis, The mon was od the north side of Marrtsou, between McMube aud me,—perhaps 100 fect distant from me f ran across the strect, und caught him aboot midway fn the block, Stevens was running * the time, and hada cane In bis hand, 1 askel lm what he was ruunlug for, nnd he sls “Oh, nothing.” 1 then scarched him; foun! n lvated revolyer—seven-shooter, five clam vers loaded—in hia hip povket (hero wines ‘ee, alt.) This time did you Invite her to sit, or eho yout? T couldn't say.” and ei subject was broached by herself, I une a asked her how sho was getting along."? “And then, In answer to that fnguiry, this ‘ duced the revolver). Stevons satd a friend ‘ father’s, and liva under his roof-tree,!? wes in court. My mother testified.” Aud | sauce? nversation occurred??? “No, air.t? Go dy ‘ mother-—insy thoughticsaly, and in the ardor | Sho did go, as I sald, and tu bome of religious | eli sald to him, “1 love pou Pete, und want | "Yes, sity I walkod up to tho lady, and wo | “Cryes, aie.” “Ever walk with lier}!? and ho had had a ttle difteulty. I eatd, “Well and health of ber blooming years, have been oc- | teaching and moral surroundings—where there | you to Ivo with me? And, as Mra. Bodiman | watked through tho park up to the southwest OL think,” sald Mr. Storrs, “$f the Court No, alr! fo and sce what it was!’ On the war ort po caslonally indlacreet,—howover, never crimtual | was everything to make hern good and virtuous says, “Tho Mettle mau ylelded biindly—melted Udder the {influence of that woman,” They had a discussion, Shu appeared fndic- nant, and he was entreating for an explanation with reference: to tho letters, nally, the old wound was healed, the old relation resumed, und the past sunk in Lethe. Mut moro letters were discovered, and a friend advised Stevens to try to win back hls wife by making her jeaious— to let her eee him with a lady. And he drove by the house several thes with one ina buggy. It may bo snid that he sustained improper relations with this woman. ‘The prosecution cannot put cven a strumpet ou the stand to show anything of the kind, ‘The lady of the house und others will prove lier charactor. Nothing can bo alown against Poa Stevens, oven when dished up by hia cneimica, who have arrayed themselves on the sido of the prosecu- tion, becausy all these young men are anxious for hla conviction, Not a lbertine In Chleago, nota pimp, not a detwuchee, not 9 person who Js enriched by woman's fall, butts to-day pray- fuyy (if they ever pray) and, with curses on their Mpa, demanding it. It you convict him you say to them all, loudly, deeply, cinpliat- teally, “You hava the rieht ot fovade the housca of our citizens, rich or puvr(the poorer thu better); you hyo a right to debauch thelr daushters, und to reduce to prostitution thelr wives. “Mon are punished for vindicating the outraged honor of their yomer. Some ask why he didn’t kill these m ‘Thera wers too many of them, lie was ende: oring to flid one i the act, y episode, which Mamie Icnew of, nud fe tind sut- isiled ber ft, was a hurmluss drive (nut teltlug her of the ruse), hw said, "Now 1 sea you love me, und you are jealous. Now you qutt ‘ranning wide these mon, nnd Twill quiet.) ‘Lhts was in WN. corner, and rat down nearest the gato,” “Wore you and she there concealed? “No, sir; wo were not. We sut nearest the park gate,—the walkin front of us. To fact, there were two or three walks that camo nearly tozather, so that everybody could sve us enter- {ng the park gate.” “You muy stato whether or not you put your arm around her.?? “1 did not, Dent with my lee crosacd iu that way [illustrating the position by crossing the left leg over the right], with my cane in iny right land. She sat next to me on iny right, “What was the tuple of your conversation)” “She told mo of the trouble she had had with her husband.” Mr. Storrs objected, untess it was shovwo that Stevens wits present. “You may state,’ satd Mr. Mills, “whether on that occasion vou saw Veter Stevens.’ “f did, Ho waa bebind the scat on the ground)? “Su far from where you and Mamie Btevous wert? . “Directly behind us." “You may site whethur or not anything was then said ubout gimbling." - “She told me," reaumed the witness, “ that, she had spolken to a friend of hers named Char- Jey Sweet ubout wetting a divorces, siut told shiv futended to get ane, a8 her husband treal her su pivan, thateho had left bla one or two tines, nud he had come back and made up; but that he treated her mvanugaly, und elie intended to wot a divorce; thathe was a great coward, snd wouldu't dare to speult to any cue without he had a revolver in lis pocket to defend Lim seit, Shealsodaid thatthe Friday before the tnurder ie had come to her house and etther tukt her himself or sent word to her—" Mr, Storrs—Do you know ho was there Haten- dng to that {dentical couyersation? “Lam not positive, 1 canuot say.” Mr, Storrs—Ot couuse yuu can't, Mr, MillaILu was beblnd yout “When Duoticed him he was! Mr, Btorrs—L dtdn’t think any of this was competent, and ft don't appear thitany of it Was In the presence or hearing of this defend- ant at all, ‘The Court—It did appear so to me, Mr. Storre—But the extraordinary posttion in whieh this zentleman was,—sltting with a man's That te ob “Tout fe wll? said Mr. Mille. Mr, Adains was told, however, that he would he nevded agaln by the defensy before the trial closed, please, it is time for a portion of this teatlmony vo be stricken out.” “T think not, sir,” replied the Court. “This dofondant was there, und was discovered by the witniees. we Was there any converantlon between Mra. Stevens and you about gambling? asked Mr. Storrs, taking a new tuck. No, air.” * “None about gambling on 'Change?* “No, air.” “None abouts gambling on the Board of ‘Tradot? “No, etr.!? “Didn't vou say you bad lost money on the Board of ‘Trudet”” “Don't remember that I did? “Wil you teatlfy that you did not say you ad lost money in transactions on 'Changet!! “No, afr, not positively, “T underatund you to say that when Stevens informed you that Mamie Stevens was his wile, you sald you didn't kuow how thut waal? “SF ooid that! “Didn't you state hati’ No, sit.” “(Vit ald you say whon ho sald Mamie Bto- vens was lite wifel!” “Tasked nim Hf she was his wife.?? “Tad you any doubts on the sabectt 4AM that Lheard that he was her husband was hearaay."” * You wauted a verification of his statement, aiid yout" “Yeu, alr? Will you explain why, when Stevens, whom you had Buppused was tho husband of Manite Brevens, confronted you that night—how it was you deafred further proof on the subject of his being her husband? What futerest had you in the question; what busiuvas was it to yout”? “+L don't know os it was any of my personal business.” Was it any of your gencral businoss?? No, airs but aie was au old acquaintance of ming, wud L supose § asled the question.” Didn't you know thut Peter Stuvens was her husband? ‘ “Not positively?!" Hadu't she jist been telling you that he was, ad that she Intended to get a divorce from bint Btevens said he had shot his wife. MedMsb~ came up about this time and Stevens said had shot hla wife, and it would create quiet sensation in the papers in the morning, I asked im what he hud shot her for, und he sald b would rather shoot ler than bave her live bt Ife of o prostitutc, ‘Then ho _ stare to tell mo about her Mvying with | man by the name of Adams, and. tht sho had been pt Andrews’ restaurstt aud some other pacts, On the way to thes tion he sald he would tell me the whole sto when we got there. When wo arrived thers however, No anil he rucssed he'd better uot sit anything until ne tind the adyiee of au turasy, At Mr, Storrs’ suggestion, Officer Ray's croit examination went over, and the Court # Journed untll this morning, It was now o'clock, and everybody was apparently glad Get out. 2 As Stevens passed Officer Roy on tis #4 back tu tifa cell, Steyena sald: * You were mir taken in some of your statements,” “Surry for It, eald. the oflicers '1'd bet! Jast tout fn the world to willingly misatate af Well, youl aco in the morning,” #4 Stevens, girl, Poter went to Cineinuati to earn bread, His flrat week's salary,—310,—ho sent to his wife. After awhile trouble came to bim—an in- Junction was served on the corporation for Which he was working, und he didu't cot bls ay for some the, In oncot his letters ho nvloscd to Mamie the proceeds of my over- coat.” She sont buck a reply in which, ebild- Nike wnd finprovident, she mentioned having Vought gone six or elght buttun gloves, Ile told her she should not have donv so. llow she got six-button “ gloves in Lake Station, near Milwaukeo, | don’t know, Later, she went to Cluchnnath Stevenw letters to her ara replete with expressions of love. ‘They were happy until Engert and Gilbert: fol- towed her even to the Oblo River, and wound their dendly coile around her, Some trouble occurred in consequence of more Jetters which Peto discovered. Hu watched her, and did right. Ifa husband hos no yht to Keep upon his wife an eye of caplonuge or watehfuloess, then bid pood-by to social rela- tlons, throw open your front duore and turn) your marital ‘couches over ‘to the depauchee and cyprian, the prostitute and the plinpy your blond would become corrupt, and the falrfe of avclety would by entrely gone. Stevens watehed, aud found that letters were Bunt tothe Post-Olllvo ta another mame, gid thut Murnfe went there and got them, Hv was wild,—broken down, nud Ieft the house and walked the streuta all nicht, Golng to libs place of business, his employer asked what was tie matter, You look ‘slek.'? Pete burst tuto teara, and sold, 2 can’t stand tt any lunger, Mr, Brees Lam in trouble, Lined. Don't discharge tno, because God knows [don't know Whers to Myo.” Aud he left. He saw his wife, and she sald, “Twas only riting with these persous. I bave not been wu true, Lom still oral. I vorresponded with them for the fun of ft” Ho said, “But these letters Indicate something serious. What did youdoin Chieagor “T' did nothing. Her explanation wus sutlsfuctory, and they were -bappy agalu. : orbad. “Che slightest indiscretion or thought- 3 lesa act brought to the knowledge of the husband tnflaumed his jealous fecling snd bis : suger. j On the nicht of June 80 this girl left her ; niother's house, for s reason which will bo ex- j lained to you, at about the hour of 7 ur 8, aud, * nthe early event, was seated In Jofferson Park In company with a young cendeman—in this park, u resort on summer evenings for or id people, ‘Peter Stevens, armed with a deadly ae weapon, which he had deliberately put tu hls f pocket, went {nto that place, and, ecelue his wife talking with her scqualntance, concealed Nineolf under the bench whereon they sot, and ‘presently uproso and chided the two with the utmost severity. He drove olf the voung man, and the wile, fearful timid, trembling Hke ao Dird in the presence of a threntenlng thunder storm, sought the protection of two young Tadlea, and aaked that sho might go with them w her mother's house, ‘They sturted, and her husband pursued, filled with determination, tu. spired by jealousy and unger, He watked calmly, for his thoughts had ample time to cdol, Afterwards, sometime before the mid- night moon bean to rhine, almost. in the very shadow ot her hame, Peter Stevens deliberately put bis hand belind hit, drew from ble pocket a revolver,’ and, with searccly warning of the dreadful davger, aimed the weapon at the ehild, i Hired upon her, and she fell, dylug by the road. alde, Not satisiled with one shot, inurderous In {tself, again he fired to mutilate the body, } Valo and bleeding, the pour creatury §4 carried, ° to her mother, snd In those arma that will ever FA protect a chitd that uy brutal husband may for- x KITTIE LEONARD'S STORY, Miss Kittie Leonard was the next witness for the progcution, She testitled substantially as follow, Live at No, 863 West Harrison street, and assist my mother in making dresacs, I saw Mamie Stevens once before June 80, and Ste- venstwice, That evening I left humo about 7 olclock (it was then Heht) and met Miss Sadie Cox on Congress street, Wo wont to Jeiferson Park,—to rest and sca the plato,—and there wu say Mnmio Stevens fu’ the park, near the corner of Loomls and Adams, with young Adams; we passed them threa or four times, Adame did not have hls arm around ler, but they wero sitting side|by ide, Hke most everybody would be. Passing the second time, Livoked towards Adama strect and saw Ste- yeus sucaklug-like behind the trees. I lucked at hun and he sald, “ Keep atill, L eco her’? I said, ‘Ts that your wifet und le sald, Yos,” Keep still; PU tix bia and her.too.” Wo then vassed out, came back again, und Stevens, Mra. Stevens, nid Adame were gouge. Leavin the park, Mainio Stevens caught Po with urs aun spoke to us We ull started down ‘Throop atreet then, Maule in the middle, We walked on, and