The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1908-01-24
Mrs. Elliott Gains Posses.
sion of House Occupied
by Countess"
SEVERAL WARRANTS OUT
Amazing Story of Alleged Duplic-
ity by Which Woman in Jail
Here Secured Luxuries-.Had
Numerous Aliases. :. Told
Tales of Wealth.

BY an eviction suit against Mary De
Anderson in the District Court today
Mrs. Give N. Elliott, wife of we'll
known New York architect, successor
to Stanford White, who was murdered
by Harry K. Thaw, obtained possess
sion of her beautiful home in the
Northwood section of Nutley. Mrs
Elliott is the principal complainant
against Mrs. De Anderson, who lived
in the Nutley house and posed as a
countess.
Thomas Atchison. a Jersey City law
yer, accompanied by young man who
professed to be friend of the defend
ants daughters, was granted a pass
today to see the woman. One of the
sheriff's men was detailed to accom-
pany them.
The news that Mrs. Elliott had gained
possession of the house, which she left
some time ago completely and hand
somely furnished to go to Portchester,
N. Y, was received with satisfaction
by the majority of the residents Of Nut
ley.
Since Mrs. Mary De Anderson was
placed under arrest by the sheriff's men
a week ago on charges of obtaining
goods under false pretenses and grand
larceny, an interesting story of the
alleged manner In which the woman.
who Is locked up at the county Jail,
found 1t easy for herself and family to
live without money in royal style, has
been told.
The family's record was tracked back
seventeen years. They have used more
than score of different family names.
according to the story, and the daugh-
ters assumed different Christian names
whenever they pleased. Property
ers, hotelkeepers, merchants, liverymen
and all sorts of business men, as well
as several of the largest department
store owners In the principal cities of
the East, are numbered among the
family's alleged victims.
The De Anderson woman, according
to Arthur w. McDougall. secretary of
the Bureau Of Associated Charities, is
the mother -in-law of Mrs. BeuIah Mac
Carton. who was arrested in this city
for swindling several years ago. The
members of the family are alleged to
have served time in New York.
While Mrs. De Anderson and her
daughters, Helen and Bessie, the latter
known also as Florence, are confined
at the county jail, the former under
three charges and the daughters as
witnesses, warrants are arriving from
other places telling of alleged swindles
Arthur W. McDougall, secretary Of
the Bureau OF Associated Charities, is
responsible for connecting the MacCar-
ton woman, who was arrested on COM
plaint of the Rev. Louis Shreve Os-
borne, pastor of Trinity Episcopal
Church, with the aged women who is
confined in cell on the upper tier Of
the new east wing at the county Jail
Mr.. McDougall has records to show
that Beulah, who gave her name to
Charles E. Wager, manager of the
Prudential Hotel, in Bank street, dur
ing 1903 and 1904, visited the hotel and
rented two choice rooms on the first
and second floors at $40 per week,
without meals.
The woman who was arrested here
was alone when she engaged tho
rooms, but told Mr.. Wager that her
father-in-law, brother. two sisters ard
their four children would arrive that
night. The mother-in-law was the De
Anderson woman, according to Mr.
McDougall.
The party remained in the Bank street
hotel until their bill reached $136 10.
and the management finally compelled
them to leave. At the time they man
aged to elude payment by telling Wager
that they expected a remittance from
son in Charleston, S. c. They sent
telegram to that city at the hotel man
ayers expense. and later, when he
wired to the police of the Southern city
such person in that city.
Following their stay at the hotel they
managed to secure an apartment at "a
Milford avenue, owned by William
Greathead, OF the Board Of Works.