New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-27
SISTER Of CHARITY
TRIES TO BREAK WILL
Daughter Of Charles B. Reed by
First Marriage Begins Action
in Greenwich, Conn.
ESTATE VALUED AT 100000
Printer and Publisher Left All
to Physician and Wife OF Law
yer Who Is Said to Have
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poared as tho daughter Of Charles Is. Re'd
printer and publisher of this city, and he
gan an action i'm Greenwich, Conn. Satur-
dav. 10 break her fathers will. in which he
left an estate valued At S2D."N without
making her a beneficiary. was found yes
| terdsv 10 he connected with the religious
order Of The Sisters Of Charity OF -. YIN
cent do Paul. which has it's mother house
! near Yonkers.
| According TO her counsel, p. l.. Pcck' Of
! No. H2 Willow street, Brooklyn, the young
/ girl-sho is now twenty-four years old
lived her own secluded life estranged ana
/ apart from her father for many years
owing to family difficulties which cullnl-
mated in = divorce for tho first Mrs. Reed
tho girls mother
/ The mother died year after obtalh"5
/ the divorce. in 1923. and the daughter carr
/ became devoutly interested i'm the WORK OF
the Catholic Church and entered the order
Of the Sisters Of Charity five or six Years
ago She had dropped entirely out OF heT
fathers life. The Sisters I'm the order arc
not clustered and Sister Mary Berchman'
as Miss Reed is known in the ORDER has
been teaching I'm the various parochal
schools and doing other work among the
/ Catholic institutions in Manhattan.
/ Charles 3. Reed died last March. leaving
/ a will which was probated in April at
! Greenwich. whore he had summer home.
/ IIe left the entire estate 10 DIR. James p.
Fiskc of 40. 7G West seth street, his at
tending physician, and Mrs. William Grant
/ Brown. wife Of a lawyer living at Breton
| Han. Broadway and seth street. Mr.. Reed
made DR. Ffske and Mrs Brown sole bene-
fciarlcs and executors under the Will. MI
/ Brown is counsel for them.
lie said last night the executors had not
/ known of the existence of Mr.. Reed
daughter until recently. Mr.. Reed mad
/ never told his Intimate friends about ms
! daughter. he said. While they ala not
doubt her claim in that respect was propd-
/ Div legitimate. ne said. they would be pre-
pared to sustain the will when the action
came TO trial at Greenwich, probably some
! time In January.
| During The latter years of his lie Mr..
I Reed is said TO have mad some peculiar ne
/ liefs bordering on the occult. Among them
/ ,yas . belief I'm the TRANSPORTATION or the
soul He was said to be the author OF sew
/ eral hooks treating of these subjects.
Ar,ong them was one entitled The Animal
/ Soul Of Man" which included chapters on
the transmigration Of the soul and crystal
gazing. II was said With his second WIFE,
! DIR Augusta w. Reed. who was at one time
( president of the State Federation oil Noih-
ar,s clubs he organized what was called
| the Occult Brotherhood
! According 10 some of Mr.. Reeds friends.
/ he and his wife had a compact whereby
/ ,bov agreed that the one who died first
I 4, no al
! sible. Mr. Reed is said to have declared
/ that he often heard his wife calling MN
before he died, only six weeks after her
death.
Referring. TO the life Of Sister Mary aad
her connection with the case, Mr.. feck sdlo
3 Yesterday that Mr.. Reed had two chliureh
( bv his first wife. VINO was Mary Currah' OIL
this city The Reeds lived together a le"
wears. and the older child died. jessie Was
the second child and her mother and father
/ eenarated soon after her birth, Mrs. Reeu
getting a divorce. The mother died a year
LATER and the Young girl was brought up by
an aunt the mothers sister, who was APP
pointed guardian. Mr.. Reed practically
never saw his daughter after he was di-
yorced from his wife. Mr.. Peck said. The
girl went into convent
! "Aftcr the second Mrs Reed died, I'm
( February Mr. Reed went to live with Or.
lanes Porter Fiske." said Mr.. Peck. Mr..
Reed died on March p at DR.. Fiske's house,
! and his body was cremated on March =.
DR. Ffske was informed while Mr.. Reed
body was still in his house that he had
left a daughter Or. Fiske and Mr.. Brown
we're informed about the same time that
he had also left a sister. Mrs. Eleanor >.
Ueissingcr of Rosebank, Staten Island.
notwithstanding this. Dr. Fiske and Mr..
BROWN probatcd the hill In Greenwich last
. ApriI without notice to either the sister or
tho daughter. All the property under the
will IS loft TO Dr. Fske and Mrs Brown
and they arc made sole executors. am
Informed that the will was drawn by Mr.
| Brown.
mo effort apparently was made to learn
who and where the daughter Was until
about the first Of last month, when Dr.
Iriske wrote letter To the New YORK
Founding Hospital inquring about her. |
am told that a friend of Mr.. Reed met him
attending 10 business three or four days
before he died Judge Frederick 9. Taylor
Of stamford. has been retained to look after
the daughters interests in the Connecticut
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