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He decided for the plaintiff, holding the marriage contract to be
genuine, and to constitute a valid marriage. It was manifest that
he made his decision solely upon the evidence given by Sarah Althea
herself, whom he nevertheless branded in his opinion as a perjurer,
suborner of perjury, and forger. Lest this should seem an exaggeration
his own words are here quoted. She stated that she was introduced
by Sharon to certain parties as his wife. Of her statements to this
effect the Judge said:

"Plaintiff's testimony as to these occasions is directly
contradicted, and in my judgment her testimony as to these
matters is wilfully false."

Concerning $7,500 paid her by Sharon, which she alleged she had placed
in his hands in the early part of her acquaintance with him, the Judge
said:

"This claim, in my judgment, is utterly unfounded. No such
advance was ever made."

At another place in his opinion the Judge said:

"Plaintiff claims that defendant wrote her notes at different
times after her expulsion from the Grand Hotel. If such notes
were written, it seems strange that they have not been preserved
and produced in evidence. I do not believe she received any such
notes."

With respect to another document which purported to have been signed
by Mr. Sharon, and which Sarah Althea produced under compulsion, then
withdrew it, and failed to produce it afterwards, when called for,
saying she had lost it, Judge Sullivan said:

"Among the objections suggested to this paper as appearing on its
face, was one made by counsel that the signature was evidently a
forgery. The matters recited in the paper are, in my judgment,
at variance with the facts it purports to recite. Considering the
stubborn manner in which the production of this paper was at first
resisted and the mysterious manner of its disappearance, I am
inclined to regard it in the light of one of the fabrications for
the purpose of bolstering up plaintiff's case. I can view the
paper in no other light than as a fabrication."

In another part of his opinion Judge Sullivan made a sort of a general
charge of perjury against her in the following language:

"I am of the opinion that to some extent plaintiff has availed
herself of the aid of false testimony for the purpose of giving
her case a better appearance in the eyes of the court, but
sometimes parties have been known to