New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-05
SAID TO BE CROUSE'S CHILD.
Is THE ELUSIVE GRACE WILSON HERE?


WOMAN WHO MAY MAKE FIGHT FOR MILL
ION FOR HER DAUGHTER.
Grace Wilson. the elusive young woman who Is
sad 10 have claim to 4 part OF the large fortune
left by d. Edgar Grouse. Of Syracuse, y. l.. j.
believed TO be in this city. woman Is living !"
handsome apartments on the fourth hoor Oh tue
Nlstoh an aparmcnthousc at broadway ana FllN
tfillst whose name Is Mrs. ko,tcrz story
VII, publ.sIci Yesterday that she was the Grace
Wilson 80 much sought for. and as she declined All
day yesterday 10 receive visitors and answer notes
or In any way deny the report that she formerly
.ved with Mr.. Grouse and las child OF which the
millionaire was the father the report Is accepted Dy
many people true.
Mrs. Kosicrlitz until three months ago lived at the
Gerach In Twenty Scventh-S. near elXth-avc From
there she removed to the AriSion where she has re-
malntd with her two children. n girl Of six, and
10y Of four years. Her apartment, handsomely
furnished and she keeps Il maid and other servants
Her Oldest child Is bright, takatN" little girl, ana
when at the Gcrlach the little was u great
favorite with the CLERKS and others In the hons"
This child Is said be the "next of kin provided
for in Mr.. Crouses will. but whether Mrs KOscrlltz
intends TO press such n claim both she and her at
torneys decline to say The cldd Of which ID. Edgar
Grouse Is said to be the father was II IS declared
chrstencd DJTUthca Edgarita Grouse Wilson. Mr..
Koscritzs claim, II She makes one. will be that She
was married TO Grouse. and that he called himself
wilson; that after his child born she divorced
and subsequently married 10 an Austrian Hebrew
named sicgbcrt Kostcrlitz. The marriage took place
IT Marsaic, England.
According t. the story. Mr.. Grouse made handsome
provision for his daughter before the magriag" at Mar
gate tool. place. Anna Lcon maid in Ms. ko''"r-
Iilz's service. and ii She ii j. laid. who made
public the tory Of the relations Of her mistress VITA
Mr. Grouse. Mr.. kostcr, Is said 10 have been man
Of wealth and when he died. about one year ago. he
left his widow and little boy. who had been born t.
If Mr. KoslcrliM hi, widow came TO N"w-lor with
her children and ha, lived here since that time.
\ reporter Of The Tribun' called several times at
Mrs KostcIltz's apartment yesterday hu; on ear ]
accession wa, teld hy the maid that her misirro, WIS
| not AT home. ana would probably not hc hom" nntn
! today OF IA, employees Of q" AnStnn, now
ever said ihl' Mrs. Ko,tcrz WAS In. Int thai si'
did not wish In ,e' visitors. They described Mr.
Ko,rrlliz ~ being nnclu0lng, Well proporiion'd
au woman. about thirty thrc' ycHrS old. with hl"u
hair and blue eyes. Sh" would weigh probably 100
pounds They Thought.
Soclc Il Dickson. LAWYERS. ~ No. 10 Wall st. are
Mrs KoscrliiZs legal advisers hut they ar" ~ rcticcn
a. tL,5r client. They admit however. that they haN"
bccn employed 10y Mr., Koscrlliz hut decline 10 say
home So 81 'lrrollavc. last evening. be ,aid
that he regretted that the name OF Ms client had
reached the newspapers.
Ill J rad known that something WIS TO have come
or" said h.. d" should have made hh"i statement.
hut now have nothing TO saw
| do you intend 10 try TO prove that Nr Roster
IT,, little Girl J. the next Of Kin mentioned In tho
Grouse will b" he asked
Il cannot -ay ANYTHING about our Intentions or our
| clients business was the reply.