Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-29
"PAUPER" PATIENT
LEAVES 100000
Bowery Derelict Lived 80 Years
in Lodging Houses, lden-
fifty UndisclOsed.
NEPHEW, A LEGATEE,
A MONTCLAIR RESIDENT
Dudley Jardine's Strange Exist
ence, His One Romance
and Its Ending.

Although he lived incognito for
thirty years in Bowery lodging
houses and died a pauper patient in
Gouvernour Hospital, New York,
Dudley Jardine left an estate of
100000
Among his legatees is Frederick NJ.
Jardine, of 2o2 Lorraine avenue,
Upper Montelair, nephew.
The story of Dudley Jardine' 5
strange life on the East Side of New
York, his shrewd investments, his
one romance and its sad ending was
revealed only when his will was filed
for probate And even the finding of
that document was due entirely to
chance
A victim of Bright's disease ap-
peared at Gouverneur Hospital one
day in January. gave his name as
"william Smith," described his home
vaguely as a Bowery hotel and asked
for treatment. On February he
died. His body was sent to the
fnorgue, its last hating place on the
way TO a grave in potter's field.
His One Friend.
But Smith had had one acquaint-
ance who was interested enough in
him to call at the hospital once or
twice while he was sick, and he came
again on the very day that smith"
died and made his usual inquiries.
This was Peter Schenard. an old
East side bookworm and librarian,
10 sfCY,aff1' c'' In 4
ance at the Squirrel Inn, a reading
room at No. 131 Bowery, where the
Two old men--"smith" was nearly IS
Years of ACCUSED to go and read old
rnusty books and talk about them.
He's dead" the hospital people
old Schenard when he asked for
SMITH and his body has gone to
he morgue IF you know anything
about him you had better hurry up"
Now Schenard had always believed
that Smith was better off than he
pretended TO be and that he was well
connected: that he was educated he
knew, of course. from Smiths" love
OF books. So he went to Undertaken
James J. Fallon, OF No. 36S West Fiji
tieth street, and told him about the
case and suggested that Fallon claim
the body and try to find II smith"
really had any relatives. Fallon
agreed and the two went to the Ger
mania Hotel, No. 81 Bowery, where
Smith" had lived, and looked up his
papers.
One Heir Found,
They found one paper in which oc-
cutred the name of Frederick NJ. Jar
dine, OF Montclair. He turned out to
be a nephew of Smith" who was
not Smith" at ALL but Dudley Jar
dine, formerly of Brooklyn, and a
son OF George Jardine, who founded
in the first half of the last century
the world famous organ building firm
of George Jardine & Co. This con-
Germ built the organ for st. Patrick's
Cathedral St Georges Episcopal
Church and other New York churches.
For more than thirty years--ever
since his fathers death in 1S81-Dud
ley Jardine had lived apart from his
relatives and had seen them only on
rare occasions, those occasions being
mostly funerals as his brothers and
other members of the family died He
was not exactly estranged from them,
for he was apparently we'll disposed
toward them when he did see them.
but he simply preferred to live alone
and to live alone on the Bowery.
After Fallon had found Frederick
Jardine the latter went to the under
taking shop and identified the body
as that of his uncle. In the mean
time a death notice had been pub
lished giving Jardine's right name,
and this brought a response from
John Shedd, a lawyer, OF AZ Cedar
street, New York.
Tie Drew the will.
Mr.. Shedd said that he had drawn
Mr.. Jardine's will and was ready to
produce it. He did so and by it's
terms ii was found that Jardine, all
The time posing on the Bowery as a
poor man. had a fortune which Will
reach 100000.
Mention was made in the will of
certain giit-edged bonds and these
were found later in Jardines strong
hox in the vaults of the Standard
Safe Deposit Company at % Broad
street. These bonds have a present
market value, Frederick Jardine said
last night, of slt5,0O0.
Besides Mr.. Jardine has found one
deposit OF $1,000 in the United States
Guaranty and Trust Company, and
he believes that his uncle had large
deposits elsewhere. as memoranda in
dlicated that he had money in the
Bowery, the Seaman's and possibly
other savings banks.
Division of the Estate.
Half of the estate is left TO Fred
etick Jardine. Mrs. Thomas +. DE
Voc, OF Elmhurst. L. T., and to George
Hogg children of Dudley Jardine's
brother and sister, and the other half
goes to charity. The institutions
which will benefit are the Prison AS
sociation Of New York. the Woman s
Branch OF the New York City Mis-
sion and Tract Society, the Presby-
erian Board of Foreign Missions and
the New York Protestant Episcopal
city Mission Society.
Somewhere in the life of Dudley
Jardine was romance. Among his
papers were found many letters ad-
dressed to and received from a
woman only mentioned in them as
',Maggie True Love- That Mag
sic True Love" was Of the east side
IS probable. for she died in a hos
pital 10 which Mr.. Jardine often sent
wine, Jelly. fresh eggs and other dain-
ties which are not furnished i'm the