The New York herald., 1922-01-11
ENO'S DIARIES USED
TO PROVE SANITY
Minute Entries Up to Death H.
Illuminated Commercial and
Private Affairs.
BUSINESS MEN TESTIFY
Robert Dowling and Others
Say Testator Was Sound in
Mind Until End.
BUSINESS MEN TESTIFY

Diaries kept IN his own handwriting
and containing entries 70 diverse and
minute as to Illustrate every businese
; transaction he had in years were offered
as evidence OF the soundness OF mind
or Amos F. Emo yesterday to the jury
In the Surrogate's Court which IS to
determine whether he possessed full
Z. ,estamentary capacity when he executed
q VIII diverting nearly half OF his estate
Of s1S.ooo.ooo away from his relatives.
All Of yesterday mornings court ses-
sion was consumed in reading from Mr..
Eno's diaries ar1 the jury was shown
how no was as mcthodicai In recording
his business activities as IL he were a
clerk in a strangers employ. Every
small detail about the smallest matter
occurring in any day was noted down
with as much pains as the record Of
transaction of magnitude.
II was his custom 10 arrange his days
according to weather conditions and
each days diary page began with a no
tatfon whether II was dry or rainy and
what the temperature was and the wind.
Weather Regulates Work.
II the day was tine Mr.. Emo was
likely to devote sorne Of II to inspecting
she many pieces of real estate he had
IN the city or to q visit TO hts lawyers
or his stock brokers. II II was stormy
or cold he spent the day indoors and
attended to matters within his office.
invariably he set down as the first
entry of each day the time at which he
arrived in his office and the last thing
IN the afternoon made final entry,
giving the time al which he left for the
day. He wrote numerous letters each
DAY, many of tfem with his own hand.
invariably If thew were personal letters,
Tor ne had an Old fashioned notion that
a typed letter was discourteouy II a
friend dropped in he noted that, too. and
added limo or two about the conyersa-
lion. But the great number Of his
Journal entries had to do with the pur.
cnase and sale OF property or with con-
oitlons In the stuck market or his Dur
chases and sales Of stock.
Severai witnesses We're called to SUM-
riement the diaries by direct testimony
as to business dealings with Emo. The
Two who said they knew him best were
Edwin w. Coggeshall Of 30 Fifth ave-
nue.. who for many years was a fellow
director with Emo OH the board of the
LAWYERS Title and Trust Company,
and Robert Dowling. president Of the
City Investment Company.
Alert ~ Usual In Last Year.
Mr. Coggeshall told how he had
known Mr.. Emo 80 long that II his mind
had grown dim he was certain 10 have
noticed It. He insisted. however, that
Mr. Emo was as alert mentally in the
last year or two Of his life as he was
twenty years before he died. He saw
him the last time only few weeks be-
fore he died and months after he had
made his will and found him as usual In
temper and demeanor and believed him
70 be wholly rational.
Mr.. Dowling 'old how often he had
consulted with Mr.. Emo IN regard to
city realty and insisted that his judg-
nacnt was as good IN the last few
months OF his life as Il had been when
be was in middle life. He denied that
Mr.. Emo was so feeble that he had to
support himself with heavy cane, and
explained that ne had used one ever
since being injured on board a steam
chip during heavy weather.
Max d. Steuer. who is counsel to the
objectors 20 the Will, did little Cross
examining yesterday. The case will 60
on to-day.