Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-11
SHE STILL HOLDS THE FORT.
Philip Miller and His Second Wife Kept
Out by His Daughter.
Doors and Windows Barred Mrs.
Grebsch Threatens to Kill Unless
She Gets Justics-The Outcome
of Pinochle Games With q Wild
ow as Partner-Stories Told by
the Principals in the Dispute.

the Principals in the Dispute.
New York, December 10.-"I have
married Mr.. Miller. | love my hus-
band, and | propose to be first in his
house, as | am first in his heart" So
said Mrs. Philip Miller, who was until
recently the Widow Moninger, of Hol-
lis, l.. 1.
Il have married Mrs Moninger
love her. She must be supreme in my
house. | want my house, and my
daughter must get out" Thus says
wealthy Philip Miller, of Hollis, l.. /.
My father had a perfect right to
marry, and Mrs. Moninger, that was,
is fine woman. But now he is mar
rled, he says TO me, Get out of here.
Go down and live in the school house.
have declared III kill them both be-
fore | get cut of here. or unless |
have justice" So said Mrs. Elizabeth
Grebach, the daughter Of Philip Mhler.
of Hollis, l.. |.
Mr. Miller is white-h haired, weighs
264 pounds, and is believed to be worth
100000. His first wife died about
three years ago. The Miller place is
one of the finest in that part of Long
Island. Now Miller has a passion for
pinochle. The first Mrs. Miller would
MT have cards in the house, so he
played at the Goetz House, kept by the
husband Of one of his daughters. He
kept this up after his wife's death.
Among Mr.. GCetZ's friends was Mrs.
Moninger, a handsome, smart widow,
who owned her home near the hotel,
and in summer usually had a few
boarders. In the winter, with only
pretty 16yearold daughter, she was
lonely. So when Mrs. G0etz formed a
pinochle club of six couples Miller and
the handsome widow were cast as part
ners. They played three nights week
and before the season ended Miller was
the widows pinochle prize. Pinochle
partners for season became partners
for life.
But he and his wife cannot get into
his home, and are forced TO live in the
new Mrs. Miller's house. And all be-
cause his daughter, Mrs. Grebach. holds
the fort and refuses TO leave the house.
She has moved her bed down TO the
first floor, 80 she may not be sur
prised. She lives in two rooms in the
basement of the big twenty room man
sion. She has the keys OF all the
doors, which are locked and bolted,
and every window is securely barred.
Mrs. Grebsch is of good heighth and
fair looking. This is the story she told
yesterday: When my mother and faith
er came here my husband had deserted
me. Father had paid for my studies
as a nurse, but he mad mother prevailed
on me to give up my profession and
live with them. When my mother died
it was agreed between my father and
me that / should care for him as long
as he lived, and be well provided for at
his death.
81 have no objection to his new wife.
She Is fine woman, and has property
Of her own. After they came back from
their wedding trip he came over here
| and said: Get out. Go live down in
the school house. | won't have you
here Before he married he said he
would buy me little house up the road
here and help me to start again. That
is all | ask. But when he got back he
had changed. The school house Is
little country school building he bought
and divided into six rooms. It's no
place for me, and he knows it,
when ! didn't get out my father
took all the live stock away, and the
chickens, the vegetables. fruit and
everything | and my three children
could live on. Then he took away the
big mastiff But had the shotgun and
vowed I'd dispose Of them both before
I'd get out After the case was adj
journed Tuesday he came over here,
tainted me and then took away the
gun. He hasn't paid me anything all
these years, and he refuses to pay back
S125 he borrowed from me. | want
only justice, and / will have IT,"
When her father was seen he said:
"All this trouble has come about
through my daughters obstinacy but
I'm going to have my home. I've sup
ported her and her children for years.
told her she could live in the school
house. rent free for year, and I'd give
her enough to live on, but she came
down here and demanded new house
and $4,000. It's not her doings. ! be-
lieye she's been put up TO it by man
who thinks he can make me give up
some money"
i've nothing against the woman"
| said Mrs. Miller, ''but | propose TO be
the mistress Of my own house and man
age it to suit myself. She is misguided
and / hope she will come TO her reason
and agree with her fathers arrange
ments."