The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-21

kept a saloon at that number but re- gently moved and sub-let 129 Cedar street for a barber shop.
 Donnelly is owner of the premises and he claims that Sayres, his tenant, had no right to remove the saloon fixtures and remodel the place into barber shop. He therefore has brought two suits through Attorney John F. Wynne, one to recover damages and another to eject Sayres from possession of the | premises.
 ARMSTRONG SENTENCED. | In the city court yesterday in the case of William Armstrong, charged with theft of gold watch from George Eek ert of 30 Baldwin street, the statement was made by Judge Cable which will make great change in the detection of thieves by the police.
 Judge Cable sentenced Armstrong to 1 forty days in jail Eckert asked As sistant City Attorney Bristol for his watch, but Policeman Powers interfer- l ed and said that the pawnbrol1er would have to receive his $5, as he had prom ised Solomon Fry, to whom the watch had been paWned by Armstrong, that I he would return the property.
 Judge Cable said in regard to the pawnbroker's claim: T am tired of this custom of repaying pawnbrokers mon ey which they have advanced on stolen goods. It has been going on long enough and it is time it is stopped I don't wish to encourage crime in this way, and I shall instruct officers hereafter | in cases where small amounts are re- | al I. prosecute the pawnbrokers for theft'' l THE HOADLEY WILL CASE. | The first witness in the Hoadley will | case yesterday was l.. o. Howard, chief of the division of etiology, United 1 States agricultural department, at | Washington. He testified that he had met Dr. Hoadley various times, and | that the doctor was always courteous, fastidious in dress, very intelligent, | highly educated and of sound mind. 1 Alfred G. Dayan, seventy-seven years l old, of Lyons Falls, N. Y., testified to meeting Dr. Hoadley in Lyons Falls and in Washington, D, c. At one time | MT. Dayan told Dr. Hoadley about the trouble that he had had in settling an l estate and Dr. Hoadley said, in sub- l stance:
 T have had experience in settling an l estate, too. My sister behaved out rageously. She has wronged me. l i shall never forgive her and I shall l never give her dollar of my proper l ty."
 I Another patriarch followed MT. Day. l an on the stand-David w. Crafts, l superintendent of the Northampton l (Mass.) Gaslight company. He knew l William H. Wilson (Mrs. Kimberly s | first husband) in a business way in 1879
 and 1880 when Wilson was in the dry
 goods business in Northampton. On several occasions he saw Wilson intoxi- cated in his store and on the street. l Chief of Police Maynard of North
 ampton, Mass, and P. U. Duchesne and Mrs. Victoria La Sale, also of North
 ampton, testified that Wilson was fre- l quently intoxicated.
 Mrs. Julia F. Henderson of Los An
 geles, Cal. who is sister to Miss
 Maria Hoadley Bradley, Dr. Hoadley S
 foster sister. and is first cousin to pr. I Hoadley and Mrs. A. H. Kimberly, l testified that her sister was treated I as a member of the Hoadley family and called MT. and Mrs. Hoadley
 father and mother" A short time before Mrs. Hoadley's European trip 1 she sent to the witness several shaWls
 as a gift. After Mrs. Hoadley's death
 the witness met Cornelia in New Ha- ven and Cornelia picked out and gave to her a small trunkful of Mrs. Hoad- ley's underclothing. Dr. Fred Hoadley
 was not present. Cornelia spoke of the
 trouble between her and Fred, saying
 Fred wanted some of their mothers l jewelry, that it had been in court and , that she had secured possession of all of it and had taken it away. At a later time Dr. Fred had told the wit ! ress that he had made his will in Maria's favor and that she would al | ways be taken care of
 MT. Merriam was recalled and letters
 were produced in court that Dr. Hoad- ley had written while on an Arctic ex- I petition. These letters were produced l as further evidences of the doctors sanity. Other witnesses were examined ] to the same purport. The case will be on to-day and tomorrow.