, 1872-12-02

sionally busy about this vast property. At the
former trinl no man OF national reputation
faced the leader Of the New York Bar; bug this
no he is to BE- met p n Unted aae s. sasss He o
Of Of the toughest legal wrest1ers Of the day. Be-
sida these leaders Of the case, many other coun-
sci arc to take part. Dir. Hoar, for George ";
Bowen, viii be Sustained by e1,Attorney General
gate Gideon ]. Tucker, William 4: Beach, Mr:
Sawyer, and others; while Ar. oConor vii be
assisted. as before, by Jau1eB G. Carter and by
Nelson Chase, the defendant himself.
It is probable that new phase o. tnls curious
case may be developed BY this trial, and 1t ls
enter suit for the possession OF the immense
estates, On the original trial, it will be remern-
bered, the jury disagreed; neither Bowen nor
Chase succeeded in establishing q title to the
property, though the latter wes LETT N posses
the issue that, by escheat in default OF heirs the
estate ia really the property of the State Of New
York. At any rate. it is subject OF A17cnss1on @
among lawyers, who say that since theAn 81: :000,-
GOO are held under doubtful title, and claimed
under another certainly as doubtful, it is
the duty Of the Attorney General or other State
representatives to put in q third claim. There
is not the slghtest probability that this will be
done, however, until the decision new sought
has made the chances Of the State to recover
less doubtful than they now appear.
1t will be remembered that originally Mr..
Chase claimed the Jumel estate IS the husband
Of Mary Anne Jones, whom he asserted was the
daughter of Madame Jumel, that the latter had
so informed him, urging him to marry her child,
and promising to leave her the whole Jumel
estate. This is nc. longer his claim.
vito was tho daughter Of Walter and Mary
Bowen, q sister Of Madame Jumel- At the death
Of Madame Jumel (July is, 1861 Chase as
sumed control Of the property and excluded from
it several children Of this Mary Bowen, subse
guently Mrs. Jones but later compromised with
these claiments by payments Of $40, 900 for
their interest in the estate. He now claims that
they were the true heirs-at-law, not his wife,
and that he ID entitled to the property through
purchase Of their right. The plaintiff claims to
be the inegitimate eou Of Madame Jumel herself,
and as such has prior right to the Joneses. In
order to establish his claim Mr* Chase has,
therefore, to prove:
I. That Madame Ju1nel died Without issue;
that is, that George ". Bowen is not her child.
II. That Mary Bowen and Madame Jumel
we're both legitimate children Of the same moth b
OF Phebe Kelley or Bowen); for though an il
legitimate child may inherit from it's mother, no
other relation Of illegitmacy gives title to in
heritance.
III. That Mary Bowen, instead Of dying in
1907, as claimed by plaintiff, lived to become
first Mary Clarke, and then Mrs. Jones, and the
mother Of those whose right Chase has pur-
chased.
It is very clear that if it cannot now be
proved that the Jones family we're the legitimate
nephews and nieces Of Madame Jumel, the
whole vast estate is really without heirs, and 1e-
gally reyerts to the State.
The case comes up next Monday, and will
probably be tried without further delay.