Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-21
An Ansonia Case.
Marital Relatfons-A Settlement of S9,0 900 in Future Changed to. S5,oOo in Ready

Marital Relatfons-A Settlement of S9, ,0OO
 in Future Changed to $5,OO0 in Ready
 Cash.
 The case of Mir. Martin Luther Blackman,
 the septuagenarian in Ansonia, who executed
 a legal paper settling ,0o0 to be paid at his
 death upon his wife who had applied for a
 divorce, took a new turn lately. His wife
 had previously instituted proceedings for divorce attaching MT. Blaclzman for $2O,oo0.
 and Mr Blackman, not liking the bother and
 uncertainties of the law, entered into nego- tiations with the wife, the result of which was that she was sent with letter from him to MT. HugH Daley, of this city. The letter expressed Mr. Blackman's wish to settle $l0,- GOO on his wife in lieu of dover or alimony. Mir. Daley repaired to the house of MT. Blackman oni Main street, Ansonia, and in the presence of the wife and husband and an-s other party executed note for $9,000 in favor of the wife, the same to be secured by mortgage on the husbands property. The husbands property is valued at about $25,- 900, and comprises two houses on Main
 street, two lots in Shelton and number of
 thousand in the bank, property accumulated ! in the stove and timing business. The New Haven attorney on his arrival found that the parties were apart on the sum to be paid, the ! husband naming $9, GOO, the wife sticking to SIG, ,000. An agreement was reached by \ splitting the difference.
 But all did not yet run smooth, for in 8 | few days the New Haven attorney was noti- I fled by his client that. she was to be put out | of the house, and that the husband had | drawn up, through Judge Munson, of Sey-
 mour, trust deed conveying all his property \ to his nephew and niece, Mir. and Mrs. Will liam McCarty, of Ansonia, without recogniz- \ ing the $9, ,O0O provision for the wife, whose \ application for divorce was pending. The lawyer repaired to the house in Ansonia, after having telegraphed his client to take hotel quarters, the law allowing her neces- l sary support pending the divorce proceed | ings He found his client sitting upon @ chest in the attic. She said she had been notified to leave by an officer acting under | MT. and Mrs. McCarty's instructions and \ under the trust deed but that she had been permitted to stay over the previous night. Under her lawyers advice she repaired to | New Haven to friends, and later, Mir. BIackman having become convinced that the ! second legal proceedings in the case were
 not likely to hold, having taken legal advice, | made overtures to MT. Daley through counsel | asking what sum the wife would take cash down in lieu of all claims for dover or alimony.
 The answer was from Mir. Dailey-after con \ su11aCAOA WILL HIS ScAIen6-%o,OuU, ne acceulnS
 to this sum in ready cash on account, he
 said, of the state of his clients health, which
 had become impaired and she having suf- ! sered much from ill health, which she attrib- ! uted to worriment since marrying Mir. Black
 man. The client was a blooming young wo-
 man of thirty when marrying MT. Blackman, named Lizzie M Foy, and had previously
 been married and was divorced. She was l welded to Mir. Blackman May Sth last. She brought legal proceedings for divorce, claim ing such treatment as made it impossible to \ get along together. The offer of $5 OOO was
 accepted and the papers were drawn up last Friday noon hv Mr. DRilav and tha nlnnev