| Show THE EVANS EVANTS CASEL casen CASE cash A JURY OBTAINED BEING TAKEN HARRIET ARRIET 11 PARRY wre tin defendants att ait ALLEGED GED SECO wife WN ON THIC sTAND A lt jury was obtained to try the case oi of the united states vs is joseph 11 evans colloy yesterday afternoon they are arc as follows Ws U D W scribner thos sappington a ping plug ton george I 1 W richmond win wm husbands Hus nus bands M W davis lavis J J farrell T G M smith J F 1 hardie T brogan A L alardin george 6 II 11 raught klught J W mason the first witness called wa was OSCAR EVANS conof son of the defendant lle lie testified as follows I 1 DeJen deren defendant clant Is my father my mothers name is ruth evans she lives in the sixteenth ward has been living there as long iong lon ion as I 1 can remember ber my father was married to my mother in wales great britain jonathan evans another son testified to the same effect after alter wh which I 1 ch PARRY ranry mother of the defendants alleged second abife was called and sworn know the defendant have known him for f or many vears tears as a neighbor have bave a daughter harriet she is the alle alie alleged 9 ed sec ser second ond wife wite w ite ife of def defendant enfant she told foid me moe she was married to defendant think I 1 have heard him hl in call her his wife e heard him speak of her as imy my wife 11 the they have lived to together zether as lius husband band an and wife they lived together as husband and wife in a house just by his home that hajwas ha was in 1881 about june he be never sever nevar nad had a abed hed bed room at my house the abild was born a year and a half after she told me she had been married to hi him in uly my daughter during the years 1880 and 1881 lived at my house ho use she lived with me till the child was born on november lai 18 1881 the child was born at my mv house defendant was at my house bouse at the time of the birth the defendant employed the physician fon for my daughter defendant and my daughter cohabited together in a house owned b by Y defendant for about eleven or twelve weeks in 1881 defan defendant clant and his family lived next door door doon to that house ruth evansin evans is a member of his family I 1 dont remember ever hearing defendant acknowledge ruth evans as his wife I 1 have heard him call her wife before my daughter harriet went to live with defendant she was living with me she left my house to go goto to live with him I 1 dont know how she came to leave my house to zo go to live with defendant I 1 have heard my daughter harriet speak of defendant in his ms presence as her husband I 1 b have ave heard defendant say t to 0 my dau daughter ahter that she sho on ought to live with him that was af after ter the child was born I 1 dont remember what reason he gave the child is a boy his name is sterling casper evans he will be three years old the of november have heard the defendant call the child ills liis my daughter lived with defend defeno defendant an t about 11 or 12 weeks some time before the child was born cross examined this witness said 1 I have lived here hera hereabout about IG 16 vears have six children and a husband be lives i with lysons my sons has not lived with me for two years two of my daughters are living with me moe we three have lived ed to together tether fether for the past two years prior to 0 two years ago my husband lived with me my oldest oides t son married four years ago billave I 1 have four daughters living I 1 have known defendant about ten years I 1 dont know where I 1 first saw raw him hirn helas he was living there when I 1 first came to the place I 1 lived at he marri ed my daughter about may oth isso luro I 1 went at the time of the wedding went to tb a birthday party at def defendants end ants house before my daughter luar inar married ried him it was a birthday parvy party of defendants first wife 1 I see defendant marry my daughter my daughter told me moe she was married to defendant she bhe hc told me at the time she was married it was about a year and a half before the child was born s she ghe he continued to live at my house after the tho birth of the child my daughter while she was living at iny my house and while evans evand was visiting her did not keep keel company with anyone else cheis she is about 29 or 30 years of age dyhouse is about a block and a half f from rom defendants house my rov daughter went to live with defendant ant in june 1881 for about twelve weeks she came mackto back bacu to my mv house in august 1881 several ma months atlis before the child was horn born clurin during g those twelve weeks that she was away from home she lived a part of the time in the nineteenth ward with defendant and part of the time with him in the little house next to aisi his about a block and a half away from where I 1 live i I 1 have seen her at this little house of defendants there was a fence between this little house and the house defendant lived in regularly with his family when my daughter was confined the defend defendant adt went ent for a doctor he brought drs duncanson and mrs shipp defendant was there ut nt the house frequently after ident I 1 went to bed that was before the child was born as they were man and wife I 1 fake take notice of how often he came or how late he stayed he sometimes came night after night and then again he would only come two or three nights a week this was from ohp time he married her up to the timp the child was born boin frequently heard her allude to defendant as her husband h she would speak peak of expecting her husband home question by the defense who named the child 19 witness its mother the then adjourned till loan loam today to todar day dav thursday Nov jov lov 6 1884 baj owing to td some misunderstanding the fhe court did not resume proceedings proceeding edin s until over one hour after the appointed appoint efi eji time the prosecution then put HARRIET PARRY upon this witness who is the alleged second wife of the defend ant apt antis anayis Is said to be the maln main dependence of the prosecution rose cution sho she testified to having t been een cen married to joseph 11 evans on the oth ot ol may 1880 and that the ceremony was performed at the endowment house in ic this city cily by joseph josep 11 F smith she was the 0 only ill ril y witness examined this forenoon |
