The sun., 1890-08-30
WHOSE FURNITURE IS SAFEH
N1aTERTOUs DEsAPPEARhNCE or NRS
xCKERMANs HOUSEHOLD 0O0DS


JustIee Qoraan Has Devoted Several Days
20 che Case, and Has Nnde Certrln Hn-
terestInG Discoveries - Meaatime, Mrs.
Aokerson SIeeps on the Floor.
Justice German continued yesterday, at JEFF
ferson Market Police Court, the inquiry which
he has been conducting since last Honday to
find out who It was that carried OF The house.
hold goods OF Mrs. Hannah AckoEson at 322
West Eleventh street, on the pretepce OF being
city marshnls foreclosinE a mortgage. Mrs.
Ackerson told how seven mon came with two
trucks and ripped up her carpets. took down
her beds. and loaded the contents OF her board
ing house on the trucks, In spite OF her re-
monstrances. She protested that the goods
were hers. They said they were acting under
the authority OF the marshnL She declared
that she had never mortGaRed her goods. They
sRid something about acting under MORTGAGE
made by Miss Evelyn Hustls. She told them
that Miss Hustls was not there. and had been
only boarder, and had no right to mortgage
this furniture, and that Miss Hustis had exc
cuted some mortgages on other furniture now
on storage.
But all her remonstrsnces were in vain. Mrs.
Ackerson showed the bills OF her furniture.
She called IN Policeman Brennan and appealed
to him, but the men satisfied the policeman
that they were marshals and he would not In
terfere. She appealed 10 one OF the cartmen.
Patrick Burns. whom she had employed to
move the things several times for her. and she
now called him to witness that the goods were
hers. But all was in vain. The men took the
furniture away before her eyes. and she was
80 excited that when she appealed to Justice
German for redress last Tuesday she did not
know the names of the csrtmen or Of the mar
shal or OF the firm who had foreclosed the
mortgage.
The only clue was Patrick Burns. the cart
man OF 179 Seventh avenue, and Justice Cor
man soon got him to court. Burns said he
had only taken q part Of the furniture for
man he did not know and that he had left the
piano and a lounge at Walters's auction room
ut Thirty-sixth street and Broadway, where
that portion OF the missing furniture was sub
sequsntly found. Tho auctoneer was at once
warned not to sell the things. aud search was
Meanwhile Mrs. Ackerson lad hunted up Miss
Hustis and found her at GAG Hudson street.
mortGaged the furniture Of Mrs Aekerson.
some doubt was was thrown upon Miss Hustiss
representative Of a Sixth avenue loan agency
gage upon Mrs. Ackerson's goods had been OK
ecuted by somebody. In the course Of the In
which tho furniture Of Mrs. Ackerson was seized
Mr.. hoberck OF the same ofiice. aad that the
foreclosure was executed by the represents ative
ba s1h
was not recognized as the distrainer. Morrow
disayowed 1t, and the placing OF the RESPONSE
cause Mrs. Ackerson had no recollection OF the
names on the oaper shown 10 her.
tlce Gorman took hold Of It yesterday. Patrick
Burns, the ca1tman was held for larceny Of
resai reg d to the man man who employed him i to take i %
the goods away. Justice German summoned
ELL 4rs neasy 70 sa the SS sea4 h Ys Sos ea
counsel appeared. There was one for Mrs Ack-
erson. and one Tor various claimants Of the
which the property was seized was given BY
Miss hustisi that the y man My who negotiated 4
the man who furnished the money 10 loan on
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BoSeTck were 01sR qssponsbe loF akins Mrs
Aokereons furniture and he ordered COM
S s aeaed sGpf GA .So d for Mr.
and Mr.. Boberlck that the furniture. had been
taken on their MORTGAGE Counsel for the de-
and insisted that Miss hustis was, acting in
son knew that Mise Hpstls had mortgaaed the
furniture: that one Of MEs; I, ,AMeksrsons M da%gh-
ss "as M to shoW W 1bas Mrs.
knew her tui initure was morteaGeI: that she
was present when the mortgage was talked
about, and that she had sent one Of her dauRh-
ters with money to pay part OF the Install
ment on the mortgage.
Mrs. Acksrson denied all this and her
daughters denied 1t. Counsel for defendants
asked time to produce Witnesses. and wanted
the defendants paroled. Justice German said
he Was convinced that the defendants had got
the furniture belonging to Mrs. Ackerson, and
he would lock them up unless they could get
bail. AS they could nor furnish bail they were
locked UP, but the Judge said he would accept
bail for them during the evening. and the
further examination will go on this morning,
Miss Hustis's counsel said that Miss Hustis
was very sick and he did not know where she
was. Counsel for defendants said he knew
the habit OF mortgagng furniture; that she
has several aliases. among them that OF VIM
offices. and that she was altoGether too inti-
mate with the Ackerson family for them to be
innocent OF complicity with her misdoinRs.
=, Meanwhile the Whereabouts Of the most of
Mrs. Ackerson's furniture has not been dis
closed. and she and her daughters, are living
floor, awaiting the action OF the Court TO re-
store their furniture II the Court can do 1t.