Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-12
REBUTTAL TESTIMONY.
Former Witnesses in Scaddeh -Lawlor
 Case Heard To-day.

former Witnesses in Scaddeh- -Lawlor
 Case Heard To-day. k The Lawlor- Scadden case ia still dragging along In the superior court. Mrs Scadden, one of the defendants, was on the stand yesterday at press hour, testifying to the alleged treat ment MT McGivney, her uncle. re- 'ceived from the Lawlors. Regarding the old fence over which Attorney O'Neill tried to show there was consids erable trouble, and which Mrs LawIor and her sister, Annie McGivney, de- nied, Mrs Scadden said it was a source of much irritation to the old man, and that one day Mrs Dwyer and her sister, Mrs Lawlor, knocked part of it down, and a part which was wood was sawed down by Mrs Dwyer, to make a sort way for her husband to go to and from his work. The afternoon of the day the fence was cut down the old man withdrew his money from the bank.
 Mrs Scadden stated that prior to the old man giving her a share of his money she was on very friendly terms with some of her relatives, but follow ing that event, for event 1t was, they seemed to give her the cold shoulder She had had many a pleasant chat with them over the back fence, but follow ing the receipt of the old mans gift of $4,OO0 in July, 1902. her relatives all seemed jealous and mad at her. Any how the pleasant chats over the fence ceased
 Matthew Donnelly, son of Mrs Dom nelly, q previous witness. testified to- seeing Mrs Dwyer saw down the fence and to seeing Mrs I.awlor throw down the stone wall, and that he and Thom- as Scadden put the stones back, but Mrs Dwyer threw them down again
 Thomas Scadden testified this morn ing that clothes line owned by Mrs Dwyer extended from her premises to McGivney's house and one day the old man told him to take 1t down. Mrs Dwyer asked witness what he was do- ing and when he told her he was car rying out the old mans orders she got angry, seized 8 pickaxe, and attacked the sheds in the rear Of the lot and the stone fence The old man told witness not to mind her and that he would fix her.
 Some weeks later the old man in- formed witness he had more money in bank and that he would give 1t all 10 Mrs Scadden because he knew she would take good care of him and was always kind to him. He preferred to give the money during his life rather than dispose of it in a will, be lieving there would be less chance of trouble over it. He advised with wit -ness' wife regarding certain relatives and asked her to give him a decent burial and erect a monument on his grave.
 After disposing of all his property. cash and real estate, the old man told witness he had everything fixed now and there could be no trouble over 1t after his death
 Witness did not see plaintiff or her sister, Annie McGivney, at the funeral He denied ever borrowing money from the old man. Philip McGivney once asked him for S1OO to help him out of a financial difficulty, and he got it.
 Rebuttal began this afternoon. Mrs Dwyer. a sister of the plaintiff, testi- fled she never knocked down the fence between her house and that of her uncle, MT McGivney. because there was never any fence there. There was an embankment wall, but she never in terfered with it. As for the clothes line incident, she testified that she had it taken down herself when she built an addition to her house and that her uncle helped her put up the line again. She denied saving the fence, because. as she said before there was no fence there. and as to the alleged trouble over the well between her uncle and her people, she said she could not sec how there could be any difficulty on that point because the well had not been used in years. At least she new CT saw it used.