New-York tribune., 1900-08-24
TRYT0"REAC CHI MISS wendell
THREE MEN CHARGED WITH FORCING
THEIR WAY INTO HER BROTH
ER'S HOUSE

The trial of Maurice J. Sullivan. real estate
dealer: Stephen ]. Stillwell, a lawyer and Jere-
miah Moore d Deputy Sheriff. all OF Mount Yer
non who are charged with assault. disorderiy
conduct and trespass. has been adjourned until
August co. and the defendants have been paroled
in the custody OF their lawyers. On Wednesday
evening Sullivan. Stillwell and Moore went 70
the home of John G. Wendell. in Broadway. Irving
ton. and demanded to his sister, Miss Georgi-
ana Wendell who Sullivan alleges wrote his wife
a postal card saying she was detained at their
house No response made to their ring at
the front door. they went to the rear Kath-
arine Helms and Mary Walsh servant girls. and
Thomas Lundy, coachman, say they used vio-
lence and forced their way into the house The
servants upstairs heard the excitement locked the
door OF Miss Wenders apartment and refused
give UP the kew.
The police were teIephoned for and the three
men became frightened and left the house without
seeing Miss Wendell They jumped into the car
riage and hurriedly drove away. The police gave
chase In another and captured the at Dobhs
Ferry. They protested against being arrested but
finally consented to return. They were taken be-
fore Howard Fl. Cannon, president of the village
He let them return to their homes after they had
agreed to appear before Justice Taylor yesterday
morning.
The three went to Irvington with Mayor
Edwin ". Fiske. who stood ready to go their
bonds Sullivan represented by John NJ Dig
3ey. . OF White Plains, and Moore and 5tillWell by
Corporation Counsel Marshall of Mount Vernon.
w H. II. Ely, Of Tarrytown, appeared for the peo-
u.
dell By common consent the trial adjourned
one week. Mr.. Ely gave out the following state
ment;
Sullivan claims to take Of Miss WendeIFs
real estate. He says his wife received a postal
saying Miss Wendell sick, and that she called
with her friend, Mrs Mack. The servants refused
to admit them; and then he came with the Depu-
ty Sheriff. 1t is thought he may have wanted 10
get evidence for a writ of habeas corpus from the
court. He says that ne came to have Miss
Wendell sign a Taper to let contract for a build
ing she is to erect In Brooklyn.
Miss Wendell has been away for month and her
folks have just succeeded in getting her home She
Is i'll. About ten years her mother died and
on the anniversary OF her death and six months
later every year she Is violently insane She
confined a sanftarium Pleasantvflle till
about years ago. She believed to be much
improved and allowed to leave, She spent
part OF the next few months at White Plains Then
she went to New-YOrk and stayed at the Park
Avenue Hotel. She became violent and smashed
the hotel furniture. She was arrested. a man who
and promised to see that she was cared for. Then
she taken to Bellevue Hospital Her lawyer.
John F. Parsons. OF New-YOrk, applied to have her
committed to a private sanitarium at Goshen She
only stayed there a shore while. but the commit
ment still stands. She is now In charge OF nurse.
Miss Wendell is about thirty y-ive years old Her
grandfather the original partner OF John Jacob
Astor. She owns much real estate and her income
is large. Mayor Ftske said that Sullivan was well
thought of in Mount Vernon and that recently
Judge Keogh had placed him a commission. Miss
Wendell. her family and her lawyer positively re-
fused to talk The episode has caused much excite
ment in Irvingtou.