The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-01-15
\ AND ABOUT THE COURTS
VIFE PUT SOAP IN COFFEE AND CREASED HUSBANDS BEARD.

CREASED HCSBAND'S BEARD. , Domestic Troubles Aired in a Divorce
 Case Yesterday AfternOOn-A Case Set.
 tied Out Of Court-Dannages Awarded : Other Items.
 Domestic discord in the family of Mir. and Mrs. Elmer E. Stevens of Pine Orchard was thoroughly aired before Judge Edwin B. ;iager in the s9ecial session of the su- preme court yesterday morning, before
 whom the husband appeared seeking a di-
 ,orce from his wife. Hattie s. Stevens.
 Mir. Stevens admitted that he was l bad
 Iy henpecked husband, and told many tales on his wife He said she was continually cruel to him, and cruelty is the ground for
 Ia- desired decree.
 Mr. Stevens was on the stand all the
 morning giving his tale of woe. On June
 IT, 1901, Mr. Stevens says his wife spilled ;l pan of grease on the floor. and in her
 madness rubbed her hands in the mess and brsmeared his whiskers with it. The hus-
 band has long, glossy black beard. A few
 days later, he said, she refused to get his breakfast and nearly tormented him to
 tk ath.
 Mrs. Stevens, he alleges, refused to do
 the family washing, and he had to carry it
 to Branf0rd to be done. He said she once put soap suds in his coffee, and was con
 .lantly scOldin= him.
 Mrs. Stevens denied all this, and on cross nTlA AiIF GONy InF
 to her. That is why she is opposing the di-
 YOrCe.
 The couple married in May. 1902. and have four minor children. MT. Stevens is a 1 farmer, and about forty five years old. ! SETTLED OUT OF COURT. ! The case of Little Ys. the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was assigned for trial in the superior court yesterday,
 but 1t vas settled out of court. It was a suit for dG la@eS.
 AWARDED $150 DAMAGES.
 In the case of Mrs. Samuel A. Lester vs.
 John T. Clark the jury returned a verdict of $150 damages for the plaintiff about o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Clark
 time ago when the defendant in the case drove by her in team and knocked her off, injuring her quite badly. MOODY WILL PROBATED. i Lucius w. Moody of this city, who died while travelling in California last Sunday, left a will. The document was offered in probate yesterday morning and a hearing set. There are no public bequests and all i the property is left to the family, of which 1 the widow receives the largest share.
 The estate is estimatedA to be worth S50,- 900. The only real estate is the homestead at East Grand avenue, near Sherland ave nue, Fair Haven Heights. | INSOLVENT ESTATE 1 The estate of the late Forest S. Smith of
 Hamden has been declared insovent by 1 the probate court here. Yesterday morning Judge Cleaveand appointed Albert r. 1 WGlles and James H. Webb commissioners l on the estate.
 HAD SEVEN TONS OF COAL. Two Italian women were the subjects of envious gaze in the city court yesterday morning. The women were in court charged with the theft of coal from the New York, l New Haven x Hartford Railroad company. In the testimony 1t developed that the women are the DoSsessors of nearly seven | tons of focal and that the coal Is now | stored away in the cellar of their place of residence Ill Grand avenue. Judge Bishop found them guilty of theft and fined each $5 and costs of $10.14. 1 Edward Carter, Rupert Dian and James 1 Lyle, cOlored, who have been held as sus- pici0uS characters, were allowed to go on condition that they get out of town i'm 1 mediate!y.
 1 Luigi Eastalo. charfgd with keeping q 1 house of i'll fame, was fined $25 and costs. Joseph Ross, charged with residing ill q house of ill fame, and Mary Ross, charged 1 with lasclvious carriage, had their cases noled. On q similar charge; Pepina SaIacO l and Filamonia were fined $5 and costs, and 1 fines of $10 and costs were assessed Maria i FinOli and Mary Basinella, who were charg- l cd with residing in a house of i'll fame. l John Skinner stole $5 and spent the same 1 for drink. He went to jail for five days. 1 Moses Schwartz, Solomon BotoWick and i Captain Frank Sheedy, charged with the l theft of rope from ! barge, had their cases continued to January 20.
 { Lena Chopwick, on the charge of assault, was discharged.
 i Mary Lord, d rounder, was not sufficiently
 sober to be tried. and her case will be | heard to-day.
 Michael |. Kelly of Bridgeport loaded up 1 New Haven. His case was continued until 1 to-day.
 1 A MURDER CASE. 1 Judge Shumway of the superior court 1 cd Lawyer Samuel B. Harvey to defend i Mrs Mary Lillian Manson and George VII | son, held in Brooklyn jail on the charge of murder of Mrs. Julia A. Wilson of Ash l ford. No medical expert has yet been as 1 signed for the defense.
 1 IMPORTANT DECISION 1 In the probate court in Hartford yester- | day Judge Freeman handed down decision | rejecting the document purporting to be the | last will and testament of the late Colonel 1 Htnry Kennedy, whose estate, aggregating
 nearly $100O,000, has been the subject of
 litigation ever since his death several years ago. An appeal was taken and the case now goes to the superior court. 1 THREE MORE SUITS, 1 Bridgeport, Jan. 14.-Three more suits against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, growing out of
 the closing of the north side of Railroad
 avenue for something like two years, have been returned to the civil superior court in
 Bridgeport. The suits are brought by John l T. Healey, Kate Frederick and Bridget Fa- gan through Attorneys Cantield and Jud-
 son, and are for $2,500 each. That makes
 between twenty and twenty-two suits l which have been instituted against the railroad company for the same cause. I --rrSyy-FzrzFssr-r