New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-19
THE ROMANCE OF LAW.
IMPORTANT WILL CASE.
4 French Peasant Girl and her Son.
LEGITIMACY AND a FORTUNE.

In lT7i. according n the records OF parish IN the
liiic City OF Psu Jean oarJ director OF ths pablo
sas e-othsr~ise. poet boy-sas j'sned IN marriage,
by The sd u the holy ssc-ansnts. 70 Madeline
ii,iefe. In i775 son ~As born II TIA. marriage,
sod In l1'7, daughter. Jeanne Icard, the heroine
Of cur love Ii,tie Jeanos's father died when
she wss eigh, yesis old sid IL u ,uppced ths, her
r other died WIS IN she quite young Az any rate
she bad 20 friends TO watch Der 60 sharply tina, he
could not fall in love with Jesn FesrS. Toe Ferries
vers family Of tseners who had their watts in ,hs
south Of France al Saint Gerome, in the Department
Of Arrieee. Jean added 20 bis tanning buiiaess that
Of trader in horses ana mules, and used 70 90 70
Soan. row and then. a trading expedin,n.
Whether Jeanette ard Jeannct" were mar
red or not, is the point at issuei one thing
however is tolorably certain, ana that IS that they
Rad issue a scn named after his father Jesn. For
some reason our Jesnne did not choose TO nurse her
boy herself, aud be put Sat to nure atstsrm,
some ten miles of. lie visited occasionally by
his father ard mother. Soon his nurse died, and he
wss put with smother. Before very long his father
was killed on the road from Toulouse tn Spain, while
attempting, PERHAPS 10 smugglo sone mules across
the Pyreoees. Ln,le Jean grows up; hs mother coca
10 Bordeaux; is engaged in the establishment OF NJ.
n
ouaintcd with NJ Dulux also in the employ OF VI.
| Catalan. She had adopted her maiden name II he
had ever departed from it, and for some reason she
thinks il prudt Mt to conceal her former marriage or
hsi,on from NJ. Duux. Little Jean, therefore, did
OF zee bis mother very often, ard he was kept out
in the mountains with one and another Of the farmers.
lie was then taken TO BJrdeaux and placed in cpl
lege 10 Re polished. Our jean, however, does net
10. ,hras, rtrhfa
be finds out bow TO lie. himself down from window
and run back to the mountains. lie was soon found
by his mother agents and placed in the country again
TO lesro Latin with a man by the pane of Anniere.
One Of Cataans agents is sent by and by to see how
be gets on and finds that Annitre who hsd been re-
porting him to be getting along prosPerously in the
sbsuusities Of Latin Grammar, has been teaching
him nothing at all except skip about the mountains
ike goat. In fact Ferre himself says that he was
"ss ignorant as a goose" He was then taken to
| Pordeaux and put TO haiters trade.
Meantime, the young widow, or other ise, began
TO find out that she was still pretty, with her dark
eyes and hair, her piquant retroas@e, and her
plump. round form aud She with prudent eye to the
main chance entered into lisson with NJ. nulux who
nromised TO be well to 90 in the world. In 1907 they
came 10 New York andsetup sminersshop In Pearl
It. He lived with her here, excepting v'it ort~o to
France, until 1917, when he went ID France, and
fro m some cause or other, did not cone back again.
Jeanne was getting to DO 40, and her temper WA
never very aniable Soon after their arrival here,
learning that their peculiar mode Of life was not "a
mode in this country with laudable desire 10 con-
form to its customs they married civilly and re-
licously. and in all possible forms. Soon after Du-
lux len her she cent to Bordeaux for Der son. lie
WAS then 70 near the age for Consumption, that no
had 10 be brought of in doubled ottomed fat boat
about ten lies TO eludc the vigilance Of the French
/ eustop.house officers. He landed in Philadelphia,
and came to New York TO live with his mother.
/ But the old lady's prudence has been developing
solf unit; Jean finds that, while the hatters boy got
! white brea in Bordeaux the rich womans son only
GETS black bread in New York. From fondpg him,
ana from calling him mon fis and mon gareon, she
came at last to slapping him in the face. jean was
now some % years old and he could not stand this
Sometimes maternal authority extended so far as to
make The blood run. So Jean went to benevolent
barber, and took up his abode. Madame was OK
eeedir CIV indignant at this che wanted to put him
TO some bgh trade, like a merchants" Jean
was with her and away by times; and at
J last he went TO Cincinnati. The old lady
was now left alone. Her brother had died long ago
in the disastrous expedition which Napoleon sent to
St. Domingo. We hear something about niece, in
1874, with her from France, girl of IA, with dark
hair and eyes. Bat this is apocryphal. She was
living lonely life She had grown old. Her ner re-
frousse bad become decided pug and she was httie
dried up, knoity woman, with only her black eyes,
al even they had come to look though they were
continually searching for money In tho street, she
wore an immense straw bonnet, with shovel front,
and carried a huge reticule stuffed with money and
papers She lived In the third story Of one of her
! buildings in Wism-st. Men went up to borrow
| money of her ION mortgage, of course She asked:
Where is the property Who ownsit Is it built
"onl Is il down town" If all these ones ions
were not answered satisfactorily, she would say:
Go long, I've 10 money to lend"
Atlast Der tine came. She was run over by on on
nibus last November in Broadway, the cJrner Of
Ful,on-st and her ankle crushed She was taken
20 ST. yincents Hospital, where she fingered for
twelve DAYS. She tas cd about having will made,
about giving ego 600 for hospital to be called
Dulux's Hof piiai and various other donaticns she
sent for her LAWYER several times, bat could never
make I'D her mind TO give her property awsy-not
even for Duux Hospital she sent for her son, but
he was sick and could not come. So she died without
A will and now that son. John 7. Feui6 makes appl-
cation 10 be appointed Administrator her estate.
The Pubic Administrator. Mr. sweeney, does not
waive bis right. Messrs Sherwood and Brady appear
for the applicant, snd Messrs Whitehead and oConor
for relatives supposed to be now living in Toulouse.
LWge quantities of evidence have been taken, aDd
yesterday the question Of administration WAS argued
before the Surrogate.
Mr.. BRADY's ARGUMENT.
Mr.. Brsdys points were first, tina; the applicant,
John Ferrie the con ofJeanns DaldI, and a. such
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