Threatening Measures

Said to Have Been Used in Getting Property

FREDERICK T. JOLLY

He is Accused of Coercing His Mother Into Deeding Him Her Land

Accused of threatening his seventy-two years old mother into deeding him her property at 410 Observatory street before she died, Fred T. Jolly, a driver for Cousins & Hall, is made defendant in a bill filed in chancery to have the deed set aside.

The complainant in the case, who is represented by Solicitor Martin J. Cavanaugh, is William C. Jolly, a brother of the defendant. The bill of complaint which has been prepared by Attorney Cavanaugh is a voluminous one, covering over fifteen pages of closely typewritten matter.

Among other things it charges Fred Jolly w4th having obtained the property on Observatory street, valued at $2,000, $500 worth of household goods and $710 in cash by "threats and fraud." The deed is said to have been obtained by Jolly on Nov. 23, 1897, but for some reason or other it was not recorded until March 22, 1901.

It seems that the defendant lived with his mother at the Observatory street home. For some time before her death she is said to have been very feeble in mind and body and it is alleged that the coercion used by Fred resulted in her turning over to him all the property that she possessed. It is further alleged that had it not been tor the coercion used by Fred she would have made a division of the property among her children who are, besides the two sons already mentioned, Mary Morrison, Lizzie Johnson, Jennie Cleveland and Edward R. Jolly.

On motion of Attorney Cavanaugh representing the complainant, Judge Kinne yesterday issued a writ of injunction restraining Fred Jolly from in any way disposing of the property until the case is finally disposed of.