The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-27
The SEAMAN CASE EXPLAINED.
MRS. SEAMAN PUTS THE MATTER
IN A NUTSHELL.

Anem Back Even the Car Conductor
Was Aware That They Had Returned.
A big moving van held down the curb
In front OF ll6 Montague street, Brooklyn,
for the greater part Of yesterday while the
Seamans and Mr.. Montgomery, the star
boarder. moved their effects back to the
house OF trouble from which DR.. Stephen
son, who occupies the parlor floor. had tried
TO Dust them.
Readers of THE Sen who follow Brooklyn
social doings will remember that a few
weeks ago when Elmer Ellsworth Seaman,
his wife. Ruth, and the children, Ethel and
Vincent, returned to Montague street from
a three months summer outing they were
told by DR.. Stephenson Of the parlor floor
that before they left for the summer they
had agreed to let the doctor take over the
entire house for a consideration. Then
when the Seamans showed a tendency
toward a difference Of opinion at to whether
they or the doctor held Il lease for the prem
ises everybody arrested everybody else,
DR.. Stephenson bought chains for the doors
and the Seaman family had to go to live with
Mrs. Seaman's sister till the courts settled
the dust.
Mrs. Seaman was induced yesterday to
explain to an inquirer just what all the
trouble was about. She had learned earlier
In the day that Justice Keogh had vacated
an injunction which DR.. Stephenson had
secured to keep the Scamans out Of the
contested property.
viii you explain" Mrs. Seaman was
asked, Just what the trouble is ALL"
Tom Smith, he's our lawyer" began Mrs
Seaman as she left the incoming furniture
movers to arrange the things they were
carrying up the stairs. tom Smith has been
victorious in everything. And you should
see how the ~neighbors were out along the
street here TO congratulate us this after
noon OH winning our case from that doctor.
Simply everybody seemed to know about
It and they're all On u side. Why, even
a conductor in one of the cars to-day came
all the way down the car where l was sitting
and he said, the conductor said
But first let us get at Just what the trouble
il alb
The conductor said-I'm coming to
a t-'Mrs. Seaman, I see YOU have a car
on your street the conductor said, and all
the people along the street congratulated
ts when thew heard we had won and saw
us coming back to our house here. The
depIorable part of all this has been the
notoriety. Some papers have said this
was ii lodging house. OF all things The
truth Of the matter is that il is a private
house with only three gentlemen dodgers,
who have been living here with US for several
wears.
The newspaper notoriety has been
terrible. I really don't see how I've stood
Il. All I've been able to do has been to
stay quietly at my sisters n not say
a word. Now in your account Of the affair
please make everything as short as possible.
Print just what l say and not a word more
and keep it short. You can see your
self that we wouldn't he absurd. enough
10 turn over everything in the house to
the doctor for the sum he claims we did.
Why. up in the garrett alone there is over
81 900 worth of stun in the cedar chest.
bedding, cut glass, mattresses. all my
parlor bric-a-brac, curtains, draperies,
quilts, sllverware. pillow gases
But what was the beginning Of the
trouble?' Mrs. Seaman was asked. Just
how did the misunderstanding begin?"
And a number of odds and ends-yes,
I'm coming TO that--which amount to
claimed that one time my husband struck
him on the front stairway and he had Mr..
Seaman arrested on a charge of assault.
OF course, my husband was discharged
that was just after we came back from
the country-and the doctor beat us back
from the police court and barred us out.
worked in under the doctors arm and
he put his hand on my shoulder and tried
10 keep me out. He's had three different
lawyers through all this since the trouble
began in September, one named Bennett.
another named Osgoodsby-O-s-g-o-o-d-s-
b-v-sni young Mr.. ketcham.
We've only had one lawyer. Tom Smith.
my brother-in-law, and he's beaten them in
everything. The doctor paid the rent for
October, ! will say that, and we left all our
picturaSon the wall. and things. because the
doctor said he could tade care Of them better
than If they were in storage.
on the tth Of October or was it the 9Th?
wa the eth on a Saturday, Well. any
wav, it. was yes, II nnst have been a Sat
urday. because the day before was Friday,
tho day we moved in.
And the next thing he did was to have me
arrested for unlawful entry on the follow
ing tuesday. HUH Why, il he talks to
mo now whcn I pass him on tho ground
foo | ~hJn't have One word to say to him
not ono word. You can see yourself that he
VA really entitled To only the furnishings
Of five rooms and the carpets of the entire
house because THAT was the agreement.
The things up in the garnet in cedar chest
cut glass, bed ticks
But how did
And = lot lin comIng 10 that Of things
that amount up To over 81 900. He even
lad two American District Telegraph
policemen stationed here IN the house the
regular police wouldn't have anything 10 do
with it--CnH CT them constantly and the
ether constantly until Sunday night. That
was tho sunday night before the Tuesday.
We moved IN on Friday, tho Friday before,
YOU know. when VIE went away TO the
,Duntry in the carly sumner we drew up
IN agreement,
Kindly begin there" Mrs. Seaman was
',kd. "and 'cll what happened from
'h't 1u
An right. To begin at the very begin
ming first We drew up an agreement with
Or. Stephenson that
Ruth, let this driver nave that storage
receipt, please" called Mr.. Seaman from
hollow stairs. where he had taken up the
work ~ experimenting the unloading
whore his wife had eft OF.
I'm sorry dear, but ! lett it at the Smiths
returned Mrs. Seaman. Now, as was
saying, the things in that cedar chest alone
we're really worth more than 81 900. The
doctor is sick Of his bargain, that's all
there is TO it,. He flied the house with
dodgers during the summer and that was
all right, of course, because he had a right
to do that under the agreement"
This agreement, you were about to say
vas
But every one of the doctors dodgers
has given up his room. You know he
wouldn't even let Mr.. Montgomery have