The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-01
Observation-Disclosures $3.50
WOMAN WHO DABBLED IN WALL
ST. BEAT CHEAP HOTEL.
Miss Dennis. Said TO BE Of Good Family in
k~InderhOOk. Devoted Life to ImbecIIe
Brother. Who Went 20 Bellevue when
She Was Arrested for q Had Check.

Wles DennLB, H1l0 10 lie OF NsOO0 Family IN
kInderhOOk. Devoted Life 10 ImbeclIe
Brother. Who Went 20 Bellevue When
She Was Arrested for q had Check.
Miss Elizabeth Dennis, II years old, who
says her family ranked among the best in the
old village Of Kinderhook, and who Is said
to nave had and lost in Wall Street upward
Of 81 90 900 within ten years was sentenced
in Special Sessions yesterday to fifteen days
in the Tombs for beating a cheap rooming
house out Of $3.50. A pathetic feature in
the case was her devotion to an imbecile
brother. The night when she was arrested
was the first on which she ever allowed
strangers to care for him. As she was
taken to the police station he was sent TO
the Bellevue Hospital psychopathio ward.
Miss Dennis is a little, white haired woman.
Seated beside Miss Amman, the probationary
officer, who worked hard for a suspension
Of sentence, Miss Dennis looked like y Rat
she long had been, a church and missiOIsary
worker
Shc lived Until March 81 with Mrs. Louise
Winterer, the housekeeper Of the hotel at
A West Twenty-seventh street. She had
been there about three months and had
paid her bills for herself and brother regu-
larry, sometimes by check, sometimes in
cash. They had inexpensive rooms. Day
AFTER Gay MISS OtlullS NtuL OuJ Cdi1NdSNHu1k
for books and charities and Ia but a
meagre income, she told the Court. One
day she was pressed for a balance Of $3.50
and gave a check to Mrs. Winterer for the
amount. The check was drawn on the
National Bank of Undertook and in due
! time it came back marked mo funds"
Mrs. Winteref had heard Of other small
checks Of the kind and reported the case
to her lawyer. Miss Dennis heard of Mrs.
Winterer's action, and during the night
- NA--.L NJ az-Ir -vA,N ENsl. $500, -
had remaining and left Mrs. Winterer's
house with her brother. This made it a
technical case Of violating Section $50 OF
the Penal Code, which is for the protec-
ton Of hotel keepers, and Miss Dennis and
her brother were traced and taken into
custody.
Miss AMMAN, at the request Of the Court
OF Special Sessions on Thursday, when
Miss Dennis was convicted, made an in
vestigation OF her story. She said there
were four or five bad checks involved,
some for board, some for lodging and medi-
cal services for the weak minded brother,
Miss ANNA wrote to the postmaster OF
Undertook asking what he knew OF Miss
Dennis and got a prompt reply. He wrote:
She comes OF one OF the best II not the best
family in Kinderhook. She was reputed ia
be worth a very large fortune here only q
few years ago. but lost II dsbbling In Wall
Street.
AlE Dhllii q 2 VI biC NOAuuAAg WIAJAuK
from Chatham, N. Y, said thai Miss Dennis
had given up practically the whole Of her life
to the care OF her brother, az her parents
had especially charged her with hat duty
and she had spent not a few thousands on
him. When she still was well Oh she had
him live with her in the best hotels and took
him travelling.
After leaving AZ West Twenty-seventh
street on the night Of March 81 Miss Dennis
took her brother to 252 West Twenty
fourth street, where she found temporary
refuge with a Mrs. Buchanan. She was
living there when arrested.
As she was taken over the Bridge OF Signs
to the Tombs the little woman tried hard
TO bear up, but the ordeal was too much
for her and she began to weep.
I'm sorry only for my poor brother
she told the policeman. What ever will
he do now, p2or fellow"
To the reporters who tried to get her to
talk Miss Dennis sent word that she could
not say anything.
MY poor little story IL too well known"
she scrubbed on a bit Of a card which she
sent out OF the Tombs.