The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-06
the books the firm of Madden & Ryan
backed ON the race coIlrseS
VALUE OF THE PROPERTY

the books the firm of Madden & Ryan
backed on the race courseS
VALUE OF THE PROPERTY.
The two properties in dispute are
worth $l2,0O at the lowest calculation.
1t seems unreasonable to suppose that
Ryan would give up his interest in them
so readily. 1t is as unreasonable to sup
pose that he would, by so injudicious a
surrender, leave his wife penniless. Both
Mrs. Ryan and her family say that at the
time he signed the paper Ryan was ut
terly untitled by disease to transact any
business and was in that state of mental
and physical weakness that made him
amenable to any influence to which he
was subjected At any rate" Mr.. New
bold continued, II think that the instru-
ment would be set aside because of his
condition, and the fact that those upon
whom he might have relied for guidance
and advice were excluded from the room
at the time"
MR.. sToHR MAY SUE.
Adam Stohr, Mrs. Ryan's father, was
waiting upon a host of customers when l
called on him yesterday afternoon at his
butcher shop, No. 217 Pacific avenue,
Lafayette, but he stopped to talk with
me: He said that it was not true that Ryan
had put nothing into the business with
Madden. He himself gave Ryan $3.50 and
Mrs. Ryan gave him $780, making 5000 in
all, to put in the business. He said that
the elder Ryan had abused Mrs. Ryan so
badly that the neighbors had offered her
protection; that Ryan is now caviling
about a cheap watch and q ten cent pin
that the son left, and that unless Mr.
NeWbold begins suit soon to set aside the
bill of sale, he will have it commenced at
his own expense.
MRS. RYAN's STORY.
when my husband was SICK" said
Mrs. Ryan to an interviewer Tuesday,
'and was closeted with friends, was
always requested to leave the room. Mr.
Madden used to visit him at all hours of
the night, and their conversation was eX-
clusively private. ! am certain that my
husband was incapable of transacting
business for three weeks before he died.
''The Saturday before his death Mad
den visited him with Mr.. Lembeck. 1t
was then the bill of sale was signed. My
husband was dreadfully taken advantage
claimed money from him which he did
not owe them, and he paid them. Several
things were taken away, among them
being all his jewelry with the exception
of his watch and a diamond pin. A check
for $S2, which was lying on the bed, was
also taken. The watch and pin | gave to
my father for safe keeping while | was
to Mr.. Ryan, Sr., all my husbands prop
ture left.
my husband was Mason and Catho-
lie, but during his life did not live up to
any church observances. He received the
rites of the Church a few days before he
departed this life. / am Protestant,
and have brought up nv children in my
belief. Despite my wishes, and those of
my three children, their guardian has had
them taken to Catholic school, which
they dislike, and seem to have no rem
edy in the matter. Last night Mr.. Ryan
came up to my rooms and requested me
to hand over to him what property had
belonging to my late husband. / told
him that had nothing. He accused me
of having given them to my father He
spoke very violently and behaved very
coarsely and roughly. He was so rude
that had to request my father to be
present at our next meeting"
Mrs. Ryan further said that all her hus-
bands relatives were struggling to take
his property away from her, but she was
willing If they would only leave her with
her children. There was sum of $1,000
left to the children by an insurance policy
and she had been appointed custodian of
them. She is helped by her father. One
of her legs is artificial below the knee and
she cannot work.
to the Snake Hill lunatic asylum by her
husband and his friends when she was
delirious from white swellings of the leg
and childbed fever She was there for
two years and was discharged owing to
the strenuous efforts of her father to oh
tain her release, and she said that DIR.
King, of Snake Hill, will testify to the
fact that she was not insane at all.
MIR. RYAN's STORY.
When told Mr.. Ryan what his daugh-
ter-in-law said he grew very excited ''She
is liar" he said. "If you want to know
the whole story, it is this:-Mrs. Ryan and
her father, that is the man who keeps the
meat shop somewhere in Lafayette, are
trying to obtain possession of the prop
erty. They won't get any of itl''
When Mr.. Ryan's excitement was over
saw him again and asked him why he
sent the children to a Catholic school
against their mothers wishes, and what
power was vested in him to dispute the
mothers wishes about the matter. He
said that he just proposed the matter and
then entered their names upon the regis
ter, but he thought that Mrs. Ryan acqui-
esced in his actions.