Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-05

New York Correspondent Philadelphia Record.
The interminable Hoyt will case, which has
for many months employed the colossal enens
gies aud developed the satirical eloquence u
Roscoe Conkling, Gen. Ben Butler. William n.
Evarts, genial "Joe" Choate and the legal lights
and which has crowded the surrogate's court
at all seasons-is now drawing TO its close.
Jesse Hoyt, who was collector OF the port some
fifty years ago, when the defalcation under ex-
Collector Sam Swartwout came to light made Q
will i'm 1870, when he was supposed TO be worth
s., SOC, 900, I'm which his daughter had her
proper share: by another will made In 1880,
when his property had Increased to %, 600 900,
she was left only a life interest i'm 81, 25O, 600
Mr.. Hoyt was senile and feeble, and his daugh-
ter, Mary Irene, was odd and excitable and
with these interesting exhibits OF men. women
and millions the lawyers have contrived TO
their pockets. Mr.. Conkling, by the way, was
Withdrawn from the case last spring. and with
his departure half OF the daily efferyescence OF
steamship man, who died about the time that
Mr.. Hoyt did land whose widow sold 800 600
worth of orchids and rare plants this week, got
ahead of the lawyers by writing his will on .
single sheet of commercial undergraduates
ing that his $l5,OO0,OOO should be divided
among his heirs rs the statutes directed.
Some Of the features OF the Hoyt suit recall
the great Parrish will case of thirty years ago,
S Whose dramatic nt features well remembered as
summer Of 1s49 Henry Parrish, head of one Of
the great commercial houses of the city, was
suddenly struck down with paralysis-and
from that time TO his death, I'm 1856, could not
utter an Ineligible word. He had married
Miss Delafield, proud but poor, and she had
introduced him into the highest social circles.
During his married life he had cared little for
her. He never wrote her q letter, and by his
will LEFT her about $35O,000, out OF some two
millions he possessed. Knowing the power Of
money she wanted the rest. He was simply
idiotic. But the strong-minded woman took her
fmbecile husband down town In q coach ON
three several occasions and made him ood
three successive codicfle, the last Of which gave
her all his property. She called around him
religious persons, and rung them In by inter
preting her husbands gfbberish % mean be-
quests Of various sizes, and thus secured IN
army Of respectable supporter. The mans
bodily health was good, and % was his ape
tite, yet he was an idiot, unable % rad, write
or talk. But his clever wife kept him caooe
prisoner and denied him 60 all relatives. even
10 his own brother and partner. She slept In
tho room with him, and all through the six long
years that he lived In his imbecility she w. bis
constant companion: Although at the time
thas Henry Parrish died his wife had trans
Serred property 20 her own name 20 the amount
Of more than one million, and had . bank 60
count nearly equal 20 that sum, . long lawsuit
BY Charles o'Conor, reaped . golden harvest
here. She died before the suit was closed No
writer Of lction has depicted . wife more M
lutte and remorseiess, and none would ventnro
70 carry the terrible tragedy Of her unloved ~
uniovfng Life through 70 such q ondknG