Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 January 1880 — Page 4

s®@ @ % s ; | Py The Ligouier Banmer e 3, B STQLL, Editor and Bro’prietor. THURSDAY, : : JAN. 15,1880. e e ] Gov. WILLIAMS celebrates his sev-enty-second birth-day to-morrow. ——— | FULL PARTICULARS in relation to the Maine imbroglio will be found on another page of this issue. T s litae U. S. SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, suffers severely from an attack of vertigo. - His condition is considered serious but not dangerous. = e e DAN RicE has returned to St. Louis, and instead of drinking whisky draws his left eye down and says: “I'm taking Hostettet’s Bitters as a medicine only.” < Lyl ————— - i THOSE of our republican friends who affect to be grieved at the failure of Gov. Garcelon to act upon the opinion of the supreme court of Maine, should not forget the fact that the supreme court of Florida decided in due form that the action of the returning board in defrauding Mr. Tilden of the electoral vote of that State was in clear violation of constitution and law. The Legislature subsequently rendered a declaration to the same effect. Yet, in spite of all this, Florida was counted for Hayes, the minority candidate.

LANCASTER COUNTY, the republican stronghold of lennsylvania, and the home of the late Thad. Stevens, is in open rebellion against the third term Grant programme. Leading Republicans of that county declare that altho’ Lancaster gave the republican ticket over 7,000 majority at the last election, the county cannot be carried for Grant. It is also stated that fully one thousand Republicans of Dauphin county will bolt if Grant is -nominated. - The rebellion against Grant is assuming formidable dimensions in the old Keystone State. o

THeE Democratic State Central Committee and about 150 Democrats, representing all the districts of the State, met in the State Auditor’s office at Indianapolis on the Bth of January.. J. B. Stoll, of Ligonier, was chosen chairman and Col. James M. Kennard, of Indianapolis, appointed secretary.— There was a free and general expression as to the best time to hold the State convention, and the condition of the party throughout the State—brief speeches being made by Messrs. Briggs, Johnson, Stotsenburg, Smith, Lieut.Goy. Gray, -Neff, Frank Landers, Goy. Hendricks, Wm. H.English, Gov. Williams, E. W. Brown, and others. The general sentiment was in favor of a late conventioh. The whole matter was finally referred to the State Central Committee, with instructions to call a convention when 1t pleased.— The committee then met and after protracted deliberation fixed upon the 9th of June as the time for the convention. It was also agreed-thatin case the Democratic National convention should be called to meet earlier than the 9th, the chairmen of the county cummittees should call the Democracy together for the purpose of appointing delegates to their respective district conventions, to appoint delegates to the National Convention. The meeting remained in session until after midnight. The best of feeling prevailed, and the utmost confidlence was expressed in. carrying Indiana for the democratic tickets this year by from 10,000 to 20,000 majority.

IN AN ARTICLE reviewing the situation in Maine, the Harrisburg Patriol demonstrates that the supreme court of that State in answering the questions submitted to them by Gov. Garcelon, blundered into a singular and absurdinconsistency; They first declared that the provisions of the Maine constitution in regard to the ‘making up of the election - returns are merely directory or permissive. Then they face about and declare that although certain statutes of the State are directory or permissive they must be construed as mandatory. This is elevating the legislature above the constitution, the creature aboye the creator. Now every lawyer versed in the prin‘ciples of comstitutional government knows that all constitutions are mandatory. They do notdirect a thing to he done and leave it at the option of those appointed to execute the com--mand to obey or fo disobey. All writers on constitutional law agree that constitutions must be regarded as man- . datory in all cases wherein they direct ~or forbid the performance of any act orduty; for if the commands of the fundamental law are to be tréated as merely suggestive or permissive they are not of binding force whatever and ‘the government established by them is one of absolute and not of limited powers. While therefore the answers of the supreme court of Maine to Gov. Garcelon may serve the purpose of the republican politicians in that State it “will hardly add much to the reputation of the judges as 'Eafe interpreters of ‘theconstitution and laws of their State.

