New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-23
Physician Tells Court He
Rejoiced in Sinking-Said
Germans Could Pay.
REVILED SUFFRAGE
AND ITS LEADERS
DR.. Wylie Hesitates to Repeat
VieWs-Millionaire Couldn't
Afford a Telephone.

The drowning Of women and chill
dren on the Lusitanis pleased Amos F.
Emo, according to the story told yes
terday in the Surrogates' Court by DR..
Robert II. Wylie, of ~ West Fifty-sev-
enth Street, the first witness for the
contestants of the Emo will. DR.. Wylie,
the contestants hope, will support their
contention that Mr.. Emo was not OF
sound mind when he made his will in
June, 1915, four months before his
death. The statement regarding the
Lusitania was made in the summer Of
1915 at Saratoga, where Mr.. Emo had
q summer home.
What did he say?" asked ex-Surro-
gate Charles II. Beckett, Of counsel for
the contestants.
Ale said" replied DR.. wylie. chat
he was glad the women and children
were drowned, and that even IL the
Germans did do It they could pay
for it,"
Hesitates at Suffrage Views.
Mr. Emo also held some radical views
on woman suffrage, which he opposed.
They were of such character that Dr..
Wylie, who had often heard them, hesi-
tated TO repeat the exact words in the
presence of the women in the court
,pu ~
witness quoted Mr.. Eno's views on the
suffrage leaders. These remarks, which
can be printed only in the court record,
! the witness said were made in the pres
ence of women.
Some of the contestants over the
$1,000 900 estate, heirs and next Of kin,
who heard the testimony about their
relatives extraordinary statements
were Mrs. Antoinette Wood, sister;
Mrs. Leon Graves, niece, and Amos R. Z.
Pinchot and Clifford Pinchot, nephews.
DR.. Wylie also told about Mr.. Eno's
peculiar hospitality. "He would order
a servant TO bring wine TO the table,
said the doctor, "and say to a guest.
/ DO you want wine? Before the guest
could refuse or accept the host would
answer for him, NO Mr.. Emo would
then ask the same question of the next
guest and make the same answer to his
own question. When the last diner
was reached, Mr.. Emo would say TO the
! servant, Take the wine away; nobody
wants any,"
Couldn't Afford Telephone.
The witness said he had known the
/ testator from about 1885 until hi:
death, in October, 1915. Mr.. Emo wa:
best man at mis- wedding. He told o.
an operation performed on Mr.. Emf
in 1906 in Paris. Dr. Wyle was called
! from New York by a cable message
which read. Come first steamer. Your
own price"
Before that, said the physician, Mr.
Emo had been afflicted with diabete1
and at different times suffered from &
/ cataract, bronchitis, deafness, pneu.
monia and injuries received in a fall
down the companionway of steamer
When suffering from the cataract, Mr.
Emo said, "If | can't get better, | want
to die"
Mr.. Emo was confined to his room
about three weeks with bronchitis. after
which he went 10 Jekyl Island. He re-
turned TO the city in April, 1915, six
3 iioiNAH bNApAc nc ulCus
Did he have any conversation with
you regarding money matters Z" asked
Mr.. Beckett.
Eyes; he said his real estate was
bringing nothing; he couldn't rent any
thing, and that his property was depre-
ciating in value. He said he was going
to the poorhouse," said DR.. Wylie. Mr..
Emo. whose estate is valued at $751;
100000, also protested that he was too
poor to have an automobile or carriage.
A telephone was a nuisance and cost
too much"
Proponents OF the will rested their
case yesterday morning, after having
examined the witnesses TO the will,
who testified that Mr. Emo was of sound
mind when he executed his will and
was not under any restraint or in
| fuence.