Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-15
DECEIVED AGED PROTECTOR.
Sold Laundry She Had Fitted Up, De- serted American Wife and Fled.


 serted American Wife and Fled.
 One of the most interesting will cases tried in long time in the Kings county surrogate court was decided recently in favor of the will by Surro- gate James 0. Church. The plaint- ifs were a niece and the husband of Susan S. Allen, who died leaving all her money to her friend and boarding mistress, and who, it was attempted to prove, was insane at the time the will was drawn. Stories of a remark able case of religious mania, involy- ing "a heather Chinee with a sweet graft'' were brought out in the course of the proceedings.
 Susan $. Allen, for many years sep arated from her husband, was q 1 boarder in the home of Mrs Robert } T. Maujer, of No 312 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. The woman was old and ailing, and in the course of time man. , ifested a remarkable inclination to missionary work. The story of the capture of Miss Ellen Stone by the Bulgarian brigands worked on her mind and she decided that the spirit moved her to go a-missiontng in China.
 Not being able to fulfill her longing Mrs Allen did the next best thing and called at Chinese mission for a Chi- nese to convert and to take under her protection. Fong Gui, a strapping [ and healthy looking specimen of Box 1 CT, was recommended and enjoyed ever afterward what one of the law yers in the case termed a sweet graft" Mrs Allen decided early to add a laundry to the Christian spirit with which she was imbuing Gong Gui. She hired a place for the Chi nese in Putnam avenue and stocked it with washboards, washtubs and a red painted name on the front window. Fong Gui proved not only good business man. but an astute Christian. He called regularly on Mrs Allen to receive further religious instruction in the true faith. and meantime he made money hand over fist both out of his laundry and Mrs Aliens donations.
 Everything was going pleasantly when Mrs Allen decided that she wanted to go travelling and that she needed maid. It struck her that if Fong Gui were only married she might break up his happy home when ever she wanted maid. for the wife of the Chinese would fill the bill ex- ] actly. She called Fong Gui unto her and proposed the scheme. Fong was willing.
 t'Tlotte out Melican girl an Fong Gui mlally, dian quick he said Mrs Allen secured the neighborhood for a worthy woman to fit the Christian Celestial and found a young woman with the necessary Christian spirit l Who this woman was 1t is impossible l to ascertain at present, as she has dis sappeared and as none in the case will give any information.
 ] For two long months Fong Gui bore up under the responsibilities Of a Christian marriage yoke. Then he went to his protectress, renewed his vows of faith in the true Light, got some money cut of her, secretly sold l his laundry and everything in 1t and was next heard from in San Francis co,Cal. Mrs Allen realized her failure at making Christians when too late l She did the best she could for the wife of Fong and then died.
 Mrs Allen was not a woman of ex- l traordinary wealth, the entire amount
 aggregating $4.0OO. But it was found
 upon opening the will that the money
 was left to Mrs Maujer, who had talk
 en care of the old woman and had be
 friended her when her own relatives did nothing to ease her old days. The will was taken to court, where the
 above facts of Fong Gui's conversion
 were brought out to prove that thu
 woman was of unsound mind.
 The contestants of the will were tht
 niece. Miss Mamie Miller, of No 20+
 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn, and tht
 woman's husband, Andrew T. Allen
 NJ. W. Devine, lawyer of No A Pine
 street, the attorney for the contes
 tants. said. yesterday that the cas'
 would be taken to a higher court