Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-06
COOK INSANE,
DOCTOR SAYS
Other Witnesses Tell OF His
Strange Actions and Pc
culiar Stories.
TRIAL STILL ON TODAY
Suit of Mrs. Chambers
Against Mrs. Henry G. Cook
in Circuit Court.
TRIAL STILL ON TODAY
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, April 6:-Mrs.
Adelaide A. Chambers attempt TO
get share of the $4,000 property in
State street, Perth Amboy, by eject
ment proceedings against her moth
er, Mrs. Mary j. Cook, of Perth Am
boy, was continued in the Circuit
Court here this morning before
Judge Frank T. Lloyd and a jury.
Mrs. Chambers, who is now in Klon-
dyke, Arizona, contends that her
father, Henry G. Cook, was insane
at the time he conveyed the property
to her mother; that the conveyance
is thus void and that she is entitled
to her share in the property as heir
at-law. This claim is met by the
contention that Mr.. Cook had had
lucid intervals during his illness and
that the deed was executed before
Adrian Lyon. before he was county
Judge, during one of those lucid in
tervals.
Yesterday afternoons session was
taken up largely with testimony in
troduced on behalf of Mrs. Cham
bers touching upon the mental con-
dition of Mr.. Cook, who was seventy
two years old when he died in the
Essex County Insane Asylum on De-
cember 8, 1907.
DR.. Fithian On Stand.
DR.. George W. Fithian. of Perth
Amboy, testified thai Mr.. Cook had
suffered with senile dementia. The
first time he had called on the man
he thought that he was merely ex-
cited about something. it not being
such a clear case that he could dis
cover the insanity at once.
Judge Raymond, who with Joseph
Z. Stricken, conducted the defense.
put the doctor through severe
! Why didn't You tessss~ ~-s.7r-rT1
We're a witness at the Will contest
that Mr. Cook was insane?" asked
Judge Raymond.
tor.
Judge Raymond picked up copy
Of the testimony Of the VIII contest.
Were you not asked to tell what
MS mental condition was?" he
asked
Read the question and nv an
swer. requested the physician.
You attend your business and
III attend 10 mine" hotly retorted
the lawyer. Your business is to
answer my questions"
The doctor insisted that he had
not been asked his opinion at the
former trial as to the mans sanity.
j. J. Deitche Testifies.
j. j. Deitche, grocer, of Perth
Amboy, who had been 6 tenant OF Mr..
COOK, testified that he had observed
that Mr.. Cook was losing his mind
for some time before he was taken
to the asylum. The old man imag-
ined that there was a conspiracy
against him. He had appeared to
worry about his daughter and had
told Deitche that he couldn't reach
her by letter and would like to know
where she was.
After Mrs. Chambers had come
East he had talked with her and had
then gone to see Mrs. Cook and had
told her it was pretty hard 10 be SEN
arated from her daughter and asked
her II there wasn't a way by which
there could be a reconciliation Mrs
Cook was very indignant in his 60
ing to her and spurned the sugges-
ton.
The morning Mr.. Cook was taken
TO the asylum he had said to
Deitche: Good bye, Joe, they have
got all I had"
Under cross s-examtnation he said
that he had known Mr.. Cook for
thirty-eight years, that ne was not
eompanionable, kept 10 himself. was
unpopular and grouchy, except to
his immediate friends.
Augustus Deitehe Called.
Augustus Deitche, clerk in his
fathers store, testified that Mr.. Cook
had paced up and down in fron1 OF
his house and had told him that he
was afraid TO go in; tha. he was
afraid of poison. On the day the
VIII was made or the day afterward,
at $50 A. M, Ms. Cook had asked
Deitche to hunt up her husband and
bring him home to breakfast. He
had found the mau on Judge Lyon &
porch, talking to Judge Lyons faith
er. When the witness asked him Ia
go home, he accused Deitcha of spy
ing on him and refused to 20 home
Nunless he was escorted by A UNIFORM.
ed officer. Deitche got an officer and
Mr.. Cook went home
Once when Mrs Cook had gone
away for few days. Mr.. Cook had
told Deitche that she had gone away
with an old sweetheart.
The old man had been careless IN
his habits, letting his whiskers grow
and wearing shabby clothes.
Former Recorders Story.
Harold e. Pickersgill, formerly
recorder of Perth Amboy, testified
that Mr. Cook had come to him with
story that the Mayor and other.
were In a conspiracy against hin
and that someone had put a ladder
against the third story window OF
his house and had broken In tbs
night before. He satisfied himself
that the man was insane and tooa
no complaint.
Police On Stand.
Patrick J. Burke, chief OF police
of Perth Amboy, said that Mr.. Cool
always had a complaint when he me-
him on the street, and that the mar
| became so bothersome that he used
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