The evening times., 1899-07-26
FAMILY STRIFE IN COURT.
Children Would Prevent Bestowal oi
Riches On Their Stepfather.


Poughkeepsie. n. Y. July 26.-Before
Judge Barnard, in the superior court here,
yesterday, was heard a case in which five
children seek TO prevent their mother,
who is seventy-two years old, from giving
the property left by her first husband,
which is valued at s50.0ee, to her second
husband, who is only about thirty years
old, and whom she met at matrimonial
agency. The title of the action is Mertil
Liukert, Alfred Liukert, Ernest Liukert,
and others against Rosalie Liukert, or
Rosalie Hill. The latter lives in New Ro-
chelle
She was a servant in New York forty
six years ago, when she was married TO
Victor Liukert, thrifty butcher They
had five children, the ones who bring the
present action
Liukert made money in New York, and
subsequently moved to New Rochelle,
where he invested his money in land at
Main Street and Centre Avenue. The deed
Of the property was taken in his wife
name. This property was improved by
Liukert, and today is worth 100000
When Liukert died, in 1889, he left all
his property to his wife. The children
contend that il was his intention that his
wife should hold the property In trust for
them, and that on his deathbed he ex-
acted a promise from her to that effect.
There was litigation over the will, but II
was admitted to probate.
Mrs. Liukert, through marriage broker
in New York, negotiated, in 1898, mat
rimoniai alliance with Arthur Hill, about
thirty years Odd, real estate dealer in
Brooklyn. 1t is asserted that she paid the
man $1,000 to marry her
Ii is asserted by the children that Mrs.
Hill has given thousands Of dollars to her
husband and has agreed to sell the real es-
tate left by her first husband and give the
proceeds to him, SO they will receive none
of the property accumulated by their faith
er They ask the court 10 require Mrs. Hill
to execute a will in their favor; to enjoin
her from disposing of the property, and to
compel her TO hold it in trust for them.
using the rents and profits Of her own sup
port and maintenance.
In her answer Mrs. Hill declares that the
money invested by Victor Liukert in New
Rochelle was hers. She says she married
Arthur Hill for love, and that he was not
influenced by financial considerations, and
that their marriage has been happy.
Frederick z. Ewest, rejected aspirant
for the hand of the aged woman, was the
first witness called for the children. He
! said he met Mrs. Liukert at the home OF
Mrs. cahan, a marriage broker, living at
227 East Eighty-ninth Street, New York,
in February, 1898. He dined with her and
took her to the theatre, and afterward
went to New Rochelle, where she showed
him her property
She said that she wanted to be married
but that she would give no property to any
man. as it all belonged to her husbands
children. Philip Schneider. a Brooklyn
man, wanted to marry her, she said, but he
demanded $l2. 600, and it was too much.
Ewest's proposition was that they each
exchange the property they owned for New
York property and live off the income Fol
mis- share Ewest offered four-story fiai
/ in Fifty-arst Street, New York, between
First and Second Avenues, worth s13,50t
and mortgaged for IS. 400.
He was asked by the lawyer. did yot
want TO marry Mrs. Liuke1's income, oil
for loveg" and replied, Il wanted to marry
her for herself"
Ewest said he proposed three times tc
Mrs. Liukert and was refused each time
He has since found a wife.