The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-04-11
FORMER HONESDALE GIRL
DOING STUNTS IN N. Y. STATE.
Press Dispatches Claim Stepfather
Has Appealed to State Secretary
May to Revoke Automobile
License

License.
The following dispatches sent to
the New York Times from it's repre-
sentatives in Albany and Chicago tell
of some stunts that former
Honesdale girl is doing in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. She has since be-
come married and it is alleged is
not living with her husband. The
mother and daughter formerly lived
in what is known as the David Ken
ner house on East street until Mrs.
Kenner's marriage to ]. M. Ingal, an
attorney of New York state, now of
Chicago. The dispatches of April
read as follows:
Albany-Secretary of State May
is unable to grant the application of
j. M. lngal of Chicago, retired men,
Der of the New York bar, who asked
him to revoke the automobile license
of his step-daughter, Mrs. Edward
I. Alexander of Poughkeepsie, stat
ing that she was reckless in driving
her car.
Secretary May in statement says
the present law does not give him
power to grant the request.
The young woman's father asserts
that she ran over a small boy a year
ago in Chicago and deliberately took
her car out of the State so as to en-
able the accident insurance company
to settle for a trifle with the parents
of the injured boy"
Secretary May points out that the
law docs not afford any means of
supervising or controlling the iss,l-
ance of certificate of registration to
an owner, nor does it provide for the
SuSDnO sim Or tiOp of
issued to a chauffeur after the same
has been granted
Mr.. May calls attention to the fact
that measures to remedy what he
terms "the inadequacies' of the pres
ent law have been introduced in both
houses of the Legislature, but have
not been reported from committees
Chicago. NJ. Ingal, lawyer of
1858 Clifton avenue, Chicago, who
wrote the New York Secretary of
State, requesting the annulment of
the automobile license of his step
daughter, Mrs. Edward 1. Alexander
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has retired
from the practice of the law in New
York State and is now spending the
remainder of his days in this city.
Mrs. Alexander he says, is the
daughter of the late David Kenner,
who possessed a valuable farm in the
Hudson River Valley in the neighbor-
hood of ughkeepsie, and who be-
queathed her $25, into which she
came into possession five years ago,
when she attained the age of 81
Her mother, who subsequently be-
came the wife of Mr.. Ingal, inherited
100000 from the estate
my stepdaughter has a mania for
fast automobile driving, killing of
chickens, dogs, and other animals
who stray upon the highways" Mr..
Ingal said. "It was this propensity
on her part which induced me to re-
quest the Secretary of State in New
York to revoke her automobile Ii
cense, believing it would save her
from serious trouble. About a year
ago she ran over and seriously in
jured boy in this city"
Mrs. Alexander has a summer
home on the South Road, five miles
from Poughkeepsie. She was mar
ried to Edward I. Alexander on Nov.
25th last, but sixty days later her
husband disappeared and is said to
be in Mexico.
Mrs. Alexander is we'll known in
the Hudson Valley towns. A few
years ago she began the study of law
in Dutchess county, but apparently
never got to the point of applying for
admission to the bar. She attracted
some comment by appearing on the
streets of Poughkeepsie at that time
riding a white horse and wearing a
black divided skirt. Her stepfather
not long ago addressed communica-
tion to Chief of Police McCabe, in
III a11r III. l. t.
sufficient authority to prevent her
operating an automobile in Pough-
keepsie. At that time she possessed
a speedy roadster, but it is not known
that she had any difficulty with the
authorities in driving it,