New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-11
MRS. DAYS COSTLY DEALS.
SHE ALLEGES THAT sHE WAS DEFRAoD
ED OUT OF ALL HER PROPERTY
SUIT BROUGHT TO RECOVER s7o,ooo-sHE "Ao DN'
LrpED SHE DECLARES, BY THE CLOWN"
DESCRIPTIONS OF HER FRIENDS.
WHOM SHE CHARGES WITH

WHOM SHE CHARGES WITH
CONSPIRACY
,,rs O,,ve Day owned some real estate III
RrookIvn and had little experience In the neid VI
SPECULATION. Now she AYERS. some one else hoiu'
the title her property and she mas experience
enough Yesterday afternoon Justice van "ycA
dismissed her motion to make David Nanderga"'
Edward F. Stafford and Henry S. Ritter parties de-
PENDANT in the suits which Mrs. Day has institu'ed
against William y. Wolfe to recover $4,000 alleged
damages Mrs Day alleges that she was the owner
OF two valuable plots of land In brooklyn. Mr.
Ritter her personal friend she says, ana
man in whom she had great confidence Then she
goes to tell this story: On January ], 1897
Wolfe was introduced to her by Ritter as a real
estate broker He had certain bonds OF the Scotch
Coal. Iron and Railroad Company which. he sad.
had large holdings in West Virginia They were
$1,000 bonds and as the company was such prom
Using they easily dsposable at at least
per cent above par. Some had been sold In the
West. and there parties in Chicago who
were anxious to snap them UP. But Mr.. Wolfe
liked Mrs. Days land, and willing to exchange
the bonds
Mrs. Day says Ritter was present during this
interesting interview. and declared to her that
Wolfe was stating the truth and knew good
thing in bonds when he saw IT, So Mrs Day
says she went 10 the office OF Wharton, Greene &
Stafford. at Wolfe's request, and was there IN
ABOVE par, and that they very valuable
curlties On March g. 1892 Mrs Day bought
elshteei or the bonds, which Wolfe declared were
worm s-orp at least. and for them she decided
over one parcel OF her real estate in Brookyn
but that was not the end of Mrs DAYS financial
uLHStctlons with the defendant. She saws that The
urieh1nnt was so pleased with the first deal that he
sllhc 10 heF again with another golden chance This
iihc there was a valuable tract of timber land i'm
Johnson County. Ky. 20OGD acres of H. which
youd pe had for Mrs. Days second parcel of Brook
iHh reaI estate. and the eighteen 81 900 bonds which
si" idd previously purchased She saws she was
,oI1 mat The Kentucky land was owned by Isaac NJ
i,dtha"@y, OF Now ork. She SAYS Wolfe told her
mat mere was timber on the land alone worth from
S-1V 10 - an acre, and then there was an English
syh1icate seeking to buy the land. She saws Wolfe
toid her the syndicate had made an offer Of 81 an
acre for the property " ~ " 80 OH
Mrs Day, trusting to Mr. Wolfe's friendship for
ner, let MN attend TO the transfer Now she al
lees on information and belief that Van
Defgiaw, Wolfe. Edward f. Stafford Henry
,, Rltter, Joseph u. Greene and BENJAMIN
4; rowland consplred TO cheat and defraud her out
ol her property She declares that the 81 600 bonds
were NOT worth more than s. each, that they have
no market value at all. Then there Is Mr. Hatha
way with ms u,0gl acres of land in Kentucky she
styS she cannot even find Hathaway TO saw nothing
~ ~. MS ANA ana as for the English syndicate Mr.
wore mas refused any inforns ton on thar score
anu Whon she called on him TO find on, tho name
., some OF the people Interested she was assaulted
Ior the frst cause she asks for s25 OoD damagea
ana Tor the second $4,000