New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-10
Woman Sane, but Did Not
Convey Title of Notes,
Jury Decides.
BROTHER CALLS
DOCTOR A DISGRACE
Family Feud Continued-Physl-
clan Ordered from Brooklyn
to avoid Yankees"

The Oglesbys Of Georgia and the
Oglesbvs of New York, doubly related
~ marriage but not by blood. were
again in court yesterday, over the prop
erty of Mrs. Mabel C. Oglesby. The
proceeding was the taking OF testimony
before a sheriff's jury and three COM
r,issioners. Daniel 7. Hays, former Rep
resentative Henry NJ. Goldfogle and
David Welch, 10 determine whether
committee should be appointed by the
court for the property of Ms. Oglesby,
who was A. inmate OF the State Hos
pital for the Insane on Wards Island
TO determine the value of her estate
and the income. q,
DR.. James Van Pelt OGlesby, husband
of the incompetent, was the petitioner.
and he was again made the target OF
various charges by those who oppose
his appointment as committee for ms
wife.
When the case was before another
Jury a month ago, which proceeding re-
suited in a disagreement, most OF the
excitement was furnished by the women
members of the Georgia Oglesby fam
ily. They contended that their sister
became mentally afflicted through the
administration of morphine by her hus-
band. Yesterday they were more SUB
dued, but at the same time they
watched DIR. Oglesby, who is member
of the New York family.
The physician, however, did not es-
cape without attack, the leader in this
being his brother. Representative VIII
son K. OGlesby. of Westchester County,
who is married to one of the Georgia
Oglesbys and sides with them. When
asked if he felt any animosity toward
his brother the representative, after
thinking the matter over minute, re-
piled: my feeling in this matter IS
one Of intense modification that
brother of mine would act this way.
think that with MabePs money IN MS
pocket, for him to place his WIFE III
charitable institution Is the most as
graceful thing ever done by man as
sociated with respectable people,
Then the Representative paid his
compliments to William A. White, law
yer for DR.. Oglesby. For a long
time" he said, 81 supported my brother
and until he came under your influence
he was a reasonably respectable per
son. Now he has gone from bad TO
worse" White is cousin of the Rep
resentative and doctor.
White protested against these per-
sonalities, but Mr. Hays, presiding
commissioner, said: you opened the
way; now he has the same right as
YOU had" The commissioner referred
to the earlier statement by White, Il
want to show this man up. know
him"
During the proceeding Vincent l..
Leibell, Of Philips, Mahoney & Wagner,
counsel for the other members OF Mrs.
Oglesby's family, denounced DR.. Ogles-
by as a perjurer, because of dis
crepancy between his testimony at yes
terday's hearing and that given at the
first hearing. This testimony had to
do with his using money he received
from notes by his wife for speculative
purposes, which he denied at the prior
hearing. lie admitted yesterday that
such was the case.
"Then your testimony on the first
occasion was false ?" asked Mr.. Leibell.
There was another uproar. Mr..
White objected against such char
acterization of his clients testimony.
He said he had advised DR.. Oglesby not
TO answer the question ABOUT the STOCK
speculations.
Commissioner Goldfogle entered the
dispute at this poipt. 81 cannot con-
ceive how it is possible, whether the
question was material or immaterial,
how that would justify the giving of
an answer that u. not truthful"
It was conceded by the Georgia
Oglesbys that the physicians wife is
incompetent, but they contended that
her condition was due to the acts of
her husband. DR.. Oglesby denied that
he had given his wife morphine, ex-
cept when he prescribed some of the
drug for her at time when she was
suffering severe neuralgia pains. He
did testify that he had sent her by
mail a dozen hypodermic needles for
the injection of the drug.
Mrs. Oglesby is a daughter of the
late Zena W. Oglesby, who was a bank
er and railroad man of Quitman, Ga.
lie left an estate valued at about
100000. The incompetent is entitled
to the income from one-seventh of this
estate, less $4,000 which had been adj
vanced to her.
The family of Mrs. Oglesby sought