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ROSA TO GET NOTHINGContinued from first page.ley road story, saying that she was never out of the buggy in the country; denied that she bad intended marrying Brady after the decease of plaintiff. She said that there was nothing improper in her actions at a picnic in Wells county with Mr, Ball; saidthat Helms who told the vile story reflecting on her virture, was jealous when she went with Ball. Mrs. Clouser denied that she and her sister, Mrs. Lily Barnhouse, had asked another young lady at Chesterfield to introduce them under an assumed name to certain young men.Just before the close of the trial Rosa's attorneys asked for a delay until they could get a witness from Muncie by whom they expected to prove that Helms had sworn to a lie. Judge Vaughn said that enough time had been consumed in the case and and that it must be brought to a close.Ralph Gregory then offered in evidence a letter written by Charles Wesley to Mrs. Clouser. This is the letter that the doctor had had a young attorney of Hartford City write to Rosa “to try her faith.” It was ruled out but the attorneys had the court reporter’s record to show that it was offered.The testimony of Walter Pixley and bis sister, Miss Pearl, was decidedlyagainst the defendant. Walter saidher reputation was bad. Miss Pearl said that one time when she was out riding at 9 o’clock at night she passed defendant's buggy standing by the side of the road empty. There was a dense woods near where the buggy stood. She said one Baker had told her some very bad things about defendant reflecting on defendant’s character. The defendant had denied it.Dr Clouser denied that he had ever said that defendant was enceinte but told of report; never intended to perform any operation or ever suggested it. He frequently got up in the nightto warm his limbs. Was afflicted6with nervous trouble and took Injections of cocaine and opiates to ally tbe pain; does not babltof^lf use opiates nor intoxicants of anjlkind, andlias not been under innoeweor stimulants for twenty je»«;:^l||^Iltnow*a letter from her; always treated her kindly, giving her money whenever she asked for it.Attorney Hindman took the stand and swore to the fact that he had visited Muncie and had seen the chief and secretary of police board; had been recommended to Floyd, a constable to get evidence, but as they could not agree on terms, Floyd never did anything.The evidence in the case was all in at 4:30 o’clock. It was decided to defer the argument until today.Dr. Nelson D. Clouser gets tbe divorce.Rosa Clouser, his young and frisky wife, gets nothing.So Jude Vaughn decided at 2 o’clock Tuesday, and the decision seems not to have been unexpected.Monday it was given out that the argument iu tbe Clouser case would not be heard till today. Judge Vaughn came down from Bluffton Tuesday [and it was decided that the argument should take place as originally agreed upon. Judge Lotz and Ralph Gregory, for the defendant, put in part of the forenoon in a rather unnecessary attempt to enlighten the judge regarding evidence that he had heard. That afternoon J. A. Hindman, for tbe plaintiff, made a short speech. At 2 o’clock the judge gave his decision.Owing to the lack of time the judge, in rendering his decision, reviewed but a part of the evidence, but the part he did review was conclusive enough that the t;iddy Rosa was entitled to none of Dr. Clouser’s money. Several Muncie witnesses had testifiedthatvRosa, after her marriage, hadbeen seen riding in a buggy with another man under circumstances that were at least Auspicious. 14If Rosa had undertaken to explain away these circumstances,” said the judge, “I should not have thought so much of them. But she did not. She swore she was not buggy-riding at all on the day in question. I cannot, therefore, accept the conclusion that all these Muncie witnesses lied and that Rosa alone told the truth.”Tbe judge found the evidence of Miss Pixley most damaging to the defendant. The testimony of other Mancie witnesses also went far to convince him that the young woman had conducted herself In * manner to warrant the oonviction that sbe was:;-J .! .*’.••• . ' . . . J »‘ t ■ J. W-.V’.. *„• ?■untrue
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Hartford City Telegram
Hartford City, Indiana, US
Wed, Apr 20, 1898
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