The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-06
GROW HOUNDED
FOR 25 YEARS
BY TWO WOMEN
Gave Up Many Thou
sands for His SuppoSi-
titiouS Daughter.

NEW YORK. May Sin the clutches
Of an alleged blackmailiug band for
twenty-five years. paying thousands OF
dollars 10 conceal supposed secrets,
Galusha a. Grows life was clOuded at
the end by fear and poverty.
And now those who are said to have
extorted thousands of dollars from him
are lighting among themselves, with
charges and counter-charges while the
name OF former Governor Fenton, Of
New York. is dragged into the scan
daL
Catherine Livingstone De Fossez.
owner Of Hotel Glen Cliff. near Catskill.
y. Y. a SOO-pound woman, with traces
Of former beauty. hints, but will not af-
firm, that she is the mother OF Mrs.
Catherine Livingstone Williams, and
that Galusha A. Grow was the girls
father.
Relatives of the dead statesman,
Father Of the Homestead Law" who
watched for years the draining Of
their l1insman's resources into the
greedy maws Of rapacious Adventures,
contend that Grow was taxed constantly
beyond the limit of his ability. but that
whenever any reference was made 10
his troubles he became angry and some
times took TO his bed, lying for days,
as If drugged, with his face toward the
wall.
Got $4,000 in a Lump.
Mrs. Williams. the alleged daughter.
coDfesses that she extorted $4,000 from
Grow before he became bankrupt; and
Mrs. De Fossez says that she got so. 900
at the same time. Mrs. Williams says
also that there is a trust fund Sc
cured from Grow 10 assure her a good
living for the rest Of her life.
All this money is that which was
obtained from Grow at a final on
slaught. Over and above these amounts
are the sums extracted from him yearly.
monthly, or weekly, over the term OF
twenty-five years. whenever the human
leeches who mad fastened Upon him
thirsted for money
James T. Du BOis. chief clerk OF the
State Department, executor of Crows
estate and closest friend of the Iegis-
lator. insists that Grow was not tho
father Of Mrs. Williams. and that he
never even saw the mother. who. ac-
cording TO the former husband Of Mrs.
De FOssez, is a scrubwoman named
Kate Burke. her father being one Ed
ward Holt.
Grow himself, Mr.. Du BOis says, de-
MED the paternity of the girl, but re-
fused to take any steps TO free himself
from the tolls of the alleged black
mailers. whose efforts were said TO be
supplemented by one George V. Black
burn.
According to Mrs. Samuel Grow, SIS
ter-in-law of the statesman. the name
Of former. Governor Reuben F. Fenton
was brought into the case by Grow
himself, a close friend. Crows cousin
and Fenton's daughter went TO see
Grow at the Fifth Avenue Hotel many
years ago. and found him entertaining
a fashily dressed woman whom they
afterward discovered to be Mrs. De
Fossez. The next day Grow told his
cousin that Mrs. De Fossez was the
friend of Fenton. whom she had come
to see. but thar Fenton had hurried into
another room, so that his daughter
would not see him with the woman
Elijah A. Roake. a New York lawyer.
who is suing the Grow estate for s.. 900
Tor professional services in trying to
learn the parentage of Mrs. Williams.
insists that Grow did not die insolvent
but that $4,000 is hidden away some
where. James T. Du Bois, the executor.
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