Show i CBIX GRIFfiN ill 111 His Testimony and Abe War drops the Features MRS GRIFFIN AND MR YORE WABDHOPS STORY ABOUT THEIR ACTION IN THE DOTING DOT-ING ROOM Ii i The Witness Admitted Telling Two g c of His Friends That He Was to Get 1p400 or IpSOO Prom Griffin I But Said Ee Didnt Mean ItThe Plaintiff Tells In a Very Amusing t Manner of Row Mrs Griffin Treated Him f The trial of the Griffin divorce case L1 was resumed yesterday morning by the t plaintiffs counsel putting on the stand a youth named Abe Wardrop who formerly for-merly worked for the Griffin family in If Salt Lake ani whom Mrs Griffin took t ith her to California as > a sort of r valet to her son Harvey in 1893 and 1891 and also in 1895 His testimony and that of the plaintiff Griffin was the feature of the day Wardrop examined J > y Judge Loofbourow said that he went to Pasadena with Mrs Griffin in the winter of 18934 What were your duties To take care of the little boy HarI Har-I 5400 or 500 for doing it after the trial was over Had YOU been uromiEed any monty by Mr Griffln 1 No Did you eXDeCt to get any money No Why did you tell these toys that you did then didTo To make them feel cheap Just to make them think you were going to get a lot of money out of it Yes NO MONEY WAS PROMISED Did you really get any money from Griffin None except my railroad fare from California What was the occasion of Mrs Grif fin whipping you Ehe whirred me once for splashing IL 7 I > V 7q I Ir Jf J f L Iq I q p K J1WifIll ro I JA1 J I i 1 1 I e r i k t tf c p f 1 1r e f iJf FE7i79 e > k i F ANb 7 I MLE 1 yey and do little jobs around the house t for Mrs Griffin Where in Pasadena did Mrs Griffin reside i First on Colorado street and afterwards after-wards on Holliston avenue The witness then testified that one W F J Vore with whom Mrs Griffln is t charged with having committed adultery adul-tery came to the house in Pasad na about S oclock in the evening of January Jan-uary 195 and retired to the sitting room Kith Mrs Griffin The boy Harvey i Har-vey and the witness were in an adjoining ad-joining room from where Mrs Griffin and Vore could partly be seen He said iie saw them lying on the sofa together kissing and hugging each other and r rubbing their mouths together They r were on the sofa for some time and then they stood up and hugged and lu kissed some more and rubbed their mouths together again I Wnile in California the witness said f Mrs Griffin drank a good deal of angelica f an-gelica wine and kept two demijohns oft t of-t in her bjflvoom all the time She f also smoked cigarettes and witness frequently fre-quently purchased them for her Mrs t Griffin had hipped witness and once I Out him over the head with a bottle t WAS TO RECEIVE S500 FOR TESTIFYING TESTI-FYING r r Crossexamined by Mr Zane the witness f wit-ness admitted havlnsr told two boys f that he was going to testify in the GrIffin case and that when the trial was ended he would get 400 or 500 t from Sir oriffin He didnt mean it however and only said it to make the boys feel cheap You say Mrs Griffin kept a couple i of demijohns of Angelica wine in the If house Yes full all the time t One you say was filled every week I One at least and sometimes both of themHow How often did she drink of the wine She took a beer glass of it before II breakfast nearly every morning and sometimes immediately after breakfast she drank again From where did she get the wine I dont know Did you see the demijohns brought In No How do YOU know they were filled every week if you didnt see tlhem k brought in They were always full What did you go lo the demijohns for Because the wine was good How often did you go to the demi johns johnsMar Mar be four or live times a week Redirect examination by Judge Loof bourow You saM you had a conversation r with two boys about the Griffln trial Yes What was the conversation 7 They asked me if I vas going as a I Tvitress in the Griffin trial and I told them I was and hat > I expected to get o l > iT I lir water on Harvey and another time she hit me over the head with a bottle and raised a large Jump What was the occasion of your running run-ning away I had told Mrs Conovers hired cirt that Mrs Griffin drank and smoked cigarettes and I thought I had better get out of the way Did you say anything about Mrs Griffin that was not true No Recrossexamination BW you go to the boy any time after you told them about the S500 Yes I saw one of them twice You begged him for Gods sake not to say anything about the 5400 or S500 you told him you were going to gN for testifying Yes You asked him not to testify about it and said if he did you would have to leave the country I didnt say I would have to leave the country I did l tell him Ite need not iestifv unless he wanted to Did you ever tell the boy Sterling that you would go on