New-York tribune., 1905-03-07
A. t. GILLENDER INSANE
BIG ESTATES IN TANGLE
LazUyer Placed in q SaHat@iuna-
Captain Mahan's Sister Client.

startling story came TO light yesterday
through the sale at auction on Wednesday by
Adrian Muller. at the Real Estate Exchange
SalesroOm. Of a $4,000 bond and mOrtagage OF
Charles o. Seymour. made out to Augustus T.
Gillender. on property In Westchester County
The bond and mortgage brought S41. 800. The
was part of a transaction by which the repre-
sentatives OF Augustus T. GiTlender are trying
to unravel a gigantic tangIe of estates involving
vast sums Of money. which GIlender has had
the management OF for more than quarter OF
century. Under the tremendous pressure Of
business his mind gave way last October. and
he is now confined in the ArdendaIe Sanitariun
near Greenwich Conn
Augustus T. Gillender. senior member OF thA
firm Of Gillender & Mumford. at No. 14f Broad
way, Is between sixty three and sixty-fo years
old. He has practised law in this city for forty
years. He is a member OF the Union and TiIden
clubs. the Bar Association. the st. Nicholas So
ciety and the KnolIwood Country Club He ran
for alderman on the Tammany ticket In 1903
He owned the GiIlender Building. at Wall and
Nassau SITS. His cousin is the 8Iarquise di San
Mariana. whose husband. the Marquis di San
Iarzano, is dead. Arthur Gillender OF the to-
bacco firm OF Arthur GiIlender & Co. IS his
uncle.
There was rumOr that s'~c1g the many es-
tates involved was that of Captain a c. AIahan.
but William W. Mumford. Mr.. GilIender's law
partner, said yesterday that while he had soma
securities belonging TO Miss Jane Leigh Mahan
a sister of the captain. which have been found
and turned over TO her. he did not think that
Captain Mahan would be affected personally In
any way as he believed Mr.. GilIender had acted
as his attorney, without having any OF his prop
erty In charge. Mr.. Mumford said that when
his partners friends found his physical and
mental condition becoming such that he
was unable to attend to business. they had him
examined by DR. Carlos F. Macdonald and DR.
Allan McLane Hamilton. They pronounced him
to be OF unsound mind That In October
He went voluntarily to the sanatOrium at Ar
dendale. but his friends wanted something more
binding fearing he might leave the Institution.
so they had him examined there, and judge
committed him as an insane person
Speaking OF Mr. Gillenders affairs yesterday.
Mr.. Mumford said:
He had charge OF many large properties. ana
his affairs naturally in the confusion that
been in such mental condition as to be unable
to attend TO them properly His attorney Eliot
Norton, and are now at work trying 70 adjust
his affairs. No committee OF his person or prop
everything about the financial end OF his trOu-
bles. on account of the confusion OF his papers,
and We are unable at present TO arrive at tbs
exact condition of his affairs
A man named Kukuck. a retired tobacco r,er-
chant, who lives at HOhOkus. n. j., has been q
client of Gillender for many years. Kukuck
has considerable real estate. but MIR. Mumford
was unable to tell yet in what condition IL was
The books being examined Mr.. Giliender
was trustee for many estates. He had charge OF
the property or Mrs. Wood, the widow Of Fer
nando Wood. former Mayor OF NeW-York Hs
also attended to the estate Of Miss Augusta Hy-
att 1t was valued at from 100000 10 $GO0O0G,