The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-24
DOWIE FONDLES A GOLD BRICK,
AND TELLS TWO DEACONS TO
DROP ACID THEREON,
Is the RestCrer AbOut 10 BECOME Inter.
pleaded In the Celebrated Case Of
y. Reuben vsrdervoort vs.. the .Jumel
Helrs:-A $40. 900 900 Hallucination.

y. Reuben vsrdervOOrt vs.. the .Jumel
Heirs.-A $40, OOO, 900 Hallucinat,on.
The great care and industry with which
Elijah the Restorer and Collector scruti-
nzes every possibl source from which
additions to the treasury of Zion may come.
was strikingly brought out by an incident
In the District Attorneys Office a day or
two ago. Two of Elijah's most trusted
deacors came to the Office to see the
District Attorney.
They did not bring any Peace to thee"
message, As one Of the Dist riot Attorneys
stafr described it., the message was rather
OF is there piece for me?" order
The two deacons, Charles f.. Lauder and
George A, Corlette, went to the District
Attorneys Office with John Reuben Wander
WORT of Newark. Deacon Lauder intro
duced himself as the City Attorney of Zion
City, H., and Deacon Corette as the super
n,endent of the lace industr ies of Zion
Deacon Corlette is the man Elijah sent
on before from Doweville TO pick out
boarding places for the Visitation Legion
Of the Rest ration Host He il a very
shrewd young man, in the opinion Of the
unregenerate New York boarding house
keepers who have done business with him.
The deacons introduced Mr., Wander
WORT to the District Attorney. Mr. Jerome
did not need an introduction TO Mr.. Van
dervoort. They had met before In the
files of the District Attorneys Office are
many reams of wrapping paper. inscribed
on both sides with rambling messages
from Mr.. Nandervoort.
SO well did the District Attorney feel
acquainted with Mr.. yandervoort 4 troubles
that he said that lie was very busy and
asked the holy men from Zion to take their
friend to Deputy Assistant Attorney kresel.
who had particular knowledge of some of
the things that Mr. Vandervoort spends
his time thinking about.
Mr.. Vandervoort lives in Newark, but
he thinks in Harlem For many years he
has been convinced, by process of reason
ing which nobody else seems to have been
able to follow clearly, that lie ought u
right to have title to the great Jumel estate
in Harlem worth some $40, 900, 900.
He says that Nine. Jumel and Aaron Burr
had an irregular son, George Washington
Bowen, who Of right inherited all Of the
JuInel estate. He has convinced himself
that Bowen, years and years ago tMr j.
Reuben NandeivJort is almost 30 years
old, made over all his right and title to
the estate to him for 81.
He has placed this contention before
nearly every court in the land Every
court to which the claim has been presented.
including the Supreme Court of the United
States has thrown it out and heaped Scorn
and derision upon II, SO far as the judicial
dignity would allow.
Hence the voluminous correspondence
NJ III
He has written to every officer Of The Gov
eminent whose name has occurred to him,
including the President and his Cabinet.
Alenists have for several days been
Interested in the people o. eccentric ideas
. and beliefs who have gathered about Madi-
Of the man who says that he Is Elijah and
that he has become millionaire by stick
ing to ii that he is Elijah. The queer folk
have gathered there as moths gather about
candle.
One student Of psychopathic subjects
made the sweeping assertion the other
day that every crnnlI within a hundred
miles of New York who was not locked up
had come into town to see DOWie and to
he near him, They regard him. for some
reason as the great natural monarch OF
their tribe. Among the well-known per-
taken note are Carrie Nation, John the
Baptist H.. Henry D, Greer, Naaman and
several Columbia undergraduates.
That man who is quite we'll satisfied OF
the justice Of his own right to $40 1000 900
which other folks are ENJOYING with the
approval of the courts OF justice should
20 at once to Dowie with his troubles seemed
not inconsistent with this statement.
Vandervoort was not met by Dowie with
that cold and chilly reception which has
come to most Of the remarkable thinkers
who have flocked to the Garden. A man
who thought he had a colorado claim to
$40, 900 900 seemed to have peculiar inter-
est for Elijah and his councillors. They
took him right in. Two Of Elijah's best
men, including his boss lawyer, were de-
tailed to look into that 500 900 900 at once.
Vandervoort told them that the estate,
or part Of it, was now concerned in some
litigation in the District Attorneys office.
j. 4. Tygard and Alfred Behrens are now
under Indictment for having sold 10 Mr.:
Hall, contractor, part of the old Jumel
estate Tygard and Behrens got their
title by transfer from Vandervoort. which
was recorded in the Registers office al
having been given for $2o,OO),o COO and other
considerations"
Mr. Nandervoort has taken keen, II
somewhat unappreciated, interest in the
cases Of Tvgard and Behrens and has writ
ten many yards of wrapping paper sug-
gestions and demands to the District At
torney about them.
MI NdIlleTNOOlI Ii'i'VH''' NC.i''
TO the aid of the Salvation Army and other
organizations which have appealed Tor
funds by transferring to them parts or
his mentally owned estate, which INCLUDES
most of The Bronx, the Speedway and other
large chunks of Harlem.
He has always made il a practice TO at
terd sales of any part Of the actual prop
erty at the Real Estate Exchange and pro.
test with shouts and much pounding OF
his cane that the property was his and that
the sale was without his consent.
Leacons Corlette and Lauder wanted
Mr. kresel TO tell them what he thought
Of the Justice of old Mr.. Vandervoort 3
CONVENTIONS. He explained his own opin-
ion with some point and frankness They
were not satisfied.
They asked for the reports OF the prinR,
ing Of the case to the attention OF the lnitefi
States Supreme Court. These Mr.. kresel
did not have, but he promised TO ma out
whore they could be found, and the two holy
men and their new found protege went
away
Nandervoort confded to an, acquant.
ance in the Criminal Courts Building tnal
he was quite sure that Elijah was gong
10 open the whole resources OF the Aior
City Bank Motto: THE Saviour's q'lee-
'ion Wherefore then gavest thou no, my
money into the Bank2-Luke xix, Is. iol
the employment Of lawyers to push tnt
whole claim through.