New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-08
CALLS ELLIS UNBALANCED
Nenhew in Threatened $1,000
600 Suit Calls Plan Absurd.
RICH BANKERS SON TALKS
Proposed Action Against j. w.
Ellis by Brother Not Taken
Seriously.

Seriously.
Charles b. Ellis for twenty-seven years
a resident of Ireland, has returned 10 Ms
native land. He has announced the rea-
son of his coming to be the bringing OF an
action for 81 .0o0 against his only brother
John W Ellis. retired millionaire banker
and the latter's son, Ralph n. Ellis. Tor
nner master of the foxhounds of the Mead
ow Brook Club.
Tho ground for the threatened ac'i''''
according to Ellis, is that his brother ana
nephew forced him into exile and kept MN
in Ireland all these years because ne IN
terfered with his brothers financial plans.
In a public notice published In one OF the
NEWSPAPERS Of the city, Charles g. Ellis
advertises for "a lawyer or syndicate 10
conduct a suit for 100000 by Charles r.
Ellis seventy -nine) against his only proth-
or. John w. Ellis (ninety-five}, OF NO. 2
West 57th street and elsewhere, and RalpH
n Fills (ffty-fve), of the same address,
in that thew caused him to be kidnapped
on January 1. 1888 and forced him against
his will to take passage on the steamer
Wyoming by the then superintendent OF
Detectives Byrnes, and was iandeo d
Queenstown and left to starve
.'Charles B. Ellis, at the end OF twenty
seven years and eight months returns IN
full vigor of mind and body to avenge MS
inhurnan deportation. Mr. Ellis fought 1os
lis country in the great war, when MS
relative remained at home IN lnSlorlous
ease to amass wealth and revel IN luxury
which the patriotism OF such men as MS
brother rendered possible. Syndicate 10
bear all costs, and take fees for services
out of one-half returns.
Once Inmate of Asylum.
In exclamation, Charles B. Ellis said he
had been Iockedup in an asylum through a
conspiracy between his wife and his brother
He got out after nine months
At that time, he says, he was civil en-
gineer and had property in Kansas Later
he came to New York and got employment
as a civil engineer on the Union Pacific, but
his brother prevented his going to work
Then he saws he exposed some fnancia
deals and his brother caused his arrest and
INSPECTOR Byrnes gave him the cholce OF
going to fail or going to Ireland for the
rest of his life Il defed Byrnes," he says
1.-The next day I was put aboard the wy
orning. ByTnes going down with me- was
guarded all the way across, and told that
would receive a remittance of FL a month
for my support
In support of his claim that he has been
i'll treated by his brother and nephew, ne
produces a letter, dated February lS10
in which Ralph \. Ellis asks him 10 correc'
| a deed made in March, 1888, conveying %
RaInh Ellis the property In Kansas 1he
letter says with regard TO the transfer o.
the property: Those, you will remember
YOU did in consideration of certain Things
done then and previously thereto.
Jobn W. Ellis, referred to by his brother
| was born in Clermont County, Ohio Hi
family came to America in the seventeenth
century from Sandwich. England. and set
lied at Sandwich, Mass. He began bust
ness in the wholesale drygoods trade il
Cincinnati, and in 1869 organized the FRS
National Bank of Cincinnati In 1863 n
came TO New York as manager of th
Winslow. Lanier & Co. bank In 1879 an(
| 1880 he reorganized the Northern Paciti
| Railroad after it had failed. He formed
syndicate which took s40.0 coo 900 of its bonds
and finished the road through TO the Pacid
Coast. He retired from business in 1853
| General Grant invited Mr.. Ellis to becom
Secretary Of the Treasury, but the banke
declined the Office.
Suit Absurd, Says Son.
| John ". Ellis could not be seen yester
dav. but his son, Ralph N Ellis, was
his home. in Wheatley Hills, Long Island
When asked about the claim made upon nj
father and himself, he said it was to-
| ridiculous to be dignifed by a denial.
| 1.-THE man is a half hrother OF my father,
he said. He is very brilliant man Il
| some respects, but he has been, and dar
| saw he is again, insane His story prove
| itself absurd on the face of it \ civil engt
| neer cannot be thrown into an insane asy
| Inn and kept there nine months in this coun
trv Neither can he be exiled against hi
will Nv father did pay him pension 70
son,a wears That part of the story is true
r. is also true that he threatened m,
father. His letters are still in existence
heueva he was arrested at the time ant
LOFT the country. but it is ridiculous to SAL
that nv father caused him to be kidnapped
He perfected some inventions while he wa
| abroad and he lived on the proceeds, as
understand 1t.
when ! wrote him TO perfect the deco
4
by which he had released his Kansas
property to me. 1 did not ask him to give
me anything, as he had already received
| full consideration for the property The
| publicity is very unpleasant for US. bu
the very fact that he has to advertise tC
| try to find a lawyer to take the suit shows
! that there is 10 ground for such action
| Otherwise he would. ere this. have founC
lawyer who would have brought suit
I do not care to discuss the matter at any
| length. for 1 believe the unfortunate mar
| is not mentally responsible
| Mr.. Ellis said neither he nor his father
| had had any knowledge of the presence III
! this country of Charles B. Ellis. The
| guardian of their city house, however
| said that a man answering the description
| of the claimant had called two or three
| times.
|