The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-15
THE JUMEL ESTATE CASE.

ment for tho Defendamt-Madame ia.
mel's Wills and Settlement OF Her
Property-Her Parliamentary Inten.
ttons-Evidcncc for the Defence.
The further hearing OF the case Of George Wash
ington Bowen VS.. Nelson Chase was resumed yes
terday in the United States Circuit Court, before
Judge Shpman and the special jury.
Mr. HOar Mr.. Chatleld and Mr. Shaner appeared
as counsel for the plaintiff and Mr. Charles O'Conor
and Mr.. ]. G. Carter for the defendant.
CONTINUATION or MR.. O'CONOR's OPENING STATE
MENT FOR THB DEPENDANT.
Mr.. O'ConOr said 1t might not be necessary to
refer further to the fortunes Of Mary Jume but he
would refer to the period when Madame Jumel
came to the settlement of her property. She had
been at one time woman of strong will and
understanding; she may have been frivolous and
vain, but she was person who had great force Of
character Her mind was undoubtedly affected,
but in making o bargain in buying and selling one
would say that she was not insane. She was
monomaniac, If insane at all, for she appeared to
have abandoned all the early ideas OF her life in
gard to the settlement OF her property and affairs
When IN aged person was about to depart from
this world, with all its joys and pleasures, there
occasionally arose in the mind, and such an one,
morbid desire not to leave his or her property to
eXpectants and when wills OF this character came
up there was in them that forgetfulness of rela-
tves and duties to friends which often in the judy
ment Of Courts, rendered them imperative This
being so, Madame Jumel was not exactlyin q condi-
ton OF mind to make disinheI iting will. She made
q Will in 1883 On her death this will stood IN the
way Of those who had right to inherit her prop
erty, and q suit was instituted to set 1t aside.
Madame Jumel's family was OF obscure origin. Mr..
Devine, Of the firm Of Martin Smith. OF this city.
undertook to find out the relationship between
Mrs. Jones and Madame Jume lie went into
q1rie les, upon this subject. the first batch
OF neirs came , on 70 New YORK ana made
the proceeds OF the suit. They were got rid Of
and he supposed others were waiting to see what
SS.acxmaiiing suits Mr.. CSSase could not lay yus
single sixpence for backmailing purposes be-
cause, If he did he could not tell where that kind
consider how G. W. Bowen had been introduced
into this suit. Mr. Devine found, upon examina-
At
years. When she Is about thirty years OF age she
i again before the and
was John bowen, a foreigner; that she had three
Deyine visited George w. Bowen, who
ington. and Madame Jumel. MIR. Devine
mad got into his possession the facts of the history
got his story and also the story george W. Bowen
who stated that the names Of Polly and Betsy
Bowen were new TO him; he had never heard OF
them before. There never was any pretence Oh
the part of Bowen that he was the son of Madame
Jumel, and not shadow OF pretence that he ever
had the smallest communication with her. 1t was
notorious in Providence that G. w. Bowen was ille
climate, yet he was married and had never com
municated the story OF his ilegitmacy to mis- wife
and when he was with her at Saratoga and they
saw Madame, draped in splendor, going to her car
rage and the p wife remSrxea that that was
Ms d mot une e was to sh CIV. that
sloryn mia wit tn t1,io
and with firm OF lawyers in this city they brought
lot OF suits; plaintiff failed to appear, though an
Bowen and VandervOort were to have half and the
lawyers the other half suit was commenced in
this property but he thought that he could not yet
justice there, so he determined to bring his case
into the Unted States Courts, and he ldr. OConor)
trusted justice would be done him. Mrs. Wander
WORT was turned out OF the as plaintiff, and
now 1t was brought in this Court IN the sole name
OF this case there was leading counsel
who had now abandoned the suit. But
case (Mr. Moar who had come from another state tie:
q man OF eminent distinction. But II there was to
be fourth trial he did not expect to him in it,
and his friend, Mr.. Chatfeid, might be left alone,
or he could go to Kilkenny, OF which they had
heard, and there find some lawyer who would con-
ing was left OF them but the tips of their tails
(Laughter.) Mr.. OOonor then adverted to engage.
with various lawyers in this city to conduct his
case Tor him. ne agreeing to give them certain
amount OF the pronts arising from the suit, and
having no trouble whatever with the sum.
monng OF witnesses. He had placed the case
In the hands Of Judge Edmonds, but the
Judge had finally abandoned it. Counsel then
went on TO refer to the statements OF the wit.
nesses for the plaintiff, one OF them having been
nshed up by Mr. Starr, juror ON the last trial Of
this case. Those witnesses showed the utmost
facility for shifting and changing about. When |
Mr. Deyine was down in Providence he ascertained
were dead he did not state who they were but |
certainly Betsy Bowen was not one OF them. Hav.
fnfp AtArr IN htnft IA
witness Hull in his statements behalf OF the |
plaintiff Mr.. O'Conor said the defendants counsel |
that his first statements were true, '0q but
he subsequently altered them, making |
S two SeF ,nsy had He T
Hull was not one day older than George w. Bowen, |
and that when he undertook to speak OF Bowen as
having been born in Providence the defendants |
would prove that Hull had an older brother who |
was born in 1892. The witnesses for the plaintiffs |
were obliged to tell the most shocking stories
about themselves. The testimony OF Henry Nadine |
was utterly ridiculous. He told very fine story |
about serving in the war Of 1912. At that time he
to serve. Nadine had stateo that Colonel Bo. |
gar,dIs was the colonel Of the militia regiment in
state that Colonel Bogardus, who was one OF his |
earliest friends, had been an olicer in the regular
and corrupt character OF this prosecution. He
advcrted to the story OF Joseph Perry told upon
had made about being in Providence, and as to his
coming to New York by railways that did not
exist AZ the time OF his VlSit q. w. Bowen went
on the stand and backed up the story tnat he
knew Perry in Providence, and, though he was
called back, he did not explain how all this came |
to pass seventeen witnesses were produced on
the part OF the defence to Contradict
the evidence Of Perry when finally the plain-
tiff gave Perry up, but on the SUMMING
up counsel for the paintiff had the modesty to say
that 1t was MIR. Chase who had purchased this wit
ness to damage the PLAINTIFFS case. All through
this case on the part OF the palnt there had been
change OF base-a change OF ground
suBORNATION OF PERJURY
marking the case all through It's stages with an
absence or everything In the shape OF modesty. The
one OF
THE MOST SHAMELESS
that had ever been brought into court OF justice
Here was person selling half his claim to wit
nesses and half to lawyers. In ancient law such
thing known as 4