New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-20
,STrTT OF A CINDERELLA.
DECLARED AN IMPOSTOR BY TIE FAMiLi'
, WOMAN CLAIMS ONETENTH OF An ESTATE or
100000.

- 100000.
sult. were started In the city Court OK hrooinyH
Yesterday which Involve the disposition Oh ao0''
20 COO ooo ,ortb Of property left 10y Cornelius Don
Mellon. a wealthy builder who died at his hohe w.
I16 PaclGc.,t, on May IL. 1890, leaving WIG a'N
,,o children according to some members OF the ia"l
~ and ron children according t. the Hypothetical HhVii
rhrd This child /, Mr.. Mary Flannery, VIE Oh
Patrick Fauncry, prosperous builder u Urn"
tne Hudson. and mother OF William jerome MiNei5
the actor recently connected with the pr0duouo" "a
The Fast Nail .o,o,,o,.
Mr. rIauucry tclls n curious story Of her Teauoh'
With her family. Corueu, Donnellon, she says WAS
,,.. ~ ireland and ffty-~cvcn years ago was mar
d u Iuhllu To Eleanor KuAt n. They lived theIe i"'
.on,o time and then Donncllon moved to county ho''e
f,-i where he Owned marble yard Iherc Iho 'o"P''
had two children, Mr.. Ilanncry being me younger
rort, five wear, ago Donrcll0n and HI, wife came 10
m, ,ou,.rry bringing their eldest child The secohu
child then four years old. was left WITH rVIiu'cS Il,
MINI, The uar.ut, N America for lOne time lot
10Th, "a, Mary and did not know where she was, ana
si, now brings forward letter alleged 10 DC "'NVe'
bv her mother when Mary was ten years olu '"'
hitter eSprc>,cs great delight At again hhnhe 'u'
vlor, .lo Was. and a,hs her 70 come 70 America anu
I've with her parents.
u.~.,, ~. finn. that Mary had been forgotten
D.o,alor and bis MI, had made home IN brooklyn
.,d fortune lad greatly favored them Tho money
. f.. .ldi. houses Wa iudciousy invested ID real
rt,fo Other children were born Ia them until ''oS
lad nine not counting Mary. When eleven years oiA
Mary accepted her mothers invitation ana CAM ~
America he says size Wa recognized IN ''o fanny
"a - lu,htcr and introduced 20 acquantall'e' as s"0
ll.t treated a servant.
sh, was A ycritsble cinderella. she maze ti'e '"V'
wa, COMPELLED 10 srs carly beaten If She failed 10 90
49, md otherwise abused The Other children also Do
.au ~ abuse her and densglug IN her pun
i,huirut after she was asleep would 30
and ,Io.e the shutters I'm her room 30 ul'
sh, would ovcrsi"cp and call down upon "e' ~
,.~,,b - The family. she endured TINS to' 'o" '
,t ,,c,, ont 20 domestic service. Ever since sho
, thirteen years old she has been separaVu I'"' M
family. At sixteen she married Patn'N f.A""''y
.l.,. a Roman catholic while all tie Donneloh' are
81 -. .av. ..o learned q her fathers death only
p~,urb the newspapers After time she c""'u.0o'
uc,d.r.o, benedict II so. @6 Cour'-st-' brooAs IL
suJ -. hczan to look INTO the case tor nv
,,. 81 the surrogate, Office showed n VIII nor tno
Inn, ~ administrator, 81 tho estate. IN tHo
i.,,.r,s onlcc however were found deeds executed
| lv D,ruell1n 10 few days before Ms u''l'h .'"'''
,~,- real estate In Vanderbilt ave. MyrtIc ana "aNc'
l., ayes. Graham Il. and Myrtleave.' hehFy ncH'
r,,i. - and In Furman st. all worth about S-'o'UV"'
- "a, wife and hl, daughter. Eleanor H. Dohhe'o"'
o.. . nominal consideration. some Of The deeds were
,,, t, 81, cr,,, showing that he wa In an eXccSI-
/ ,,ry ,,.,l condition. Mr. Benedict determined To
! r,a,c IAN attempt TO set aside these deeds a.
! , stcp toward division Of the whole 7""Uo',
600 ard Yesterday summons, ard complaint were n'cn
v,r the clerk OF the CITY court IN t'"r eIe''"eh'
s,.t 70 have the deed, set aside ana 10 ir,o''' oi
/ 100, ~ th, prot.rty They entitled Mary nan
,~, ,,.,lp., Eleanor ponncllon and Eleanor h Don
/ ,, !, ,h. ,,lntin success iu making a case sha
i"i!' I ,'-l,,., 10 compel the other children;
/ ~, TO-. her . share OF what they nave . III. Non,
" ~ ,hr min, u.nuw cd.ct children OF NoIhctIus ho.
reIlon' Elcnor H. Donueon wa, ne ony ond
l.s ON
;, ~. tb.n, charlie, cornelius and Henry, Two bI
M amer home 81 their father I'm Paclhcst S.lar
I - Dorucilon another brother. keeps Csa' '''' ~
40 $50 Fulton st. 49, ,,.i. ,,,d A Trihuue
reno, Ter that the suit did not trouble tnc I' H. n"
. a NJ. Tiuucrv Wa nos "a daughter 81 w ~,
,t v.,. never recognized "a, such ana ua' '' ~,
n,,,oi ever lived At h- house. 9pe"Nlh u r O len
= -, Nr benedict aid that hln client tI.- ~
ar .,,g.r t.mc for him {" begin nctlot "l'.'' ~
vnld mo-, DO until hc h"d ,NHn'n,u tn'" fr nm early