The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-14
AFTER MRS. CLARK'S $4,000
BROTHER IDENTIFIES SUI
tTDE'S RODl As HERS.
Tangled Litigation In case Of Woman
Who Was Reported to Have said That
the stars Dictated Her Marriage
Relatives Want to Get the Property.

qua, tOe question OF WHOSE SANITY WIS lp
have come before Justice Tompkins in
the Westchester county Supreme Court
on December 20 in proceedings brought
10y her friends to prevent her husband
from rctIining property once hers and
valued at s7OOOO. killed herself in a PLAIN
field, y. J., santarium on December g.
II was reported to her brother. Joseph
VI. Wright of Chappaqua. that Mrs. Clark
had hanged herself with the cord of her
bath robe Yesterday Mr.. Wright and
Mrs Katherine Diehl. one of Mrs Clarks
friends went to Greenwood and iden-
titled the body Proceedings will he con.
tinuod to secure the property, now in
the possession of Mrs Clark's husband,
Arthur Clark
Among the allegations made in 1910,
when Mrs. Diehl applied for the appoint
ment of II commission to pass upon Mrs.
Clurk's mental condition was one that
Mrs Clark attended meetings of Il star
gazing society" in New York. DR.. +.
Wilton Brown of Mount Kisco said Mrs.
Clark had told him that she married her
husband because she knew by the po-
sition of the stars that he was destined
for her. He said she was a member Of
the Oriental Philosophical Society in
New York and that she had met her hus-
band at "A shauCe here, Mrs Clark, after
she had begun a suit against her husband
to recover the control of her property and
had become reconCiled to- Mr.. Clark, de-
MED these statements. She had with
drawn her suit before the proceedings
to have her sanity tested were begun.
Arthur L. Wing. New York lawyer.
who was retained by Mrs Clark in 1910
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er'y' Salu yes'eruaF '"' "i7 'a' n
VINO was Miss tIlNioeth "rIEh' belore
marriage, met Clark in q sixth avenue
restaurant and married him in August
loon Oh, u.os ,b,r abou, A. v.,rs old
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ana lark was ~. Nr. wing s"lu 'hd'
Mrs. Clark decided 20 her husband eighty
acres OF land near Mount hlsco ana gave
him $50 900. The land was valued at
So, ,0ou
Mrs. Clark, the lawyer said, began the
suit after her husband had conveyed Ut la
to the Arthur B. Clark Company and the
NewcaStl le stone Company, concerns which
he promoted. Mrs. Clark began her action
about a year after her marriage, alleging
that her husband got possession through
misrepresentation and that he after
| ward tried to get her TO sign "A separation
| agreement providing for the payment
| of $50 month for her support and that
| she should leave Chappaqua and i've i'll
| some placeto be ind ed hN her husband
| Lawyer Wing SAID that lat" IN S"ptem-
| her, 1910, Mrs. lark was taken ny her
| physician to a hospital IN llOth street.
! Manhattan, ana that three days later
! she was removed from IN" hospital 10y
! her husband without the know ledge OF
her friends or her doctor. Few days
/ afterward Mr.. Wing received "A letter
I from Mrs. Clark directing him to have the
! suit discontinued and rctractlnG what she
/ had said about the alleged mlsrepresenia a
/ tions through which MIR Clark obtained
| possession.
When the suit came up before Justice
| Tompkins in White Plains he agreed to
the discontinuance providing that Mrs.
! Clark would pay costs. She never com
! piled with the condition and ii is MIR
/ Wings opinion that the suit may be CON
! tnued
Justice Tompkins at the time the motion
was made to discontinue the suit granted
the application made al that time by
! Mrs, Katherine Dlehi, as Mrs. Clark s
nearest friend, Tor the appointment
of a commission TO inquire AS to Mrs.
! Clark.s sanity. Arthur |. StranG, lawyer
! of White Plains, br. Henry |. Kelly of
| White Plains and William Crosby of
! NvaCk were appointed as the commission
! There were many hearings before Sher-
I if's jury. which after considering the case
! for five months failed to agree.
The case was then carried into the
trial term of the supreme Court before
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