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AIR. PFAU’S SIDE? OP THE CASE.To the Editor of the Commercial Gazette:As patience has ceased to be a virtue, I desire to explain relative to the decision made by Judge Kumler in the Pfau case, which Air. Speiser (my former wife’s attorney) seems to be so ignorant of, and accuses His Honor of informing me of his decision long before any of the attorneys In the ease knew any-’hing about it. Such is not the ca.se. One of my attorneys, .Mr. John Coffey, told me of the decision about ten days ago, at which time Air.lt; 'otTey had a talk with Air. Speiser, my former•wife’s attorney. Mr. Spelair also Informed Jr. Phares, one of my attorneys, that he intended to ask for a finding of facts in the « ase. How could Messrs. ip^aer and Carr get up and state to His Honor, ten days after they knew of the decision, that they never heard of a decision being rendered ini-1 case, when they had talked to both ofmy attorney* regarding it? They make mention of the fact that I was at the Judge’s lesidence. Such Is the case. I called there und tried to have a talk with Hte Honor (dative to something that bad transpired before and during the trial, which no one could understand unless he knew the why and wherefore. The Sunday following the trial •was my day to have my boy, and tin* tale which ne tola me, in the presence of my sisters and others, was as follows: The day when thetrial was to be heard IffiT former wife and ►■later and my boy stopped in their attorney's office on their way to the Court-house, when Mr. Speiser, her attorney, cautioned my boy not to dare and recognize me, and said when the Judge asked him who he wanted to live with, mother or father, lie should say his mother, as his father is a bad man, and besides he would burn alive in heil if he ever told the Judge the contrary; and Speiser also said unit when the Judge took him into his room to ask him be was going to put hit ear. to the key-hole and listen jadm fiber he told him what he (Mr. Speiser) requested. Air. Speiser was not the only one forcing him to say that he wanted to live with hismother. There were thirteen who joined in in scaring him, taylng that ft#, would burn alive If he chose to live with his father-three in the Church and ten outside of it, whose names I have from the child's lips, In the presence of several witnesses. When the Judge took the child into bis consultatlon-room to ask him, Mr. Speiser i*.rose so that the child could see him and wa 1 ked back of him until the Judge and the child were in the room, and then Mr. Speiser sat down in the , witness chair, which is not far from the door where they entered. Such a nlan is enough to scare a man, not alone a delicate child who is sick and needs all the attention possible. The child is eight years old. He lived un Walnut Hills seven and a half year* in our family residence in first-clas# health. Kow he l« broken down in health from living in the city »ix months on Pleasant street, on premises occupied by seven families. Would not any father try to save his child under such circumstances? There Is a difference in religion, therefore, the whole trouble. The child has been since Sunday morning at my residence in Avondale, and any time hie mother chooses to call she can see him.CHARGES PPATT.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1893
Page 5
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