The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19
,rES HER SON FOR $4,000
.vcER ACCUSED OF EXPORTING
,ToNEY FROM HIS PARENTS.

stive for Fifteen Years.
From. the Nel0 York Sun.
voH.wK. March 16.-Thirty years ago
4 N Spencer left his fathers home in
'r.s.uk for the west. He engaged in the
ling business, and about fifteen years
wss president OF the Illinois State Saw
Institution in Chicago. Spencer
',.Ead the bank, and the day he left Chi
due bill was found lying on his desk
,ss hank which read: Amount due the
s.rE Sass. 900. David Spencer" The bank
one of the largest in Chicago, and the
s.oositors were nearly all wage earners.
TtoussDds OF excited depositors gathered
..,rnd the bank on the day the doors were
.o,ed Had Spencer been found be would
S.ve been Iynched on the spot. Spencer
scanned to Canada, where an effort was
m.ds 10 kidnap HIM and bring him back to
~. states. The effort failed, and Spencer
ensy reached Belgium. Between Belgium
md the United States there is no extradi-
zion tresty.
In Belgium Spencer purchased fine es-
tsts his wife joined him, and they remained
there for ears. He endeavored to reach
settlement with his Chicago creditors, and
shont five years ago he was in Canada,
vhsre nIs sister, who resides in Mohawk,
and his attorney from Chicago met him.
SPENCER went back TO Belgium, but year
sgo he returned to Mohawk with his wife.
He then said that he had come to spend his
remaining days in his native village.
Mrs. Spencer obtained possession OF the old
Spepcer homestead and farm of l65 acres.
army nf ware at
work. The house was fitted up and fur
nisbed elegantly, and Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer
intended TO make their home the social Gen.
tsr in the village, but Spencer's old
acQuaiutaEces and scboolmetes did not re-
ceiye him " it'll open arms, but greeted him
with q cold nod when he walked the streets
Money as not @ sufficient passport to admit
the Spencers into Mohawks charmed circle.
Spencer had a son, Dewitt c., who lived
in Chicago, where he was employed in one
Of the packing houses At the fathers re-
quest Dewitt moved his household effects to
Mohawk, and with his wife made his home
ct his fathers house. In less than a month
they were told &c leave, and they went to
live with the wife's mother, Mrs. John Nc
Chesney, in this village. Dewitt did not
have money enough to take him back to
Chicago, but be sold to his father the house
hold furniture be had brought from the
Windy city, and received a check large
enough to pay railroad fare.
When Dewitt reached Chicago he did not
20 back to the slaughter house to work On
evening, Jan. IA. in company
with two slick, well>dressed strangers, he
landed in Mohawk at O'clock. The thres
men went TO the Spencer homestead, and
remained there all night and most of the day
following. On Sunday. at 9 in the evening,
the two strangers were at the Mohawk Val
ley hotel in Mohawk, and had a social ses-
sion until in the morning with the men,
bers Of the Owl Club. When the session
broke up. the men went back to Spencer's.
On Monday morning, as soon as the bank
opened, Mr.. and Mrs. David D. Spencer
were there and acknowledged the execution
Of q paper before N. D. Alexander,
Spencer called for a tin box be kept In the
bank vaults. This box ne did not return.
One hour later the paper acknowledged was
filed in the Herkimer county clerks Office.
IL was a deed from Sue D. Spencer to De-
witt G. Spencer transferring the farm and
homestead and all the personal property
thereon. At 2 O'Clock in the afternoon
David Spencer and wife took the express at
Herkimer for New York, where, it is sup
rosed, they took a steamer for Europe.
Their baggage consisted of four large
- NAiN0' w n0uIS AateE De"AbG y.
Spencer and the two mysterious
strangers took the train for Chicago,
and Mrs. Dewitt c. Spencer moved
into the Spencer homestead. Dewitt re-
turned from Chicago two weeks ago, and
on March two deeds were fled in the
clerks office conveying the same property.
The first was from Dewitt C. Spencer to
) Ohm McChesney aud the second from John
cChesney to Mrs. Agnes NJ. Spencer, wife
OF Dewitt c. Spencer.
This week a summons and COMPLAINT In
an action entitled Sue d. Spencer against
Dewitt O. Spencer, John Chesney and
Agnes M. Spencer was served. Charles E.
Snyder OF Herkimer is Mrs. Spencer's at
torney. TITS is the remarkable story she
tells in the complaint:
Prior to Jan. ID she was the owner of a
farm OF los acres IN the village of Mohawk
worth $4,000, also personal property there
on worth $4,000 For several months prior
10 Jan. IA. Dewitt C. Spencer repeatedly
lmportuned her to deed him the farm, and
sue refused. On Jan. IA, 1898, Dewitt C..
Spencer, together with one James A. Brady
and Col. Wilson. came to her home in Mo-
hawk Dewitt G. Spencer represented
mat Brady was lawyer connected with
the district attorneys office in Cook county.
ILL.,, and that Wilson was q United States
marshal; that a warrant of arrest had been
granted by some court in Chicago for the
arrest OF MIR. and Mrs. David d. Spencer:
mat the warrant was in the possession of
Wilson. and the officers we're there for the
purpose Of taking them back to
hicsgo; that Dewitt G. Spencer told the
plaintiff and her husband that il they
would give him Geed of the farm and per-
'onal property thereon and 500 COO in cash
or bonds. he would induce Wilson and Brady
no Va khn aaIR v,rNN, h. = ~
and give them chance to escape back to
Belgium, and that Wilson and Brady agreed
10 this proposition. The complaint further
alleges that the $4,000 In stocks. securities
and cash and the farm were transferred;
that Wilson and Brady were not officers,
had no warrant in their possession, and that
no warrant or order Of arrest had been is-
'ued by any court in Chicago for the arrest
Of either the plaintiff or her husband, but
that Wilson and Brady had been hired to
come to Mohawk and personate officers by
Dewitt G. Spencer. The plaintiff demands
Judgment for the cancellation of the deeds,
return Of the bonds and securities, and $4J,
700 damages.
The complaint is not verified, but is signed
by Charles E. Snyder as attorneys. At
-ached to the complaint is an affidavit signed
oY Mr.. Snyder, which alleges that Mrs.
David d. Spencer ia now out of the state.
and that the information Of which the
complaint ia made was received by letters
rom MIR. and Mrs. David B. Springer, aud
Oy investigation in Chicago mt the district
attorneys office. The complaint also asks
That the money and securities be deposited
IN court pending the action. Dewitt G.
spencer left Mohawk this week for the
vest. IL is very doubtful if the securities
Ere ever recovered. In this village there is
very little sympathy for David u. Spencer.