WHAT 18 SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE SHOULD . BE SAUCE FOR THE GANDER. . _Qur esteemed Broadway localizer, “X. L. C.R.” in his reply to W. J. B, gleefully refers to the fact that the republican supreme court of Maine rendered an opinion adverse to the action ‘ of Gov. Garcelon and the Council.— While this is true, X. L. C. R. singularly ignores the equally important fact that in rendering this opinion the court found it necessary to completely reverse its former decigions in order to give an opinion fayorable to the Republicans. Now, we cheerfully concede that some of the former decisions of the court under which Gov. Garcelon and his Council acted certainly ought to have been reversed; for instance that which governed a few years ago in the Portland case in which the Governor and Council decided that they could not determine who was elected because several hundred voters were returned as ‘‘scattering,” the number so returned not being sufficient to change the result as between the candidates principally voted for.— The court also decided that the provisions of the Maine constitution and the laws which Gov. Garcelon and his ‘Council regarded as mandatory are to ‘be construed as merely “directory.”— But every republican Governor vof Maine in cases of contested election returns regarded those enactments as mandatory, especially when by so regarding them a Democrat eould be deprived of his rights. It is probable that hereafter when Aroostook county elects a democratic Senator he will be permitted to serve even if a majority of the select men of several plantations neglect to sign the returns. If this much be gained Garcelon’s battle has not been fought.in vain. Our Broadway friend, we fear, is too prone fo look at only one side of the uestion. 1f he regards the action of Gov. Garcelon so shockingly in violation of law and justice, he surely ought to muster sufficient boldness and inde--pendence to censure his own party for having done precisely what Gov. Garcelon did in conformity with the decisions of a republican supreme court in former years. That Democrats were counted out in Maine upon techntcal grounds while the Republicans were in power has been so amply demoustrated as to be no longer a secret or susceptible of denial. In order to justify himself in denouncing Gov. Garcelon, X. L. C. R. should deal out his condemnation with an impartial hand. We won’t go so far as to ask him to take notice of the Louisiana and Florida infamy; we shall be quite content with a whack at the Maine offenders.

" HORATIO SEYMOUR, in a recent interyiew, expressed himself thus in regard to the political outlook.at this time: : . “On the other Hand, there is one great advantage which the democratic party possesses. Italwayscomes up smiling after a defeat. Its vitality is wonderful. It has outlived a dozen opposing organizations, and it has held to its ancient creeds while others have caught at every execitement or novelty brought to the’surface by events.— In the couutfi,y especially the Democracy have made their adherence to sound party principle a matter as personal as their religion—though in a different way. Itis a matter on which they have permitted themselves to become enthusiastic. You.cannot change them. The hard-fisted Democracy cling to their faith under defeats and trials, and are withal imbued. with sentimental feelings mever seen in the conglomerate ranks of their opponents. The Republicans fall to pieces unless they can be kept at a welding heat by passion and excitement. If these cannot be kept up against their opponents they break out in their.own ranks. ‘“Under these circumstances there is every reason to hope for the success of the democratic ticket in the coming presidential election. The democratic vote in this State last tall, under the circumstances, was a marvelous one. To my mind it amounts to a demonstration that the Stztxte can be carried by the democratic candidates whoever they may be. We have had our fight and it is over. There are nofeuds or jealousies left to rankle inwardly.”

- Tom BrADY, the second assistant Postmaster General, is in hot water. It has been shown that Tom has given away to his favorites about $2,000,000 in excess of appropriations, of which one contractor alone received $165,000 more than he was entitled to receive, Under these circumstances the Hoosier Republicans will hardly venture to nominate Tom as their candidate for Governor. $ - Six of the North Carolina negroes who were recently brought to Indiana for the purpose of diminishing the democratic majority, have died in Putnam county. The climate does not seem to agree with these sable North Carolinians. : il danidin g : MR. HoRACE WHITE, the once famous editor of the Chicago T'ribune, is a lucky man. He has just made $200,000 by the rise in Kansas Pacific rail; road stock., b i | , Y R I | The total amount of additional national bank circulation issued during the year ending December 31st, 1879, was $26,697,870; amount retired, $7,612,761; net increase of bank circulation during the year, $18,985,108. The total amount of national bank circulation outstanding December 31 was $340,388,012, not including the circulation of national gold banks, which was &1,426,} 20,/ ; : ~Everybody ought to go to. work and try to accumulate something.— Prosperity will never come through

. L The Dyer Trial. Strong Evidence Indicating that Jack Dyer Poisoned His Wife. Four Days Devoted to Taking Testimony on Part of the State, - The Wife of Sheriff Willlams Swears . She Heard Dyer Confess Having Poisoned His Wife. Dyer'é Own Damaging Statements. His Love-Letter to Miss Belle Bly; An Able Judgé, Efficient Prosecutors, and a ; Good Jury. ,

