The evening world., 1911-08-12
WEALTHY HE|RESS +
SAYS COL. HOPPER
Waved REVOLVER
Remarkable Charges Made by
Miss jenkins Against For
mer Commander of 7tst.
MADE HER SIGN PAPERS.
His First Wife Was Her Sister
and His Son Lives at
Her Home.
HER SIGN PAPERS.

Col. Frederick Hopper, one time COM
mander Of the Seventy-nr Regiment
and later ono of the az live combatapts
at San Juan Hill, Is being sought by his
SON.. Frederick Jr.. to explain an old
debt which bobbed UP yesterday In the
Supreme Court. and which the military
has neglected some fourteen years.
The recovery Of the note, amounting to
e6.6e7. 10 sought from the Colonel's sis
ter-in-law. Miss Sarah r. Jenkins. one
Of the heirs of the vast Jenkins estate.
part Of Harlem. It Ia said that Miss
Jenkins was a co-sisner Of the note.
The Colonies whereabouts is . mys-
terry to his son. His nrst wife was sis
ter OF Miss Jenkins. She died and he re-
married three years ago and went to
Canada. At times he has occupied the
Hopper Fortress" at Lake Dunmore
In Vermont. which Miss Jenkins calls
an 'isolated spot but In recent months
the son. who lives With Miss Jenkins.
his only aunt. at No. 100 West Eighty
irst street. has heard nothing OF his
father. The Colonels remarriage was
not entirely a pleasing venture to his
son and sister-in-law and an %estrange-
ment resulted.
SAYS SHE FEARED PISTOL
WAVED BY THE COLONEL.
Sensational charges are made by Miss
Jenkins In her motion to vacate the
long standing Judgment. The charges
related TO the Colonies alleged DISPOSE
ton to wave a revolver In her face and
to force her to sign papers and docu-
ments. which. she swears. were un-
known to her because OF fear Of the
loaded revolver.
The ColoneNs marriage In the early
SOS to Margaret jenkins. daughter Of
Commander George w. Jenkins. ". S.
NJ. was a social event. The Koppers
took up their home in the old Jenkins
mansion in One Hundred and Twenty
ffth street. Shortly after the marriage
Commander jenkins died. Not long aft
erward the widow passed away, leav-
Ing an estate. assessed In those, days
at more than 81, OCo,o 900 to three daugh-
ters. one Of whom was Mrs. Hopper.
The latter gave her husband q power
Of attorney.
now sixty-three years old. declares their
family oubles dated. She charges that
the Colonel had complete control over
his wife and that eventually his violent
and overbearing nature" exercised the
same control over her.
The Jenkinses and Koppers then
moved to Fortress Hopper" where,
she alleges, he frequently placed papers
before her and forced her to sign them
at the point OF a loaded revolver
The Colonel Kept the household in con-
slant terror. the afidavit OF Mrs. Jen-
klns states. and he soon had the man
agement Of the entire estate In his
hands.
CONTINUED HIS METHODS AZ.
TER SECOND MARRIAGE.
Even after her sister died and the
Colonel remarked. she says. he came
to her home. moved out some furniture
and again terrorized the household with
his grur and belligerent attitude. A
desire to conceal the family trlbulations
restrained her from exposing the Colonel
years ago. she says.
One OF the notes signed under the
Colonel's "duress" is the one which she
asked Justice Brady to vacate. The
Court refused and granted the com.
plainant. Horace l.. Insersoll. q re.
newai.
my aunt merely asked the Court tc
vacate a renewal Of a. Judgement
against her which she knows nothins
about said young Hopper. tn,
Colonel's son. who has made an afh,
davit in his aunt's interest. when seer
to-day.
Where father Is we do not know. w,
have not heard Of him In months.
can't see what interest this AFFAIR is I,
, the public. 1t happened a generation
ago. We nave tried to keep the famil,
, secrets from the public. The statement
. regarding the use OF a pistol are mat
tiers which ! will not discuss. We pre-
pose to fight the judgment"
In 1901. when the Colonel was examine
In supplementary proceedings. he ad
mitted that Miss Jenkins supplied a
that he needed for clothes and Twin
expenses Miss Jenkins testified alon
the same line. At that time John {
Croft was striving to collect "A bill {
si9s from the Colonel, Miss jenkins
testimony enabled the Colonel to evat
payment.