New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-09
ALDERDICE A PRISONER.
OLIVER HEIR ACCUSER.
Talk of Erhuming Body-PhysiciGn
Summoned.

Charged with utterng forged instrument in
the transfer of real estate from Mrs. Mary j.
oliver. the Harlem miser TO his sister James
s. Alderdice a lawyer. whose office is at NO
3O4 Broadway. was arrested yesterday, ar
raigned before Magistrate Breen and held for
examination this afternoon. Bail was fixed at
$500 and the prisoner was sent TO the Tomhs
Alderdice was leaving his office at the time OF
the arrest and was taken in custody by county
Detective Flood. An effort made on Mon
day to ind Alderdice. when a policeman visited
his home only TO ind him away.
District Attorney Jerome and his assistant
Mr.. Krotel. held conference last night III
which. il was reported. they discussed the aa-
visibility of having Mrs divers body eXhumeo
II was decided. however, before taking any
stems IN that direction, to get a statement hoAi
DIR John A OBren, who attended MIS- OiINSi
IN her last illness and who mas beeh suoi'O7i
The District Attorney has learned 'lla' VI
,,,,yo,ss death was not reported 10 the coroner
ofsce. and that no official examination Oh 'ie
BODY was made. -. .,,,,ra
AT the hearing before Magistrate breen ne
were several tits between Assistant DiS'ii0'
Attorney Krotel and Alderdices COUNSEL oa''
mel FAIRFIELD and George B. Simpson. Mr.. hro-
=, ,,-s.l,aa the hail nxed at $1,000. and in OPP
,,os,rg-this Mr. Fairfield insisted that the ar
-est had been made to get evidence for civil
suit declaring that had his client been gullty
he would have run away, instead or Nlslllhs 'He
District Attorneys office every da.
The arrest of Alderdice was based on an am
ss,-tt signed by William Miller Campbell one
NJ the three surviving grandchildren OF MIs'
Oliver who lives at Bensonhurst, ana Is an
ernplove Of the New-York Telephone Noll-
many at No. IS Cortlandt-st. In TINS al
ss.-i+ -ampbeu charges that on November
limo Of
lanes s. Alderdice, with irtent to defraud the
mother of the deponent, Hattie a. Campbell
presented the four deeds which are alleged 10
he forged and which transferred the property
of Mrs Oliver to Miss Mary Elizabeth Alder
dice. at the Office of the County Register Ise
affidavit further charges that at me time ne
presented these deeds Mr.. Alderdice knew thal
Mrs. divers signature was forgery me al
ndavit was sworn TO before Magistrate Breeh on
Monday and the warrant was then issued lor
Alderdice's arrest.
Miss e Alderdice on going to tell Mrs OllVer
Of the sudden death of her father. who was MIS-
divers business agent, found the old woman
dead. For several days thereafter hidden stocks
bonds and valuables were discovered about Mrs
divers house, but only four cents IN money
There was no trace, however o S9o.Voo IN
cash said 10 have been paid 10 the old woman
for real estate in Harlem a short time prlor 10
her death.
Mrs Hattie X. OaDpbell- lle uduSiAtFi anu
next OF kin TO Mrs. Mary Oliver was adJudged
insane and incompetent by commission IN
lunaey and a sheriffs jury, sitting IN the hlnSs
County Courthouse, yesterday afternoon. Inc
commission consisted OF Fred :. Lyke, l1r John
W Malone and Arthur ". BeCkwith. The court
viii be asked TO appoint 4 committee on her per
son and estate that an action may be brOuEht
10 set aside certain alleged cOnVeyances OF Mrs
divers property TO Miss Elizabeth Alderdice.
The application TO have Mrs. Campbell de
olared an incompetent was made by her husband
and two daughters. Mrs. Emma Jacobson and
Mrs Jennie O. Stevenson. Dr. Charles Breck
assistant superintendent Of the Long Island
State Insane Asylum. IN Islip, Long Island,
where Mrs Campbell has been since March "a
1902. was the principal witness yesterday lie
1estiiied that she suffering from acute de-
mdntia. had no lucid intervals and was incur
Hfle She accused herself Of various offences
and believed she was being prosecuted.
James Demarest, lawyer for the Campbell
family made a statement IN which he said that
the wOmans personal estate amounted to only
ehout 81 400 but that the realty depended on
The disposition Of Mrs. divers property. He
referred TO the fact that there had been an ar
rest in the during the day.
The jury and commission found Mrs. Campbell
Incompetent without leaving their seats
Or. John A. OBrien, Of No. 300 East One
hundred-and- sixteenth-st., who attended Mrs.
Oliver in her last illness, and who has been
subpRnaed by TIE District Attorney when seen
~ his office last night. refused TO discuss the
subject.