On Tuesday morning, the 6th inst, the case of the State vs. John I. Dyer was called for trial in the Noble Circuit Court, at Albion, Judge ROBERT Lowßy, of Fort Wayne, presiding. At an early hour the court-room was densely crowded with eager spectators from all parts of the county. The same interest was manifested from day to day, many of those who came quite adistance over almost impassable roads finding it extremely difficult and in some instances impossible to gain admission into the crowded conrt-room. : : Mhe Lawyers. The attorneys for the State are A.A. Chapin, Robert B. Barr, J. W. Bixler of Kendallville, David H. Perew, of Wolcottville, and J. A. Campbell, of Albion. The attorneys for the defendant are Judge Morris of Fort Wayne, Hon. Jas. I. Best of Waterloo, and V. C. Maines of Kendallville. | The Jury. N .The forenoon of the first day was consumed in the impaneling of a jury. Besides the regular panel the following gentlemen, citizens of Sparta, Washington, York and Noble townships, had been selected as a special panel for this trial: : - a

Samuel Iden, Jacob Himes, John Gilbert, Amb. R. Goudy, Joseph Whitmore, Porter Green, Samuel W. Phiels, Tiry Huber, Adam Johnson, Scott Galloway, John H. Bu¢kles, James D. Reed, John E. Bender, Samuel Braden, Thomas Rees, Jacob Baker, Richard Maytield, Charles Clucas, John Bowman. G. W. Paffenberger. Jeremiah Noe, Paul Beezly, Wm. Hursey, Peter Howenstine, Tal. Abrams, Christian Deardorff, John Myers, Hez. Mayfield, Fred. Clingerman, Wm. Price, David Griesinger, Henry Cobaugh, Jacob Smith, Benjamin Archer, Geo. W. Piper, Harvey Adair, Jonas Bowman, John Weed, Jos. Moore, Jos. Stocker. From this and the regular panel the following jury was selected without much difficulty: ' Jacob Baker, Tiry Huber, Samnel Braden, jr., - Samuel Iden, . Geo. W, Easterday, = Adam C. Johnson, Porter Green, - Orlando Kimmell, John Gilbert, Richard Mayfield, Ambrose B. Gowdy. Rev. Aaron %Vorth.

With the single exception of Mr. Worth all the jurors are farmers. Mr. Kimmell a few years since represented this county in the Legislature, and Mr. Huber has for many years been a Justice of the Peace of Washington twp. As a whole the jury may be pronounced an excellent one, all members being [ men of mature age and of good, practical sense. ' | He Pleads “Not Guilty.” ~ "Defendant’s attorneys formally moved to quash the indictment which motion was promptly overruled, defendant’s attorneys excepting. Dyer was nextarraigned and pleadel “not guilty” to each of the three counts of the indictment. , ; History of the Case. (Based upon the testimony introduced at the preliminary examination at Kendallville.) The defendant, John H. Dyer, known as Jack Dyer, lives near Kendallville. He is about forty years of age, and has lived in Noble county.-most of his life. His first wife dying some time since left him a widower with three children. Two weeks after his first wife died he proposed marriage to Miss Belle Bly, who refused him, He next wanted to marry Mrs. Esther Myers, a widow, a daughter of Mr. Bidwell. He went to see her in September, 1878, and continued his visits until November 19th, when they were married. At this time his wife was worth $2,000,— With this they purchased a farm, taking a joint deed by which the one who lived the longer should be the sole owner of the property. On January 7ch, 1879, Dyer went to Kendallville and employed a man to take the deed to Albion to have it recorded immediately. The same day he procured some strychnine at Bunyan Bros.drug store, saying it was to poison rats. | The same day Mrs. Dyer was taken sick Dr. Williams found her in convulsions and rigid condition, at 11 o’clock. She said she had taken nothing. She showed symptoms of | POISONING BY STRYCHNINE, She took medicine and got better., She grew much worse the next day, and Dr. Williams called again. She was in violent spasms, and her whole body was very rigid. She died in a few minutes. She manifested strong symptoms of poison by strychnine. = After she was buried it began to be suspected that she had been poisoned. It was proposed that the body be disinterred and a post mortem examinatiori made. > hih Dyer told his father-in-law, Mr. Bidwell, that he favored the post mortem, byt that if they found she had been poisoned, they could not prove it on him. He said he had three kinds of poison in his house, two of which were strychnine and corrosive sublimate. Dyer agreed to pe on hand when the body was taken up which was done on Tuesday, Jan. 14, just six days after

her death. But at this time Dyer was not to ve found. : About the first of last September Dyer was arrested by Sheriff Williams in LaCrosse, Wis., at which time he called himself Charles Case. He was brought to Kendallville and a prelirpinary examination was had. Evidence for the State was introduced. The defendant put in no evidence and was sent to jail. : Further circumstances in che case are as follows: :

