The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-27
JAKE VAN Wrinkles HEIRS.
INQUIRING ABOUr ELEVifN THOUSAND
DOLLARS or STOCKS.

Executor Daniel Van Wrinkle Pledges Then
to Secure His Personal Dcbts-The Trou-
BILE 1t Has Got Him Into Congressman
Brisham's Children Among the Heirs.
A deficiency of about sixteen thousand
dollars has been discovered in the accounts
of Daniel Van Wrinkle, one of the executors
of the estate of the late Jacob Van Wrinkle.
Jacob Van Wrinkle was one of the old-time
residents of the Heights. His family inter-
married with the Sipp family, and between
them they owned pretty much all of the
property in the neighborhood of Bergen
Square, When he died, two years ago. he
left him surviving foak children. These
were Daniel, who lives handsomely, but
unpretentiously, on Academy street; Peter,
the grocer, on the corner of Acad-
envy street and Bergen Square; daugh-
ter, now dead, who was the wife of the
late Congressman Brigham, and Edward
who is also dead. In his will he named his
sons Peter and Daniel and the late Con-
gresham Brigham as his executors. His
estate was charged with the care of Mrs.
Sipp, his mother-in-law, who is still alive
at the advanced age or ninety-five years !;
but with tbs consent of the old
lady, the realty was .partitioned
among the children. Mr.. Daniel
Van Wrinkles share was the house he
lives in. Mrs. Sipp makes the handsome
old homestead her abiding place, and
year old son, keeps honse there. In addi-
ton to the realty, there was personal
estate of about $40, 900. Part of this per-
sonalty was in bonds secured by mort
gage The rest consisted of $4,000
worth of Jersey City bonds, and 81, 1000
of United Railroads stocks. As Jer-
sey City bonds are worth little more than
par, and the United Railroads stock is worth
nearly 200 per cent, the actual value OF
the securities is somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. After the death of
Congressman Brigham, tho management of
tho estate fell to Da lei and Peter The
securities were placed IN safe in the old
homestead, and it was tacitly understood
between the two brothers that they should
be allowed to remain there. Some months
ago neither the Jersey City bonds nor the
Railroad bonds were to be found in the
safe. Daniel explained that he had put
, chem in his private safe in New York
When he was asked subsequently to pro-
duce them he could not do it. He had
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debt The facts were made known to his
brother Peter, and now the accounts are
being examined with view to ascertainlng
the extent of the deficiency. Mr.. Van
Winkle has made an assignment of all his
property to the estate to secure the indebt-
edness wh,tever it may be, and his counsel
claim that the estate is fully secured.
Late last evening reporter of the SUM-
DAT TArTLER. met Willard Fiske, who is
Mr.. Van Wrinkles counsel. He said that
upon the death of old Mrs. Sipp, the per-
sonal property will be divided between
Congressman's Brigham's heirs, Edwards
son. and the brothers Peter and DAN
lei and that eventually $40, 1000 or more
of the missing Sic, 900 will tall into Daniels
haRd as his property that he has merely
paid himself little in advance as it were,
and that the balance of the deficiency will
be fully covered by the property Daniel
has transferred to his co executor in trust
for the heirs. Daniel, the counsel added
was engaged in New York, in the business
Of the saanafae4nreyas ale and exchange of
school books With liabilities amounting
to only $1,000, he had assets reaching
total of SAC, 900; but the moment the fact
of his assignment of his property to the
account of his fathers estate, was an
nounced in ONE of the New York mercan-
tile papers, his creditors began to swoop
down upon him, and as result he, on
Thursday last, deelred it advisable to make
an assignment.
Mr.. William Baricklo, OF this city, is the
assignee. He is now engaged In an en-
deavor to make settlement with his
creditors, and hopes to be able to resume
business in few days.
Mr., Van Wlnkle is very much Frustrated
by the effect of his ill-advised pledging of
the estates securities. When reporter
of the TATTLER visited him at his home
last night, he frankly admitted that there was
q deficiency, bnt insisted, as did his coun-
sci, that the estate had been secured
against loss.