New-York tribune., 1912-03-09
urs Harriet Wells Smith, an In
valid, Causes Her Niece and
Granddaughter To Be
Arrested.
s5OO.ooO ESTATE INVOLVED
Fortune Left by Local Business
Man-Mrs. Brown and Her
Son. Newton Davis, To Be
Arraigned To- o-day-They
Charge Conspiracy.

Mrs Antonette w Brown and her son.
Newton Davis, twenty-five years old'
,sre arrested last night on warrants
.horsine them with stealing $l19 from
Mrs. Harriet Wells Smith. the aunt OF
Mrs Brown. Mrs. Smith is the widow
&c Newtor Smith. one of the syndicate
u,bicb bullt the Kings County Elevated
railroad She charges that her niece and
erardnennew have been systematically
,u.indling her out of the income which
she should have received from her hus-
hands estate, which amounts 10 about
$500 900.
Mrs Smith is paralyzed in her right
eide from her waist down. When her
h,shand died. and for some time after
ward. she lived at the Hotel Savoy with
her nurse. Miss Mary Clarke. who was
onraged loI nef by her family physician
DR.. F. lie Roy Satterlee, of No. West
5sth street. Mrs. Smiths niece. whom
she brought up, was recently divorced
from her first husband, Britton Davis.
She came to New York in June, anu
made frequent calls on Mrs. Smith. Two
months ago Mrs. Davis married Wilson
T. Brown. a Chicago cotton broker.
Mrs. Brown persuaded her aunt TO
move FROM the expensive rooms in the
Savoy to a cheaper and less comfortable
hotel. Five times Mrs. Brown found faul;
with the lodgings occupied by her aunt.
and each time Mrs. Smith moved 10 a
less desirable location She was living
in a rear room on the second floor of a
boarding house kept by Mrs E. L. Hatch.
at No 156 West 18th street, until last
night when she was taken away with
two trunks TO an address which was not
known by Mrs. Hatch.
Says She Got No Money.
Mrs. Smiths income from the estate,
which was held in trust by the United
States Trust Company should have
been $4,000 or $1,000 a year. Since July
checks amounting TO SO. 196 have been
sent her by the trust company on Feb
ruary q her attorney, George Malraison.
told James 3. Reynolds and Deacon
Murphy. Of the District Attorneys stah.
that his client believed there was some
thing wrong. that she was continually
indorsing checks to her niece and that
she saw none Of her own money.
Mr.. Murphy, &c whom the matter was
turned over. was forced yesterday to act
sooner than he intended because Mrs.
Smith told him that Mrs. Brown and he~
son had learned that she had retaine J
Mr. Malraison TO investigate their ac-
tions, adding that they had tried TO get
her to sign affidavits that she had re-
tanned no lawyer and that no one had
any authority 10 act for her save her
niece Mrs Brown. Mr.. Murphy, with
officials from the United States Trust
Company, went up to the West Side
court and laid the case before Magis.
trate McQuade.
He adjourned court and went with
them to the furnished room in West 18th
street. There they found Mrs. Smith, a
slender white haired woman of seventy
five. sitting up waiting for them. In
spite of her physical infirmity Mrs.
Smiths mind is keen and her language
was vigorous as she described TO the
magistrate the actions of Mrs Brown
and her son.
Every morning" she said, that
woman comes here. and generally her
son is with her. They don't come I'm the
afternoon because they know that Or.
Satterlee comes then. and they are afraid
Of him. They tried to get me to dismiss
Miss Clarke because he recommended
her.