The post mortem was made by Drs. 1 Teal and Daacer. They sent the stomach and contents to Dr. Dryer, of Ft. Wayne, chemist, for analysis. The Doctors both state that she was pregnant and that gestation had been going on between three and four months.— Dr. Dryer analyzed the contents of the stomach and found unmistakable evidence of strychnia. _ Just before Dyer’s last marriage he wanted to marry Miss Bly. He went to Ohio to see her and came home with her. He told her that he had got himself into trouble and was obliged to marry Mrs. Myers, but that he did not want her. He wanted Miss Bly to promise to marry him if he became single again, but she refused. Dyer frequently told different persons that he procured the strychnine to poison rats, and that his cellar was full of rat holes, but none could be found. : When Mrs. Dyer first took sick Mr. Dyer told Mrs. Bidwell and others that she would never get well. Miss Pointer waited upon Mrs. Dyer the last day of her sickness. No visitors were present at 8 o’clock. Miss Poiater went up stairs and left Dyer mixing medicine on the bureau. In half an hour she was worse, and was attacked with spasms. She was unable to sit up or move in her bed. Mr. Chapin States the Case. The proceedings on Tuesday afternoon began with- an exhaustive and able statement of the case by Attorney Chapin on part of the prosecution. Testimony on Part of the State. JOHN W. BIDWELL, an old gentlemar, father of the deceased woman, was first put upon the witness stand. Mr. Bidwell testified that Mrs. Dyer was 26 years old at the time of her death; had always been very healthy and robust, having scarcely ever been sick in her life; she was worth- $2,000 at the time of her marriage; Dyer favored the post-mortem, saying that it would relieve him from suspicion, but that if she was found to be poisoned they could not prove 1t on him. He promised to be on hand when the body was disinterred, but was not to be found that day. : On cross-examination, witness said he was interested in the prosecution; that he went to Michigan to get a young lady to be a witness, and had kept her since. ; 3

DR. DANCER - testified to assisting in the post-mor-tem. He said that the vital organs of the deceased were all healthy; that the feetus was from three to four months old. : ' PROF. DRYER, of Fort Wayne, testified to making an analysis of the eontents of the stomach. He said that he applied five tests, and each satisfied him of the presence of strychnia in the stomach.

DR. WILSON o testified to being present at the death of Mrs. Dyer; that she was very rigid and in convulsions. - THOMPSON DANIELS . said that he was present at Dyer’s on the 7th,soon after Mrs. Dyer was taken sick; that she showed symptoms similar to those of dogs which he had seen die of strychnina. ‘ . PERRY MEYERS, who is related to .the deceased’s first husband, testified to being present at the disinterment of the body, and the post mortem. He said he visited defendant while in jail last September, and that Dyer then used, the witness thinks unintentionally, these words: “I know as well as you do that I am guilty —I know as well as you do whether I am innocent.” MR. TILLOTSON 4 said that Dyer told him his wife was afflicted with a bad cough, MR. STOUT said he did chores for Dyer the next morning after Mrs. Dyer died. Dyer came to the barn where witness was that morning and suddenly asked: “Do you think they will take me up for poisoning my wife?” GOTTLIEB DEUSCHLER ‘ said he sold a farm of about 70 acrcg to Mr. and Mrs. Dyer for $3,600, giv‘ing them a jointdeed. Twelye hundred ‘dollars paid down and the balance was \in_notes secured by mortgage. ‘ Wbty R WETLLIAMS | ’testified to attending upon Mrs, Dyer ‘in her last sickness. He sald he was called in on the 7th and found Mrs. lDyer in spasms, somewhat resembling hysteria. After leaving the house it occurred to him that the symptoms were very much like those of a person he had seen die from poison by strychnine. - He was called the next day and found her in spasms and very rigid. She was in a very bad condition and died in-a few minutes. The symptoms she manifested were those of poisoning by strychnine. b ]

