The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-01-05

had been in hiding for some hours, with
their ears glued to a hole that had been
made in the wall, sprang upon DR.. Gin
ton K. Stark, one Of the most fashionable
physicians in Norwich.
They accused DR.. Stark of being in the
act of perpetrating a "bunko' game upon
Mrs. johnson, who then and there de-
manded that he be escorted to a place of
captivity. This proceeding was not car
ried out, however, and the case has re-
solved itself into a civil suit. Mrs. John
son is suing the doctor for about $40, 900,
gays the New York Herald's Norwich cor
respondent.
She says that she intrusted him with
$3.50, 900 worth of bonds, and that of these
he helped himself to nearly $50, 900 worth.
Being discovered, she says, he mssmer-
lied himself and disgorged all the bonds
in the presence of the lawyers, sheriffs,
stable boys, ETC., though their presence
was not known to him.
Coincident with the suit brought by the
diamond owner, it is only fair to DR..
Stark to state right here that another suit
has been begun by the woman's husband,
with the object of securing a conscrvator
to look after her estate, his claim being
that she is insane. Mr.. Johnson left his
wife some time ago and is now living in
New London.
Mrs. johnson lives in a house on Broad.
way that stand in large and beautiful
grounds. 1t is likely that she lives on a
scale Of, say, $50. 600 a year. Many years
ago she occupied a more important social
position than she does today, but she still
goes among some of the best residents Of
Norwich, who consider her eccentric, but
pleasant.
DR.. Stark. the hero of the present story.
is a big man, handsome in his massive
ness, with luxuriant brown side whiskers
of the kind that don't have to be forced in
a hothousc. His eyes are big and brown,
he is a man Of force and energy and a
member of the homeopathic school. He
has been treating Mrs. Johnson for a mum
Der of years, and tho trouble between hus-
band and wife finally gave the physician
the position of all around mediator.
A year ago the friction between the
woman and her husband got so severe that
she thought it necessary to secrete part OF
her estate, she says. She took a box OF
bonds to DR.. Stark and asked him to take
charge of them for her. She says that
they amounted in value to $50, 600. He
says that they were worth just $67, 900.
He put them in the bank
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Chicago, Burlington and Chicago and
Northwestern bonds. These, the doctor
says, she gave him outright as a present.
When The Herald correspondent calico
On Mrs. johnson to get her story, he foun,
her dressed in a damsOn colored dressing
gown, very nicely perfumed. She is abou'
50 years old, her hair only gray in a few
spots. Her eyes are bright, her teeth ar
prominent, but not pretty, and she lisp
very decidedly. Despite her age and tn
fact that she has sons with boards, she i
often a little ''kittenish' in her ways, bu
there is nothing about her that woul,
make any one weave romances in her vi
entity She is very good natured doubt
less, eccentric certainly and resolved no
to be prosecuted.
Il intrusted DR.. Stark, " she said, witt
bonds amounting in value to $3.50, DOC
Today a week ago | called at his office t