New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-23
NEWS OF THE COLKlH.
c,,pr,s GETS BACK HIS PROPERTY.
WHEN IL DEBT HE HAD SIGNED IL Wv LIN
TO HIS SISTER THE MARQcish DE
TALLEYRAND-PEEIGoRD.


TO HIS SISTER THE MAHVOi""
TArLEYRAND- PEEIGoRD
4 decree has been signed BY Justice - p'iei' "
the Supreme Court. upon the report VI 0 ~ ,,.
J, rpck os referee directing Elizabeth &c LAZY
r,rd psrgord. or Bessie Marqulse de TA'.eyfa'u-
psrirord 70 turn over to her brotAcr' "'oiae
y,,bington Lewis Curtis. all his properly ""ioi
v,a decided TO her IN 1880 50 that he may De IT,
stored - the full enjoyment OF his rights
Mr. Curtis lives at Catsklll. Greene tou"';'
X Y with his Wife Fanny A. Curtis, and the'F
-, .rI-e, R,niornin Lewis Curtis, George
yy,sbine,ton Curtis AMI Elizabeth Lawrence GURUS
IIo was living at Trouvii!c NORMANDY France III
TIE cary part OF 1872 having gone there ~, ','
hse,ih His sister the Marquse de Tal.eyrahu'fvi'-
cord. has made Paris her home most OF heF me-
Curtis n his youthful days. was addicted 10 tue u"
OF intoxicating s,imu.onts. and by e"ceSSFc az
continued indulgence In .hem became at u'he'
,,c,n,cit,.oi from managing his afrlIrs. He had
good income bu, lived beyond It. ana Eha"y oc
came embarrassed by the debts when ne 'Hc"''~'
wsic in France lie hod no money villa W"c" -
pay H.. exp nses to tbs country nc was TIE
owner wi,h others Of iar;c trlct OF I-:! III O1ei
aoI Rurllnyton counties Ncw-Jersry whch re n
ncrteI from his grandfather. Joseph T. Beers anu
also the owner OF one-;we!ftn part OF 'he prop'
ertics Nos sCJ Broadway and 111 west ih'?'y
sixth-st and had snare In other real ana per
sonai property. wacn he had Inherited from Ills
grandmother. Elizabeth Ogden Giles.
He gays that falling - secure any money Win
which 10 wine out his Indebtedness. he applied ID
his aster the Marquee. who was then IN PARIS ana
was told that no money would be furnished him
unless he executed before the United states CON
sui certain paycrs which would be gent 20 MIN
Subsequently a deed sent to him from thls
civ through his sister. containing let'er sd!tuS
that arrangements had been made 10 pay MS 0ol-
gallons anl advance him {l.o0o II he executed the
paper he went 10 Havrc on January ., ISL ana
siG1ei the deed 10 the presence or John a 'IWP-
man United states Consul and ackaowedge u IN
inls cl;v on January IL He says that IN" decd was
that il merely s"t aside certain part Of n.y. IN
heriinrcc from hls grandnoiher 20 meet ms urD.s.
He &as then twenty-slx years ola. ana not IdfhinI
with Legal documents lie subsequently earned
cry - his sister In trust for him during h.s hie
and upon hls death - go to such persons rs ~
shonll dcsignitc by will g.
Curtis declares that tho signing Of this paper by
since then Mr.. CurtII bas REFORMED lie now an
stnlns fro The or intoxicating liquors. hts dcota
have al been paid. and he has married and settled
down II domestic Ne Eighteen months after he
property aal the annu.ucnt OF the deed hut MS SIS
ter declined AMI inslstci that tho court would have
70 b. Tetitcncd for that purpose AZ the tne 3r
the rcninc ~ the papor. the debts ~ Gurus
amounted 20 n l.ttle more than his income from
the cq.a'e ~ his grandmother for year.
Tho MARQUEE denied that there was any frari IN
n. slgnlng ~ the paper and declared that she act"
f. the matter for MS b"nen' and welfare She was
provided thar tho Court decided that Il was proper
10 do So Tho isaucs involved In n" action were
cont 10 Sorcrvi.lc I. Tuck as referee. and ne re-
por,oI ihat Curtis Should be restored 70 the tul
ar3-areti for Mr. curtis and Burial Hoffman rep
resented the Marquis"