S | HENRY GRUBB said he examined the cellar in February and found no rat holes, but that the next summer he was there with Dyer’s father and saw some holes. , i ?TE‘AL » '- testified to assisting to make ‘a’ post mortém examination, He said the vitals showed no signs of disease. The foetus was from three to four months old. Great care was tuken to have the jars clean in which the stomach and contents were put. Witness delivered the jars to Prof. Dryer, of F't. Wayne. . . AUGUST CANNON . . said he examined the cellar in Febru--ary, and found no rat holes. . '"ELIZA DEUSCHLER . said she was at Dyer’s on the Tth., Dyer said his wife would not live until the next night. |

- MR. FISH l said he examined the cellar and found no rat holes. = . MELINDA DEUSCHLER \ said she was at Dyer’s on the 7th; on that-evening Mrs. Dyer said sHe was better; Dyer said she could not live till to-morrow night. : DR. DRYER was next asked a number of hypothetical questions in regard to the symptoms of strychnine poisoning. JOHN DAY said he examined the cellar in February and was certain no rat holes were there; before Dyer’s marriage, Dyerl asked him where Belle Blye was; he said she was his first choice, but that ‘he was engaged to Mrs. Myers. : ; 0 ADA PAINTER was called to the stand on Thursday morning and said sh 8 waiting on Mrs. Dyer in her last illneys; that o the morning of the Bth she sayer mix medicine on the bureau for his wife; nobody else was present; she was taken very sick about half an hour atter, and died before noon.

MISS VAN HORN was next called, and remained on the stand until late in the afternoon without adducing any points of special importance. :

WM. EUNYAN, Lo druggist at Kendallville, testified that he filled a prescription from Dr. Williams for Mrs. Dyer; that the prescription, as he filled it, contained only pure drugs and no poison. : | WM. HOLSINGER ' | testified: I am a brother-in-law of the defendant; was at Dyer’s on both the 7th and Bth of January; Mrs. Dyer‘ was in spasms on the Tth; she was somewhat rigid; she would bite her lips; to keep her from this, I put a spoon in her mouth; saw Dyer administer her medicine a short time before her death; he took it from one of the bottles on the bureau. |

o DAVID SHAFER and his wife testified that on thenight of the Bth, Dyer told them that his wife had never had such spells before; that when he returned from Kendallville his wife was sweeping the bedroom floor and leaned on her broom and said, “I feel so queer; I am sick.” Witness went to the barn and returned and she was black as his hat.

GEORGE -KINNEY § testified: Am alivery man at Kendallville; at 8 o’clock on the mor.#ig of the Tth, Dyer, hearing me say 1 was going to Albion that day, asked me to take a deed and have it recorded that day, sure; he said, “Don’t fail to have it recorded to-day, and bring it back with you when you return.” - JOHN DAY was recalled in regard to the rat holes in the cellar, and testified: I wentinto the cellar a few weeks ago with Mrs. Genzier; no one else was there; witness saw two holes; don’t know whether they were rat holes or not; don’t think they were large enough to get two fingers in. <

; MRS. NANCY BIDWELL was next sworn, and testified as follows: “I am’ the wife of John W. Bidwell, and mother of the deceased ; Mrs. Dyer was always healthy and robust; refused to go tolive with Dyer when she he came to see her in August; they were married November 17; saw Mrs. Dyer about ten days before her death; she was very healthy and cheerful; was called and reached John Dyer’s | after dark on the 7th, Mrs. Dyer was quite sick. I sat up with her that pight, and helped Dyer give her medicine; she told me when 1 gave her some cherries that she intended io put up a large quantity next fall. She showed no fear of death; was entirely rational; the next mornirg she was much better; I told Dyer, after eight o’clock, just before we left, that I tho’t she was perfectly safe, and he said, “No; mark my word, Esther will not live till to-morrow night.” ~ MRS. SAMANTHA DAY was on the witness stand most of F'riday forenoorn. She testified as follows: After Dyer’s firsv wife died, he tried to marry my niece, Belle Bly; I favored the match, and tried to get Belle to marry him, but she had no affection for him, and would not receive his advances; she had been engaged to McCloud ; but the engagement was broken' off. I thought she would make a gor.d mother for Dyer’s children, and that’ Dyer would make her a good husband. One week before he married Mrs. Myers, he told me at the school-house that he wanted to see Belle Bly; I told him her address in Ohio; he said he

