The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-13
POLITICS OF 1880
Letter Read in Fisk Appeal Case Refers to Bulkeley
 Taking Office.
COREY CASES CONTINUED
RepIeyin Case of Di Parma over an Engine Heard in Common
 Pleas Court.

Charley Clark have gone into once fear that Hartford may sink" In about these words ran a letter read III me Fisk appeal case which was continued before Judge Roraback in the superior court yesterday. It was written III 1880 by Leonard Daniels to the late Eugene Fisk, over whose estate there is now such a contest because of the two wives. It caused considerable merriment about the court room. II was one of a number of humorous re- marks in a series of letters that were read as bearing on the case by Attor- ney Goodhart. They were written dur ing the years from 1877 to 1881. MT Daniels advised his son-in-law thus in one of his letters-"Look out for the American God, that is money, and keep all you have got" Another sentence which caused a laugh ran: I'd rather be on a white farm and cutting white birch than fail up''
 The object of reading the letters was evidently to show that MT. Daniels was advancing his son-in-Iaw. about whose estate there is now a contest, consld- erable amounts of money so that he could build and keep running basket factory in Chicago and that the belief that Mir. Daniels held was that Mr. Fisk intended sto will his money to his then-exsting wife, the first Mrs Fisk, whose children are now making fight against the second Mrs. Fisk, whom Mir. Fisk married in 1894, some years later The arguments in the case will come to-day and it is expected that this will be the use made of the many let ters put into evidence.
 One matter that seemed very funny to those in the court room was the mentioning by Mir Daniels In his let ters of the hard times that came after the depression of 1873, He said that all kinds of money-nIaking schemes were bro1ched to him. One by young man who had invented a glass casket or coffin. He wanted Mir Daniels to organize stock company of $200,Oo0, giving him half the stock for his rights in the patent.
 Mir. Daniels was the first Mrs. Fisk s father and he evidently expected that the money he was advancing to his daughter or his issue. In his letters he mentioned many checks Tor consider able amounts sent to MT. Fisk in Chi- cago. One was for s25,000, another for sl0,000; and there were a dozen or more mentioned for $500. The latter amount was sent every week for con- siderable period. In the year 1880, s2i 500 was sent, so the letters stated. IL was rumored that the plaintiff will read the answers to these letters when the case Is resumed to-day.
 Mrs. Margaret Fisk was placed on the stand yesterday forenoon In the civil superior court, 10 tell how var ious notes signed by her late husband came into her keeping. He was dress cd in deep mourning: and so was Bridget Conway, the former cook al the Fisk house, who had note from the old man representing s1.4Oo. Both Bridget Conway and Mrs. Fisk had been employed fin the Fisk home fol twenty-two years.
 There is bitter feeling between Mrs ! Fisk and the sons, Louis A. and Leon ard Fisk and when Louis Fisk tool the stand before Judge Roraback yes. l terday morning and was questioned about the property in Chicago, former l ly that of his mother and title to whicl | he and his brother are now disputinl with the present wife, under al agree ment between their mother and til, late Mir. Fisk, he referred to the for mer second girl as his wife,
 Martha, the golden haired child O Mrs. Fisk, aged about five years. play ed about the court room. She wa dressed in pure white and her appear ance there erea,ed striking contras to the somber furnishing of the place
 The testimony of Bridget Conway ii effect was that she who after th marriage of tho second girl, Mrs. Fisk became the housekeeper, was givel the notes to give to Mrs. Fisk, whici she did.
 All of the notes were made shortl after the birth If each child The not for s1o000O is -egarded by the Fisl brothers as an ante-nupital agreement
 The marriage of Mrs. Fisk to her lat husband was solemnized in Brooklyn and was not known to Louis D. Fis until some time afterward. The contes will probably reach the supreme cour l Gn1z predicted. There arc a number of fin points of law involved in the case. on being that regarding to the statue O | limitatio
 The arguments will occupy thi morning.
 Roraback Decisions.