The Forrest City times., 1904-06-03
The Killing of Andrew H. Green, "Father of Greater New York"
 Result of a Mistake.
MILLIONAIRE JOHN R. PLiTT
 WAS TIE INTENDED VICTIM.
The Wealthy octogenarian, By Suit Entered Against Hannah Elias. nn OctorOon. For Alleged BlackmnfI. Lays Rare the Motive For Wiiiiam<' Crime.

New York. Juno 2.-The persistent contention by ;he friends of the la,e Andrew T. Green. the venerable phi lanthropist and "FaJher of Greater New York. who vas shot down Al the door of his Park avenue residence by tha negro, Cornelius Williams, that the murderer mistoo& him for another man. is borne out y Q suit which has been started in the supreme court ty John K Platt. an octogenanan million aire. against Mrs Hannah Elias. ths oeteroen. who aas the indirect cause of the murder. for the recovery O. nearly a million dollars worth of prop erty, obtained from lim by blackmail.
 In 10, ,90o-word affidavit. supporting his claim 10 property now held by Ms with the woman. which 1egal in 1S96 and have continued Tn one way and an- other up 10 the present noGih.
 That he was the gray-haired man whose attentions to Mrs. Elias when sae ran boarding house on West Eff ty-third street first excited the jealousy of the demented Williams; that he was the aged admirer who vas much seen at the Central park west establishment and was known tO some as Mir Green and to others as MT Flatt. there seems now to 5e no doubt.
 Admits Admiration.
 Mir. Platt makes an open avowal in his affidavit that hls admiration for the woman, whom he thought was ( Spaniard, was his 4ndoing She knew he was a married man with two grown daughters, he says, yet she pretende! to believe that he was single for a time. She then got her first money payments out of him by threatening t. expose him to his family and his friends. " . --s
 By far the greatest success he wonl- an had with MT. pIatt. however, was in deceiying him into the belief that the child that was born to her and afterward died was ms Although over S0 years of age. he firmly believed that she spoke he truth. and answered fe- mand after demand for money when such demands were coupled with threats of exposure
 He Claims SGS5.3S5
 As nearly IS Mr Plat can now fig Efe he is entitled 10 recover s6S5.2o5 from Mrs Elias, hut this does not reu- resent all in money and property that she had from him Fifteen thousand dollars of this moHey he alleges was procured from him during the present month by the Sama coercive methods described, Mir Platt asks the appoint- ruent of receiver for all of Mrs. Elias property. pending l-e iecLsiun of the suit. Mir. Platt says he is upward of s4 years 3f age. and in feel le heailh and was formerly ngaCed in business IT. this city. out has for some years not been engaged in business He says ne IS widower, having two marr.ed daughters now living
 Before the Elias woman gained SO much prominence through the mention of her name by Williams. the cray negro who murGerel Andrew H Green she lived in handsome house al 225 Central Park west. She hai a large retlnue of servants and lived in great style, much 10 the wonder of the ne- groes who mad known her before she became so well to do, 1nandaily.
 The woman wAo is q good-lookinc octoroon. came 10 the ci.y in .SS7. at 1t was not long afterward ,lat she be- came vol 10 do. N nep she first came C this city she kept a boarding house for negroes in West Flfty-third stree. Before this she had been divorced from her husband, Davis, Pullman car con.