The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-02
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
MRs. M,ENROE,s PETITION FOR Il
 DIVORCE HEARD YESTERDAY.

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 Judge Rora back presided at the short calendar session of the superior court yesterday. There were f1fty-one cases on the docket
 motion for acceptance of the receiv- CTS report for winding up the affairs of the Barnes Manufacturing company and for the discharge of the receiver was not argued. E. s. Swift, receiver, testified that the total claims, includ- ins preferred claims, were s20,oSS.77. To- tai receipts while receiver, $26145.75. Paid preferred claims of $10,S72.36 and 8 , per cent. dividend of sA75.42 on gen. eral claims. The receiver asked for permission to declare final dividend of 4. and 10 per cent general claims un- secured amounted to s9,5OS.46. The as- sets of the company were $26,000 liabil- ities $20,000. The court took the papers.
 Attorney White made a motion for the acceptance of the receivers report and the discharge of John M. Peck and Charles H, Downs as receivers in the case of the Peck Bros. & Go. This will leave Joseph Porter sole receiver, The papers were taken by the judge for ex- animation.
 The islander suit of Contractor Geary against First Selectman Robert Bald win, was postponed one week to allow the plaintiff to file an amendment.
 Tn the case of Frank w. Pardee vs. Fischel Beloff motion that an lnJunc- tion granted two years ago be made permanent was allowed with cost Be- 1off bought the old General Russell school building on Wooster place and intended remodelling it into a boarding house. Mir Pardee, the agent, prayed for an injunction restraining him from carving on the work The injunction was granted and no work was done on the building The fire department re- fused to issue permits to cover the proposed change and the house stands to-day as it did at the time the injunc- tion was granted,
 In the divorce suit of James Bell vs. Harrie Bell, motion for an allow ance to defend was granted and $30 named, as was a similar motion in the case of D. Elliott Burmell vs. Margaret J. Burmell
 In the suit of the J. Gibb Smith conn., pany against the Congregation B'Nai Israel, motion for default for the fail ure of the defendant to file an answer was deferred one week
 M'ENROE DIVORCE CASE.
 The divorce suit of Eleanor F. Me- Enroe, daughter of Captain Frederick Peck of the New Haven Steamboat company, against her husband Eugene F, McEnroe of New York city, was heard yesterday afternoon in the su- perior court No defence was offered to the charge of intolerable cruelty. Judge Roraback reserved hts decision in or Ser to examine the complaint thorough 1y.
 Mrs. McEnroe said her husband had contributed little to her support since they were married in April, 1895. Her grandfather sent them money, and also her father Once she sacrificed an in- surance policy of S5,000 on her life for board bill She left her husband in January, 1896, and came to this city to live with her grandfather Commodore Richard Peck at GA Wooster street. She has since lived here. She testified that her husband threw her down on the floor and kicked her on the shoul- ders at their home in the Chelsea house, New York. In August, 1896, he knock ed her down during their stay in the White mountains, New Hampshire, and threatened to shoot her with a revol- yer.
 Mrs. McEnroe said: When I was down on the ground he pulled pistol out of his pocket and placed it at my head I managed to get hold of the re- volver and threw it over the fence. Then he struck me with his fist He exclaimed: I'll kill you
 Mrs. McEnroe said her husband was insanely jealous at Branford Point, where he held her up against wall and slapped her in the face.
 During their stay in New York Mrs. McEnroe said her husband paid her board bill with an alleged forged check. When she reminded him of it few days afterward. her husband threw her down on the floor and dragged her around by her hair
 Louise Anderson, a coored maid who worked for the McEnroe family, testi- fled that she had seen MT. McEnroe strike and abuse his wife frequently. She told the story of their encounter in the White mountains. She was wit ness to the scene and begged the hus- band to stop the abuse.
 The maid said: When I saw him pounding her I was pretty scared. l thought he was killing her. I told him he was a brute, and he didn't touch me, cause he was afraid of me. He stop ped then. But I saw him choke her, and strike her, and I saw the revolver J Mrs. Frederick J. Peck. mother of Mrs. McEnroe, testified briefly that sh saw Mir. McEnroe strike her daughter at their home in New York. The wit ness also said she was struck once by him.
 Commodore Richard Peck, for many years the head of the New Haven Steamboat company, said that he had furnished money for the board of his s daughter.
 Mir McEnroe was not present in court, but was represented by J. P. Goodhart. Mir. Goodhart explained to $ the court that no defence would be of fered with the understanding that the original complaint of alleged infidelity would be stricken out with the clause asking for alinlony.