The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-11
The SEAMANS MUCH PUT OUT.
THEY HAD A HOME, But THEY
HAVEN'T IT ANY LONGER.
Struggles with Or. Stevenson Make Up
Busy Chapter suits Of All Sorts Are
ON or Pending Policemen Play .
Prominent Part I'm the whole Action.

and Ethel and Vincent Seaman would like
to know where they live. They are in great
confusion, but Of one thing they feel sure,
they say, and that is hat DR.. Benjamin #.
Stevenson is the mar who engineered the
family out Of their house.
DR.. Stevenson is a tall man Of about IS
years Of age. Besides running a practice
as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, he
operates a phono-pneumatic cure for deaf
ness, which he says will fix up over so per
cent. Of the cases OF deafness. One can
hear d noises, like blinking n tinkling,
that the phono-pneumatio patients are lie
tening to, In the house, but that is neither
here nor there.
Stevenson took the Seamans' parlor floor
last spring, When summer came the Sea-
mans wanted to get up to Sullivan county,
where they keep the Ellsworth House. It
was necessary to leave the Brooklyn house
in charge OF somebody to collect the rent
from the other dodgers. The doctor ex-
pressed willingness not only to do this but
to take over the lease OF the property.
Papers were drawn up in duplicate and
signed. The doctor paid a deposit Of 500.
1t was stipulated that there was $500 more
coming on August 30 and that Mrs. Sea-
man was to go up n get the lessons to agree
to the change. So far all accounts agree.
But Fighting Tom-he's the Seamans'
brother-in-law that's his pet name in
the f~amily-says hat it wasn't a formal
agreement; just a paper. The doctor and
the hotel man differ as to whether the dining
room furniture was to 60 with the house.
Furthermore, they differ on what happened
since. The doctor says that he offered full
payment on August 30, and was put of
time after time by the Seamans.
The Seamans say that they urged the
doctor on August 80. and often afterward.
to pay them, and that he refused. They
say that they finally came home and made
him vacate, because he could not pay. He
says that they were tired OF the bargain
and tried to end it by demanding furniture
that they were no entitled to.
Il have here" said the doctor yesterday,
with a wave Of the hand toward his breast
pocket, "a check for the amount. They
wouldn't take it,"
He said" relates Mrs. Seaman, that
he could get board and lodging for his wife
and himself and two children at SIG a week,
and he guessed he didn't want the old house
anyhow. And then I said to him, if he could
find board and lodging at 81 per, l guessed
that ought about to suit him-I did"
This the lamar say ended the confer
ence for awhile. But when they returned
from Sullivan county permanently for the
season, about October 1, they u the
doctor still in the house. He again offered
10 take over the lease, but they wouldn't
listen to il. On October 5, say the SeamAns,
the doctor, after getting a final refusal,
moved out Of most Of the house, retaining
only the parlor foo offices.
All was quiet again when the Seamans
finally moved in, save for the noises of The
phonopneumatic treatment that could he
heard up on the parlor floor. DR.. Stevenson
sent for a policeman and tried to have Mrs.
Seaman arrested, she says. She routed
the policeman. and her husband went to see
Fighting Tom Smith, the prother-in-law,
who is a lawyer.
While he was out, say the Seamans. the
doctor tried a new ruse. Ethel had been
out buying, provisions. When she came
back the doctor barred the area door.
When the girl tried the front door he climbed
around and cut her of there, too. The girl
was kept out, in spite Of the cutlery of her
mother, who tried to bear help from the
area entrance.
~You are a coward she cried. Leave
the house this minutel'
Madam" he is said to have replied,
that is precisely what l was about to
request OF you"
An the family but Mr.. Seaman hen left
TO stay elsewhere. He found sleeping
quarters in an unused room and rested
soundly till 8 in the morning. He walked
up suddenly to see four figures grouped
around his bed.
huge figure leaning against the foot OF the
bed, git up outa here
who are your" asked Mr.. Seaman.
"A policeman from the Adams street
station" said the figure, turning up the
Seaman sat up and argued with the
roundsman and his two helpers.
Don't mind what he says" muttered
DIR. Stevenson.
The policeman suggested that the doctor
put him out himself and left.
Early Sunday morning Mr.. Seaman sent
word to Fighting Tom Smith, who went
TO the police station TO complain. While
was complaining at the station house
Mrs. Seaman tried to get into the house
again. The doctor opened the door to her
himself, but she pushed past him. A POI
liceman tried to stop her at the stairs.
Don't dare to touch me-" she cried.
@It's my house" Like his predecessors
he sidestepped and let her rass:
On Monday the doctor had Mr.. Seaman
In court on a complaint Of an assault oom-
mitted some days previous. The case
was adjourned to Wednesday. When the
family got back to the house Monday the
doctor was JneTe nThI. ne opened the |
door wide enough to say something, but
Mrs. Seaman, in the lead, did not stop to
listen.
She tried to push in past the doctor.
but he TANNED her against the side Of the
door, they say: Also, He punched her."
saws Fighting Tom. And | cried to nv
client, Killim, Seaman! He's punching
your wife"
Two special policemen. hired by the
the Seamans say, stepped out Of
the hallway and arrested everybody.
There was another trip to the Adams street
Herr again." asked the sergeant, pleas
antly. A complaint was preferred against
Mrs. Seaman and she was let out on bail.
In spite of special policemen Mr.. Sea-
man held one room in the basement until
Wednesday, the day when he had to an
pear for trial. Then Mrs. Smith, his sister
in-law, was put in as a substitute. The
colored cook made short work Of her. She
was forced to vacate.
-He pushed me downstairs" DR.. Steven
told Judge Dooley in court.
-All the way2' asked the judge.
"A good way maintained the doctor.
well, how many steps? Ten? FiveP
About two admitted the doctor.
The defendant broke in, Indignantly /
claiming that it a hardly more than one.
~He exaggerates, your Honor!"
sWaI1 he dOesn't look much hurt = oa;d