New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-14
TNHUMANITY OF A SISTER.
MARY MERRITTs TREATMENT OF MRS.
KIMBALL.
THEIR BROTHER CHARLES sUBsTANTIATEs THE
STORIES PUBLISHED ABOUT THE HAS

r,rrp nRoTuER CHARLES sUBsTANTIATEs THE
STORIES PUBLISHED ABOUT THE HAS
BRoUCK HEIGHTS CASE.
Charles Merritt. brother of the woman who has
been 60 cruelty imprisoned by her sister Mary Mer-
rift in q house at Hasbrouck Heights, ~ j. Tor
more than a year. seen by Tribune rePoi'e'
at the office of his attorney, John Herbert "i"a'''
at No so Broadway, yesterday. where ne hau sohe
TO sign papers in an action he mas oegui' "s"n',
his sister Mary for misrepresentation OF money anu
property belonging to their mother lie re'te'a'e.
tbe facts as contained in yesterdays Tribune. ana
added several details to the story already pupnsu
Mr. Merritt said: For several years my sister
Mary has kept our mother away from INC '
her children and | have not been abe 10 see "0'
more than twice in nearly two years, thousn nov,
tried very many times to do so. When "ouu
call NJ her house she would tell me that -Mo'her
is not in or has gone 10 the city, or give some
other excuse vet did not expect that any thihg was
wrong. +,
.When nv sister Mrs. Kmball came to me IN
November 1898, and told me that she was 80 poo'
,ba, she had TO go out to work. and that her nus
band had been taken sick and had gone Ho''e ~
his people, l gave her what money couiu Sp'ie
and sent her to see mother al Hasorou'K
Heights When her husband died. some few DAYS
afterward | heard from his people that she ha h
nnt returned and Immediately instituted a search
for her which lasted many months' Witiour W, w.
Inc a single cIew visited my sister Mary; ana she
told me that Mrs Kmba had returned TO NeIl'1 ~
md that she did not want to see me arouiiu nci
house again You can therefore imagine my sur
nrisa when | received message from Joseph ~.
Scharf superintendent of the Metopontdh i,Vp"i
ment Of the Fidelity and Casually company, vi
This citv who lives at Hasbrouck Heights TO come
out and take of my sister Mrs kimnali,, VINO f
was In n terrible condition. | was duHIouhueu' lo'
| had long since given her up as dead 49,,
''When | got ont there | scarcely knew heI' sne
had received such awful treatment ana thal', zoo
t Tho hands of her sister, she told me- anu 'H'
foardsr John Van Ordcn. | immedi uely TOOK Ca'e
of her and will that the guilty persons arc
punished they deserve. 80 =, ..,h 60
''The property which my father left Is worm TO, To-
day more than $4,000 yet Mary induced our mother
To sell IL in 1891 for $1,000. - &c H.,
Mr. Scharn was at his office. No. lfo hrodi-
wav and substantiated the statement mace ny
Mr. Merritt He described the CONDITION or MIS-.
Kimball when she escaped from her SISTER rome
as pitiable. "She almost without cothing
said Mr.. Scharff. having upon her ohiy d tnil.
ragged skirt and sacQue. and no nat, SHOES OF
stockings Her body and limbs were covered Win
bruises and she was weak from hunger and ex-
posure and almost frozen. My house adJoins IN"
Merritt house and yet neither ! nor any OF tie
other neghbors have ever seen Mrs hihiDali ou'-
side of the house 49, 49,,
Frequently during the last year We nave ,hcafn
loud and az 1nizng shries proceeding from the mouse
but have always supposed that Mary MeIrltt anu
her mother having quarrel People IN me
in the habit Of displaying. as signal a white
napkin In one OF the windows of her house; wheTe-
upon John Van Orden. who was az worF. rs II
carpentcr on a nearby house would inlmcdlhleiN
return home. Mrs Kimhall has informed US since
her escape that this signal was displayed by Mary
Merritt whenever she was about 10 beat her. ahu
that John Van Orlen came in and assisted her