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was engaged to marry Mrs. Myers, but that he did not love her, and had no affection for her; he siid he wanted to marry Belle; I told him there was no use trying, that he need not go to see her. He said he. would get her yet- if he could; I understood afterwards that he went to Ohio to see her; on the day of the funeral I told Dyer to be careful -how he conducted himself, for he knew what he had told others about his not loving his wife. At the school-house, when he inquired for | Belle’s address, I asked him it he would ° marry her when Mrs. Myers was getting ready to be married to him, and what he would do with Mrs. Myers if he married Belle; he said, “Damn it! give her a dose of strychnine!” I expressed surprise, and he replied, “O, {that’s nothing, when one gets used to |it.” After her death he told me he was willing thatshe should be dis-interred, and that he wanted the suspicion cleared up; he said there were three kinds lof poison about the house when she \died, to-wit: strychnine, corrosive sublimate and someé kind of horse lini‘ment. ¢He said she wanted him to get 'strychnine to poison rats; that there 'were rat holes in his cellar he could \run his arm into with his overcoaton; he said, “if they take her up they will find strychnine in her stomach, and then there will be no law to save me.”

’ © - “MRS. MISER ‘ gave testimony.in confirmation of what had been said by Mrs. Day in regard to a conversation shortly after Mrs. Dyer’s death. Dyer said he had three kinds of poison in his house, and that if they took Mrs. Dyer’s body up lt_hey would find strychnine in her stomach, and that there would be no law to save him, - - S MRS, LOCKER - ‘ testified: lam a sister of the deceased ; on the Monday . prior to Mrs. Dyer’s death, Dyer was at my house; he said he had a nice home, but that Esther had a bad cough and was not long for this world; he said they had taken a joint deed for'their farm by which the one who lived the longest was to be ’sole owner; he said thaton the morning of the day shedied he went to town and purchased fifteen. cents worth of istrych‘nine; I was at J. Dyer’s house on the 20th of January; H. F. Dyer, my mother and Mrs. Taylor were all there; ‘at that time Mrs. Taylor found a bottle of strychnine in Dyer’s bureau. ! MRSOMGEOUD, - o ¢

formerly Belle Bly, the witness who cuts so important a figure in this case, was next called, and testified as follows: I live at Grand Rapids; was married last May; used to go to Dyer’s when he lived with his first wife todo sewing; eight days after his first wife died he came) to see me, and wanted to marry me; I refused to have him; he called to see me occasionally and several times repeated his request that I should become his wife, and 1 always firmly refused and gave him no encouragement ; I went to Findley, Ohio, to visit the latter part of the summer; he came to see me one week before he was married to his second wife; was very urgent in his. request to marry me, but I firmly refused; I came home with him; he told me he was in difficulty, and wasengaged to Mrs. Meyers; he said he didn’t love her, but that 1 was his first ¢hoice; he said if I wo’d marry him he would “let her go to the devil,” and wanted to know if I would marry him if he should become single again; I refused; he then said he wo'd mArry her, but that if be did he would not have to live with her; he wanted to know if I would live with him in California, even though he was married to Mrs. Meyers; I said he had no right to make such a wicked proposition to me. After his'wife died [ heard a conversation between him and Mrs. Locker. - (Witness related it substantially as Mrs. Locker did.) A letter which Dyer wrote her while in Ohio was here introduced and read as follows: ;

| ' Dear Belle; I got your letter Saturday: was glad to hear from you, but sorry you c¢ould not say yes; .you know Belle that | love you better than any one else upon earth. Oh! Dear Belle, I cannot give you up till T see you again and have atalk with. |vou. When are you coming. home? Oh idear! I feel as if I could not stand it till |you get here; I haven’t made up my mind vet to marry anybody else for certain. I {will not take the fatal leap until I see you. 1 don’t know-whether Mrs. Myers loves me or not. If shedoesnot, Ican’t tell why she would talk as she does. She has dollars to my cents, but I don’t care for money, I want just the one I want, and you know who that is, don’t you? How would you feel if'you ,were to fall into my arms. O, Iwould give the world to haye my wishes come true. (Bigned) ;. J. D To the one I love, Belle Bly. MRS. M'CLOUD’S cross-examination was as follows: I ‘ [Continued on Fifth Page,] :