Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-21
Afternoon Session.

NJ. Russell, who had complained OF
hoarseness at the close of the morning SEES
sion, aud VINO evidently spoke with much
personal discomfort, resumed his remarks
shortly after O'Clock upon the subject of
mental capacity and the evidence bearing
upon that point. He iuaugurated a partia,
review OF the evidence upon Mr. Reillv's
haolts by taking up the testimony Of James
foweH as TO Mr.. Reilly's trips about town
ana his browsing in the buggy and said he
thought Mr. Reilly displayed a good deal
OF Judgment in going TO sleep wnils en-
route 10 meeting or other place when he
mad nothing better 10 do than TO talk to
James Powell or have James Powell talk
10 him. And after all the question IS not
what Mr.. Reilly did while on his way TO A
meeting but what he did when he got
there. AS 10 what he did al these meetings
although 10 was true he was not as alert as
ne mad oeen in his younger DAYS, Messrs
clarke and Simpson mad testified 10. and he
would not insult the intelligence Of the
gentlemen he had named by making com.
parison between them and James Powell
And not only had Mr.. Reilly attended
meetings before and at the time Of the
making OF the will, but he had attended
them as late as December before he died
SIX months after the making Of the will
ana when ne was SIX months older
The next matter taken up was Mr. Reil-
ly's business methods, as illustrated bv his
business letters, and be said that although
AAI " ANA0 AUANb VI Tue contestants had
made assault after assault upon these let
tiers, they had utterly failed % make any
Impression upon them and the story they
told. he referred 20 particular letters
IKE those referring % the BenwOod well
and the Chicago real estate. showed how
they had pressed the witnesses Schulz aud
o NELL, aud said that although the two
witnesses had been subjected 20 the most
searching crOss-examinatiOn, they had NOT
been made 10 admit anything
or MATERIAL NATURE
inconsi stent with the idea they were the
business letters Of Michael Reilly Ho re-
ferred % the claims Of c0ntestanfs that
Mr.. Reilly had a most intense and pro-
found and deep seated antIpathy for James
mat he hated Jemes worse than poison
and yet their own witnesses show that he
hapitually cOusu. ted With James at all
times upon matters % the first Importance,
ana James Kelly had said the same thing
BOO his letter ~ George -. Parks in which
he bad said be had tuat day consulted the
odd s. or the odd man., or 't4e boss or
whatever respectful appclati0us ho be-
slowed upon bis father at that
20 the ability Of Mr. Reilly. he
took up the evidence Of brokers who had
dropped into the Office and found Mr.
Reilly asleep. one Of those had test.-
lied % something Of that sort, asd be had
been furn 5nIug drinks iu POKER room.
though the witness had assured him me-
was Offering 10 sell tho cheapest "Mr
Reilly had his own notions about that. and
also, probably, had his own notions about
the young mas who served driuxs iu a
poker room. But he old not buy. and
therefore ho was crazy
Going back 20 the letters. the speaker
said Mr. Hubbard, counsel on the other
side. bad characterized one OF those letters
40 "a piece Of insane driviiuR." Well.
perhaps % was. 10 was not ohakespearian.
or even Addisonian. 10 was not every one
who could write letters like his friend
Hubbard. or even ike Shakespeare or Ad.
disiOu. but the distinguished litterateur
who had preceded him might have been "a
+ little more choice iu the terms Of his crit.
/ CI yelling imbecile" sold fool ' the
F "oid fool Wto bad 20 have things "hatn.
mered into bis bead" The speaker read
I the letter 20 the jury, 10 being the one com
meucing, 81 have none Of your late letters