New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-26
STORIES OF HETTY GREEN.
HOW SHE SPENT HER CHRISTMAS.
INSTANCES OF HER BUSINESS sHREwDNEss AND
OF HER GoODHEARTEDNEss-How AN
UNsCRUPULOUs LAWYER GOT
MONEY CIT OF HER
MONEY CUT OF HER.


UNscRupuLoUs LAWYER GOT
MONEY CUT OF HER.
Mrs IIe.ty Rowland Robinson Green spent
rather dismal Christmas yesterday at the ST. George
Hote,. in Brooklyn. whore sh. has been staying
for the last few weeks. She would not see re-
| por;ers and would not answer Merry Christ
mas greetings sent to her In notes asking
about her state Of mind Upstairs in her modest
| room she looked a memorandum OF inter
est-tcarlng mortgages duo on January |. and from
! another memorandum she took mental note Of a
10; OF coupons ready be clipped on the first day OF
1875. ard altogether put in good days work, al
| though 1t Christmas. she found that Santa
Claus would January place 20 her credit In
banks and trust companies In thi- city and Chicago
about 5000 900. and this IA only part Of what
she will get during 1875 she went to bed happy In
! the consciousness that the wof would be kept
/ from the door another year at least
! \ messenger brought word from her that William
| G. Staytcn. OF the firm o; Burnett Hagen II stay
ton had no authority TO speak for her In regard 10
the proceedings before Henry H. Anderson as req
cree to compel the trustees to make IN accounting
and settlement of the estate OF her father. EDWARD
! Mott Robinson
/ When Mr. S.ayton saw the statement last night
he said: That is true. ! am not Mrs Green y
lawyer. aIn her husbands lawyer. He is one OF
| the trustees OF the Robinson estate
"Who is Mrs. Green's lawyer?
Nathan Blur / think At any rate. he Is the
! lawyer OF record at present. When the case comes
to trial. in April probably, 1t is likely that eN-
| Surrogate Rollins Elhu Root may be secured
to argue the case. Mrs Green has seen MI. hoot
! In regard to the matter. AS counsel. however Tor
! Mr. Green who as a contestng trustee. Is OPP
posed TO the administration OF Edward d. Mandeh
| and Henry A. Barring, the other two trustees
have fun knowledge of all that has occurred ana
! am in frequent consultation with Mrs. Green Sho
wants IT understood that | am Mr. Green's law
Iffr,C hrno
/ that there can he question as TO who pays me
hill FOR my LEGAL services. Hum!-well Mrs Green
! is a pretty bright woman. In regard to the state
ment issued by Evarts. Choate Beaman, VIII
! say this: MIR Darling. as the surviving executor or
| the Robinson estate has admitted be- ore the reg
cree that he has taken $1,000 % the funds OF the
! estate without warrant. and that mis- bookkeeping
! v-as intended to cover up this deficiency. He ac-
! knowledecs that he the estate that much
and that he must pay 1t back. but he is not tax
/ ing any steps 10 pay IT back. This Is cfaised
! specifically AGAINST Mr. Darling. and 1T is a fact
II seems 20 me that the denial by Eyarts. choa'e
& i,ean.au is entirely too broad In Its character IN
view o. This fact
"A,o,her thing and Is that under NJ. BarlIng's
| administration AS executor Il has cost him over
siooeo 20 collect about 10000 Of accounts sup
,.os.d 10 have been good could cite other specific
| instances OF questionable transactions. many or
which have already been admitted during the hear
ings before the referee Mr.. Barlins IS welcome 10
,ne onlnlon that Mrs Green is crazy Sac is the
brightest woman hnancier IN this country to-day.
| and her ne will bear me out In the claim
Has she any real reason for believing mat her
| lfe IS In danger from conspirators ana that her
! father was foully dealt with
She has reason for believing that the Will or
her aunt Sylvia Ann Rowland. was jugsed WIN
! and that she thereby dcfrauded out o; hall OF
the s2.Jp0u estate. II was just as much ot sur
/ prise 20 Sew Bedford people when they heari
M hai left hal her
an unknown doctor and lawyer and for various pub
! lie purposes a IL would be To New-fork cry
people t. nnd after Hetty Green has gone to her
reward that she had bequeathed talf her estate to
Tammany Hail Richard Croker. 1t is com
! mon talk among the older citizens of NeS-Bed'ord
| % this day that her will was jugglei With.
