The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-05
SAYS IT'S "A SCHEME
Sister Rose Grants Brother
Resists Her Suit
for 500.
BEARING IN NEWARK TODAY
Family Skeleton Exposed and the
Case Will Go Before
the Grand Jury.
HEARING IN NEWARK TODAY
Special to the jersey CITY Ns,us.

| morning against her brother, jerome, and
during the hearing of which there was am
exhibition Of skeletons of the Grant fam
NY, and amy amount of tall lying, which
will send the case to the Essex County
Grand Jury, and end in the indictment of
one member of the family for perjury.
The case, in a rautshell, is that Miss
Grant says her brother owes her $1oo, and
he says she is practising a scheme to
swindle him out of a piece of property.
He also charges Ithat her father and moth
er are backing her UP in the enterprise.
| Some time ago Miss Rosalie Grant,
or Sister Rose, as SHE prefers to be call
| ed, occupied a great deal of proInin-
ence in the public eye. Bishop w. M.
W6gger once warned the clergy and latty
of his diocese against her, which warm
| ing was publicly read in the churches of
Jersey City at the time, and denounced
her for collecting money from local trad
esrnen, and posing as a religieuse, whose
galsb she wore. She belonged to no relf-
gious order, said the Bishop, and her in
stitution was not countenanced by the
church. Because Miss Gram. defied the
Bishop she was excommuntcated.
MISS CTdIlt I6Xl dppeddc1 pClOlS eAiS
public when a half-witted boy, who had
been i'll treated. in her institution, escaped
one night in December last. naked, and
sought the shelter of neighbor The
peculiar methods adopted in the ''Home of
Our Lady of Perpetual Help" were at the
time fully and exclusively ventilated in
widespread attention.
lattering to Miss Grant, who made out
a strong case against her brother, a
tailor of New street, Newark. jerome,
| as he is called, borrowed in April, 1894.
$1o0 from her to start him in a tailor's
shop. He gave her no receipt, but in
January last he gave her the deed of a
lot in Newark and told her he would
transfer it to her In consideration of the
hundred dollars. He afterwards refused
to transfer the property, and she was
obliged to sue him for it. All this she
told when she took the stand in
the Second District Court, before
Judge Guild She was dressed in the
semi-religieuse garb which brought forth
Bishop Wigger's denunciation, and glazed
at her brother Her father and mother
were with her, and between these and the
d.
blance to his distinguished sister, there
was a lively exchange of scornful and
annihflating glan'ces. Guided by her
counsel, Mr.. c. Bried, she told the above
story of the loan, and then her brothers
| lawyer, Mr. T. J. Butler, began to cross
examine. His first question touched
tender spot in the witnesses memory
'.Are you a religieuse?" asked the law
yer.
Miss Grants eyes snapped with anger,
and she was about to answer when her
counsel objected that it was irrelevant,
and the Court sustained him. Lawyer
Butler started on a fresh tack with this
question:
"Where did you get the $1OO you say
you loaned your brother?'
Nov, object" interrupted Counsellor
18ried, ''wllat has this to do with lit, your
I5onor?"
"I don't see myself" replied Judge
Guild
WELL" the defendants lawyer said.
supposing this money which the Sister,
/ beg pardon, Miss Grant. says she gave
her brother was collected by her for an
institution, would she be the proper par
~ to bring suit?''
Judge Guild seid the question was i'm
proper and the lawyer began again and
made the plaintiff go over her story,
which she did in clear and unvarnished
manner.
Jerome Grant, the brother, was then
called, and he simply intimated in his
opening statement that Sister Rose
had used the truth with penurious fru-
gality. He never at any time borrowed
a cent from her and knew nothing about
the money until the summons in the
present case was served. When he said
this he looked at his sister with an how
are-you-tell-such-s -stories look, which had
no effect on Miss Grant. It had though,
on Mrs Hannah Grant, the mother of
| the lftigantS, and she in stage whisper
said, ooh, you bad boy
When Lawyer Brfed finished cross
examining Jerome looked as if he had
been in the steam room of Turkish
bath. The searching questions Of the
lawyer brought out equivocal answers.
Jerome's account Of the s1oO he put into
his business in 1894 was not satisfactory
to the Court. who took a hand in the
probing operation with equal failure to
elicit a clear answer Then as to the Civ
ing of the deeds to his sister he said that
he told his sister he wanted to transfer
I.that lot to his wife and she said she
knew a Jersey City lawyer who would
do 1t for fifty cents.
C1Gdp INV that, HuILGru the Court.
well, what did this fifty-cent Jersey
City lawyer do?" asked Mr. Bried with
a smile. Miss Grant whispered to her
counsel and he resumed: II find it was
not a Jersey City lawyer, but a little
Justice of the Peace"
HE told my sister that because the
property was In Essex county no Jersey
City lawyer could make out a deed for
it, 1t must be an Essex cognty lawyer,
because the property was in Essex
county, was Jerome's reply, and the
gsazyp of lawyers In Court laughed i'm
moSESrately at this Solon's advice.
This wonderful Jersey City Justice Of
the Peace said that: did he? But of
course, your Honor, one can't expect
much from a Justice of the Peace said
Lawyer Bried, chuckling, and then asked
Jerome what he did next.
Finding IT would not be transferred
in Jersey City, wrote to my sister, ask
| Ing her to return the deed, but she
wouldn't. She was anxious to prevent
my wife getting her property and to get
| her claws on 1t for herself. = was Jerome S
reply, and the glance shot at him by
his sister at this was simply indescriba-
BILE
Mrs. Hannah Grant. the mother, was
then called and she said sheswas present
when her SON Jerome offered to his Sis.
T ter the lot In consideration OF her kind
ness to him 1f not pushing her for the
loan.