The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-20
THE HoADLEY WELL CASE.

More Witnesses On the Stand Yesterday
 Charles F. Clark of the Consolidated
 Road One of the Witnesses-Facts
 Brought Out in Regard to Dr. Hoadley's
 Mental Faculties.
 The appellants in the Hoadley will case called another witness yesterday as agreed when they closed their side of the case last week. This witness was Mark I. Cooley, dry goods mer- chant, of 100 Worth street, New York. He testified that he employed William II. Wilson. Mrs. Kimberlys first hus- band, from January 1, 1880. to some time in the spring of 1882 The witness had always found MT. Wilson to te temperant man in all respects
 It was brought out in the cross ex- animation that Wilson had failed in business twice within few years prior to his entering MT. Cooley's employ
 Charles P. Clark president of the Consolidated road, was the first wit ness called by the appellees. He met Dr. Hoadley in Venice in the spring of 1880 and was attracted to him by his intelligence and his entertaining man. ner. Dr. Hoadley had visited the wit ness home in New Haven and had slept there at least one night.
 The witness saw Dr. Hoadley at Judge Townsend's the night Eefore he (the doctor) read a paper before the New Haven Historical society.
 At no time during the acquaintance of the witness with the testator was there anything in the latter's appear ance to denote unsoundness of mind.
 Miss Maria Hoadley Bradley, a niece of George Hoadley and foster sister of Dr. Fred, George Edward and Mrs. Kimberly told of her life in the Hoad- ley family. How she lived there until 1877, when she went away.
 Witness said that George Hoadley had said in the presence of George Ed ward, Dr. Fred and Mrs Kimberly, that she (Miss Bradley) should have $2,000 under his will.
 She received when the estate was divided $1,000.
 When the witness began to detail the conference held between George E., Dr. Fred and Mrs. Kimberly, Attorney Case objected and a long tilt between him and Judge Stoddard, which result ed in the court allowing the witness to proceed.
 She said that George end Fred Hoad- ley had agreed to give her a total of $100 a month and that she had received this sum for only two months.
 In the course of the examination the witness testified that from the time she left the Hoadley family in 1877 Mrs. Kimberly had sent only s36 to her. Er. Fred had sent her large sums, at least $100 year and during some years much more She had been treated as a daughter from the time that she was taken into the family up to the time of Mrs. Hoadley's death in Italy in 1892.
 Dr. Fred Hoadley had written to the witness telling her that she need not worry about her future because he (the doctorl had provided for her in his will and that he had made it so strong that it could not be broken and that he had chosen true good friends to see that the provisions of the will were carried out.
 This and other papers had been de- stroyed when the witness had expected to die from yellow fever she had con- tracted while acting as a volunteer nurse.
 Dr. Theodore S. Palmer, assistant chief of a division in the department of agriculture in Washington in 1892 and 1893, said pr. Hoadley had impress ed him as being man of great culture, high education and refined manner and there was nothing about him to indi- cate unsoundness of mind.
 Dr. John Woodbury of Roosevelt hos pital, New York, J. B. Rollins, cashier of the Covington, Vt, National bank, and Joseph Bjorkson, professor of vocal culture in New York, and pr. Merriam of Washington, D. C., one of the Iegatees and also one of the execu- tors of the will, were on the stand in the afternoon. The latters testimony was being given when court adjourned.