The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-01
AFTER A Big ESTATE
A Newark Man Claims to
Be the Grandson of
Jeremiah Healy.
THE CLAIMANT CALLED A FRAUD
BE Says He Can Prove His Case
and Will Fight for His
Rights.

PIX ES.
AS in the famous English Tichborne
case. there has just appeared a claimant
to the large estate of the late Jeremiah
Healy of this city. Newark is also in
terested In it because the claimant in
what will become a famous case, is en-
ployed in that city. and lives in Irving
ton. He is jeremiah Healy. third, is
twenty-fcur years old, and expects to
prove that he is a son of Jeremiah Healy.
Jr., and a grandson of jeremiah Healy.
deceased. His reason for this Is not that
he expects to come INTO the estate, or
any part of 1t at once, but that he may
obtain a recognized legal status and be
in line for what he asserts will be but
his just due at the demise Of Mrs. Jere-
miah Healy. The latter lives in this city,
and to refer to her simply as the widow
Healy" would lead to confusion, for
there is, according to evidence to be pro-
duced in court before long, another Wild
ow Efealy"-the mother of Jeremiah
Heaiy, third, and wlre of jeremiah
Healy. Jr.. who like the original Jere-
mia Healy of this interesting tale is
dead. Upon his ability to prove beyond
question the legitimate existence of this
second widow Healy' rests the sue
cess of the claim of the young man who
will go down in history as the Healy
claimant.
RESORTS TO THE COURT.
The claimant has engaged Lawyer John
Whitehead of Newark and of Norris
town. to look out for his interests and
will push his claim to the fullest ex-
tent. although until Friday neither he
nor his attorney had reason to believe
that he would ho dnniaJ aoo-a;+i.n
by having his. very birthright questioned.
Just why he has not until the past week
aiken steps which would have enabled
MIN to learn this and to put himself
mo possession of a large estate is ex-
Planned IN only one way when the Ques-
ton is asked.
There are reasons good and sufH-
nothing could be obtained yesterday from
those who know. However. young Healy
determines some time g to go into
is alive in order to avoid the possibility
Of long. tedious and costly litigation
a wae n her death There was only one
that Mrs. Jeremiah Healy be required
TO render an accounting of her huS-
bands estate. OF which she. is the sole
Ior there mas never been such an ac-
counting. There has never been even
m Mr. i%nvfHn as1yy f, hes for the estate, although
complainant. So, q behalf of young
Heaiyi LAWYER whitehead appeared in
Friday and made application for an or
der compelling Mrs. Healy to account
Tor everything she has done in all those
removal as e~xecutrix. Right there came
q strong intimation of a bitter legal
nght; for Mrs. Healy entered an answer
or plea through her legal representative
denying the right of the claimant to call
her to an accounting.
LA Az 4bs WHITEHEAD SURPRISED.
the ground upon which she opposed the
Demand OF his client was that he is not
her grandson.
jeremiah Healy, third, of being a fraud,
ana this, with the unexpected appear
anee OF some one to disturb Mrs. Heal
estate as she might see fit. likens t
unto the Ttchborne case. Young Heal
ey,s pretensions she denies from start to
son, jeremiah Healy, Jr., died without
issue, and still further declares that he
was never married.
course, be u~nravelled and satisfactorily
settled Immediately, so after the simple
proceeding of making the application
and receiving the answering plea. the
matter came to a temporary ~standstill.
The next move will be for the Court to
and AK g Il Mas = sa slae Yesterday aas hgart thst e the ease
would likely be heard during the August
sitting of the court
Not only is Jeremiah Healy, third.
compelled by the peculiar situation in
which he finds himself to establish his
identity, bit his mothers marriaga to
5 9ion. and H ass is an asg i e thersa into A ausz5
or not, she'll have to prove it before
her son can prove his case. and not until
matter of his application as against the
original widow HeaIy,' come up.
A MAYNARD
it seems hat while q resident Of Jersey
City Jeremiah Healy amasSed consider
able wealth. He invested his money
IN iaf ISIS lett e 1 : great aia deal lea o Of i Mnaa as and
unimproved land in New York and Jer-
ssy city gyr.o besides a g verse Il estate taIee Of v no
then or is now Could not be learned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Healy had one son, Jere-
miah Heaiy. Jr He got into bad com,
other vicious habits, the story goes, be-
came estranged from, his parents to such
an extent, that they had little or nothing
this period. it is claimed, he married La
vinia Vreeland in Jersey City, in 1856,
aSoHt t Hie WEE yaars was seaor mere eis ehild }at be /
only fourteen years and six months old,
but they lived happily. and three child
rem were born to them. two of which
Although their relations had long been
strained. the elder Healy did not cut
off ths son when hr ne ma died; he left q VIII;
moderate requests to brothers, sisters
and other relatives; he provided that aft
q aer life faei interest erssi's IN ali that remained Of
his real and personal estate. Out of 1t
he also provided their son was to receive
If he survived Mrs. Healy be or his issue,
IL he had any. was to receive the entire
estate in fee simple.
Altar his fathers death he had. 1t