Mrs Griffins side if she wanted you No I did not Did you tell any of these c ± orncv about your having said you would get 400 or fiOO No MENTIONED SOO TO GRIFFIN Did YOU eay anything to Griffin about IU Yes I mentioned It to him What did he sa = > He said I was very foolish to say anything of the kind Who employs you now Mr Griffin What do you do Attend to the horses Did you tell some of the boys you were working in Griffins office No I did not MRS HEARNS DEPOSITION Depositions of Mrs Ella Hearn of Pasadena Cal were then read by Mr Westervelt Deponent lived at 725 First street Pasadena met Mrs Grimn in the winter of 1S934 The latter lived at 708 Colorado street Knew a boy named Ab Wardrop He was employed em-ployed by Mrs Griffin as valet for her little boy and to do general work Never knew of the boy Wardrop having hav-ing been beaten while Mrs Griffin lived on Colorado street but after she moved to Holliston avenue the boy complained to witness that he had been beaten by I Mrs Griffin and asked for protection and deponent put him into the hands of the city marshal Mrs Griffin came after the boy to the marshals office and was very much excited EXPERT MEDICAL TESTIMONY Dr George H Penrose examined by Mr Richards said he had been in the practice of medicine for 10 years in I New York state and in the army and had experience with people addicted to L11v r f the excessive use ot Intoxicants and narcotics It you were called to attend a patient pa-tient who was in the habit of using such narcotics as opium and who had no disease what would you consider was the cause of the patient using the narcotics nar-cotics asked Mr Richards The question was objected to by Mr Young Mr Richards explained that he wanted to show that the use of narcotIcs narcot-Ics was generally concomitant with the use of intoxicants His honor overruled over-ruled the objection and the witness said the use of intoxicants and narcotics generally went together and if the patient was not sUffering from any disease dis-ease he would inquire if the patient using narcotics had been addicted to excessive drinking The use of alcohol produces nervousness and an uncomfortable I uncom-fortable feeling which the patient generally gen-erally seeks to overcome by using narcotics nar-cotics Crossexamined by Mr Young the I witness said it did not necessarily follow fol-low that a person addicted to alcoholism alcohol-ism would have recourse to narcotics but it is frequently so Witness was unable to say whether women suffering from alcoholism were more apt than men to contract the morphine habit Dr S Hughes said he had been in the practice of medicine for 13 years in Europe and America Mr Young We all know Dr Hughes and admit his competence Is it a fact that the excessive use of alcohol and narcotics frequently go together asked Mr Richards It is often the case that persons addicted ad-dicted to alcohol have recourse to narcotics I nar-cotics Does the uSa of alcoholic stimulants induce a desire for narcotics Yes to relieve the painful effects of the alcohol Crossexamined by Judge Young witness said that drunkards if deprived de-prived of alcohol might have a craving crav-ing for coffee or other stimulants Not half of the people addicted to alcohol had recourse to narcotics and he considered con-sidered there was no difference in that regard between men and women E P Newell was called for but was not present WARDROP RECALLED Abe Wardrop recalled said in reply to Judge Loofbourow that Mrs Griffin used cigarettes Witness bought them for her several times and saw her smoke them both in Salt Lake and Pasadena She told Mr Griffin that witness smoked the cigarettes He bought about 15 boxes of Vanity Fair cigarettes at various times < for her Mrs Griffin threw the cigarette stumps into witness room to make it appear that he smoked them Crossexamined by Mr Zane Were you ever arrested here Yes tvice What for Once for calling a milkman < Water Milk and the other time it was over some trouble about a cow I was let go in both cases PLAINTIFF TAKES THE STAND J J H Griffin the plaintiff was then called and examined by Mr Richards He said he was married in 18S8 When did your first unpleasantness occur with your wife About an hour after the marriage I went into a room with my hat on and she rushed at me took it off and j 1 I abused me and said I was humiliating I her and making her ashamed before her friends What language did she use She asked me If I hadnt anyman ners and was very violent What was the next instance On the train on our wedding trip to Pasadena she proposed that we make of ourselves a mutual criticising S > 0 b t > ooc society to which r agreed and she said that I was an ignoramus and that her friends Couldnt understand hOw she come to marry such a man as I 1 She made a fuss at the