Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-05
A BIG SUIT.
How q Widow Mas Relieved Of Her
EStats.
lmptssoHAross OF HER DEAD soS
Dispose Of Ms Propsrty-A Case Ia
voIving 0.000-Suspieion That
the Young Nan Exercised Pro.
pristay Rights.

NEw. ORK, May IA suit OI eleCcmeut
involving property valued at OVER 1lio.cos
has recently been brought By Mn. Angel
,, m.Se Blake against . number Of parties
who occupy land On Eleventh street. near
Seventh avenue. South BfsekiyA.S sons
time since that lady called on Mr. ". y. g.
Fsles, . Brooklyn lawyer, and stated her
case 10 him. Mrs. Blake is . Martinique
Creole over 81 years old, we'll preserved,
with a very dark complexion and ratAsr
stout According to her story she came 70
this city in 1879. and vas married in 1874
to James Blake, hotel clerk.
SE-vs~.AAeStAJ AeaG.t a. 1eAs
OF her husband she removed y Brootfyn
with her only son, Samuel II. Blake, and
| invested some SO 900 In farming lands In
South Brooklyn. Intending TO give her
son good start in life when he become d
age. this was put in his name. Then. -
everything had been settled, Mrs. Blake de-
cided to return 70 Martinique. After an
| aiiectionate parting with her son abe set
sail, but had hardly reached her old home
| when she was hastily recalled by the news
that Samuel was dangerously III. On her
return she carefully administered TO the
wants OF the sick young man, paying him
every attention that q mothers heart could
| dictate. But il was oil OF no avail for. q
week after her return and shortly before
he reached his majority, young Blake died,
and was inferred In Calvary cemetery.
Asurprise Gsr Mrs.. Blake.
This was in 1870, and without apparently
a thought of her property in South Brook:
| lyn, Mrs. Blake left the city OF noted
| preachers for the purpose Of taking care of
her estate in Martinique. In the mean
while, however, the property In brooklyn
was fast trebling and qusdrupling In worth.
Last year Mrs. Blake returned to this coun-
try, and on calling at the Tax Ouice IN
brooklyn TO got the tax bills for her prop
criy discovered that there were only about
twelve lots returned on the bills.
As memory brought back the fact that
she was rightfully the Possessor OF about
{, ur times as many, she Immediately inst-
tuted herself an
Inycstixntiou Csmntttee q Oae
and discovered that most OF the property
had been sold under an alleged power Of
attorney by some person who she believes
represented himself 10 DO her son. and wss
one OF a party Of conspirators. Part of the
property was also condemned for park
purposes. and Il was Ascertained that the
giving the power of attorney wM acknow.
ledged before an attorney named Cardosa
OF this city. The property, which s
bounded by Fifth street on the north.
Sixth avenue on the west, Twelith strcct
ON the south, and Prospect Park on tho
east, consists OF eight houses aud about
forty seven unoccupied lots, valued ut tiiV,-
40.
On hearing the story at first Nr. FAlcs
WAS rather incredulous, but the tar bills
and other incontroyertibic evidence shown
made him convinced OF the truth OF Mrs.
Blake's narrative. Since that time he has
looked up the matter and discovered that
the titles held by the property ranged
along six or seven years: that In fact some
OF the sales occurred while young Blake
was sixteen or seventeen years OF age.
This makes % seem quite likely that tho
young man himself had exercised the pow
er OF ownership long before the property
was his.
All such suppositions, however, Mrs.
Blake Indignantly denies, stating that her
son was
Ptsus. GSod YsusG MAN,
| ofeIceedingly steady and temperate babin,
and the last one in the world 10 be guilty
of such fraud. As the success of the
plaintiff would involve the dispossession
Of the present owners, those individuals
are doing oil In their power 10 hold on"
They have engaged Judge Hskin, and
G. i. Jackson aS counsel. The proprieton
OF three Of the lots claim that they have
occupied them adversely fer over 20 year.,
which fnci, by Law. would make them right
ful owners The other defendants In the
suit will make q general denial OF all tho
plaintiffs statements At the hearing,
| which will probably not occur before ueIt
December, In the Kings County Supreme
| court Circuit.