New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-01
DECLARED AN HABITUAL DRUNKARD.
THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF DR.. BULL
ENDED FOR THE PRESENT


The inquiry whether DIR. George W. Bull was
habtual drunkard and that account incapable OF
taking OF his property, brought close yes.
erday. The Rev. Newton Perkins, who OBLIGATED at DIR.
Durs marriage on January 80 1885, testified that he
noticed that DR.. Bull nervous, but there moth
ing indicate that he intoxicated IL he had sup
posed him to be under the influence Of liquor he would
| not have married him. DR.. Edward c.
| Mann, Of No. 2s West Thirty-nrst-st, who
examined DIR. Bull February 4, said no found him
suffering from slight nervous exhaustion. His memory
was not impaired. He appeared able TO take OF
himself The doctor had examined him again yesterday
and found that be had no insane ideas or decisions lie
considered him entirely competent TO manage his busi-
DIR. Bull, examined in his own benaIs, gave
his testimony without much excitement. lie
denied that he was an habtual drunkard.
June partly educated there. went to Paris study
aud returning graduated at BELLEVUE Medical College IA
1872 dcsc rihed the real estate owned ny him ST.
Louis Baltimore and NewYork, but failed account
for $500 out of $4,000 IN bonds belonging TO him. OF
court for legal expenses He said he had resolved never
What Induced you to make that resolve p inquired
his lawyer, and Dr. Bull smiled. why do you smile g.
Because" replied Dr. Bull 1 feel so different from
what used to. begin to realize that have got lead
pleasant. For two years | was unhappy at home.
| do not gamble or play billiards, or belong
talked people there. Now, for the first tine in two
years have happy home If IL had abb been pleasant at
The lawyers declared that they were willing that the
missioner BRck prieay instructed the Jury in regard to
the law and all but the urymen retired After ten min
u the time nc Was Dr. Ba Was
habual drunka and had been SO Tor TWO years prior
Dr. Bull and his wife had gone home before the verdict
rendered.
LOTTERY MEN NOT PROTECTED BY COURTS.
In 1868 the lottery dealers of this city, in
order to form perfect union for the purpose OF
carrying their business conveyed to three trustees
appointed for ten years. all the franchises acquired BY
them from Kentucky Georgia and other Southern States
and the types, presses and implements used 10
the business, to be used FOR the bene
Mt Of all the dealers with the provso that whenever tho
OF rs per notice Of the termination of
the trust 1t should be regarded at
end and the trustees should wind up the business
and make an equitable division of the property. In
March. 1862 zacharah f. simmons. of tho trustees
brought suit asking that the trust be Terminated and
receiver appointed On the night OF the day ON which
the action begun Judge George G. Barnard APP
Piled to nc his horse to appoint receiver aud at
sold the property for sos 900 to William l.. Sim,
After a good deal OF trouble the lottery
set aside. Then Henry ColtonI OF interested
brought sut in the name OF the people AGAINST Charles
tried before Judge Donohue, who yesterday gave
The main question on Which il seems to mo the case
turns is whether this co will interfere for or against
business against the policy aud laws of tha
State. Il seems to me clear that this IL
OF the In which such interference will be with
held" The Judge adds that parties engaged in business
OF this character, carried In defiance OF the law
should understand that, either plaintiffs defendants
they entirely without tho protection OF the Court
and that they cannot in directly indirectly
obtain its asssanceI either in getting portion tie
illegal plumber. or damages In any legal proceeding they
may institute.
MRS. sCOyILS CONvEYANCEs SET ASIDE.
In the suit of Mrs. Phoebe l.. Scovil, wife of
william f, scovil, the stenographer for Lora, Day
LORD who ran away last when
his OF Mr.. Days securities discov-s,
cred, to set aside the deeds Of conveyance
of her valuable property in Brooklyn to the Mercantile
Trust Company upon the ground that they wero
secured under duress and Misrepresentation. Judge
Pratt yesterday decided In favor of-sIrs scov He re-
viewed the facts OF the brought out In the evil
dence and found that the conveyances were made by
Mrs. scov under undue influence and moral duress 10
husband arrest anc disgrace aud mprison
ment and ordered tho oonveyahces to be SET aside with
$1,000 costs.
A complaint was fled yesterday with tho Kings
County Clerk In an action begun by the Mercantile