Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-12-14
A MRffer of Millions
'iGHT FOE THR PRINCELY FORTUNE LEPr A
MADAME ITNEI

FIGHT FOE THK PRINCELY FoRTUNE LKTrar
MADAME IUNEI.
The legal tilt foT The possession of the Urea
Tunnel estate was resumed this week IN tn
United States Circuit Court. before Judge Shtt..
man, IN New York George W ashington Bower
OF Providence, Rhode Island, brings an eie.'.
ment suit against Nielsen Chase, the prese,
holder OF the &c tate, which u valued az near
= 10000. In one form OF another the title 10
this estate has long been in litigation. and O.,
the struggle for % possession nearly all the leal
ers at the bar have at one time or another been
engaged. The plaintiff clstms TO have discOv-
cred new evidence favorable 70 his claim. Mr..
Chaiteld opened for the plsintifi. and referref
in detsil TO the property OF which Madame diet
possessed. He also read mas OF documentsry
evidence, ucbing the claim OF his client, Mr..
Bowen, insisting that there was satisfactory
proof that he IL q son of Madame Jumel. AM
therefore the only lawful heir TO her estate.
SKETCH OF NINE. JuNHL.
The maiden name Of klizs Bowen Jumel was
Eliza, or Betsey Bowen. She vas the daughter
OF John and Phebe Bowen, who, the defendsn.~
marriage exists. Eliza, or Betsy, was born @
1915 (the day cannot be fixed in Providence,
Rhode Island. From her birth ull ITse blank
occurs in her STORY. In that year, according
TO the records OF the town council, she was
living with her mother, whose house, on the
ground that IL war disreputsble, was torn down
by q mob. Her mother soon opened another
house of the same character, for which offence
she Was sent to Jail, and Eliza, or Betsy. vas
sent 20 the workhouse 70 be cared for. She was
then about 10 years Of age. In 1890, her mother
having been released from jail and naNing been
married 10 a Capt Clark, q widower with 81
children, she returned; hut her mother aud
stepfsther behaved in such a dsgrsccful man
Der that they were sent away from Providence
with the threat that they would be whipped at
" cart tail " II tley returned. Eliza, OF
Betsy, remained in tire family OF Major Reubea
BsiOu until october ?, 1924. when she gave
birth to the plaintiff, Geo. Washington Bowen:
and II Is supposed that the ms Tor Wa his father
Soon after the birth OF her son she went away,
leaving him at Major Bailou's and wa not
seen in Providence until she returned thine
not known) with the body OF a sea captain
name unknown wbich she caused 10 DC hurried
there. During this visit 20 Providence she fire.
quentiy inquired for the young son whom she
had eft with the NJ sior, hut could learn MOTH
ing OF him. From Providence she went 20 New
York, where, in 1904, she married stephen b.
Jumel. She lived with him until about the
close OF the war Of 1872, when she went To
France, where she remained about four wears
Upon her return she attempted 20 deliver a
lecture in Providence uIon the French court
but she Was prevented from doing 20 by a mob
which assaied her on account OF her percentage
Jumel died in 1892. His estate was vested in
her, and, in 1888, she married Aaron Burr. from
whom she obtained q divorce on the ground II
adultery, Charles O'Conor defending Burr She
| died on July Is, 1856.
BETSY BowEN's SON fDENTrF Ed
Yesterday the dispositions OF NJ ary Armsbv ana
Lemuel Angel, both over 80 years of age were
read in confederation of testimony O. the iden
uty OF Betsy Bowen witt Madame Jumel, and
Dantel Hull, aged s., identified the p!antiff
who he had known from infancy as the son .
Betsy Bowen.