hotel about the room we had assigned to us although al-though I was paying 6 or 7 a day for it Her lady friends called on her and when we went out in street cars and so forth she would call to me in aloud a-loud tone of voice to pay for everybody We met a gentleman from St Paul to whom she took a fancy and she wanted want-ed to go to Monterey with him but I was anxious to get home to Omaha to attend to my business She insisted that we go ana I told her finally that I had to go home and that she might go with him herself if sne was deter mined to go ahd I would go to Omaha I She came hdme with me however but I was very disagreeable all the way At Omaha we went to the Millard hotel but that wasnt good enough for her I I had five or six houses in Omaha but none of them Was good enough for her I although they were nice houses She said I had no business to marry her if I hadnt money enough to support her and let hel travel about as long as she liked THOUGHT HE COULDNT DRIVE Did you give her a present of a horse and phaeton Omaha Yes but she Insisted I couldnt drive it properly and snatched the reins from my hand Once she did that and ordered me out of the carriage car-riage riageWhen When did you first observe her Inclination In-clination to the use of intoxicants She drank her and wine in California Cali-fornia but I thought nothing cf fiat It was shortly before the child was born that 2ie developed a tarste for frtrong drink and as 5he was in a delicate deli-cate csnJLtkn I bought a good deal of liquor for her She for two or throe months Jisforc the child was born drank three pints of liquor r a week I protested < because I was afraid she would get to lie it but yie said I was a fcoi and that she was nCt wcok minded like me Shecould either drink or leave it aten Whe undo P influence in-fluence of liquor she was arbitrary and very disagreeable Wtoen the cnid was verY sck one ndgOit sle drank a bottle ct whisky and when I held the child In mv arms and said I thou OH we Would save it yet she called me a fool and said < he child was dying in my arms and I dWnt have sense I enaugh to know it She nearly always drank out of the bottle and never took I water after draught of wfrisky The child began to improve but sTe Insisted ho was worse How lone did the habit of drinking continua She dufint slop flit all Four years ago I stopped buying whlskv for her Siie scolded me if I was a few anrnutes I late in coming home and one night I had v bottle of whisky in my pocke1 for her She snatched rt i out of my POCkEt and drank half of it She said I was a fool for buying whisky by the bcttle that I ought to < buy it hv irie gallon or the keg as it would be I cheaper that way I then raid I would never buy any whisky again fur tier > and I kent my word excent once I bought seme brandy once or twice for cooking purposes I had catarrh and she knew I had It before she married me Sihe said I W81S not fit to live with decert < I people and ought to have a room outside away from everybody else She told Hie child tttiat I had a loathsome disease and repeated tile word loath s me < again omd again She taught the bay that Dr Payne was a better moi n < than J aiid taug1 him 3Jove Dr Payne orethan me Slie waS all rtefat continued the witness when I did everything as rile wonted t add she scolded and irpnt on iUl 19 tlmfc MIlt of 20 I srave Jr t < ii = She told me hat the momanit cha married me hale of my properly became hers and that she had a better rierht to manage my affairs than I had because be-cause she was smart while I vas nothing noth-ing but a stupid fool of a man She said I ougfht io see how < Dr Payne ard oWvars treated tlreiir Wives and hat they were better men than I and that she was a better woman than either of their wives She said she had let me have too muclh of my own way and that in future it would be dtfferewi she would ruai tbmss She abused my parents and said they were nothing but common farmers and that she had no Idea such people lived until she married mar-ried meAN me-AN EFFORT AT EMANCIPATION How lone did this go on r All the time I made an effort a1 emancipation once and thought I would run my own affairs but it did no good thngr just went on as before until finally I left homeD home-D d rile < wait on you when you were sickNo No the hired girl had to do that and she told our boy not to go Into the room or near me at all Once she got between the wheels of the buggy when I was about to leave I I home for town so that I could not go without running over her Then she I gave me the usual morning lecture I She said she wished I would go and never come back that if she had my money she could get on better without I me that she ougnt to have married a senator or a cabinet officer that she was just the kind of woman to shin in Washington society