New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-04
CONS|D|NE DIED POOR
Sporting Mans Estate Is APP.
praised at Only $23,443.
MUCH VALUELESS STOCK
Widow, Who Sued Dead Mans
Brother George, Declares
She Is Penniless.

John r. Considine, well known sporting
man and part owner of the Hotel Metro
pole, who died on June 2s, 1909, left a>net
estate amounting to s23,+3 The esti-
mate placed at the time Of Mr.. Consi-
dimes death by the attorney for the estate
was $4,000, of which II was said that
100000 was In realty.
The appraisal of thS transfer tax ap-
praiser filed yesterday in the Surrogate's
office shows this valuation to have been
greatly exaggerated and gives the figures
after deductions for debts. administration
expenses and other charges. The gross
estate amounted to S2s673.
The settlement Of the estate, which has
dragged long time. partly because Of an
action brought by Mrs. Lulu Tabor Con-
sidine. the widow Of John r. Considine,
against his brother, George +. Considine,
was hurried through yesterday on the
representation Of Mrs. Considine that she
was compelled to pawn her jewelry to
provide for herself and her two children
and needed at once the property due her
from the estate OF her husband. Mrs.
Considine was formerly an actress kno WI
Oh the stage as Lulu Tabor
Considine left no will. His wife and his
brother George took out letters of admin
istration on his estate. The action
brought by Mrs. Considine against her
brother-in-law was TO have him removed
as co-administrator and compel him to
give an accounting. alleging that he in
duced her to sign a paper conveying to
him securities valued at $4,000 belonging
to the estate OF her husband.
Tho action was tried before a referee
and George r. Considine was able to
prove that q large part Of the securities
held by his brother. who was his partner
in several enterprises. really belonged TO
him. These probably had been included
in the original estimate OF the value OF
the dead sporting mans estate. George
F. Considine recovered his property.
The appraisal filed yesterday shows
that fourteen bonds originally valued at
500 each came into the hands OF the
Hudson Trust Company. which was APP
pointed administrator after the resigna-
ton OF the wife and the brother OF Con-
sidine. These bonds do not appear I'm the
schedule OF the estate and are part OF the
securities TO which George +. Considine
proved his ownership.
Many OF the holdings OF Considine are
shown by the appraisal 10 have no actual
value Among these are 10 shares OF the
World of Sport Publishing Company.
which are set down as OF nominal value.
as are also Loo shares OF the Washing
ton-Columbia Theatre Company. 20 shares
OF the Cockburn Company. 1927 OF the
Dreamland Company. Z Dreainland bonds
and % shares OF the Autobus Company.
He also held two notes made by Hal
Davis, for 500 and $50 respectively,
which also arc only Of nominal value
The holdings OF the Considine estate
which were OF value woro a deposit OF
1895 in the Commercial Trust Company.
81, 100 received from the city Chamber
lain from a foreclosure suit 1853. value
OF certificate OF the Mount Carmel
Cemetery Association; bonds Of tho rs
tates OF Long Beach. $500; Dreamland
mortgage bonds. s2loo; five shares OF the
Hanover Theatre Company. 500; received
from Schwartz Brothers. 400. and de-
post in the Greenwich Bank, $3.50.
Considine left no real estate and had no
insurance Oh his life.