met Stevens on the north alde of Congress strect, butiveon ‘Throop and Centre avenuc, sbout four houses west of Mainicts home, He had come from the vast, amd wo all met face to face, Io was walking. Ou meeting, he sold to Mamic: “I want to speak to you.” Sho sald: No, not to-night,! aud attempted to poss. He pushed her buck, without saving pny tings He then drew -a haudkerchiet with ila right hand out of his hip- pocket, put it in bis left, aud then took the sevolver out with his right, Bho anid: “are you golug to shoot mel’? He sald: Yes, and fired, Mamie fell, and then he fred another shot. ‘The first atruck her tu the alivul- ——————— SCANDAL, Spectat Dispatch ta The Tribune. Font Warny, Ind. April10.—Newapapershet give currency tos rumor that Elihu Melchelder fer, one of the Democratic Raprosontatives {108 this county {nthe last Logistature, lived ahotol in Indianupolls with a woman whowt- falsely represented ag bis wife, and that his wife has been at his homo fu Maysville, 19 § back township of this county, during the entirt session. ‘These charges. hayes produced & found sensation, and ary Ue goneral tople conversation, ‘Tho Sentinel prints au Antorsiet with Mr, Retchelderfer; who pronounces charges entirely false. "Io eays: bo can his innocence, and thut ho will make trouble for the authors of tle. calurany when ho ret from Cincinnati, to whic ba was called vet, the girl {i great und leng-coutinued azony reathed her last. After fring the shots the quan tled, skulking behind fences, concealing Fai, Uimaclf as beat he could ia the ahudow of the : night, followed und at Inst caught by the police, ¥ ‘Fa them he said: "1 have hada little trouble , with a friend *; then, “I had trouble with a i woman"; atid, finally, "7 shot my wit to save . Der trom a Hee vf proatitution,! ‘To says frum : Prostitution the wife who from the beuluoliy had been the victim of bls jealous hatred! He CHARACTER SKETCHES, Later fo that month te dlucovered other Jet- ters,—one signed Nellie, which was written by Sampson, who sometimes tsed the name of J, C, Spencer, You may not huve geen Sampson, Ho {9.0 man that looks ag thorouebly a Lon Juan ag cver played a part with Jit, With a sallow, brindlo-colored coat, a long vest, sometiinys vel- — THE MOTHER-IN-LAW, But other Ictters came, an one day his wife wenttolim in the abstract olflce any sald, “Pete, give me $10." fo did so, Theh sho was cultn, cool, collectad. From that tims on, iu numerous conversations with citizons, he has shown deliberation and full appreciation of his act, and tas been us be is today, and wus ull the tine, rational, self-possedsed, and atrong in i f : : “1 don't know that the nau 3 } der, thesceond fn her fae below her lefe oye, | pressing buslu 4 his determination, ed f ething clac—a rly, | thtuts, yaar a chal san throuste the pions wife In ber husband's presence and talking uous, mentianed:” ete. Bteyene Sas She sald nothing after boing aot, and Stover So i ‘The detense in tide ease: bas boon augmented asked for something elac~a rlng, | think, When | holes, a pair of pat yangement on | getetug a divorcee, Lshould like to know if this ran away to Wie west, Miss Cox and I wero “sho didn't tell you what her husband's namo waal”? Luhlnis sho romarked of hl vaya as ! husbands" hia always as Sher “But you have ulroady stated that you un- he got home that night it wos deserted, lis wife hud yone and taken overything, He broke down—was completely shattered, because At Musbed upon Lim that sho had cone to those the bottom running over the boot, a graceful [Mr. ‘Trude tried to finitate ft, but failed}, on matinee days he fs seen on the corner of Clark and Randolph streets, ‘There. he fs, a monu- THEATRE SOLD, Sr. Louis, Mo., April 10.