Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-06
S4,ODO FOR GIRI'S LIE.
That Amount Awarded to Will
 jam Thornton To-Day.

His Daughter Was Killed By the Cars
 at Watertown Some Time Ago
 yerzier Suit Decided in Favor of
 Plaintiff Several Divorce Cases
 Were Given Attention.
 The largest judgment that has for some time been given in local ease was to-day awarded William Thornton 1n his suit against the Consolidated railroad company for S5,oCo for the death of his daughter. Annie. Attor- ney Carmody represented Mir Thornton and Attorney J. P. Kellogg the rail road company. Judgment was given for S4,OOO. Miss Thornton was quite g young lady, being only about l9 years of age She was killed by train which she was boarding or had boarded in the depot at Watertown. The question involved in the suit was one of trespass. Where the accident occurred was not the depot proper. but it had been used by the people of that town as such for over twenty years. The exact way ill which the fatal accident happened will never De known. When the train had left the depot the girls body was found on the track somewhat mutilated. She had q regular communication ticket on her person and in every respect was in- vited by the defendant to travel on it's road.
 In the suit of Edwin c. Fuller against the railroad company judg- ment was awarded for S25. This is only nominal damages. Fuller was driving the ''Morningside'' bus across the tracks on West Main street one evening when train bowled into him. The court found Fuller was contrib utory negligent in that he had been repeatedly warned not to race his bus against the train. Attorney Cole rep resented the plaintiff in this matter.
 The case of Clement YerZier ct al against their sister. Augustine Nerzier Coward. was also decided. The O'Neills and Durant appeared for the plaintiff. and Cole for the defendant. Damages of S20.OO0 was claimed. The complaint set forth that the cOmplainant's uncle deeded to defend ant certain property valued at Sl6,0Oo with the understanding that upon his
 
 equal parts, one part to defendant and the other three to the three plaintiffs. IL was shown in the testimony that the defendant raised $500 on the estate after 1t had come into her possession and that she applied this sum to her own uses. The judgment Of The court was that the defendant should make good this $500 to the estate and that 1t shall then be divided into four equal parts.
 Attorney s. ". Kellogg, as librarian Of the bar library, rendered his resig- nation and it was accepted, and Clerk Marsh was elected in his place.
 Ex-parte divorces were then taken up. Henry $. Woolley applied for dl- vorce from Elizabeth Woolley upon the grounds of desertion and that she was the wife of another man when she married him. This was probably the strangest story ever told i'll the court house. Woolley is an Englishman and a well known and clever machinist. He is a member of one of the most conspicuous societies in England, the Royal Scientific society. Upon com ing to this country he boarded with u Presumably the woman who< presided over the house was Admits wife, but Wooiley ascertained she was not. or the woman led him to believe so. How ever. thinking she was unmarried. he gooed and won her and during this time he considered Admit as q rival. The victory afforded him some plea sure for when Admit ascertained he was out in the cold. notwithstanding that this was in the summer season, he returned to his old home in Eng land. The wooing occupied about six months. so Woolley and his sweet heart were married in this city in 1891. h 1893 Mrs Woolley made up Ter mind that she had married the wrong man and that Admit was the right one after all. So to England and to Ad- nit she also returned.
 A few years flew by. Rumors reached Wool1ey that he was not mar ried because he could not have mar ried a woman who had a living hus- band. Therefore, by degrees it reached him that his supposed wife was not his wife. Her relations with Admit did not bother him. He now turned his attention to seyering the bonds that bound him to her. Fin ally. a friend named John Wheeler came 10 this country and he told Wool ley that he had seen the woman in Bir- mingham, England. and that she told him she had quit him (Woolleyl for good. Woolley also learned as much from his presumed step-daughter An nie, aged fl years. who remained here. He also learned that his supposed wife had returned to this country with her old love Admit and that they were settled down in Attleboro. Mass. The machinery of the law to acquaint the woman with Woolley's intentions regarding her was then set in motion.
 A picture of Mrs Woolley was in troduced as evidence. Ex-Constable Perkins. who served the divorce pa- pers upon her. testified that she told him she feared trouble with the law on account of her marrying Woolley and that she would not contest his pe- tition for a divorce.
 Woolley was recalled to the witness stand two or three times by Judge Wheeler. Woolley had testified that he saw Admit three weeks ago in town, but they did not speak
 Were you on friendly terms with him." asked the court.
 Why" began Woolley in evident