that it was a I shame that a woman like her was compelled com-pelled to live with a man like me She also said that she was a queen among women She said she could be the most I counted woman in Utah if I would put up money enough for her I NOT PROUD OF THE JOB j Did she make any effort to elevate your condition Yes but she didnt seem to be very proud of the result She said I hadnt sense enough to buy my own clothes I that I had no taste and would always be cheated She chose all my clothes I but three suits I bought and these she wouldnt let me wear I What did she do in regard to your mailShe She opened all my mail and read my letters before I saw them She took a draft for 350 out of a letter which came to me from my fathers estate State if anything what Mrs Griffin I has said to you about putting your property in her name She insisted that I ought to transfer trans-fer it to her and said that Dr Payne I and Judge Young said so She kept on so long and so persistently that I offered of-fered to put the property in the names of three people of whom her father and Judge Le Grand Young would be two for the benefit of my boy but that didnt suit her When I got a telegram that > my father was dying and I wanted to go to Kansas to see him she said it was all foolishness and that it would be better for me to give her the money that it would cost to make the itrin To what extent did she interfere in the sprinkling business She wanted to run the whole thing appoint the foreman and employ the I men Another < morning she got between the wheels of the buggy as I was about to start for town and said she wanted to go to Europe with the boy for a year or two so as to get him away from me because I was < too vulgar to come in contact with him She said her father and friends had told hershe ought to I do so v Do you remember writing letters to Dr Payne your wifes father J Yes after I ceased to live at home ld I C I 1 < I wrote him two letters In regard to my family affairs Did you make any charges against your wife in those letters No I did not Dr Payne came out to see me and stayed two or three davsWhat What conversation did you have vlh Dr Payne in the presence of your wIfe I asked that she go down to the ranch with the boy and spend the summer sum-mer and that I would furnish them wIth all the necessaries of life and that It she reformed and did not come to town and drink we would live together again in the fall She said she wouldnt bury herself at the dirty old ranch for anybody and that I might get a room down town and give her an allowance and I did so and gave her 60 a month SLAPPED HIM THREE TIMES Did she ever slap or strike you Yes she struck me in the face three different times Once in the dining room when I was going out when she didnt approve of it Another time was in the kitchen in the year 1892 The third time was in July 1S9B in the garden gar-den Did you do anything by way of taking tak-ing hold of her or striking her When she slapped me in the dining room I took hold of her and pushed her onto the sofa and told her never to dare to lay violent hands on me again Did you retaliate on any of the other occasions when she slapped you No not at all ACCUSED HIM OF ADULTERY Did she accuse you of living In adulterous adul-terous relations with other women Yes The first summer I left home she told me she supposed I was happy now that I was living among my own class of people down at the barn boarding board-ing house She accused me of living in adultery with Mrs Stahl and said it was notorious in Omaha and here also Was that true No it was not Did she ever accuse you of having Improper i relations with other women Yes once wun a woman i didnt even know Did Mrs Griffin ever come to the room you occupied down town on Third South street Yes when I was sick with acute bronchial trouble I was very sick and she came and ordered me to get up and go home with her or she would have me arrested She said that the warrant was made out and all she bawl to do was to swear to it and have men F me-n the penitentiary What did you reply I told her if she could get an officer to arrest me that night to bring him on She stayed all night examined everything I every-thing and ransacked the drawers and i went through the pockets of my clothes Did she drink anything then I didnt see her drink then but she acted as if she was drunk She was worse towards morning Was Mrs Griffin kind and affectionate affection-ate when you were sick She was variable Sometimes she would tell me how much she thought of me and at others how mean I was I made a proposition to her to deed to three honorable men in Salt Lake my property let her have the boy and all I asked was that I be the boys guardian The examination of Mr Griffin was not concluded when court adjourned until this morning I |