Evening journal., 1897-09-08
UGDEN'S VERSION.
Has Now Obtained a Writ of
Habeas Corpus.
POSITION is QUITE INTERESTING.
'iewing the Stories In Connection With
be Younger vanderbiIts Engagement
to Miss Wilson, He Narrates His
Share In It's Episodes.

ew York. Sept. S.-Because the
nd jury has not yet filed an indlct-
Pit againsthim Albert V. Sugden. the
ct, who when arrested admitted
ndering the mansion Of r. T. VIII
the banker, on Fifth avenue and
where the stolen jewelry was con-
led has obtained a writ of habeas
pus in the supreme court here,
Inning that he is Illegally held by the
thorities. Sugden prior to the rob
y had been employed by Banker
lson, who is the father of Mrs. Cor
ius Vanderbilt, Jr. The prisoner, as
lefense for the plundering of the VIII
II residence, says that he took the
VERY because the banker had failed
recOmpense him as promised for de-
,tive work performed in the effort to
icoyer the author Of certain scurrilous
d annoying letters about Miss VIII
%.
Yin his petition Sugden says that he
as born in Yorkshire. England. and
'evious to coming to this country had
en- employed by the Earl Of Dun
ven. He also tells of the trouble in
,tober, 1885, between the Vanderbilt
I'D Wilson families. when the report
as first circulated of the engagement
Miss Grace Wilson to Cornelius Van
.rbib, Jr. There was. he says. meet
between the Vanderbilts and the
'ilsons at the residence of the latter,
I'd it was agreed that the engagement
.ould be publicly announced within six
onths If Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr.,
d not change his mind and love.
Family Interests Clashed.
The first time the day was fixed for
he wedding" Sugden continues in his
edition, "all the members of the Van
.erbilt family gave their objections tC
ne union and strongly opposed It. both
in account of Miss Wilson's seniority
nd also because the Vanderbilt and
Wilson commercial interests clashed.
"The night before the wedding Mr.
Vanderbilt, Jr., was taken i'll. and the
Wedding was postponed to a future
.ate.
From that day until the wedding
yas announced for the second time Mr.
Wilson engaged me. under promise o
money, to carry secret information from
lis home to the home of Cornelius Van
lerbilt, Jr 1 was admitted to the Van
ierbilt home through a side door il
Vest Fifty-seventh street.
This was carried on for four weeks
when I was suddenly sent to Newport
and received as a present from MI
Vanderbilt sundry small silver articles
put no money from Mr.. Wilson, as
was promised.
When the wedding took place a
Newport. nobody belonging to the Van
lerbilt family was present"
Mr.. Wilson then, Sugden further sayi
sent for him and made a propositiO
10 me and showed me a print from tn
columns of Cholly Knickerbocker {
the New York Journal, in which
stated IN veiled words that society wa
saying that Mr. Cornelius VANDERBILT
Jr., had had a child in Germany an
that certain anonymous letters concern
ing the subject had been written I
Cholly Knickerbocker and the Wi
sons"
Sugden in conclusion says that WI
son promised to make him rich for III
III he succeeded in getting the letter
the newspaper and discovering the ideI
tity of the author, and also promised
case of failure to give him 81, 200 for h
services. After six months work he d
not succeed, and Mr.. Wilson finally to-
him to drop the matter. AS the bank
failed to pay him the money promise
sugden says he left Mr.. Wilson's en-
plOy.