The evening world., 1888-01-11


stances OF Her Death-A Large Amount
of Property mt stake.
VALENTINE. MFR CATHARINE c. VALENTINE, of
No. 10 East 6lst ri. city, OF protuse pulmonary
hemorrhage, produced by grief and consump-
t'oL
The house IL q four-story brown-stone
dwelling with an English basement. 1t is
solid, simple and unpretentious, and stands
on the north side of the street, o few doors
from Central Park. A bow of black and
white Grape, of the conventional pattern fur
nished by undertakers, fluttered from the
door-bell this morning.
In an upper room the body of Mrs. Valen-
tine, thin and wasted by merciless disease,
lay in a plain casket, awaiting the arrival of
her friends. Two maid servants watched be-
side the casket, and they we're the only living
beings in the big house.
Mrs. Valentine was q widow, thirty-nine
years old. Her husband was Brewster Val
entine, of the firm of Valentine, Bergen X
Co., wholesale grocers, at 10 Fulton street,
Brooklyn.
On Monday night, after a day of COMPARE
tive health, Mrs. Valentine was suddenly
went upstairs alone, but in a moment rang
for help. One of her servants summoned
DIR. Herman II. Richardt, of 1903 East Fifty
ninth street. BY the time he arrived Mrs.
Valentine was beyond help, and within fifteen
minutes after the attack she died.
DIR. Richardt reported the case at the
Coroner's Office, and Deputy Coroner
O'Meagher received the remains. But little
ants, who said that the lady's friends all
lived in Brooklyn.
| Mary Connors, one of the girls in the
house, went to the station house in Sixty
seventh street, and Sergt. Sealy sent q brief
| report to Coroner Nugent.
Mrs. Valentines life had been rs strange as
her death. There were 80 many curious cir
cumstances in it that her relatives and former
friends will ask the authorities to make q rigid
investigation.
Her maiden name was Catharine G. Schoon-
maker. Her father was John II. Schoon-
| maker, who had another daughter, now the
| wife of Charles H. Joy, o furrier of Brook
Ign and a son. John II. ~Schoonmaker. jr.
son, of Flatbush, who died, leaving her some
property. Thirteen years ago she was mar
ried to Brewster Valentine, who was a
widower with one son, vii lam E. Valentine.
A year later Ludlow Valentine was born to
the couple, and two years after that Brewster
Valentine died, leaving property valued at
$500, 900.
Mr.. Valentine was the senior member of
the firm, his partners being George w. Val
entine and George =. Bergen.
The married life of Mr.. Valentine and his
wife had not been of the most pleasant de-
scription. and he left his property peculiarly.
His infant son received $15, 600 outright,
and 800, 900 was left IN trust for the use OF
from it. To William B. Valentine, the son OF
William Edgar Gladsonl and grandson OF
Brewster Valentine, was left 1900, 900.
On the death of Mrs. Valentine $50. 900 OF
the 500 600 in trust was to 60 TO this grand
son and $780, 900 to Ludlow. Should Ludlow
die first his mother was to receive in her OWL
name this $50, 900.
Mrs. Valentine had considerable property
of her own; including the $500 @ house III
which they lived. at the corner of Cranberr
and Willow streets, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Valentines parents are aged people
and they and her young brother were de
pendent upon her for support. They livet
with her In the Cranberry street house unit
sician began to visit her.
She and DIR. Richardt became very goot
friends-too good friends, her parent
thought, for DIR. Richardt had a wife an,
was too attentive to the wealthy younl
widow.
The parents protested, and in 1888 Mrs
Valentine told them that they must go ava,
and stay at least fifty miles away from Brook
Ign, under penalty Of losing assistance from
her.
Thereupon they went to Saratoga Count,
to live. But the mother returned to Brook
Ign to see her son, and Mrs. Valentine. learn
ing of the visit, cut off the allowance she hao
made her mother.
!. The law was called into play for the pro
lection of the aged mother, and Count,
Judge Moore, Of Brooklyn, directed tina
Mrs. Valentine pay Sl2 a week to her mother
This was in 1884. In the same year the in
fatuated widow decided her Cranberry stree
residence TO DR.. Richardt.
Hearing of this, George w. Bergen, one o
the executors Of Mr.. Valentines will, lnsti
tuted proceedings on behalf of the son
Ludlow, to set aside the deed, and DIR. Rel
ardt capitulated, transferring the propert,
back to the widow. But in 1885 she agar
transferred the property to DIR. Richardt an,
moved over to the house in SiXty-tirst stree
soon after. DIR. Richards Office was not fa
off.
Meantime, in 1884, application was made t.
Surrogate Jacob l. Bergen, of Brooklyn, TO
the appointment of guardians for the boy
Ludlow Valentine.
Among the allegations made in the paper
served by Horace Secor, ir., counsel for III,
executors and trustees, George W.. Berger
and Elias Lewis, jr. President of the Brook
lyn Bank, upon ex-Judge Fullerton, whit
was retained by Mrs. Valentine, were these
That Mrs, Valentine was holding illicit re
~lations with DR.. Herman L. Richardt; tina
DR.. Richardt had an undue i%nfuenc,
over her that the life of tn,
lia might be Of enf br. Rioh by the ia ms
much as in case of the boys death $50, OO
would go to his mother, and as she haC
decided 10 DIR. Richardt her Sl5, 900 house il
Brooklyn, DIR. Richardt might. by his infu
ence over her, get the lads $50, 900 also; an
that she was a person unfit to have the car
the child.
The case as heard by Surrogate Berger
covers about five hundred printed Octay,
pages. DIR. Richardt was rudely handled il
the proceedings, and the result was that tn
child was taken from the mother and place,
in the care Of Messrs. Bergen and Lewis a
guardians.
They sent the boy to the Polytecni
School in Brooklyn, and he has been ther,
ever since. This Is probably the subject o
the "grief" which II il alleged in tn,