Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-09
THE TAYLOR CASE
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 SanliarIUm.

Mrs Franklin A. Taylor, wife of
 the vice-presldent of the Randolph Cloves Co, and daughter of the pres
 ident of the concern, Charles Miller, or Miller X Peck, applied for an ln-
 Junction from Judge Slas A. Robin son in the superior court at New Ha-
 ven yesterday to prevent her hus-
 band having her committed to a sani- tarium. This Is The outcome of pro- ceedings that were begun in the loca! l probate court over a month ago when 1 MT Taylor, on the representations of counsel, asked for commitment for his wife to retreat in Hartford. Pending decision by Judge Lowe on that petition Mrs Taylor disap- peared and her whereabouts since were not generally known. It devel- oped yesterday that she had been staying at the Manhattan in New York city. Last evening she came to town with her counsel, Attorney Frederick Seymour of New York.
 MT and Mrs Taylor have been mar. ried about twelve years and one child, a girl, has been born to them. When they met yesterday for the first time in some weeks Mr Taylor was considerably affected. Mrs Fay Tor was naturally excited Counsel for both sides held long conference and endeavored to come to definite understanding. Once in a while tho principals would intervene with some remark intended to throw additional! light on the situation, and Mrs Tay- tor became so excited that Mr Taylor picked up his hat and left the room. After that the conference was car. ried on by counsel.
 Judge Robinson granted the attor neys a short private hearing, but it is understood, did not go entirely into the merits of the case, and it is said that it seemed to ba the object of the attorneys to effect a definite under standing as to what the actual rela- tlons of MT and Mrs Taylor should be pending a settlement of the diff ference, rather than to secure any restraining measures against either of them. Several well known alien it's of New Haven and one or two who figured in the Thaw case were present, but were not examined, but 1t is believed that if the matter goes to the extent that hearing on Mrs Taylors petition for an injunction against her husband to prevent him having her committed to any insti- tuition is held they will be called upon to testify as to the condition of Mrs Taylor's mind, So far, it Is said, she needs absolute rest more than any other kind of treatment.
 As to a settlement there is just q bare possibility, and the prospect was as bright at the close as at the beginning. But now that the public has been admitted to some of the de- tails of the matter a new light has been shed upon it. Public opinion will gradually shape itself so that it may be the means of bringing about what consultations between friends and attorneys have failed to do. The matter has been pending in the pro- bate court for over a month or more, and in legal sense it is there still. Attorney Arthur E. Els has been in- structed to look out for Mr Taylor's interests in the local end of the trans action and he will not discuss it only to say that settlement is hoped for.
 Mrs Taylor went to the home of her parents on Hillside avenue last evening and will undoubtedly be gov erned to a great extent by what transpired at the interview in the old homstead last night.