New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-07
PATRICK TRENOR'S SANITY
THE COURT FULLY CONFIRMS 1T.
a,,r TIM nrc,s,oS COMES TOO LATE TO BE OF MUG

t,Ur THE DECISION COMES TOO LATE TO BE OF Moc"
SERVICE TO THE OLD MERCHANT.
The second decision I'm favor OF old Patrick irehor,
N. ycscv.s, cordial merchant who has been pursued
nv nersstent efforts TO have h'm declared ihsahe'
was rendered yesterday, two days AFTER MS death'
"a on tho very d,y of his burial in Calvary, after
services in St Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, In
Uarlcm II came too late TO be OF any service 10
him. Int will doubtless have some bearing spon the
J,spositlon that he may have made by WI of his
nroncrty valued at over 100000, and consisting
largely OF real estate in Brooklyn
The decision rendered yesterday was by Justice
Lawrence of the Supreme Court, denying the appca-
ton to have lunacy commission appointed The
Judge SAYS: g have carefully pcrused tho papers
submitted on the motion, and l am Of the opinion
that Is established by the prepondorance of proof
that although Mr.. Trenor is lin the language of Dr.
Macdonald : by reason Of advanced age, weakened
In mind and body and incapable Of transactng business
OF importance without counsel aud advice yet
his judgment and memory are at the present Time
stl sufficient to enable him TO appreciate the rciaoh
to himself of different persons, and to enable MN
to decide for himself intcgeItly as to whom he shan
seek such advice and counsel from.''
The eccentric conduct of Mr. Trenor VINO pcfsis'eu
In sleeping in his store, and did other things which
were not approved by some who called themselves
his friends resulted last fall in an application 10
Justice Barrett for commission, when was ho'
granted After the decision of Justice Barrett pro-
nOuncing him sane, bascu lafEtly upon an Olhio"
by Dr. Charles H. Nichols, the superintendent OF the
Bloomngdalc Insane Asylum new proceeding to
have him pronounced of unsound mind was begun
by his lawyers, AdOph L. Sanger and Henry W..
Ungcr in behalf of Mrs Margaret Tromer, the half
sister Of TrcnOr's wife. MI Sanger appeared before
Justice Lawrence, in the Supreme Court, Chambers,
and asked for the appointment of a commission to
Investigate the question whether he was not In con-
dtion OF senile decay aud unable to take of his
property MIR. Sanger presented a letter written to
Dr. Nichols about three weeks after his first visit to
Mr. IrenOr, in which Inc doctor said that he had just
seen the patient again and that he had no doubt that
his mental faculties were weak and had been gradu-
ally falling for several years.
In the course of the argument that followed IL
appeared that Mr. Trenor had given John j. Ftzger-
aid powor of attorney tc manage his affairs, which
he had after revoked; that Fitzgerald had then
and Ungcr hai presented bl Tor Sl'oOo' ana lha ina
Trenor had refused to pay both bills Z: f. th ,hc
present proceedings never would have been brought
II these bills had been paid lie insisted ,hat IL was
bounced an right in the middle of January TO present
evidences of iongcontiuued seDe decay In the hist
Al another nearing, numerous ailavlt, were pre-
o9ted for oo and against the dGa "d had to u 6aS
arrive at the age of this OLD gentleman ana nay
parties cling TO This case with such tenacty" Noah +
Cark. at whose house, n 1872 East One hundred ana
sition to the efforts to have him declared insane.
According to the death certificate signed by Dr.
Frederick > Fulton. of No III East seventy eighth
St., Mr. Trenor seventyfve years Old was born
In ireland and had lived in this city fifty years Tho
chief cause of his death is declared 10 have been
chronic mycitus" and contributing cause paraly-
sis vagus verve" In the contest likely to arise over or
the SpOstiOn of his property. who had no next or
kim this statement of the cause of death may DC
important. ,--
when Mr. Trenors effects were examined during
the tendency Of the lunacy proceedings an Ola VIII
I'm his handwriting. but not properly executed, was
found. In which he beIueahed ali his property 10
Bishop LOughlin Of the Roman Catholic church The
Bishop lives I'm Brooklyn