The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-06-16
A SAD FAMILY HISTORY.
A FA7HER's EEIORT TO SECURE HIS
DEAD CHILD's FORIUNE.

Heir sickness aud Dcpth-A Bcreaved
Husband Prays to See His Dead WIFE,
Cbildless Flight for a Fortune.
A uust remarkable ease Of domestic iufelicity
IN. just come to u 1t In that part Of Jersey City
tltacro known a. Hudson. The parties to tie affair
are all u the highest res lec,ability All bu one OF
hcn,--ihe injured busband-are possessed Of valu.
aNle property, which tao, led TO the trouble whe.
hcr there II anything criminal In the matter Is not
snown; tut from tle respeciaby OF the paroles
L Is supposed thcy are innocent Of any evil exce,t
Nat Of very persistent mniice toward their deceased
relatives husband stn, as TIC properly In ques-
don at least Ear rs the dead woman's SHARE goes,
is ontaied under certain conditions, a very nice
legal point is involved.
MARRYING rich GIRL.
Three years ago this srriug young man named
shrkey, Of GOOD abts and respectable connections,
was taken into the employ OF q Mr.. John Tice Nho
Keeps q dry goods store in Hudson City, and whose
nmily IL one Of consider bic wealth. The lice
family inherited their wealth from their father.
Plain hard working farmer, owed his prosreri-
y " the ri,e In property which he purchased in his
youth. When they took young starkey into their
en- loy they intended that he should act simply as
their clerk. Bot there was young lady IN the
family Miss Mary Tiee, who soon conceived other
ideas. siarkey being rather good looking young
fellow, OF pleasing manners and address. Miss Mary
was not long in discovering his good qualities, nor
in maniosting tor his company a very decided pre-.
ference over that OF the other young gentlemen OF
her acquatanee. starkey, in bis turn, was rather
impressed by the young laly's good looks and the
result, az was but natural under tic circumstances
was reciprocal affection.
KLoPENvSr AND MARRIAGE.
The family, discovering how matters stood be-
tween the young couple and having rather higher
notions than ho 81 nj "a gta
from the shop, and forbade his ever setting foot in
tho house again. They also denied the girl the prvi
lego of meeting or conversing with her lover. Tho
scsut may be imagined. Opposition only fed fuel
to loves Ore, and within a month after the clerks
dismissal he became the girls husband. She imme-
diately left her relations brother and sister-to
hive with her husband Her relatives finding their
opposition useless. taeit consent TO the mar
riage AMI furnished the arar ments in which the
young couple vent to housekeeping. Young starkey,
being nan O. good habits. had made grea, many
friends, and bore good name; 80. being offered as
,sisnce, he at once went into business on his own
account, and succeeded In making very comfort
able living for his family.
SICKNESS AND DEATH.
Things went smoothly and happily with him until
shout a year after marriage, when his wife gave
birth 70 a Daughter, after which her health faiied
Thinking that her sister aud other relatives would
be able TO give Ter more and attention than she
wond otherwise receive, she proposed 20 her hus-
md remain until sne SHOULD recover. Mr.. s,arkey
although he and his wife had ALWAYS lived torether
IN the bRpplest manner, the two never having had a
word OF difference, gave his consent. ThereupOn
MRS starkey removed with her child to her sisters
residence. IL was
for starkey when he gave his consent to the re.
moval for from that time he never saw biz wife or
tIiid asaln: WHIT aTs the family used OF whether
rot know, but certain 1t is he never saw her nor
could he gain access to tile house. The child as lie
f~nUl tha hon
family would tell neitherhim nor his vile whore IL
had been iaken. This latter fact he subsequenty
pes d, and stnrkey went three times to the house
where his wife was lying sick but each time lie was
re used admission TO her bedside although lie knew
,he Was III. When she died he not informed OF
ne fact BY tie relatives, but learned 1t IRON the
funeral having been advertised Il ranrey enopg%. mn
Ger her maiden naue. staIkey lien went 10 the
SIZE MS wIFE's CORPSE.
Even this consolation was denied by the heart
less relatives. Not knowing what course to pur-
cue under the circumstances, and overwhelmed
Justice Mares, 10 whom he related the particulars
o. the affair, when the JUST called on the Tice
family and informed item that unless they mani
tested decent respect for tie husbands feelings lie
would at OF &c issue warrant empUW erng the hus-
band TO take the corpse and bury Il hinselL This
sudden threat Vi tho law, which they had over.
looked, brought tie IN ceiling RELATIVE to their
senses and they then accorded tlle husband tie
CURED permission. They even allowed him TO at
tend the funeral, but compelled lin to ride In a car
rage OF hs own hiring at the tail end Of TIE pro-
rSssion. Instead Of giving him the place was
entitled to-thaI OF frat mourner
wHELEss AND cmLpLEss.
Small as was this poor consolation. the family had
their revenge for no sooner Was the funeral over
Than ey set up the claim that, A. they had given
the young couple the furniture they had, it still be-
longed TO them and SO they repleyined the property
and carried II on, the husband Offering no o. ice
ton. But hardly had this trouble been smootned
over by time than another came Tho widowed
starkey Indirectly learned that he was also child
less MS lite daughter having died and been buried
Al some convenient distance in the country-when,
where, OF how lie has never learned, and does not
know 10 tnis day.
me LAW OF ENTAIL.
And here II where the legal point arises. When
old Mr. Tice died he left lis property TO his chill
either of the children die without heirs, his or her
share wss to be divided between the survivors
Now Il Mrs. Sankey's child died before the mother
then the childs right to the property heir would
revert to the mother, and the brother and
died rst the child would p become S the S0i Isir
90 the mothers portion, and she dying
subsequently, her title as heir would be vested in
her next Of kin-her father As the property in
VOWED is worth upward Of 100000, the question
becomes one Of considerable importance. Mr..
know him, and notwithstanding the persecution and
inhnmanily he has been Subjected to In lIs matter,
be had determined
TO BURY HIS WRONGS
IN his own breast and did do so, until the death of
his child aud the refusal OF the relatives give him
any information on the subject removed ali reasons
for keeping silence and even gave him further
reason for making the matter Iuuc. lie intends,
now that he has revealed the facts to place the
whole subject In the hands OF lawyer and thus
compel those interested to disclose The facts con.
nooIsd with the affair from beginning TO end.
fight FOR A FORTUNE.
He means, and very properly to make the rela-
I'VE -no" how his wife died, and also how and
Mneh ue enid died and under what circumstances
e nas no malice against the parties, notwitbstand.
.Hb az Ihnuhah treatment he has been subjected
w. ~. ne intends that tie relatives shall show
c1iId,s bs,t 'nat no shadow Of completely In the
chId ueath rests upon them. Tie revelation OF
heee facts ana we date Of the clid's DEATH VIII
snow who n HE heT-wlether Starkev or mo T,ea
family. lhe injured husband aouoars to hay. lie
sympathy OF al who are acquainted with the partc.
u.GIu Of the atair. " f''NN'
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