The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-22
MRS. MORSE ASKS
$4,000 damages
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an attendant, and was told to leave the
place, which she did. After purchas-
ing her ticket for New York, she open
ed the envelope which contained a
ticket from Stamford to New York and
a 81 BILL
BY reason Of the confinement she
claims to have suffered mental and
nervous strain, illness, humiliation,
indlgnity and insult, and wants S15,-
600 damages on this account
At the time she left New York she
was matron at Barnard college, re-
ceiving $50 month and board She
claims she was unable to inform her
employer Of her whereabouts while in
Stamford, and when she returned she
found herself minus a Job, because her
employer feared notoriety attaching
to her having been incarcerated in an
insane retreat On this account she
claims $4,000. John ]. Walsh is her
counsel
DR.. Givens intimated that 1t looked
to him very much like a scheme. The
allegations contained in the complaint,
he said, are In most respects a tissue
Of falsehood The summons came to
DR.. Givens as a complete surprise. He
has not as yet consulted counsel about
the matter but If the case comes to
trial no has no fear Of the result.
On the way to complete recovery
himself at the institution, 1t Is alleged
the husband expressed the hope for
reconciliation with his wife. The story
told In the complaint ahout her ar
rival and treatment In the sanitarium
is pronounced by DR.. Givens to be al
most wholly false. He says she knew
perfectly we'll the circumstances under
which she entered the institution,
where she came with her husband and
Constable Schleohtweg. She signed
the proper papers, and her commit
ment was in every way legal. She was
not kept under any special surveil-
lance, but had frequent interviews
with her husband, went walking with
him, and had she so desired, could
have left the place at almost any time.
When DR.. Owens found that she did
not want to remain, in spite of the
husbands persuasion, he at once dis
missed her Her husband left some
:, little time later. Nothing was heard
,, from her from that time until yester-
day afternoon, when the notice Of the
suit was served upon DR.. Givens.
1t is said that the couple have two
children, who are said to reside In
y New Haven.
There is nothing to the case at all,
said Attorney Joseph B. Morse wher
seen at his home in George street, ii
: this city, last night, and l do no
y doubt but that the case will be with
drawn Immediately. Mrs Morse Il
+, flfty-eight years old and her husband
. sixty-eight years. She has not beer
we'll for years. They have been hvint
= at Rutland, vt, for some time, previ
: ously having lived both in New Havel
e and at Bradford, VT"
Gardner Morse was married in 1877
, to Miss Mary H. Hamilton, of North
y ampton, Mass. There are two daugh
tiers, one being Mrs. Edith futile, wifi
l of William Tuttle, of Rutland, VT, ant
the other Mrs. Rebelah Howe Corbin
wife of Wilbur Corbin of New Britain
: Mrs. Morse was daughter of Luth
err W. Hamilton, of Northampton
Mass, and granddaughter of Loomi
: Hamilton, who was grandson of TIL
Duke of Hamilton OF Scotland. Rutl
Y Waldo, her grandmother, was tn
$ daughter of Schulen Waldo, a proIni
4 nent man in Northampton and colo
= mel in the War OF the Revolution.
f Mrs Morse is described by thos
who once knew her as a woman 0
n refinement and genealogist
d Her husband, Gardner Morse, wa
h for many years one of the best know
|, men in New Haven. where he wa
: born. He was the secretary AM
Il treasurer of the New Haven Gas com
q pany under Presidents Daniel Trow
= bridge and Andrew w. DeForest TO
= thirty or more years
J. He was the third son of Colone
l. Gardner Morse and was educated a
lie the Hopkins Grammar school, an
- passed u pOEIlOH VI nus years iOuBh Al
IS it in what was then the far wester
ps country of Ohio.
o. After leaving school he became a
OIL accountant.
For a number of years following tn
Us civil war he was engaged in the oyste
or Gaming business with c. S. Maltby
II Co. at Baltimore and st. Louis.
IN He returned to New Haven to re
'al sumo his work as an accountant
1869.
In 1870 he assumed a position wit
es the New Haven Gas company, whel
r he remained during the period desil
AZ mated,
While with the gas company h
health became impaired and he d.
in cided to retire. After visiting Eurol
XIV he went to live at Duncan Hall, ar
On then went to Vermont with his wi
nd and daughter Mrs. William Tuttle.
se Mr. Morse was a great angler, 0
lie ganizing the Waltoniau club Of Ne
is Haven county, Of which Consressmt
N. d, Sperry Is a member