Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-11
poHeRTY NOT ON TRIAL.

 The Colonel Refuses to Say Anything
 About the Driggs Case-Coionei Burpee
 Receiving Congratulations On the
 Outcome.
 Colonel Doherty was seen by a DEMO- GRAF reporter to-day and asked, now that the Driggs' case was virtually ended, if he wished to talk. His reply was: What have got to talk for am not on trial"
 Lieutenant Colonel Burpee arrived home at 9 o'clock this morning. He stopped with his family last night at the Monto- wese hotel, Branford. He did not go to woodmont last night nor did he remain in New Haven. because as he said everybody who knew him was SO eager to congratu- late him that he found it impossible to stay where he could be seen. as, although it was very gratifying to him, it was still a trying position and his family needed him most. Telegrams. he said. had poured in in on him from military and civic circles. One from ex-Governor Bulkeley he prized highly. To a DEMOCRAT reporter he said, all the papers had the substances of the finding but it was not told as strongly as it really existed. The allegations, relative to adultery. the finding does not say were not proven. but that there was no founda- ton for them whatsoever. They were based merely on rumor when they were made and there was no reason to believe them true. The whole four witnesses were not entitled to belief. on account of their character and circumstances of the testimony. The conduct of Mrs Morton and MT Driggs was unwarrantable; there was no ground for jealousy. They turned Mrs Driggs from the house on an hours notice. and even that they granted very re- luctantly.
 Our slde is satisfied" continued Col onel Burpee. "Of course you know the | allegation of intemperance was allowed, but Mrs Driggs knows and her friends | know she is not incorporate. I never saw. in my legal experience. a finding containing so many rebukes and reproofs. am confident a divorce will be granted, but do not care to venture an opinion as to who will receive it.
 All day long Colonel Burpee has been receiving callers at his office congratulat- ing him. and telegrams still continue to pour in on him. He is pleased that the case is virtually ended as he has worked hard for months to clear his own and Mrs DriggS' name of the shame which was placed on them.
 Attorney Terry was seen in his office. When asked if he wanted to say anything on the finding, he replied: "I have not seen it. only in the papers, and cannot tell whether it is right or wrong" The reporter continued: "It is rumored on the street that Colonel Doherty told you the stories credited to him, but that you were not to use his name. but could make use of the information as you saw fit; that | you, at the last minute, to shield yourself, and seeing that your case was almost hope less went on the witness stand and vio. lated the confidence reposed in you by Colonel Doherty and told where you got | your information?"
 To this Attorney Terry replied: T don't think Colonel Doh-rty said that The reporter said 1t was a rumor, not that Colonel Doherty said so.
 Mir Terry again replied: "I don't think Colonel Doherty said that" This closed | the interview.
 Other attorneys were seen in r.l lation tc the finding and the majority think that Mrs Driggs will receive her divorce. with out alimony. on the ground of cruelty.