St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-04
President James Hill Unfolds
His Plans to the City
Council.
Several Sad Cases Of Insanity
Examined in the Pro-
bate Court.
Librarian Putnam's Resigna-
ton on Record--Gane
Minneapolis News.

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! large number of spectators to the mu
nicipal court room yesterday afternoon,
and at times the crowd was 50 great
that it was only with the greatest diff
Guilty that seats could be found for those
directly interested in the case. The
suit had been much discussed about
town, and stories had been circulated
which indicated that the trial would
| bring forth considerable testimony of a
! spicy nature. and in fact these reports
were not entirely unwarranted.
DR.. Ames was one of the prominent
! figures in the court room and one of the
| principal witnesses, but he did not APP
pear in the interest of his partner and
| sOn-in-law. DR.. Rochf ford. On the con-
trary, he attended the trial in behalf of
| Miss Chase, and from time to time
would converse in whispers with As
sistant City Attorney Dunn, who con-
| Quoted the prosecution.
BY the introduction of a great deal of
unnecessary testimony the case was
drawn out TO considerable length, and il
was nearly Z o'clock before it was dis
posed of. Miss Chase, the complainant,
was placed on the stand at $3.50. and
| proceeded TO tell her story in positive,
and when questiOned,a naughty and de-
fiant manner.
She stated that she came to Minneap-
oils in 1879, and that she was dress
maker. On Oct. II. about 10 o'clock p.
| M, she went TO DR.. AmeS' office. corner
Fourth street and Second avenue south.
in response to message which she had
received from the doctor himself. AS
she assembled the stairs she passed a
man whom she believed to be DIR. Roch-
ford. but without paying any particular
attention she continued until she
reached the door of the ladies' waiting
room of Drs. Ames & RochfOrd'S Offices
This door she found locked, and she
then turned back, and meeting DR..
Rockford, asked if DIR. Ames was i'll.
DR.. Rockford replied that he was, but
that she could not see him, She then
told DR.. Rockford that DR.. Ames had
sent for her; but he said: Il don't
care whether DR.. Ames has sent for
you or not; he don't want to see you,
and you can't see him. | don't want
you to come to these offices any more"
Miss Chase then stated that fter this
conversation DR.. Rockford ordered her
out of the hall, and when she refused to
go he took hold of her by the shoulders
and either kicked her or struck her with
| his knee III such manner that she fell
to the first landing. He then followed
her, and. picking her up, assisted her
! gently 10 the door and out onto the
Chase stated that she was standing on
the stairs about half way down to the
| landing when DR.. Rockford took hold of
her. Also that Mrs. Rockford was stand
| ing near the head of the stairs at the
| time. She was asked by Attorney
! Jamison, who conducted the defense, if
! she had not received a message from
! DR.. Rockford to the effect that he
wanted her TO keep away from the Office.
| md no cd of Il
| wife had told her that DR.. Rockford said
IF any Chase woman came up to the
Office he would kick her down the
stairs"
DR.. Ames was called to the stand.
and stated that Miss Chase was one of
his patients and that he had sent her
word to come OH Oct. Il. When asked
if he was not in bed in his private sleep
ing room at the time she arrived, he
said that he was in his room. but that.
in anticipation of her visit, he had
dressed himself. Asked if he was in
the habit of receiving professional calls
in that room. he replied that he some
times did. He stated that he had been
drinking on the day in question, but
was not intoxicated. Mrs. Rockford,
DR.. Ames' daughter, stated that on the
dav in question she had visited her
fathers room and lad a talk with HIM.
/ TX WIS very uluCH QUuGI Tie liuUGlCC
! of liquor and was lying IN bed. He had
admitted to her that he was incapaci-
tated by liquor, and, upon her sug
gestiOn, had authorized her to act for
him In all things until his recovery.
Mrs. Rockford stated that her father
was in bed when she and her husband
started to 90 to dinner at l O'clock, and
that ii was by her order that the door
of the ladies' waiting room had been
locked. As they started TO go down the
stairs she saw the plaintiff coming up,
and at the same time her husband mo-
toned TO her to stand back. She in
CURED who was coming, and DR.. Roch-
ford replied:
1T is that person to whom l sent
word that | did not want her to come TO
the otflce again."
In telling of the onversation in the
hall between DIR. Rockford and Miss
Chase, Mrs. Rockford stated that her
husband had told Miss Chase that DR..
AmeS was sick IN bed and was not in
| condition 10 see anybody. She also
stated that Miss Chase had acted in q
defiant manner. and when told that she
could not see DR.. AmeS and must leave
at once, had said that she
would come to see DR.. Ames
when she wanted to and that
she wonld not go until she got ready
and dared DR.. Rockford to put her out.
In telling Of the encounter on the stairs,
Mrs. Rockford stated that her husband
merely placed his hand on Miss Chase's
shoulder, and that she then placed her
feet out III front of her, and, setting
down, wriggied herself down to the
landing. Mrs. Rockford denied that
her husband had used any violence
whatever.
DR.. Rockford corroborated his wife's
testimony as TO the conversation i'll the
hall, and denied having kicked Miss
Chase or struck her with his knee. He
| insisted that he had not used anV viO-
lence, and that he had only placed his
hands on her shoulders. When asked
his reasons for sending word to Miss
Chase that he did not wish her to come
to the office, he said that she had acted
in an unladylike manner about the
Office and in the ladies' waiting room.
On one occasion. when one of the clerks
informed her that DR.. Ames was not in,
she had said in the presence of others:
'Oh,, suppose Ames is drunk again, as
usual.''
She had also visited DR.. Ames in his
private sleeping apartment, and on one
occasion had, in company with Mrs. DR..
Bates, taken supper with DR.. Ames
there.
The argument of the case turned par
ticularly upon the question of mans
right to control in his own castle, and
whether that right extends to the
approaches and Railways thereof, pro-
viding the castle be in building
which he occupies conformity with other
. tenants. Attorney Jameson made a
strong argument upon this point pro-
duclng a supreme court decision as au-
thority for the ground that a mans
Office is as much his castle as his private
residence, holding that DIR. Rochford's
| rights IN the hallway OF the building
were equal to the aggregate rights of all
the tenants. and that therefore he was
justified in using force to eject the plain
tiff from the premises when she refused
to go at his request. Attorney Dunn
argued that the hallway was public