The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
pIa rp WIS. nrKEs pAST
In Court House Records she quits Hotel
--TcNaS Rcuutsltlon Expected,


Mrs Brodie L. Duke left thelUuion Square
Hotel yesterday at noon before the propri-
etors had a chance to intimate to her that
she was giving the hotel too much noto-
riety She told maid that she would be
back, but she didn't return. Frank Schaefer.
one OF the proprietors, was called up by
telephone at half past > o'clock 10y Mrs.
Duke
81 have decided TO leave your hotel,
she said Il am not in New York now, but
you will hear from me again.
Abe Levy Of Mrs. Dukes counsel had this
TO say soon after Mrs. Duke turned her
back ON Union Square: I'VE know where
she Is. She is in New York city, within ten
minutes Of my Office. and she will be on hand
when there is good reason for her appear
ing. She will be in Justice Gaynor's court
in Brooklyn next Thursday morning when
we will make an effort to have her husband
declared of sound mind and removed from
the sanitarum at Amityvlle. She is not
afraid of theEe alleged charges made again
her by the authorities Of Nacogdoches
county Tex
District Attorney Jerome, who has been
notified that Gov. ILanham of Texas will
sign requlsiticn papers for Mrs. Duke ON
the indictment found against her by the
Grand Jury Of Nacogdoches county for
swindling l.. 4. Blount, president OF the
Commercial Bank Of Nacogdoches, out
Of $1,000 thinks the papers may be here by
tomorrow morning. They will be turned
over to one OF Inspector McClusky's men
TO serve on Mrs. Duke, If she is in the State
Some Of Mrs. DuKes past Is in the cellar
Of the County Court House. As already
related. she sued George Hopkinson in 1893
to establish a marriage, and the suit was
dismissed. She had been living with
Hopknson. who deposed that he met her
in 1878 in a house at 80 West Twenty fifth
street, where he was introduced to her by
Agnes De La Plane ca name curiously like
Agnes Desplaines. The woman was known
i'm the huu.e as Alice Alice" told him
that her name!was Osborne and that she had
been charged with attempting 70 blackmail
the estate of 4. L.. Osborne. THE plaintiff
IN this action Alice l.. Webbl,' Hopkinson
said IN his affidavit, was not in November,
1873. a, she falsely endeavors to make this
Court believe, IA year old. On the con-
trary. she was at that time. AZ the records
of the Buffalo Orphan Asylum of Erie
county will affirm. 25 years old. She is
now 1888 in her fortieth or forty-frst
year The records Of the Buffalo Orphan
Asylum show that she was born in 1853 or
1864, that she was admitted to the asylum
on June . 1890. and left there May 20. 1873,
ha wing been taken there originally by her
father That would make her over 80
now She says she Is 81
Other affidavits. made by Jennie Bradley,
a maid at the Grand Central flats in West
Thirty-sixth street, where the woman lived
in May, 1890; William +. Day, patrolman,
and others, stated that the woma lived
there with Murat Masterson, a Colorado
mine owner. While Masterson. according
10 the affidayts. was keeping her she was
visited in his absence by a man named
llardman and negro follower VI the races
who was called Polo Jim
Of another negro who was called Ralph
wilD. according to thu affidavits sant her
the revolver with which she shot Masterson
She says Masterson snot at her.
CHICAGO. jar. l6.-Charles f. Taylor.
business partner Of Alice Nebb-Duke,
Sid to-day he II I'd not been notified Officially
Of tho return Il Indictments voted against
Alice Webb and himself at Nacogdoches.
Texas. He said the notes upon which the
money was borrowed from f.. A Blount
president Of the Commercial National
Bank of NacoRdoohes. who makes the
charge of swindling. were also ~ gned bv
J. ". Sanders cashier OF the First National
Bank OF Center, Tex.
Mr.. Sanders neg 1tiated the loan for US
and secured Mr. BIount, who advanced
the S. 600. said Taylor There is not the
slightest evidence of conspiracy