The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-16
IN AND ABOUT THB COURTS
EVIDENCE BEING INTRODUCED TO SHOW HENRY r. CLARK INSANE.

No Recollection of Circumstances Con-
 nected With the Alleged Embozzement
 -Doctors Testify as Experts Short Call
 endar Session of Superior Court-Ask for
 Receiver.
 At the short calendar of the civil side, superior court, before Judge Roraback yesterday the case of the Savings bank of Ansonia vs. Terrell went over for one week. Dillon & Douglass vs. Lee x Hoyt went over one week, Sauvegan vs, St. Cyr was continued on week, Leeds vs. Hall was continued ten days to give time to file a bond of SEQ, The city of New Haven vs. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company the defendant was given two weeks to 1lle an answer. Quint vs. Bowen went over two weeks to file a bond for SI5. Harrigan's appeal from county com- mlssioners was allowed to stand.
 The Ward vs. Burpee case will be continued next Tuesday.
 The suit for foreclosure brought against Fortis H. Allis by Yale college before Judge Roraback was on during the morning, Treasurer Farnam testi- flying to the expenses of the estate
 decree of divorce was granted in the case of Edward Hart against Etta J. Hart of Waterbury
 Hart is superintendent in the Wa terbury Watch company. He married Etta Sott October z, 1891. She eloped II,Ib do, ar ,I later obtained divorce in North Da- kota. This was held to have no bearing in divorce proceedings in this state some time ago.
 Another divorce granted was in the | case of Teresa Warner Slattery against John l. Slattery, both of Derby. They were married in 1879, and the husband deserted her seven years ago.
 | CLARK TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN BEHALF.
 | Harry T. Clark charged with en- | bezzlement of $500 from Peck x Bishop,
 was on trial before Judge Wheeler in the superior court yesterday. The state 1 finished it's case Thursday and the de- l fence opened with Mrs. Clark on the stand. She testified as to her husband s 1 peculiar actions at various times be- | fore his disappearance on September | 25, 1S96
 Clark testified that since 1893, while living at S32 State street, this city, he had had an attack of illness. q suf- | fered extreme pain in the head and N stomach" he said. "It siclxened me. My head ached so that it almost blind | ed me. It lasted nearly two months. I | took medicine for it. My head was | more affected then than at the other l times. My ideas were confused, the | pain was blinding I could not add a l column of figures. I was then a clerk l in the freight office of the New York, | New Haven and Hartford railroad | was obliged to leave the job. My | thoughs wandered, I would pause and | hold the pen lifted without writing for | five minutes at a time"
 MT. Edwin l. Atwater, of the firm | of W. J, Atwater & Co, of Grand ave- | nue, testified that in his opinion Clark was not in his right mind at all times, | and that a day or two previous to Sep | tember 25 he met him and noticed that | Clark was pre-occupied and that he did not speak to him as he passed
 l Dr. James J. Giddons of Stamford I WdS idllcu dS dH expert dHl dUSWGTGu | the usual hypothetical questions. | After Dr. Giddons, Dr. William K. l Baldwin of this city was called to the | stand to give expert testimony. Dr. l Baldwin qualified as an expert by stat | ing the institutions in which he had studied and by testifying that he had 1 made speciality of study of mental | diseases. He said that he was gradu- | ated from the Yale academic depart | ment, from the Yale medical school, l took post graduate course of study
 in New York. practiced and studied a | year at Wards Island hospital, N. Y, l and studied year in Vienna. He l then explained the nature of masked | epilepsy and mentioned authorities on l the disease, which he had studied. He
 then read from books written by recog-
 nized authorities of strange actions oi persons afflicted with the diseases
 Among the cases read was that of a
 western clergyman, who, while afflicted
 with masked epilepsy, conceived the
 idea of returning to his native towr
 in the east. He journeyed to his for
 mer home, was welcomed by his ole
 friends and delivered two sermons. Ht
 returned home and after reaching there
 his normal state of mind was restored
 the attack of masked epilepsy having lasted about ten days When Dr. Bald
 win had finished reading from the medi
 cal books, court adjourned until |
 o'clock next Wednesday morning.
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 Probate fourt--.yutEn Cieeveiand.