| Show 3EAHLES WILL CASE Edward N Searles Uupon the AYitness Stand Ills Testimony Unimportant His Wifes Diaries Introduced Kxpeilenco Number One San Francisco Property SALEM Mass Oct 22The second day of the adjourned hearing in the Suarles will I case began today with the same crowd as i 1 heretofore Another lot of business letters I let-ters from Stillman Si Hubbard to Mrs I Searles were read October llth 1SS7 they enclosed the form of a note to Huntington I in which Mr Searles says she must repudiate repu-diate the agreement signed by Timothy t Hopkins and until she knows what it is Other letters were of no present importance I import-ance Burley then askel for letters from Mr and Mrs Searlos to Hubbard Still I man Thoy were read and showed deposits to Mrs Searles credit in banks to the amount of 240OCO In throe months The i last death telegram announced Mrs Searles1 After tho reading of letters Mr Burley asked for the journal kept by Mrs Searles while abroad aud it was given him for examination ex-amination Mr Burley then called for all the books of accounts of the copartner ships Mr Butler objected and Burley finally called Mr Seailes and interrogated him in regard to the booSS but witness stated that he did not know anything Us to the contents of the hooks Letters signed Per E L wore written by Edith Little field who did some writing for him Witness Wit-ness does not know where the suggestion came from to drop Timothys name from the executors of Mrs Searlos codcal of June 18 1SSS Witness never knew a physician the name of Hay wood nevor I attended lectures on mesmerism or made it a study He thought there were copies kept of some letters sent t Mrs Timothy Hopkins by Mrs Searles Mr Searles had not had any private correspondence with Timothy since his marriage Mr Stillman visited Methuon about a week before the execution of the last will by request of Mrs Searles and through I witness His coming had nothing to do I with the information that Timothy was I about to start east Witness would not say whether he gave any directions as to his will at that lime but believed he did wi tme When Timothy arrived witness had already I al-ready made arrangements to go away but delayed in order to welcome him and witness i wit-ness then told Timothy that ho had to go to I Harrington to look after work and went Witness learned that Timothy had man o aged his mothers affairs for a number of j years but never heard any discussion as to whether he had received compensation or j not There was no secrecy about tho co partnership never heard his wife between I Juno 1 and July 15 1SS3 express any wish i i I to dispose of any part of her property At the afternoon session Mr Burley i called for the check books of the copart nership The court ruled they need not be I reproduced except special checks The i diary kept by Mrs Searles on trips abroad in 18S7 andlSSS were read The first entry in the first was November S Married at Trinity chapel The diaries were mostly I filled with personal matters and dcscrip i tions of the trip January 17 1SSS there Is an entry I thought myself of secondary consideration ana exorossinir it found it so This is exerionce No l j The rebuttal then begun Searlos testi I fled that when he left his employment in I 18b2 she had been in receipt of 30000 Ito Ito I-to 35OOO 1 year and was worth from S1COOOO to 150000 50000 cash and the balance in real estate and stocks He left his business on no j count of his health and to live at home with his mother The firm done work on I the Hopkins mansion in California and he J was going west for his health and to look after mining property He got a letter from Mr Baumgarten the foreman to induce I in-duce him to look over the house presented a letter and was invited by Timothy Hopkins i Hop-kins to come with the family that evening j j to supper Ho was told while there that if I j he would call in the evening he would be i shown over the house Ho went and looked i over tho house The next time ho mot Mrs Hopkins was when Timothy asked them to accompany him to Menlo park At the depot Timothy was unable to go and he was asked to escort the ladie which he did They visited Sherwood hall which Mrs Hopkins subsequently purchased and gave to Timothy It was a largo placo of about three hundred and fifty acres with 1 mansion but out of repair and said to have cost a million They also visited Stan fords ranch He dined once more with Mrs Hopkins by invitation during dur-ing his four weekss stay in California That fall ho received word from Timothy tnat Mrs Hopkins was coming east to attend her affairs at Great Barrington asking if he would assist as-sist him In 1SS3 ho went to Great Bar rington to meet Mrs Hopkins and registered regist-ered at the Berkshire house When ho was going out to si pper 1 servant cauie and said Mrs Hopkins expected him at tho house He said he would stay where hoWl ho-Wl but while he was at supper the servant ser-vant took his luggage to her house without his knowledge Mrs Hopkins gave him a commission to furnish the chapel at a ccst of about 12000 and he gave it to former employers and received 10 per cent commission com-mission In 1884 Mrs Hopkins decided to have him build houne at Great Barring ton He supposed he would be paid as usual but learned later that ho would not In the fall of 1887 Mrs Hopkins said she had letters from Timothy that her railroad property was In peril and thought she ought to know how much she had to spend before going further Three letters from Timothy to his mother to thiseffect were read and the court adjourned ad-journed |
