The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-27
KISSED AGAINST HER WILL.
-,rcB.ReE sEN JEAS's DAUGH-
Tr0 WAKES AGAINST MR.. FINN

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cor,t in Brooklyn. yesterday placed = young
~. yo-t merchant under $500 bonds TO keep
-. pe,ce on . charge Of kissing Brooklyn
,o,ng lady against her will At her home while
+. "a. the guest of her father. The charge was
r,.s. by Miss Isabella Jean, the daughter OF
cen. Joseph Jean Of ISL wyckoff street, against
pbuin A. Finn Of Finn Brothers, dealers In
deaks and office furniture at 30 Centre street.
Ni.. Jeans STORY IL that toward the
end Of last summer Mr.. Finn began
calling at her home TO talk with her
father on business connected with an India rub
her plant in the West Indies. Hearing her sing
ing in another room one evening he asked Gen.
lean who the singer was. and was told che was
his daughter. On = succeeding visit he entered
the parior Wills she was at the piano. with her
back to the door. she says, before her father had
come in. and saying that he liked singing asked
her 10 favor him with q song. She declined, she
s.ys as he had not been introduced to her, but
As she knew him by sight as . caller upon her
father she said che would play for him. and did
40. Thereafter, Miss Jean AYERS, Mr.. Firms calls
became more frequent, and she says that in
stead Of talking business with her father he
spent as much OF the evening as he could with
her and her sisters, Misses Jeanne and Margaret
the latter being the youngest of the family,
about IA years old.
On Sept. 20 Miss Jean said. while her father
vas in another room attending her mother, who
vas sick. Mr.. Finn forcibly kissed her. notwith-
standing the protests. vocal aud physical, of
herself and her sisters, and her candid avowal
that he was repulsive to her. On Sept. %, she
..v. further. that he called again, and while she
was on the piano stool he caught her and kissed
In all occasions Of the Defendants visits the
three girls we're together. and the PLAINTIFF ais
tiers corroborated her testimony. The elder sis
one occasion when. Mr. Finn was bound TO sit
merit Isabella she tJeanne) and Margaret placed
thsmselyes on either size o, issosils and Finn m
was bound to be next Isabella anyway. Jeanne
pounded him on the back. she says but he re-
The young women give as their reason for no.
calling upon their father TO interfere that he II
an man N, OF a as Ssd Ss Known 81 III. hi ".
Gen. Jean said last night that window glass
would have presented no obstacle In the shortest
route Of exit from the parlor 70 the street for
Mr. Finn had he caught that gentleman annoy
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and wanted 20 avoid additional trouble through
s s.,s sSsr i. they MIR F 5op
what they did not know. and fear Of this was .
second reason why they kept silent;
before lawyer George 7. Elliott Of Brooklyn,
and a warrant was issued for Mr.. Firms arrest.
Yesterdays police court trial followed. Isabella
tiers bore testimony to its truthfulnsss. The
plaintiff is about ABB ~ year Old; Mr.. Finn, Who
had never laid hands on Miss Jean.
At the store Of Finn Brothers last night the
discuss the case but his brother. the senior
2. The s ef not 70
and secured Sls5 worth Of Once furniture with
rada the n
about 70 embark. Il was understood, MT
Finn whseS veS IN rnfa hs h1 Sns
credit was extended 10 him. He did not pay up.
From time TO time. on representations that ne
payment were made. until finally, some Weeks
cancel the debt. But when. they ssst for the
they sued Cen Jean and got Judgment, and the
then learned hat Mrs.. Jean owned the house. ss
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girls against Phillip Finn, who, before Gen Jean
bad 6een sned for the debt, had called several
had often seen the Misses Jean
Gen. Jean was not In court yesterday. and tes-
FINN sresesrs wa. M not admisssd. His asueh ugh
tsrs say he WAS kept away because Of his violent
Gen. Jean claims flustrious descent.which hs
traces for two centuries through men distin-
guished in war and diplomacy. He says In
answer 70 . suggestion of Mr.. Firms that an
husband for Jeanne. that were Mr.. Finn many
times . millionaire the Jean family would not
regard him a. candidate for coachman-