New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-02
THE COUNTS.
GENERAL BUTLER TALKS ON JESSE HOYT.

GENERAL DDlEEh sALho OS JCpcb hOi IL
STRONG WORDS ABOUT HIS FAMILY AND HIS Doc
ToRs-oNE OF THEM I'm A HOLE"
There wss standing room only in the Surrogate's
Court Yesterday when General Butler began his clos
ing ADDRESS in the Hoyt will He asserted that it
was fairly proven that Miss Hoyt had been unawfuly
incarcerated in asylum by her fathers brothers so
that she might be put out OF the way. She was not
permitted by Samue n HOyt to have lawyer ut the
probate of the will He SAID that sic would fall ,nto
the hands of leone shyster" who would get all ner
money. That was doubtful even her present counsel
had been unable 10 get it, and they hardly came
under that description. She was kidnapped and put
in madhouse so tnat SIC could not be present at the
be- anneared to sustain the psqbae They said he was
an honor to the bar God hep the others II that
sor exclaimed General Butler :" know many
LAWYERS who would rather have cut OF their right hands
than have done it, Fraud vitiatee everything, and
this keeping her away at the time OF tho probate was
a fraud. She appeared before tue surrogate as soon
after her release possible and applied to have the
probate set aside Jesse Hoyt under false impress:
sions when be made the will. Ii he had not oeheved
her to be insane he would not have nea up inc PROB
erty She never was insane and no attempt had Deen
made to prove her They sent her OF to Europe th
the time for reopenng the probate should have ex-
nired f they were evil minded enough TO act IN TINS
way in order to get hold of these millions, what would
they not have done to have the VIII made 70 sut tnei
when they had the poor sick old man IN their power
and with no man 20 say t5em nay ~ tbe ooposinS
counsel said but If this crest outrage should Oe con
summated then perhaps It might be night 10 appeal
sustained and that OF 1882 set aside. All the wills
but that of 1878 had been destroyed and that was
saved because it gave 81 0OO 600 to the Hoyts and
t,ev saved that to offer it in the will now con-
tested would not stand His opponents said that ar
Hoyt was a generous man. lie had never gwen
doiar in charity. lie kept no carriage, although he
had a young daughter gfowing. up. General Butler
enumerated the diseases that afflicted MIR. Hoyt irOm
1855 to the spring OF 1882. Dr. Carnochan swore
that Mr. Hoyt died of tumor, and not OF br1ghts
disease II that true the contestant had no case
Bat that was lie as shown by the evidsn nee lie
died of Brgbs disease aud every person died OF
that disease bad his mind affected, as an doctors
agreed The speaker read selections from Or.
Mllards book in which Jesse Hoyts case was spoken
of az one of Pr gifts disease. a..
lie was not bribed to write that book Tor at Una,
time he had no motive for living about the Royt CASE
continued General Butler. "When he went upon the
stand ne said that his book had put him In hole
thinz put him in hole. 1t puts his whole teS-
tmony in a hole of those holes which we now
spell sheol.'p =, -.
He denounced the doctors at great length The court
adjourned Tuesday next, when General Butler VIII
continue his argument