The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-17
EVALDS and CObVAYS.
Woman's Relatives Shut Out
Because Their Talk About
a Priest Caused Nervous
Prostration.


The hearing in the Ewal Will contes'
was continued in the Orphans Court yes
terday afternoon. Mrs. Ewald. tormerly
Mary Conway is the woman who severed
her connection with the Catholic Church
Inv marrying Charles Ewald, a divorced
man. She left all her property to her
husband and her uncle, John Conway, IS
contesting her will.
The testimony of Mrs. Mary Scanlon'
which was taken at her home, NO q
| Jewett avenue, on December ~, because
she was too i'll to come to court was
read.
Mrs Scanlon testified that she was a
friend of Mrs. Ewald. She did not re-
member being in Mrs. Ewald's mousse III
August. She was at Mrs. EWald,s mouse
in September. The witness remembered
that because she had been m
from Whippany, Morris county, on ac-
count of Mrs. Ewald being very low. be
fore going to Whippany Mrs. Scanion saw
! Mrs. EwalG every day n renamed win
| her from an hour to an hour ana a nan.
| She seldom saw anybody but MRS. EWaio
| and Mr.. Ewald's niece, Lottie. Sometlmes
| she saw Mrs. John Conway there. MIS-.
Ewald was ailing at that time, put not
sick in bed. The witness saw John Con-
| way and his wife at Mrs. Ewald's in Sep
| TENDER. but she did not remember the
| exact date. AT the time they were re-
| fused admission it was by the order or
DR.. Weidanz. He had directed that no
body was to be admitted who would be
likely to annoy Mrs. Ewald, who was
very low at that time.
Mrs. Scanlon could not say%how often
the Conways were refused admission, put
it was more than twice. Mrs. Seanlon dld
not go to Mrs. Ewald's any more after the
priest had been refused admission. she
knew that the priest had been ordered out
because she was at the house at the time,
although not in Mrs. Ewald's room. She
did not hear what Mr.. Ewald said to the
priest. Mrs. Ewald told Mrs. Scanion at
terward that the priest had asked her
to leave her husband and she refused.
Mrs. Ewald said that she was refused abs
solution because she would not leave heI
husband. John Conway sent the priest
there.
Catholic and she said she was. That was
the reason she did not go to Mrs. EWalqS
after the priest had been ordered out. HeT
mother forbade her going and she obeyed
her mothers orders. The day before
Mrs. Ewald died the witness called at the
house, but was not allowed TO see her pc
cause the doctor had ordered tnat Hopouy
must see her.
The reason hat Mr.. and Mrs. Conway
were refused admission was because every
time they called they talked about having
a priest and that got Mrs. Ewald SO ex-
cited that it brought on nervous prostra-
ton. After their Visits Mrs. Edward was
so exhausted that she was unable to
speak. She asked as a favor that they
would not be allowed to see her. me
witness had known Mamie Conway for
about nine years. She was always bright,
full of life and a very pleasant Jolly
girl. After her marriage she and her
husband were perfectly happy. There
was not a happier couple around than
ibid You ever see her behave indis-
creetly with menu the witness was
asked.
Never, she was always a perfect lady;
[ was in her company a great deal ana
never heard her speak of Miss Maloney.''
did you ever heal her speak of a con-
ductor named Henry F. Murphy"
II did, she hated him."
What did she say about hina?"
"When he passed she would say, MY,
there goes glasses. | know she hated
him because when he tried to talk to her
no time for him. She did not like him
well enough to be. in his company: l al
ways considered Mamie a good girl"
about Mrs. Ewald's last Illness. He. be-
lieved her mind to be entirely normal all
the time he was attending ner.
Constable Philip Kaiser was called and
testified that he knew Mrs. Ewald before
and after her marriage. She always bore
a good reputation.
DO you mean 'spud' Murphy?" asked
the witness.
Mr.. MCGEE. pointing Murphy out.
.Oh, yes, / know him." said Kaiser.
That's 'Spud' Murphy
49, 1y.n,xr lie ~ ~ fA. -rrfI
and veracity?"
Il wouldn't believe him under OATH
On cross-examination the witness said
that he had known Murphy for three
years and he had a bad reputation all
that time. Other people besides the wit
ness said so. He Knew Murphy to his
grief, as the records of the District Court
would show.
Didn't you propose Murphy for mem
mo, sir. / did not. He asked me to
| propose him but | refused
The witness referred to Constables Rob-
| ert O'Beirne and John H. Masker and
Judge Weed as men who would testify
to Murphy's bad reputation. He had
heard all of them speak badly of him.
He heard Constable O'Beirne say that
If Murphy told any more lies about him
| he would punch Murphy's nose. The wit
ness nae often heard Masker say that
| Murphy could not be believed under oath.
| Judge Weed said five or six months ago
| that he wouldn't believe Murphy under
general opinion among people who know
Murphy that he has a bad record.
II had a quarrel with him myself once,''
| continued the witness, when he robbed
| me of 81 and some odd cents. I don't
| know his first name. l only know him
as 'Spud' Murphy"
Murphy was metaphorically throwing
fits all the time Kaiser was ~testifying.
| He said a~fterward that he would bring
thirty witnesses to court to testify that
| Kaiser was lying. The hearing will be
| continued on the Goth inst.