The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-04

Superior Court.
The suit for divorce brought by Clara
Ellis against her husband, Richard w.
Ellis, was heard by Judge Prentice yes
terday morning. Lawyer Hayden,
who appears for Mrs Ellis, asked that
the case be put upon the eX-parte list
because of the failure of the defendant
to file an answer. Mr.. Ellis is now con-
fined in an insane asylum. Ellis, 1t
seems, has an interest in little real
estate, and the decree for divorce may
carry some alimony with it. An an
swer will be filed within two weeks.
new jury has been summoned for
attendance In the superior court by
Judge Shunway, and they will be pres
ent next Tuesday morning. The pres
ent jury has been in attendance ever
since January and the custom is to dis
miss the old jury and secure a new
one for the last month or six weeks of
jury business.
After a hearing in the ex-parte d.
vorce suit Of Alice c. Rich of Mer!den
against William H. Rich Of Durham,
decree was entered in Mrs. Rich's favor
were married in 1894, the girl being
thirteen and the man twenty-seven
years old He was a farm hand en-
ployed by the girls father.
Judgment by default was entered by
Judge Prentice in the foreclosure suit
brought by Adolph Hoffmeister against
John Courtney and others. The prop
erty is located on Frank street.
The city of Ansonia defaulted the
suit brought against it by Mary Kane
for damages for injuries alleged to
have been caused by defect In a high
way. The case will go to the court for
a hearing in damages
| The suit for divorce brought by AL
fred Hall of Meriden against Alice Vel
lett Hall, his wife, was Yesterday
withdrawn. His claim is desertion.
Attorney White has secured an order
from Judge Prentice authorizing the
| sale of house and lot on Carmel street
| by the receivers of the e. Larkns S
Sons company. The property is worth
| $4,000 and subject to a mortgage of over
half that amount.
Mathew Maloney, a we'll known con-
tractor of Meriden, was a defendant in
a case called to the attention of Judge
Prentice yesterday Mr.. ,Naloney is
asked to answer in a suit forr$ 900 dam
| ages for false Imprisonment by Mary
Nerney, formerly tenant Of his. A
short time ago she was indebted to Mr..
Maloney and refused to pay Mr. Ma
loney sued, got judgment and had Mrs.
Nerney held for alleged fraud. She was
released on a writ of habeas corpus.
ThaY, cha MOI
brought the suit against Mr.. Maloney
no bondsman was given and Lawyer
Gleason of Meriden asked Judge Prem
tice yesterday morning to order one.
Lawyer Danaher, who appears for Mrs
Nerney, said he would file bond in a
week. and the court issued an order to
that effect.
In the suit Of McCusker & Schroeder
vsNN Sper yesterday, after the case
of the plaintiff was in, the defense
moved non-suit. Judge Shumway
took the papers, reservng his decision.
G. B. Matthewman. counsel for The
Edward p Judd company, has amend
ed his complaint in the suit brought
against the Rev. J. B. Miller, accused
of theft of books from the company
The amendment sets up that Miller had
no title to the books when he disposed
of them to J. J. Jarvis.
SUIT WITHDRAWN.
The suit brought by Augusta Hassel-
mann against Frank Maylinger of the
firm of Hugo & Maylinger of Crown
street, in December, 1897, claiming dam
ages for assault, was withdrawn from
the docket In the superior court yester-
day, a satisfactory settlement having
been arranged for the parties by their
attorneys, Judge Gable and J. P. Good
hart
ESTATE OF LOUISE HERMANN.
The will Of Louise Hermann was
probated yesterday and Attorney E. p.
Arvne was confirmed as executor. The
estate is valued at about $4,000 and is
left entirely to the three children of the
deceased, Arthur A., Fred F. and Clara
Hermann. Attorney David Strouse
was appointed guardian of the last two,
who are minors. He is also made trus
tee of the share Of the estate which goes
to the daughter.
The account of Charles Kleiner, adj |
mnistrator on the estate of the late |
Thomas Lynch, was filed and accepted |
by Judge Cleaveland yesterday, 1t |
amounts to $24 ,436
BEACH HEARING MONDAY.
The case brought by the Connecticut |
Law and Order league against Wallace |
Y. Beach, on a charge of attempt to en-
tice a young girl, will be heard again
on Monday, before Judge Bryant of |
West Haven. Agent Thrasher has re-
ceived from a girl in this city two let
tiers signed by the name which it is al
legged the defendant used in writing to
the girl in Brooklyn
Mr.. Thrasher has, it is said, received
a letter from a court official in the west |
bearing upon the trial of a case in which
it is alleged Beach was the defendant,
which alludes to the case as very malig
nant and showing great depravity,
MUST RETURN THE BOY.
In the court of common pleas yester-
day Judge Studley ordered that John
s. Sullivan, foreman in the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road shops return TO his wife their in
FAINT son, James, who, it is alleged, was
from the mother by Sullivan.
The family reside at lis Saltonstall ave-
nue.. A few weeks ago, it is alleged,
Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan had quarrel