Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-31
THE M'GIvNEY MONEY.

 THE M'GIvNEY MONEY. Sister of Plaintiff Corroborated Mrs Lawlor's Statements.
 Mrs Mary A. Lawlor the plaintiff in tne suit of LawIor vs Scadden ct al, pefore the jury and Judge George W. neeler in the superior court was on tne stand yesterday from 9:3O to o'clock. It was a long time for any one not accustomed to court procedure 70 pc Tn such an embarrassing sifua- ton and Mrs Lawlor showed it. While the examination was not hard, It was exhaustive and very minute. She recolled dates of happenings in her family, and the families of her sisters and brothers without any hesitation whatsoever, and several tunes showed herself mistress of the situation by declining to answer sey- eral questions until told, to do so by her counsel. She was a good witness. Toward the close of her testimony she stated that the morning after she had read in the Democrat the story of Der uncle's giving away his money. she called to see him. But this was nothing unusual for 1t was her custom to visit him quite frequently On th.s occasion she found him locked in the house. Mrs Scadden was out so that he old man had the house to himself Because she could not get in she did not stay and not word was said about giving away his money. She asked him how he felt and he said < quite feeble.
 Some time before this he had in :, formed her that he had left her 8, 900 in the will which he had asked her to copy. She was certain she did not talk over with her family or sis ters the matter of the old man giving away his money except in casual way.
 Regarding his mental state, she was under the impression that he had lost his memory and in support of that statement she said that one day he called at her house and stayed little while. He got up eight or ten times to go home and each time he .sked her what the interest on his bank de- posits amounted to. Occasionally, also he would say that he would sur prise them all some day by marrying some young girl. His acts. and his talk were childlike. One day he went from her sisters home to his own without his hat The distance between the tws places was about thirty feet.
 He thought he had his hat on unti] he reached his own place. He was in constant fear of the people he was liv- ing with and often said that he would have to give them his money or get out of the house. He also complained h fr y< cured.
 MT O'Neill asked her if it was not a ! fact that at the time hA complained about giving up his money or getting out of the house. he had deeded the house to the Scaddens, and witness said she was not aware that he had done SO.
 One day the old man met witness, her sister Annie. MT Scadden and Mrs Donahue at the 1atters residence, and he afterward complained to her that he was afraid of Mir Scadden.
 After his wife's death witness's sis- ters. Annie and Margaret, took care of him. She said she did not know that he had invited the Scaddens to his house to take care of him; she under stood that they took possession of va cant. rent in the house and he told her that they had forced themselves upon Jim.
 When witness had been appointed administratrix on his estate she called upon the Scaddens and requested them to hand over whatever property trey had belonging to him. Mrs ScaHdeB refused to give 1t up and sad that on'y a higher authority than witne~s could succeed in making her surrender 1t. Witness asked for his will and Mrs Scadden replied that it was burned up. She refused to give up his papers and bank books and everything she had that belonged to him. and said that. she had money now and would give witness all the law she wanted This was about December last year. Mrs Lawlor then left the stand.
 +. B. Merriman. bookkeeper at tho Waterbury Savings bank, testified to transferring the $22,0O0 which McGiy- ney distributed among his relatives as already told. Mir Merriman asked him why he was giving away his mon ey and the old man replied that he wanted It to go where the lawyers couldn't get at 1t
 The last witness was Mrs Margaret !, Dwyer a sister of the plaintiff Her evidence was merely a corrobOra ton of Mrs Lawlor's. She added, how ever, that the old man was neglected by the Scaddens and sometimes i'll. used.
 Court adjourned at 4:80 o'clock to Tuesday morning at 9:30.
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