Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01
MISS MARY kelley
And Her Endless and Complicated
Litigation in the Courts.
A CASE OF PUZZLE TO ALL
An Old-T Government Clerk Whose Sister
Married Tho Son Of Judge Hawkins In an
Endless Chain Of Legal Troubles In Which
She Is Even Sent 10 tho WorkhOuSe- EVICted
and Thrown into tho Street.

Where to commence on the case Of
Miss Mary Kelly is what puzzles The
Globe. II we can ever get a start on
this Chinese wall of complicated
twists turns and litigations we have
no doubt fairly entertaining story
will naturally unravel itself. Miss
Mary, now on the shady side, or in or
about the forties, has talked to us by
the honr, and we have dreamed Of her,
after the manner Of a visitor to the
Louvre, who has spent the day in that
palace Of art viewing the Venus de
Milo to the Battle Of Magenta and
| iumbled up in his sleep the paintings
and statuary he had examined.
That Miss Mary Is a character goes
| without saying, and will be inferred by
the reader If we can ever intelligently
lay a few of the mass of facts before
| him contained in six voluminOus pack
/ ages Of papers she left with us after a
three-hour straight talk, wherein we
could only interject "Ah!" YES" "in-
deed etc
Miss Kelly is well and favorably
known in Washington, except, indeed,
to the particular parties with whom
she has had the most complicated litl-
cation It has been our experience ever
to hear related.
She has worked for the Government
in the Agricultural Department, the
Government Printing Office, the Treas
ury, Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing, and several other places where
Government pap is ladled out, but for
a number Of years Miss Kelly. has not
devoted either her time or attention to
the IT, S. Government. She has been
wholly occupied with litigation, which
has taken a wide range, as may be in
ferred when we state that she has been
a householder, a property owner,
tenant been eyicted, and even arrested
and sent TO the work.house.
Miss Kelly is still on deck, however,
and fighting for her rights, and, not
withstanding the fact that the inter
menable litigation she is engaged in
has taken her to Stoutenberg's castle
on the Branch" she is a reputable wo-
man of correct habits and enjoys the
respect and esteem Of all who know
her, always, Of course, excepting, be II
understood the people she has been
compelled to fight Miss Kelly's sister
] maj leu AAnuA AAAE treasury a bHAklN-
man named Hawkins nephew Of the
president Of the American Bank Note
Company Miss Mary became acquaint-
ed with Mr., Rowland, well known also
in Washington and a gentleman who
has held many distinguished positions.
He has been secretary to the three At
torney Generals under Lincoln; he
served with Admiral Dewey; has been
private secretary, as was his father
before him, to the Chief Justice Of the
United States and is, we believe, at
. present private secretary to DR.. Wine
man.
It appears Mr.. Rowland had accumu-
lated some property or had courtesy
interests in the same. He contracted
blood poisoning in some way, and Miss
Kelly, who is an accomplished nurse,
pulled him through. In gratitude for
this Mr.. Rowland transferred to Miss
Kelly his courtesy interest in the prop
erty, COZ + street N. w. This and a
half interest in the corner Of Sixth and
f street ~ w. appears to be the storm
center Of Miss Kelly's troubles. There
is a Mrs. Quill also in the case, for
whom Miss Kelly once put up a $4,000
| bond, which involved her in more com
plications. Mr.. Rowland, who is n
| scholar, has written a history OF all
| the varying troubles Of Miss Kelly,
/ himself. Mrs. Quill the property atore-
said, and the furniture at present in
| storage which was removed from the
/ house on eviction process, The history
/ is not in shape for The Globe to utilize
| or condense into a feature article for
| a newspaper. But Of the furniture we
| have something definite The furni-
| ture was put out on the street on
| cold winters night by the people evict-
| ing Miss Mary Kelly Mr.. Rowland
was i'll, and this additional outrage
| brought him to the hospital. Miss Kel-
| ly camped with her furniture on the
street in front Of the house. This
/ house she had a courtesy interest in
| but between signing notes, bonds and
mortgages it is problematical whether
Miss Kelly did not sign away her
rights. She insists, however, that she
did not Miss Kelly was prevented by
the police in charge from touching or
removing the furniture After a night
and a day, however, in camp on the
sidewalk, some kind OF a compromise
was effected by which she was premit.
ted to remove the furniture. But Miss
Kelly claims that in her absence at
court, where she had to appear as wit !
ness, the police moved and stored her
furniture. Other complications then
occupied her time-Mr RoWland's ILL., |
ness, her own houseless condition and |
some trouble Of Mrs. Quill. Finally, |
when she was able to see after her fur |
niture, she found charges for storage |
confronting her These she would not |
or could not pay and as the furniture |
was removed illegally from the house, |
and subsequently illegally seized by the |
police, Miss Mary started in on new |
litigation. All this time she was sign |
ing and refusing to sign notes, bonds |
mortgages etc, until no brace Of Phil |
adelphia lawyers could tell where she |
was at. 9ne thing was evident, how
ever, and that was that Miss Mary had !
been done up brown by the lawyers,
that her property and furniture were
taken away, and that she was holding |
the empty bag. About this time she |
was arrested by the police after per-
forming a charitable act for a neigh |
Dor. What she was arrested for, OF
what she did, Miss Mary is yet In ig- |
norance Of herself so she couldn't tell |
The Globe. Miss Mary was sent out |
to the workhOuse, and the lawyers and |
her enemies having her at Length COOP |
ed up, they thought that now was the |
time to cinch their sequestration OF |
her property, furniture, etc. They Wis /
tied her and made the proposition to |
sign certain papers and they would
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