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

den OF proof was upon them. and they
must suostantiate what they had alleged
Inc other side had virtually admitted that.
and yet they had said Mr. Reilly was pos
sessed OF wholly unnatural antipathy to-
Wuros his children and had attempted TO
throw the burden upon the speakers side.
ino law was exactly the other way, and
the common sense of the propsition WAS
also the other way. Rather was IL the duty
OF the contestants TO show that Mr.. Reiilyis
IDEAS as TO his children were false and IN
Iounded. The contestants had read a good
zeal OF law upon tue subject from Pcnnsyl-
wanna and other States, but they had omit
ted some matters, ana the speaker would
supply the omissions. He cited first from
Stackhouse V. Horton, 2 McCarty, pp. 227,
rs, IL being New Jersey case, bearing
upon the impossibility OF distinguishing at
times between prejudices. even though
they be unreasonable, and arrangements OF
the mind, and he thoughtthe contestants
HAD UTTERLY FAILED
| to make good the distinction. He cited
next from Martin V. Thayer. 81 w. Va,
hrst narratlng tho salient points going TO
make up that case, in which Mr.. Hutchin-
son was engaged as counsel, and pointing
out that teis was a case IL there ever was
one, on which there was delusion. and
where his friends on the other side would
have applied the law. But in the Martin
V. Thsyer case. the other side didn't stop
these, but went right on and showed the
daughter had never stolen the will as she
had been charged by the old man, and that
the will had been found just where the old
man had left IL, and yet the Court OF APP
peais had laid down that the testator could
make will II he had mind enough TO
know what he was doing TO reconect his
| property, and TO recognize tho objects OF
hls bounty, and said nothing about
his having disinherited tho daugh-
ter. although she was innocent OF
what sire had been charged, and the old
man had IA delusion. The Supreme Court
said the delusion made no odds, 80 long as
the otner requirements were present. He
then said IL would, perhaps, be- well TO
look at and see just what delusions Mi
chael Reilly had, according TO the other
side. "Wnat was MIR. Reilly's insane
delusiont Mr.. O'Neill said his hatred for
MS children was simply HORRIBLE and my
friends on the other side get up, and with
dramatic action and away down In their
Threats they had said Mr.. O'Neill had said
his treatment was simply h.o-r-r-i-
b-l-ep II reminded him of the Ghost in
Hamlet, who came out on the staRe-uot as
he was in the book-with a suit OF stage
armor-as full of holes as the case on thI
other side-"and his face whitened, and a
mosquito bar over him, and at certain
point he says in sepulchral voice: "Horri-
bic! Horri blel Horribel' and then he
| goes down through a trap-door! Now, MIR
O'Neill didn't know he was saying any
thing like that"
little further on, he said IL was true
the old gentleman was little hard to get
along with. IL was true he quarreled some
time, but that was no ground for suspect
ing insanity. "Why, If men are to 90
TO the insane asylum for quarreling, who
is 10 be left TO practice laws Did you
ever think Of that"
Sometimes the other side was not en-
tirely accurate in their statements regard
ing MIR. Reilly's alleged insane delusions
They had charged he had
AN INSANE DIFFUSION
that Thomas was of no account. His real
delusion was that he couldn't get along
without Thomas, for when Col O'Brein
pressed the point TO have MIR. Reilly 20
into bank, Mr.. Reilly said: ~ wish
you would let Thomas alone, for / can't
get along without him. And yet the
the other side say that is an insane
delusion ~
"Well, how about Mikel Mr.. Hubbard
says he admires him, for he is ii man. He
admires him for his manhood, and Il dare
you TO bring in a verdict against him, be-
cause he Is mani says Mr.. Hubbard.
Michael RELY u man! Well, l haven't
Investigated Michael Reilly as TO his sex,
but he has moustache, and / presume he
is man. Mr.. Hubbard says his father
swore out a warrant against him before a
justice, for cOntending with loud and angry
words. Do you remember when that war
rant was sworn outl II was in 1874 That
is twenty years ago; and it has taken
Michael Reilly twenty years to
arrive at manhood; aud such "a man.
had Who swore out that warrants
Michael Reilly, Sr. And against whom!
Michael Reilly, Jr His father was his adj
versary, and where is that adversary now!
Where IS the adversary this man comes to
Viudicate himself againsti he is dead
and in the grave. ana yet this man comes
back, after the lapse of twenty years to
vindicate his manhood. He could not be
man and come when his father was in his
dotage. Ee could not be a man and
come TO follow his aged father to his
grave, but he has the manhood TO come
back and vindicate himself after the alb
senCe OF twenty years by coutesting his
fathers will And that is the manhood
Mr. Hubbard admires. The old
gentleman closed MIR Rogers mouth bv
saying Michael was a bad boy. =
And yet, II you believe the evidence on the
other side, you will believe Michael was
very saint
He then turned his attention TO James,
and said bis father had an insane delusion
that James played poker, and enquired
who had conc TO say James didn't play
poker They didn't ask that OF Col.
O Brlen, but they had asked Col. O'Brien
~ . ames hadn't gotten married, and Col.
O'Bricn said be had, and that he had re-
gained all the ground ne had formerly lost
why said the speaker, ION that evil
ana fined for playing poker, il the statute
Of limitation did not bar it,"
He next considered John, and asked
what the old gentleman had thought about
him. "Why, be thought he was not the
man % DC entrusted with large interests"
HE HAD NEVER SAID
John was Dad boy, or that he played
poker and 10 was trUv that he mad taken
care OF bis mother while sho was sick, but
that was ten years ago, and be had been
recovering from d. ever since. and had
been acting the gentlemen He thought
there ought 20 be one gentleman iu he
family, and he elected 20 be a gentleman
OF leisure, and perhaps his choice was a
nice one ] would be- "a gentleman Of leis-
ure myself Tor ] don't know how long, and
agree not To do 10 thing, + some one will
arrange % furnish the necessary money 10
Keep the pot boiling Now. all the delusion
the old gentleman had about John was that
he was NOT htted % take charge Of large
Interests, running into tue half million OF
dollars
tie referred 90 the fathers evident est.
nation OF George. who couldn't RUN his
own business. Doe said aud had To- get his
father 10 endorse for him. and after geu-
eral comment upon the conclusion tuat MIR
Reilly bad. that he could not manage "A
large estate. ho said Or hc mad even that