Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-03

| ENCE OVER HIS WIFE.
The introduction of evidence in the Olmstead
will case was closed on both sides Yesterday
afternoon after The STARS report ended and
| prayers for the instruction of the jury by the
court were submitted.
| Mr.. John F. Olms.ead. the caveatee, who was
, on the stand Yesterday when THE STARS report
closed, stated that once Mr. Hutchinson insisted
upon getting out of his sick bed to so to
| Welckers. declaring that they starved him at
home. He wanted steak and onions. he said,
| but they would not allow onions to be cooked
| in the house. The witness endeavored to pacify
him by telling him that ne had not the price of
lunch and leading him into game Of seven
| up. Then he insisted upon going into me next
| room, but witness restrained him by force.
| This was few days before the will was
! signed. About thai time Sir. Hatcnin-
! son attempted to jump out of the window.
| In speaking of his patients condition Dr.
! Sewers told NJ. OtrnsteGd that man IN tina.
condition was ant 20 be Eighty and turn on his
| bes. friends bar. Ulm,tead said Mrs. Bail .eie-
phoned him tine day AFTER MS wfes t1neral to
know If he was going down TO probate his wife's
will. and offered 10 assist him. He thought
| that TINS was bluff on her part to discover
whether there Was will. Ee denied in toto
the Allen story of his visit 20 Sitka farm.
Mrs. Ball, the cayeGtor. was the las witness
examined. and stated thai she had inquired of
Mr.. Oi.nstead by telephone Whether his wife
! had made will. and he replied by asking Eer
how she knew of il.
THE ARGUMENTS.
This morning before The arguments were
commenced M. Davis asked that all testimony
relating to the execution of the viii OF Hayward
NJ. Hutchinson and all other testimony relating
| to him be excluded. The request was denied,
and Mr.. Davis no.ed an exception.
Mr. john S. Webb of counsel for Mrs Linda
Hutchinson Ball. the caveator, began the arga-
ments. congratuiaring the jury that their long
service about to end. The present.
| case. he said. was one OF the most
interesting ever tried in the District.
Reading the will of Mrs. Olmstead and that of
her father. Mr. Webb explained that to the cav
eatee. John T. Olmstead. would be left in fee
simple, should the will be sustained. half
OF the estate lett by Hayward NJ. Hutchinson
to his (HutchiIsons) wife. Mir. Olmstcad was
childless, and it was both unnatural and I'M
womanly FOR a wife to leave her all to q child
less husband. cutting off her own blood.
the estate left by Mr.. Hutchinson was valued
at $500. 900, half of which. If tIrs. . mstead's
will was sustained. would go to MIR. Oimstead
at the death of Mrs. Hutchinson, to be DIS
posed o; as he saw nj.
Until the entrance into the Hutchinson
family. said Mr.. Webb. of Mr.. Omstead the
happiness of that family was complete
and unbroken. Bat upon his marriage
with Katie Hutchinson began the breaking of
that happiness and the Inauguration by Ohm
stead of what Mr. Webb said was a scheme TO
obtain control of his syife's share CT her fathers
estate.
MR.. HUTCHISsoNs WILL.
1t was q most sing l.ar fact. he continued
that Gen. Jeffries and Mr.. VIM. f. Mat,ing,y,
both the attorneys OF Mr. Olmstead, were
called in bv him to draw up the viii
of Gr. Hutchinson. and it was a no less
singular .act that ntr. Hutchinson refused to
sign the will drawn by Gen. 5eifries, dec airing
thai Il not such will be desired
to make. as he wished to leave everything TO
his wife during her life and at her
death to his children. Another will was drawn
up BY Mr.. Mattingly. Mr.. Olmstead's
attorney, and signed by Sir. Hutchinson. By that
will az estate In remainder was given to his
two daughters. That viii. however. was not in
accordance with the instruc tons gwen to Mr..
Mat;ingly by Mr.. Hutchinson. Fer by that
will the testators daughters we're empowered
to devise. before the death of their mother, their
share Of their father f estate Is was absurd TO
believe that Mr. Hutchinson desired 20 empower
either of his daughters to leave her share
of the estate TO soa-iu-law. or through the
death of that son-in-law to his next
of kin or to whomsoeyer the son-in-
law might devise. On the contrary.
Dir. Hutchinson desired to make such
a will would prevent his daughters from tax
ing or devising of the remainder until after the
death OF their mother. Suca we're the direc-
but those directions were not fol-
lowed. OF course. having made his
will. it could not now. legally. be denied. bu.
there could be no doubt that Mr.. Hutchinson
i'll and unfamiliar with legal phraseoiogy. fully
believed that the will he signed was precisely
the one he desired to make.
MR. HUrCKINsoSs OPINION OF MI. oLMsTEAp.
Dir. Olmstead, said Mr.. Webb, swore that Mr.
Hutchinson was the best judge of men be ever
knew. In that connection the Jury
should remember the testimony of Dr.
Sewers. who had tesaded that MIR.
Hutchinson. three days before his DEATH
stated that he had respected and
| cared for Mr.. Olmstead. but that ne had
during his {Hutchinsons sickness closely
observed him and had changed his OBI MON
Mr.. Olms-ead's treatment OF Mrs. Eutchin-
son since her husbands death fully confirmed,
Mr.. WEBB argued. the last oP.niop Mr.. Hutch
inson had formed of him. In his
persecution of Mrs Hutchinson, MIR.
Webb declared. Mr.. O.mstoad had
compelled the Hoor little girl he married to
charge her dearly beloved mother her idol,
with ialSehood and dishonesty. Thai was one
OF the frauds through which the caveator al
legged the VIII OF Mrs. Olmstead had been OBJ
| tanned.
THE BILL IN EQUITY.
Referring to the bill in equity filed BY Mrs
O.msiead against her mother. charging that
Mrs. Hutchinson was wasting the estate
ard converting TO her own use money
belonging TO the estate. and ASK
ing that injunction issue against her and
that there should be an accounting. Mr. Webb
said thar Il was remarkable fac. that the suit
was still pending. the prayers Of Tie Dill never
having been granted By the Equity Court. That
sui. he said, was iastiga.ed by Nj. Omstead COM
peliing his vie to file it. Mrs. Eamsdeu
had testified that Mrs. olmstead, in
tears. had tod her tina: she was
very unhappy and that she had TO Go things
which made her very unhappy. Could
any one doubt that her husband COM
PEELED Mrs.. O.mstead to 10 the
things she complained Of? Every enc appre-
ciated the love existing between mother and
child. and every one could feel how the charges
Mrs. Olns: cad WAS compelled 70 aiein cren cour;
against her mother wrung aDc tore that child's
heart. The man who was capable OF sucn cru
city. Mr.. Webb argued. was just tie man who
was capable OF subjecting his vile to his abso-
lutte dominion.
HOW THE SERVANTS SAW IT.
No man. continued Mr.. Webb. was a hero in
tie eyes of his valet. and the true relations ex-
istlng between Mr.. ard Mrs. Ohm
stead could best be related by their
serysufs Va no say theyn daily bop-lr -, &ho