'Ileiiy Green Is the most arcciOnate and ten
| der hearicd woman I ever knew said Mr.. stay
ton Il won't except my own mother. She would do
anything ,or her children. Edward and sylvia Last
summer II gentleman living on Ffth-ave, whose
house "a. morgagei 10 Mrs. Green for 10000. Of
,er,i 20 sell the property her for $4,000 Hetty
Green offered 10 buy II Tor Sylvia and grl cousin
OF Syiva's n they would live In II. Sylvia wouldn't
do unless her mother consented 70 live with them
! which Mrs Green would 10 DO as she
wants 20 BE- free 20 come ami 90 when she sees IT.
! The son Edward f. a whJle-soulcd fellow. and the
/ IDEAL %, his mothers hcar,. The two children own
Ncopn or $4,000 apiece In their own right but
Mrs Green IL continually dong something FOR
! them"
Some new stories Of Mrs Green's shrewdness
came t. l!sht y.rterday. Her son Edward owns
and manages railroad about 2o miles In length
running iato waco. Texas The railroad runs
years Mr. Green mad been subjected 10 petty law
suits on ihr part 81 pGor h"sns ct.sG N,'Jn NJ
cheaper TO pay for cattle killed than 20 fence n
the track Cattle really worth only about 81
a head on The plains 81 Texas. but whenever the
railroad was sued tor k y. s,9'N' the company
"A year ago last summer a drover got into deep
water financially AMI offered 10 sen ms ehure
| herd 10 tho COMPANY Mr. Green bought H. 1t
VA a, ths timr That Mrs. Green was in Texas.
@H4 ~rnsd from hy son I i SuFn PING the LOCK
! The cattle then turned loose on IN" ran
roads land and allowed To multiply. While Mr.:
| Green was ~ Waco. "A man who had had II beef
Killed by one Of NJ Green's locomotives threat
"I'et me nv IT," said Mrs. Green. when she heard
OF H. and. taking the complainant on, TO her sons
! me man i'iu -, IAN Waco JeIIshted This custom
| time trouble. lawsuits and legal expenses to the
Repairs were being made a year ago on one OF
Mrs. Gre,ns 6uildinss IN nroadst2 III d tns ', n
| In his time. one morning a painter was five
You're around pretty early. amt YOU Mrs.
you're Just right m around e1 "I , she re-
didn't wa:ch you al! the time y9H soon ,,,, be own
Ing this b9nF anG a be afi SI"E ha1 ' painting
4 tricky lawyer wors!rl her last summer. In
company with MIS- Green "'4sp "a" ycl ne .ai',
| on her AZ the Chemical Bank Her Chicago lawyer
| vas i'm Ia consult her about an important lawsuit
The New York lawyer asked the privilege OF Dor
| rowing some " the papers in The case claiming to
| have a case on hand similar TO IT, Mrs Green lent
lin Tho desired papers with the written stipulation
ih,, he vas in 10 way 10 consider himself her law
| YER This was agreed upon Then. through the
! chicago LAWYER who thought his New York friend
| All right the latter kept Informed OF Mrs
| Green's movements. one day. as she was about To
| leave her boarding house in Brooklyn for Chicago
| on important business the lawyer appeared with II
bill Tor 81 900 for legal services.
| IL don't cent, Sald fiettS.
PAY H. or I'll get out n writ preventing you from
| len wing the State" said the lawyer.
| She thought of her Chicago mortgages. "I'll give
Won 500 To let me co." said she. The offer
! ccptei and shc got receipt In full Tor all legal
| services
| The lughablc thing about this lawyer was that
ne actually had the aulacity 10 do the same thing
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