The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-11
Henry II. Nash as go.between.

henry IL. Nash as gobotween.
In further pursuance of her scheme TO
obtain control Of James Clark's property,
the bill alleged that a pretended conveyance
in fee was made Of large amounts Of property
to the Utica Hydraulic Cement Co., Of Utica,
q company organized under the laws Of the
state, which company pretended to convey
July lot, 1888, BY mortgage deed, and On.
July n, 1888. ty quit claim deed certain
properties TO said Mary J. Clark; that she
on July q. 1888, conveyed BY W. D. for .
pretended consideration certain tracts to her
son. Chss. A. Carey; and ON the Same day
In the same way other tracts to e Y. Gard
uer; and on the 2sth day Of July
tracts BY mortgage deed to one L
er,-all Of which conveysnoes
to be without consideration On
the purpose Of confusing the I
deprive the orator and his sister
terest therein.
THE CEMENT COMPANY
The orator further alleges tn
Of the Utica Hydraulic Cement
farthsrance Of her scheme; tb
until she became acquainted James Clark,
entirely without peounisry responsibility,
nor has she since acquired money or prop
erty to any appresiable amount except what
she obtained from James Clark; yet on May
"a. 1885, when said company was organized
with nominal capital stock Of $500. 200, she
subscribed the sum Of $751;, 200, although
she had not dollar which she could legally
or equitsbly call her own; that the other
stock holders were merely nominal and their
subscriptions for nominal amounts only, in
order to enable her to organise such com.
pany and to thus convert real estate into
personal property - representing said stock;
that said company did not purchase for value
but WAS mere figure head; and tho orator
svsrs that such stock ought to Do declared
the property Of the orator, John L. Clark,
and his sister and that said company hold
Il in trust for them. He also ayers that
since the death Of James Clark said Mary J..
Clark, the Utica Cement Co., C. A. Carey
and C. J. Gardner have been in possession,
receiving the rents and profits, and he asks
that they be required to make answer and IN
accounting and convey to the orator in fee
the undivided one half Of the property and
moneys 50 held by them.
And he prays also that an injunction be
issued restraining them from disposing Of
any Of said property.
This action, it appears. does not contest
the will at all. That instrument is not men.
toned in the bill in any way. The bill seeks
to establish rerulting trust and to obtain
the benefits of that trust under which James
Clark held his title to the property he con-
trolled during his lifetime and, as charged,
was Influenced by Mary J. Clark to transfer
to her. An affirmative judgment would,
therefore, divide the total property between
John L. Clark and his sister, Mrs. Carlotte
W. Peckham, leaving Mary j. Clark, as
widow Of James Clark without even dover
or homestead rights in the property so held
in trust. Any rights John L. Clark would
have under the will remain in full force and
effect. Nor does the bill filed seek to set
any conveysnces to Mary ]. Clark, but
rather to establish the fact that she holds the
property in trust for the arator and his
sister.
The bill alleges scheme Of fraud that has
no parallel il the famous or infamous, case
OF "Dis Debar" lately tried in New York city
be excepted. The two are very similar in
some respects. Debar BY her pretences Of
being . spirituslistio medium acquired 80
great an influence over the lawyer Marsh.
that he deliberately decided to her large
part Of his real estate, valued at over $780,
900, Fortunately the rascality Of the woman
was 80 outrageous that it could not escape
the notice of his friends, and by prompt
measures his property Was regain, himself
saved from bankruptcy and the poor house,
and the woman, with her confderates, sent
for term years to the Sing Sing penitentiary.
The methods Debar used to obtain control OF
Marsh we're similar to those alleged to have
been employed in this case. Dos Debar
claimed to have the spirits Of Raphael and
Rembradt in tow, who painted portraits at
her command. And Marsh sat in her studio
for months waiting for Raphael TO come in
and paiut his. Well, the picture was paint
ed; and as final result Marsh nearly lost
bis all. Mary J. Carey is alleged 70 nave
been the companion Of msterialiaed indian
royalty; and James Clark died an agent
Modern Undertaking. spirits seem to have
I. very reckless regard for the company they
keep on earth amer death, Whatever they
did before that epoch. The courts certainly
begin to choke with trials Of unsavory