Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1895-06-15

day but were prevented from taking any
OF their personal effects by the attachment
served on them by DR. Wellos. They will
consequently remain until the matter is
settled, Deputy Sheriff Fitch occupying
chair noantimo IN tho front entrance Of
the house to sea that nothing Is carried
thorefrom.
Mrs, Martin positively refused to talk
about the affair. She snid that tho case
was In tho hands Of her attorney, Tread
we'll Cleveland, 80 Wall street. and that
anything concerning tho mattor must
como from him. Mr.. Cleveland said that
he did not know whether the oase was in
his hands or nok Ho had heard nothing
about it.
sued by the Weileses.
DIR, Wolles was equally rotioent. He said
that he could not talk on tho subject
much as he should ilko 10 do SO. u have
been hurt enough now IN my practice by
being connected with this family" ho
said. " I cannot allow myself to appear in
print in this affair. Sec my attorney, Mr.
Henry DAILY, Jr. ~
From Mr. DAILY IL was learned that Dr.
Weiles had married niuco of Mrs Martin
IN February, 1893, he was engaged by
Mrs. Martin TO manage thotinAiness end
Of The Humanitarian nt q salary Of &115
a month. Up TO March, 1895, he had re-
ceivod only 1915, and u Is for tho balance
Of s2 roo that he brings suit.
According TO Mr. DAILY tho Nelloses and
Mrs. Martin and daughter took the house
at 302 West Seventy second street last No
vemhor, with tho intention OF running
literary salon and a first GLASS boarding
house.
Scarcely had they got settled there when
Mrs. Martin decided that the furniture of
tho Welleses did not harmonizo with tho
interior ilnishings, and sho ordered It TAX
On out and given away Mrs. Welles
meekly complied with the order on being
promised that It would bo replaced with
furniture more suitable.
Next Mrs Woodhull- Martin Mr.. DAILY
says, decided that the personal effects Of
Mrs. Wellos, dresses, wraps. hats hrio-a-
brac, and oven the doll babies and toys OF
the Wolles children, were surrounded by
curse.
Sho said that they must be burned, but
Mrs Welles objected on tho ground that
many Of the things were dear to her as
keepsakos, being presents from her reln-
tivesi some Of whom were dead. Mrs.
Woodruff. Martin carried tho day, how
over, as well as several dozen armfuls Of
clothing which she threw into the fur
mace while tho ianitor and servants stood
around and wopt as they thought Of the
tise thoy might make Of tho articles II al
lowed to have them.
Burned Household Effects.
When Mrs. Martin had almost reached
the end Of the Welles household effects, 1t
is alleged, she espied a trunk in one COR
nor Of the room and proceeded to have
that follow the other goods Here says
Mr.. DAILY Mrs. Welles entered a serious
protest. She said that it contained only
sOmo photographs ana small presents
which could mover be replaced. But Mrs.
Woodhull-Martin was thoroughly warmed
up to her work. and breaking open the
trunk. proceeded to examine its contents.
Suddeny sho ceased hor work and held up
a photograph.
1t was a likeness Of Colonel Blood. her
former husband, who Is said to have died
IN South Africa some time before she mar
ried Banker Martin. She stopped her
work and burned no more Mrs Wolles
says, because she had got what she sought. /
Mrs. Welles also goes SO far as TO say,
through Mr.. DAILY, that the finding Of that
photograph was the object Mrs. Martin
had in buraing her effects, and that the
story Of the curse on the goods was only
an excuse In hOr petition she alleges that
Mrs. Martins promised restitution was
mover made and she asks for So, 500 to COW
or tho value Of the goods destroyed. The
case will come up for hearing before JUS /
tice O'Gorman in the Eleventh district
court Thursday next.
Dr. Welles is the son Of Henry s Welles,
a contractor, living in Eighty-third street,
who built the Brooklyn waterworks DIR.
Welles has been somewhat prominent In
political life having acted as secretary OF
legation in London.
Mrs Victoria Woodruff Martin has ap-
peared prominently before the public in
this country and England for the past 30
years. She was born in central Ohio, but
married early and came TO New York with
her sister, then Miss Tennie Claflin, in
the latter part of the sixties. In 1870, un-
der the style of Woodhull, Clahin g. Co.,
thoy opened brokerage Office in Wall
street and did thriving business. or late
years the sisters have been spending most
u their time abroad, whore both found
homes and husbands