New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
OWNED UP TO MARRIAGE
ILLNESSES Testify That Mr.. Bennett
admitted One With Mss Bigem.

Freehold N J. Dec f.-The trial Of Miss Laura
Biggar Dr. Charles c. Hendricks and ex-Jusrice OF
the Peace Samuel Stanton for alleged conspiracy
to obtain the estate OF the late Henry NJ Bennett
Of Farningda1e. continued before Judge Heis-
ley in the Monmouth County Court OF Quarter Ses-
sions to-day. The defendants occupied the
seats on yesterday. Miss Biggar appeared pale
and wan and seemed feel the strain Of the trial
The first witness called a. V. D. Wattsrson,
of Pittsbur counsel for P j. McNuity. one OF the
benefcaries under Mr.. Benefits will and also
of the executors of the estate. Mr. Watterson
testified that he had two interviews with Dr.
Hendricks. The first June 70 last in DR.
Hendrickss sanatOrium. in Bayonne- The witness
said that Hendricks told him he did not know just
what he would do in Miss Biggars behalf, but that
he proposed follow of three He
would either claim for Miss Bggar her share of
the estate under the WILL claim the whole estate
for her the common law wife of Mr.. Bennett
put in a claim for the services she had rendered Mr.
Bennett in the closing years of his life. The Wit
ness said that he met DR.. Hendricks second time
az Long Branch on July last Hendricks then told
him that he still undecided what do, and the
witness told him he ought to let him know his in
tentions without further delay. the interests of
their clients were Identical
E. W. Arrowsmith. of Freehold. called. Mr.
Noonan objected Arro~smith being sworn. He
said that Arrowsmith was formerly counsel for
Miss Bigsar. and that it the first case. so
far as he knew where counsel had been called upon
to betray his client He denounced Mr. Arrow-
smiths appearance in the case as an outrage
Prosecutor Foster said Arrowsnith had not been
called the Iatter's voliton. but had been
regularly summoned to appear a witness The
prosecutor asked Mr.. Arrowsnnith to produce let
ter, alleged to have been written to him by Miss
Biggar. The witness declined to do so. unless or
dered by the court Mr.. Noonan settled the affair
by offering to admit that Miss Biggar had sent
letter Arrowsmith in which she severed their
relations counsel and client. The letter was
written last summer. and sgned Laura A
Bggar"
Henry Croft of Brooklyn. clerk in the Thomas
stationery store at Nos is and IS Reade-st., New
York testified in regard to the certificate signed by
ex-Justice of the Peace Stanton setting forth the al
legged marriage of Miss Biggar and Mr.. Bennett
Printed by his firm on December g. 1900. and were
of the marriage certificate was January 2 1sss1
of Hoboken, was the next witness, and he gave
PREACHED him on September 49, 1892, and said that
he was in trouble and wanted help stanton, ac-
witness in the Biggar case. and that he had mar
ried Miss Biggar and Mr. BeEnett plt haa Iorgot+
day witness said Stanton and Aleck Young, a law
said according to the witness. that anything the
& 9Gfe in 90 ss}d i1F fat snton asked him il he
had blank marriage certificate with tne nggres
blank which Stanton filled out. The witness
further said that stanton asked MN 20 enter oinf I
Ing out that there was sufficient room at the
said i he re Tefa5ed % to enter the marriage reussted
Louis Pegassi, of Hoboken, who owned the mouse
IN which Justice of the Peace Stanton lived IN
performed, testified that that time there was no
Justice" sign the house This was In nat con
tradfction of of the testimony gwen at Long
Branch last summer, which was read yesterday
This finished the case for the prosecutor ana
the general opinion seemed TO be that IT was
weak case. The conspiracy will have TO be de-
Quoted from the evidence put in, there oelns
looked for and which the State was supposed 10
have kept back did not come out -
Mr.. McDermOtt opened for the defence, ana rIul-
cuIed the case presented, and announced tnat
the defence would establish the marriage of ben
nett and the trial He then calied j.
W McCouvilie who Miss Biggars hrst nus
band. Mr.. McConville stated that he met his for
rner wife and Bennett at BelTnar IN the sum
mer OF 1860 and that Mr. Bennett told him that ne
had married her. Mr.. McConv1lle IS an actor, ana
came on from Milwaukee, where his company IS
playing, to testify.
writer of New-York City. testified that he~sat IN
a box In Mr. Benefits theatre in Plttsburg on the
night OF New Years Eve. 1900. Mr.. Bennett was
with him. The Queen of Chinatown was being
played Miss Bggar had part in the play The
witness said he made fiippant remark concern
ing Miss Biggars beauty and Mr. Bennett almost
flew into rage and turned to him and said:
II want you understand, sir, that that lady Is
my wife
Edward Reynolds who employed at Mr..
Beunetts place at Avon. added another 70 those
whom Mr. Bennett had told that he had married
Miss Biggar-
Miss Biggar delivered OF a male child at Hen
drick's sanatoriuu. had been sworn she had
Counsel for the defence declared Tonight that the
State had made out any case at all, ana Inat
any doubt that had raised in the minds of the
fury as TO the marriage must be swept away oy
the testimony OF the witnesses already called They
declined to say whether stanton and MISS SlsSar