—The one-hatl inter est in the leasehold and fixtures and the tle rlor property of the Grand Opera-House 0 ieyoue dele Mine cunts real le atte the divorce was had In the T cuu’t tell the exact tine,” sald the witness, Slr. Btorrs—I move to strike out every word, 1 understand, or witl woment, aud only then, was insane, Wo shall Selahtened, and we Cross-examinatlot uigtt before T saw bit home, Teuw Stra, Stevons that Tsaw bim the second tine I passed Mrs. Btuvens, L heart none of of emotional < ? Ms Ar. Mith—Wuit a minute, When (to the wit- | derstood Peter Steveus was her husband, and | {le conversation between Adams — and | elty, owned by tho estate of wen De Bat, ¥4 : fusanity fg uot g ughly approved oF ordinarily | persons In Culeazo, and that, tov, without even | ment of his own groutuess,—a perfect Adouts, a | negs) did you iret notice Voter Stevens ou the | yout knew biw by sight, nd thut, when te con | Mra, Blevens, either on the Level when | goid ebts moun undera desi of trust for 38 itls,au a rule, the protext and manufactured | & ‘yook-by, iny husband, of a word ot ex- er, G stuut matinee masher. Stevens | bench! , fronted you, you tdentified him as the dnalyid- | they separated, or when they were on te street | yy Jon G. Pricat, administrat tthe estate Hels a rule Ue protext al emauutuctarad | Prasation, “Thue night wasa bight ot werrule | SouauEbiMouL | | looked uebind me, aid saw bow there un | ual Naw wis hua tt, after imving’ tad an | CO¥UNEr, “A wasn’y Ground thers then. “aig | WY Jown Oh reat adminiarator of 4 of bis terrible dilemma; secoud, that, in tls | agony to him, Ho bad given her $250 in Cin- ante ie y your wityee ne | Mageound : hour's dUscueslon with Lhe wife an the subject uf | wot testify ot the Inyuost that Adame sald to Property, was. biain iby, liar TL didn't know bho wi OE there wus no. iusanity of uny sort what- Mev Storrs—That is giving the placo, not the curing 7 Mra. 8, in the street, “I'll soo you later, | Fred I Priost for $5,100, ‘Thera aro ue cinuath When he came to Chicago after, Mra. he fe ny wife. timy--where, uot when. peacuring a divores from thls man, tat you A bh i rf a : ok ilueuves tuilieuce , ma vit contrunted laity with the ft ai you didu't | Mamie,” Twas excited at the inquest, aud | ugat 8,000. 5 Sabathia daly sat iat | Youn repel ly wae atey ant noua | Wel tiara ae any cenutnta” | Nie det yo oottoued i. | Kau hese husbandt «| ite uo ty thon ald cht ikl | desolate pustanor wit Je : c a q a by 4 5 a cure . Mills, “la what position was lic * Couldn! aa was all that Stevens said. eats with P. C| owne Or Dee a ee a aa tee eae: | MEARE eR waitaras item, twats Shap gnbeetermetien | Arie emai eer ce: | eae now v1 ts tt if 7 aver. + : ye Mb bit. 2 Ma bat olf, le ls face right close to “ft coulda's say," yersation wit! latudu Stevens as wo stood | be leased to the highest bidder, we rel. mit owl i Maer cr Senos ose, ae duuestie kc ert ee art bend And bu did prove it by taklug Mamfo to the | the sent. {lis head and ear were right between “Was thatony of the reasons that you de- | there nour the curuer of Throop and Adame, & house, where they culled for Spencer, the uuing she kuew bin by. © Piease dunt zo with my wite agate, sat Peter, “Let her alune, ay vou hape to have your sister ut alone’? Porbear- ‘ancel ‘There was more forbearance thau that pispared ln the Dibie with reference to Job, jut dey after day from Jaw, 1 there was an pena a A ECAUTIONARY, New Ontuans, call PA. -rwent quarantiva will bo cutablfshiod May 1 agaist will expr their views, und iNustrate thelr oplujous, aul Lipropbesy, gentlemen, that you will bo convinced. that thle ineory of emotional fosavity fu this cose ts fubricated and concocted at for the sole purpose of frevlng trom the puniuhe ieut of tho Jaw alpen irhu te guiltyol a vold> us. “Phut Wus pear the end of the seat. Shu gut rlutt noxt to the gate, aud then myself, 1 didu’t seo Peter Bloyens when he cae up, or hear blu. L couldn't say low long he bad been there, Nothing was said About gumbling, There was no relerenvea between us to my bein once ougain around the wife und bugband, and Mire, Young demanded to be futrenched In the peacutul home; more, thut Mrs. Filer should go theroalio, ‘There was adiwcusslou, uid Peter slulded, One day the wouau Nellie St. Clutr, alias Delia Sinith, made clued leaving, uid remarked thatthe park was a public place, because you had a doube about the question of the marital relation (? No, str? SADIE COX'S RECOLLECTIONS, ‘Miss Sadle Cox, of No, 833 West Congress treat, wad the uext witness, aud ber teatlmouy I 5 ‘You didu’t pretend to put forth any clalme |» i ‘ is Yeosels from or touching at Wost Indla, 4u! of this kiud, did you, supertur to Stevens'y? was aa follows; . i ‘ed h Ame! Wo, alee) (Caughters) - Before Juno 80, 1873, I had nover seen ees fo nt tieae oF Routh. ‘