The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-22
SAYS MRS, MOLL WAS BEATEN BY HER SONS WIFE Daughter Who Wants Her Brother Removed as Con
 servator Testifies RICH OLD WOMAN'S
 A CHILDREN HOSTILE Eccentric Madison Avenue Resident Neglected By
 Son, Claims Daughter.

My mother used to call her home heaven, but now she calls it hell.'
 This statement vas made by Mrs. John L. Oberley of 22O Main street, before Judge Miller, in the probate court today during a hearing on a pe- tition which she has brought for the Mol1, as conservator of their mother, Mrs. Tn eresa Moll. The Moll family has for years lived in that section off Madison road which is now called Arlington avenue. Mrs. Mon was a familiar figure about Bridgeport for years. After her husband died she conducted his farm and peddied milk following the route herself which her husban esta blished.
 Because of her eccentrfcities and the annoyance to which she was sub jected by small boys and her disputes with neighbors, about 10 years ago, Gustavus, with his sister, Mrs. Ober- ley, were appointed conservators. About two years ago Mrs Oberley re- signed and recently she brought an action to have her brother removed as conservators claiming that her 1noth- CT was being i'll treated.
 Mrs. Oberley told the court today that her mother was allowed the use of only one room in the house she
 
 eat Aa11 her meals there. She said frequently within the last two years she called on, her mother, she found her without food and hungry.
 T would go out to a store then,'' said Mrs OberIey, "and buy coffee. bread, cheese and other things for mother and see that she ate.''
 Don't you know that your mother1 used to take good wholesome food and hide it away? Wasn't that one of her eccentricities 2'' asked Atfor- ney Alexander T.. Delaney, who, with Judge R. Nobhs. appears for Msll- opposing the petition for his removal as conseryator.
 Mrs. Oberley lodged the question but finally admitted that it was so and that she had known her mother to leave a birthday cake untouched for three months until it became un- wholesome and some member of the family took it from her.
 Mrs. Ober1ey said her mother had been accustomed to having the low CT floor of the n1o1I house to herself. She said her bedroom was in one corner of the house and she used another lower room for drying the herbs which she gathered about the farm. She kept her Bible there too and went there to pray whenever. the spirit moved her.
 My mother never liked my broth er's wife or her boys, Gustavus and Herbert. SEe would get very angry whenever they approached her." con- tinued Mrs. Oberley.
 Didn't you tell me in my office that your brothers wife was doing all she could for your mother and that mother was contented where she was?" que ried Attorney Delaney.
 Well, perhaps I did, finally admit ted Mrs. Oberley, ''but changed my mind after I found out some otheH things
 Asked if she had ever seen her moth she had not but her mother had told her things and from observation when she visited her mother she could draw her own conclusions
 Its a fact that you haven't been on friendly terms with your mother, isn't it?'' asked Attorney Delaney.
 Well, nay mother had violent tenn per and frequently she would tell me to go away and stay away but lately she has not said anything like that and in the past two years she has not given me a cross word," answered the witness
 You have always had an aversion for your brothers family, haven't you? You never liked his wife, did your" was the next question. 1T liked my brothers wife until two years ago when she hit my n1oth- CT over the head with a>shovel Since I then, of course, my feelings toward her haven't been the same. My mother has one part of that house 1 with a door to the yard which does not connect with the other parts of 1 the house but she doesn't dare stick 1 her head out of the door for fear she will be hit over the head with I something. She has never liked my l brothers family. She is not getting proper care and she ought to be nov | ed from there.''
 Mrs. Oberley said she had visited | her mother and found her with black | and blue marks on her body and i arms also a big lump on her head. | She said that while her mother was fu the sanotoriun in Westport her 1 health had been better than ever.
 Mrs OberIey- said her mother was a great coffee drinker. Mrs. Ober1ey | was a very reluctant witness. She | could not tell of one specific in | stance where her mother had been | and in answer to a queS- |
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