The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-15
MARRYING A FORTUNE.

Iife-StOry frOsn The COHrts giatrimOny
Under "a Parents Dicfniiou-The WITS in a
Mud-hOusc, and the Husband Cat Oh with n
PHitrY ThOusnnd.
From the NJ y. Sun Of this nornin1
After prolonged litigation, the last will and tes-
tameni Of Mrs. Anna Maria F0rman mas finally been
Sdudgcd valid by the general term of the supreme
Court Of this district A case more interesting and
novel has not often been presented TO the public
Mrs. Forman before her marriage was the pet
Snliu OF KIND ana indulgcnt father, who educated
her at the most fashionable boarding schools. She
married Mr.. Forman in 1851, being then forty-three
years OF age and he trtie over fOrtyeght after
commonplace Courship Of years. She married him
at the suggestion Of her father, and certainly with
out any enthusiastic love on either side. Her father
died IN 1865, buj before his death he gave her all his
property, amounting in the aggregate to Si5D,0OD.
which she gave her husband the bulk of her estate.
Up TO this tme she and her husband appear 10 have
agreed very well, but they had no children, and
never had any.
THE WIPES LOVE FOR HER HUSBAND DrSuNIsHEs
-Four years later in $50 with less affection for her
husband she made another WILL in which she gave
her husband less. Two ears later, in August 1851
her affections again underwent a change, and she
made another viii, by which she gave her husband
still less Six months later she executed the two
only bare pittancc OF $1,000. Although she had no
children or defendants, she had collateral relatives
and one hall-sister Mrs. Haviland who is her heir
at-law.
TIE MODEL HUSBAND.
Mr.. Forman appears to have been at the time Of
his marriage q cool, calculating, CirCumspeCt man,
without vices virtues 70 excite attracfthe atten
ton OF men or women, with little education aud little
means, and ut the time Of his marriage and for some
years afterwards engaged in a business which OF all
others was least calculated TO add TO or expand the
IDEAS that he had. He quit business in 1858, and
thereafter devoted himself TO the management Of his
THE ABUSED WIFE.
Mrs. Forman not only dcspsed, distrusted, and
hated sher husband-she .fearcd him. There is no
doubt That soon after the execution of the contested
instrument, she was in dread OF her husband and
Of the servants whom she thought he might control
1t is fair inference that these feelings towards her
husband led her TO execute the papers which gave
her husband the $1,000 Inheritance. There is no
doubt that she intended by them to prevent her
husband from getting any more. Mrs. FOrman COM
planned often that he married her for her money,
and that he did not pay her much attention he
did the servants in The kitchen. During the last
years Of her life they occupied separate rooms, and
the wife passed her days in lonely seclusOn. She
was on one or more occasions reminded of the appa-
rent kindness and ailectlQnate attentions of her
husband. She answered by saying, "Yes man
may smile, and smiling be villain"
SENT TO A PRIVATE MADHoUsE.
The last two years of her life she passed in pri
vate madhouse, where she was taken by her hus-
authority for The deed or cause for the proceeding,
without advising with her friends and her relatives,
and without even a certificate of her physician or
Of any physician. There she was Kept six months
tives
THE WILL CONTESTED.
After her death the will, excluding the husband
from everything but the $1,000, admitted to pro-
bate by the Surrogate The decision OF the SurrO-
gate was appealed from to the Supreme Court on
several grounds, the most important of which was
the insanity Of Mrs. Forman at the time when she
executed the last will, and that the instruments
were not attached in the manner prescribed by law.
CONCLUSION.
Judge Sutherland delivered the opinion Of the
Court yesterday, confirming the decree of the Sur
rogate, Justices Barnard and Cardozo concurring.
In his written opinion, his Holor bitterly condemns
the husband and his selfish motives, which the
learned Judge declares to be such that he does not
believe his testimony unless corrobOrated by other
witnesses Referring to the capacity of the testatrx
to make her will when the two papers were exc
cuted, he says, "a DOnOmGniGc or partially insane
person may make a will. believer in witches and
witchcraft, in spiruallsm, or in the doctrines of
Mahomet, mag make a lCiH"
The case it said is to be carried to the Court Of
Appeals.