Evening star., 1902-02-17
Mrs. Clara Riedel Sues q
Real Estate Dealer.
WANTS AN ACCOUNTING
DISAPPEARED LAST JUNE WITH
DEPARTMENT CLERK.
Owned Old Daingerdeld Estate Near
Acknowledgements Of Former
Representative.

"A.
elopement that attracted considerable at
tention locally several months ago. and who
Is now a resident of Chicago, has instituted
proceedings in the Supreme Court Of the
District Of Columbia against Carlton t..
Hazard, asking the court to require the lat
ter to disincumber certain of her property
from the effect and operation of a mortgage
imposed thereon by him. or to account to
her for the proceeds of the mortgage.
1t is explained by Mrs. Riedel that last
June, being the owner of certain lands in
Virginia and being about TO absent herself
from that state, she conveyed the real es-
tate and personal property thereon to the
defendant.
It is added that simultaneously with the
conveyances the defendant executed two
declarations of trust, the fact being that the
conveyances, though absolute upon their
faces were simply for the purpose of con-
Stituting MIN the trustee or agent of the
complainant, to raise upon the security OF
the real estate loan of $1,000 for the COM
plainant.
Says Allowances Were Excessive.
Mrs. Riedel soes on to say that subse-
quently, finding she would not require the
money, she notified Mr.. Hazard to that ef-
feet. She eventually obtained an admission
from him, she says, that he had made
mortgage. but he did not remit to her any of
it's proceeds. Later, she says, he submit
ted grossly excessive demand for allow
ances to himself out Of the fund as the
condition upon which he would account to
her for the proceeds of the loan.
Among other items, SO the court Is In
formed, the defendant claimed three sepa-
rate and distinct commissions Of per cent
each, aggregating $3.50, for negotiating the
loan, in addition to various items of al
legged expense In taking parties to see the
farm, railroad fares, kilograms and the
like.
On objection, it is stated Mr.. Hazard
took back the bill, and submitted sec
ond statement, from which it appears that
he still claims two commissions of $3.50 for
negotiating the loan; $3.50 to himself for
alleged services In connection with a bill
in equity and the qua ardianship of the COM
plainant's children; an item of $1,000 as
commission on sale or exchange Of the
complainant's farm, although no sale or
exchange has ever been effected, and nu-
merOuS minor charges.
Seeks Courts Protection.
Mrs Riedel announces that she gravely
needs the aid of the court in protecting
her from spoiation at the hands Of Mr..
Hazard and in requiring him to remove
the incumbrance, which, 1t Is alleged, he
has unlawfully created upon her property;
or. If he is unable to do this, In requiring
MIN TO account lis pfOCeeuS, ana
to indemnify her against the interest
charges and other expenses to which she
may be subjected "by reason of his unau-
thOrized and improper conduct Attorney
J. J. Darlington represents Mrs. Riedei.
A Simultaneous Disappearance.
On June Of last year Col w. A. Simp-
son, chief of the military information di-
vision of the War Department, reported
that William Morey, married and the father
of five small children, and Mrs. Clara Rie-
DEL widow with two children, employed
as an interpreter in the same division, had
been absent without leave for a week A
few days before Mrs. Morey had received
a note from her husband which read:
Il am going to leave you forever. I will
see that you get $1OO a month during your
life. enough for you and the children.
man in the case"
1t was given out that Mrs. Riedel had
sold her beautiful country home near Alex
andria the old Daingerfield estate, to G..
city, for so. 600.
From the date of that transaction she had
not been seen at her previous lodgings.
which were an apartment building in U
street. Mr. Hazard said at the time that he
had bought the farm with the stocks. fur
niture and all appurtenances The farm had
been leased to a family with whom Mrs.
Rieders two children lived, and when she
sold the place she incidentally asked Mr..
Hazard to please look after the children. a
son twelve years old and daughter eight
years old. Mr.. Hazard said that she i'm
pressed him that she was to be absent only
temporarily.
Mr.. Hazard put himself in communca-
ton with Mrs. Atherton, Mrs. Rieders
mother, of Newark Ohio. who Is widow of
the late Representative Atherton and who
subsequently took charge of the children.
Little Surprise Expressed.
There was little surprise expressed at the
simultaneous departure Of Mrs. Riedel and
Morey at the time by those who had OBJ
served the intimacy of their relations. 1t