Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-23

If the calculations of the attorneys engaged in the Lawlor will case are realized, verdict will be reached this evening. In order to hasten matters counsel for he appellee, Christopher Lawlor, did not cross-exannlne the witnesses for the will to any great ex. tent yesterday. The case was prac,
 tically closed yesterday at the time
 court adjourned for the day, Nh
 O'Neill stating that he was through. only to ask the appellee a few ques. ti0ns in rebuttal The evidence yester.
 day was merely accumulative, all tend l ing to, show that Father Lawlor was an upright citizen, strong in mind and will at the time he made his will Mrs l Rose Finn, who was on the stand at press hour yesterday, contradictcd l Christopher Lawlor i'll many vitai parts of his testimony, particularly re- l garding Mrs Mary A. Lawlor's move i ments during the final sickness of her
 husband. He said that she did no, come home from Meriden until she
 had been repeatedly sent for. Mrs I Finn said she came upon the first I summons.
 Casimir H. Bronson, of the insur- l ance firm of Bronson and Dennison, testified to matters of general na | luIG.sS III Oll6 QuCSllOu dS u 1AEthCA Father LaWlor could be easily infu- enced Mir O'Neill referred to Mrs Mary A. LaWlOr MT Williams objected to the question on the grounds that 1t was insulting to Mrs Lawlor, and his l objection was sustained.
 l w. J. Munson of WatertoWn testi- l fled to some financial transactions he ] had with Father Lawlor, and O. H. Hart, real estate agent, testified in a lgeneral way
 Thomas F. Hutchinson. 2S Park place, told of numerous conversations l he had with Father Lawlor. Once or twice he told witness that he had tried 1 to make man of one of his brothers. l witness could not recall the name, but said he lived for time i'll Father Law lor's house at the junction of Cooke and North Main streets; also, that this brother refused to pay his rent.
 l Tn the opinion of Dr James L Morl- arty, Father Lawlor was mentally
 sound. Witness was the recipient of some very good advice from him.
 l Senator-elect Henry H. Peck was 1 an old acquaintance of Father Law. l Tor, and his opinion of him was that he was mentally sound.
 Mrs Mary A McGlynn Of New York l was a frequent visitor and an old I ITlGIlae HtJ AAuU VI S " Y 1 financial transactions, and a check For S1,OOO she once had loaned him was introduced. He often told her he had 4 great regard for the. McEvOy boys; I that they had saved him many dol liar. Tn 1901 he told her he had made a will and that he had given all of I his estate to Martin and Frank Nc, Eyoy. Tn 1874 in Milford, witness be s| came acquainted with him. He was pastor there then
 Joseph Lawlor, son of Mrs Mary A. l LaWlor. was next called to the stand. He testified he is at present studying ! medicine in Columbia Medical college. New York, and is a graduate of Holy l Cross college. He recalled Christopher l Lawlor's visit to the house, and de nied that he blacked his eye, choked l him or even struck hins-
 Tn 1899 Father LaWlOr was Ill and l Christopher Lawlor called to see hlm l only once. Witness's mother was Ill l at the same time This was in the l North Main street house. He told l Christopher it was against the doc I tors orders to allow any callers to see Father Lawlor, but Christopher said l he would see him anyway. Cnrlsto. pher was walking up and down the l hallway and witness was leanlne against the stairs. Suddenly Chris l topher pulled witness by the feet 1 flooring him, and ran up stairs to l Father Lawlor's room. He seemed to ] have been drinking Witness left the l house few minutes to find Martin l McEyoy. When he returned Chris { topher was still in the room talking to Father Lawlor, and the latter said he could do nothing for him and would have to leave the room. He denied going to the house on Cooke street to l get any keys from Christopher. Wit ness at that time was IT years or age. Under cross-examination he said ne saw no marks on ChristopnerS lace. He judged Christopher had beeia drinking because of the odor on his breath. and his excited manner. A few nieces of documentary evidence were then introduced and the case TOT | the will closed. Court then adjourned. The case closed this morning at BAD o'clock after the appellee had been 1 few minutes on the stand and testified l that he did not wish to change his tes- tinony in any particular. The attor- neys then tried to come to an agree ment about time to make their argu- ments. but failed. Then Attorney Rus l sell rose to make the opening argu- ment. but MT Williams ob .ected on the ] ground that his side, according to the rules of practice, had the right to open. l MT O'Neill contended otherwise. but the court sustained Mir Williams and
 the opening argument was begun by
 MT Guilfoile. He was followed by the others interested in the case.
 At 1:3O o'clock the judge began his charge and at 2 o'clock the jury retfr- ed.
 At 3 o'clock the jury came in ana
 returned verdict, sustaining the will Attorney O'Neill said an appeal will
 be taken to the supreme court.
 Court has adjourned to Tuesday
 morning. when the case of Fred At
 wood of Watertown against Judge L.
 F. Burpee will be taken up.
 A DASH FOR LIBERTY.