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Show PUCE HUNTERS ARE WITNESSES AGAINST GORE Men Who Saw the Alleged Attack on Mrs. Bond Were in Washington to Push Claims for Offices. WOMAN TELLS HER "STORY TO THE JURY Makes Damaging Admissions as to Her Former Life; Does Not Know What Became of Baby. OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 1'.'. Mrs. Mlnnlo Bond, who is suing United Slatos Senator Thomas P. Gore for $50,000 damages, dam-ages, growing out of an alleged attack in a Washington hotel, took the witness stand and told her version of her meeting meet-ing with Sonator Gore in Washington. The courtroom was crowded, thc audience including many women. Despite tho ruling of Judge Clark yesterday yes-terday that evidence as to incidents in tho past life of either of thc litigants was Irrelevant, Attorney Gldding?, representing represent-ing Mrs. Bond, offered to let all thc evidence evi-dence as to Mrs. Bond's character go before be-fore tho jury without objection providing the defense would not object to evidence offered against the character of Sonator Gore. Counsel for the defense did not reply to tho proposition. In telling her story of the alleged attack, at-tack, Mrs. Bond was composed throughout. through-out. She llrst met the senator in 1009, she said, and again a short time later at, a reception in Oklahoma City. At this later meeting she discussed the appointment appoint-ment of her husband, Julian Bond, to the position of internal revenue collector. At that time, she said, the senator talked favorably of the appohitjincnt. Visited Washington. .. I The witness then- related how slo went to Washington in March, 101.'!. At a recaption re-caption tendored by Mr. and Mrs. Gore to their Oklahoma visitors, she again broached tho subject of thc appointment and thc senator asked her to come to his office, according to thc testimony. Reach : Ing tho time of the alleged attack, the ! witness said she had telephoned Senator Gore to come to her hotel. When thc senator arrived, she went with him to a room occupied by James Jacobs of Oklahoma. Okla-homa. In their talk, she said, the senator asked many personal questions and tried to take her hand. "I told 1dm I was a different kind of woman from those ho had been associating associ-ating with." testified Mrs. Bond. She alleged that thc senator took hold of her and that her glasses were broken in thc struggle, cutting her face. At this juncture, thc witness said, T. E. Robertson of Oklahoma entered thc room, together with Jacobs and Kirby Fltzpatrick, and she went to the toilet to wash the bloodstains from her hands and face. She declared thc senator followed fol-lowed her and told her to tell thc men present tiicro was nothing wrong. Health Impaired. Concluding her direct examination, Mrs. Bon1 tcstltlcd sho never had encouraged the senator in any attentions to her. She claimed hor health had been impaired by the alleged attack. On cross-examination, the witness admitted ad-mitted that she. had 'been married to her former husband, a man named Furrar, two times, thc second time because he hud not been divorced when thoy llrst married in June, 1!)0:. She said they had a child born, in December, 1903, but she did not know what had become of it. The defense offered to introduce a copy of her petition for divorce from' Farrar, but Judge Clark ruled It out. All of the witnesses heard today in support sup-port of Mrs. Bond admitted that thoy failed to accomplish the purpose of their visit to Washington last spring appointment appoint-ment to federal positions. Earp said ho had been promised one of three positions; Fltzpatrick sought appointment as attorney attor-ney general In tho department of the Interior, In-terior, and Robertson said Cie was there In anticipation of obtaining a place In the Intorlor department in the evenfthnt. Robert Rob-ert A. Rngora ffiui named as secretary. Robertson also asserted that James It. Jacobs, In whoso, apartment at the hotel the altai'k on Mrs. Bond Is alleged to have been made, was seeking appointment as United Statfs marshal for the eastern dlstrirt of Oklahoma. Jaeobu also was not appointed. Ho will bo failed as a witness for tho plaintiff tomorrow. Acted as Emissary. Karp asserted that ho acted as an emissary emis-sary for Gore In an effort to arrange matters with Mrs. Bond and have hor leave Washington. He visited tho Oklahoma Okla-homa senator on the morning after the alleged incident to" ask concerning his candidacy Tor a fcdimil position. "Doc. they sot a trap for me, and I walked into It, ' ICarp testilled Gore wild to him. "I want you to see Mrs. Bond and get hor out of town." He tcslllled that Gore told him to promise prom-ise Mrs. Bond anything, but not to use his name. ISarp said ho advised Mrs. Bond to leave Washington, but that shu did not do so, i Robertson and Fil -.pa trick, as oyo- j wltnosno t' tho alleged occurrence, corroborated cor-roborated In substance Mrs. Bond's narrative. narra-tive. Fltzpatrick paid lib room adjoined Jacohs's apartment, which was selected for tho conference h'stween Sonator Gore and Mrs. Bond because thc hotel parlors were crowded and Mrs. Bond's room had (Continued sa Pago "Two.) I i. PLACE HUNTERS ARE CHIEF WITNESSES (Continued from Pago One,) not been put In order. Attracted by tCie noise, he sulci, he went into tho hall and had a view of tho interior of tho room through a partly open door. On cross-examination, FItzpatrick admitted ad-mitted that ho told a friend of the senator that If Ttobortson was appqlntcd a. deputy United States attorney the matter would end. He also said he had reported tho affair af-fair to the attorney general of the United Slate3. Robertson's testimony was much the same as Fltzpatrlck's. II was true, he said, that ho had expressed himself as aggrieved and had "cussed out" Gore, but denied having said to a Washington hotel man that he would "get" the senator; or that he said if Gore would pay 525.000 to "hush the matter up." he would be able to repay a small debt ho owed to a man "here. Robertson will resume his testimony tomorrow. to-morrow. i i . |
