Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-11
penney HEARING
Re-opened Before Referee
In Bankruptcy Little.
Mr.. Penney Tells Of His Horse
Buying Trip to Boston.
Medical Testimony Regarding Ply
sIcaI Condition Of Penney.

The matter of the Penney bankruptcy
case was reopened at the court house
Friday morning hearing commencing
before Fremont ]. c. Little. referee IN
bankruptcy for kennebec County.
A brief resume of the case gives the
facts as follows: Last May Roscoe r.
Penney. a local livery stable keeper
ana 4 member Of the board OF assess
ors. while in Boston. reported to the
police that he had been robbed IN
50 les stable of a pocket book contain
ing the sum of $4,000. The matter
created something of sensation at the
time and later on Mr.. Penney filed &
petition in bankruptcy. 1t was the
largest failure in the country since the
passage of the National bankruptcy
, law in 1888.
A number Of hearings were held be-
fore referee Little and finally y. NJ.
Goddard, the council for the Granite
National Bank, one of the heaviest
creditors, filed Il motion with the ref
cree that the bankrupt be ordered -
nav into the hands Of the trustees the
sum of $4,000. the amount OF money that
Penney clainied that had been stolen
| from Kim in Boston. Ponneys counsel
appealed and ;hr case went TO tine
! United STATES District cour:. where
Judge Hale thought that there WIS SUI =
ficient reason for sending the matter
| back to the referee for another hear
ing.
| At the opening of The hearing Friday
morning in the Grand Jury room at the
Court house Dr. CrOookCr of this city
was put on the stand. He testified
that he has been practicing physician
here for the past 80 years and that OF
lure 8, 1903 he mad treated Eosco.
F.. Penney and again June II, July ii
and q. In his judgment Penney is suf'
ferirg from Il debiltated condition of
the nervous system. He stated the,
| his patient WIS vsrv nervous and did
not want to talk with friends. He re-
gartled the trouble with his patient:
heart az functional and not organic.
DR.. A. III. Sturtevant was called and
testified that lie has treated Mr.. Pen
ney on the following dates: Aug. 81
| 1904; Sept. 6, Sept. l., Sept. 50, Oct. ID
Oct. "a, Nov. 3. Nov. II, Dec. 3. Dec
%. All office calls. Again in 1907, Jan
-, Jan. 26, Jan. 80, Feb. 10, Feb. Il
gave electric treatment All the calls
were at the office. Found that Penney
claimed some distress after eating and
the doctor treated him on these lines
| Examined his heart and found only a
quiCkening of the beats. The heart was
always above normal.
| In 1907 in January and February
treated him for intermittent pain over
the heart. Gave an electric treatment
| over the heart. Found late that this
| abnormal quickening Of the heart con-
tinued and had increased. Doctor rec
commended three treatments per week
| for the trouble and finally decided &c
| discontinue them. May I, the last time
| the doctor saw Penney professionally
no essential change in the symptoms.
| Cross-examined by A. NJ. Goddard
DR.. Sturtevant testified that Penney's
| heart was beating faster than it should
Was much higher than he should ex.
pect to find it. Said that it was quite
common in cases of indigestion for the
heart action to be accelerated. Treated
with electricity and torfics for tn,
nervous condition.
DR.. w. II. Harris was the next wit.
ness examined. Physician here for q
Years. Treated Penney at his office
four or five times, starting in Novem.
ber 1907. These dates spread over some
time. as Penney called at intervals Of
about 10 days. DR.. Harris diagnosed
the case as angina pectoris or a sup.
posed condition of mal-nutrition of the
heait muscles. due to a thickening OF
the walls Of the small arteries tina,
supply the heart muscles. The synp
toms are similar to those described. A,
present there are no digestive disturb
ances that DR.. Harris has been able t.
locate, but there are heart disturbances
Have examined Penney's heart anC