The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
SAVED Her DARLINGS..
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ton ever since. At this point the bov
who had been adroitly sent to his father
by his grandmother and sat in the doc
tors arms began to pound the desk with
healbhy, vigorous raps.
Dr.. Gicott was followed by his father,
DR.. Cornelius Olcott, who said that. he
was a practicing physician in Brooklyn
and was often called upon to testify
as an expert in law cases. He c~orroDor-
ated his son's testimony considering the
childrenfs condition, and delivered a
leccureson skin and nervous diseases. he
declared that if the boy should continue
to live under the mothers influence for
three or four years he would be a physi-
cal and meRtal wreck. An attempt was
made at this point by Counsellor Steele to
assafl Mrs. Kirby's character in much
the same manner as he tried to prejudice
the public against the wife by reflections
against her morality in the return to the
writ. But the Chancellor stopped him
short.
Dr. Wilson, a young man with q coal
black bang and gold bound ~spectacles,
corroborRted the testimony of the Olc0tts
concerning the condition Of the children
and also delivered a lecture on skin ana
nervous diseases which made even gne
patient and long suffering Chancellor
Tired. Mrs. Thursby. a motherly looking
little woman with q pleasant smile, told
what awfullY nice people the Olcotts
were, and declared that she never saw q
child in such a condition as the little girl
was. The boy was always afraid of his
mother, she declared, but when cross-ex-
amined she could not remember any par
ticulars.
WANTED TO MARRY CHARLIE.
Miss Emma Shatfer, a pert young
lady who Mrs. Kirby said wanted to
marry DIR. Olcott, and who while in the
court room cast resentful looks at Mrs.
Olcott, gave her version of the encounter
at the Erie station last Saturday and said
that Mrs. Kirby called her names be-
sides saying that she wanted to marry
Charlie.
Then Mrs. Cornelius Olcott was sworn.
She is a good looking woman with a
striking resemblance to her daughter, the
dead actress, Lillian Olcott. She evil
IDENTIFY has a will of her own, and had
about her the general air of a commander
in-chief. She had not spoken long before
every one who heard her saw what the
whole trouble in the family was. She
said that she went to Greenwood Lake
earlier than Usual this season because she
received a letter from her sons wife say
ing that Charles was drunk all the time,
and she did not know what to do. She
was allowed to deny that the son drank,
and there obliged to drop the subject.
In speaking of the conversation to which
Nj. Kirby testified, she said that John
Kirby told her son that he was 40 man,
as he had to have his mother behind him
all the time.
1T would have been better if he had
had his mother behind him some time
ago,"'Mrs. Olcott says she said. Then
Mr. Kirby said that Charles was @
drunkard because his sister said so,
md the old lady said that if
young Mrs. Olcott said so she lied, and her
son should never live with her again
with the old lady's consent. At that MI.
kjrhu Gajn fhQf hafOro uOI1nu OlOOtf U a
married he had often picked him up off
the road and taken him into the house.
Mrs. Olcott further declared that she
had never visited her son or taken a meal
in his house since his marriage. She was
not cross-eXamined.
Young Mrs. Olcott was recalled and ex-
planned satisfactorily her punishment Of
The boy, which was by no means as severe
as alleged, n showed how the little
girls condition was due more to her hus-
bands family's fault than to her own
neglect.
Mr.. Fisk, in summing up, characterized
Mr.. Steele's ~pleadings as an outrage upon
the court aud intimated the reason why
Mrs. Olcott, an accomplished young
society woman buried herself for five
years in the sparsely settled country. He
showed what a faithful wife she was in
THAT, even when her character was as.
sailed as outrageously as 1t was in the re-
turn to the writ, she would not allow her
counsel to introduce testimony to show
what her husbands habits were. He
closed by quoting old Mrs. Olcott's state
ment that her son should never live with
his wife again with her consent. and said
that there was the whole case in a nut
shell.
Mr.. Steele denied that Mrs. Olcott said
so, bu the stenographer's notes bore Mr..
Fisk out. 1t did not take the Chancellor
long to arrive at his decision and award
the custody of the children to Mrs. Oh
colt.