Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-01-30
From Defiance Republican,
ANNEKE JAMS ESTATE.
A SNARE AND DELUSION-A A
RAINBOW THAT SHOULD
BE BLOTTED OUT.
No Printed Record on File.

Some time ago the publisher of the
Daily Republican wrote to Alfred
Wagstaff, clerk of the supreme court
of New York, regarding the records
in the Anneke JAMS case which called
out the following reply:
NEW. YORK, Jan. 90, 1896.
Q. j. THOMPSON, ESQ.
MY DEAR SIR:--There is no print
ed record of the Anneke Jams case
anywhere to my knowledge. [ send
you clipping from the New York
Evening Post that may be of some
use to you.
Very truly yours,
ALFRED WAGsTAFF.
The clipping referred to in the
above letter was first, a dispatch
from Cleveland, Ohio. which appear
ed in the New York Post under date
of January %. The dispatch was as
follows:
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 22.-Mrs. E.
Keppler, the secretary of the Anneke
Jams International Union, has called
a meeting to be held February A, at
the headquarters, No. 618 Jennings
avenue, in this city. All associations
of claimants against the Trinity
church corporation, New York, are
requested to send delegates to this
convention. The object of the meet
ing is to consolidate all organizations
and perfect plans for immediate legal
action, as a recent law passed In
New York is considered as favorable
to the issue.
When the Post received the aboya
telegram it made an Investigation
and what = ~ learned bn the subject is
embodied in the following, which
was a part of the clipping forwarded
by clerk Wagstaff:
When Stephen P. Nash, attorney
for the Trinity church corporation,
was shown the above despatch to-
day, he said: There are numerous
associations in various parts of the
country organized for the purpose of
seeking contributions or selling
shares or in some way obtaining
money. The corporation of Trinity
church five years ago found it neces-
sary to issue the following warning:
TO AW Whom 1t May Concern
As EsJers are being constantly re-
ceived from various places in the
United States making inquiries about
supposed suits pending against this
corporation in respect to it's property,
or about negotiations assumed to be
on foot in respect to the alleged
claims of the descendants of Anneke
Jams or of other persons notice is here
by given that no such suits are pend
ing and no such negotiations are GO
ing on, and all persons who suppose
themselves to be descendants of
Anneke Jams, or otherwise interested
in claims hostile to the title of this
corporation, are cautioned against
paying out money to any person al
leging the tendency of such suits or
negotiations.
MORGAN DIX, Rector.
IS, V. r. CRUGER, Comptroller.
STEPHEN P. NASH, Warden.
This circular is equally trueto.day,
and the committee was recently
authorized to reissue it in case they
thought best.
Mr.. Nash said that he has a mass
of documents relatingto those swind-
ling associations, and that only the
other day he received q call from q
man who had been led to subscribe
800 for a share in one of them. The
same scheme has been used for years
in England to get money on the basis
of suits alleged to be pending in the
Court of Chancery."
While the facts embodied in the
above may not be cheering to the
heirs of the alleged Anneke Jams
estate, it looks like pretty conclusive
evidence that the estate is q myth.
About twenty years ago the question
of this alleged estate was discussed
just as it has been the past two
months and it ended just as the pre-
gent discussion is ending. 1t is a
snare and delusion-a rainbow that
were better blotted out for all time.
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE CASE.
DECATUR, MICH, Jan. 27.-The
Michigan heirs to the Anneke Jams
estate in New York city, are just now
in great glee over the discovery by
E. e. Shoudy, one of the heirs living
] in this county, of Holland Bible $50
years old, which contains the lacking
data necessary to substantiate their
claims.
The so Michigan heirs are instruct
ed by their eastern attorneys to i'm.
mediatly file theirs claims. as the
present holders of the property are
making advances toward comprom
Use, and express q willingness to set
tie upon liberal terms.