Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-16
dyer, SHE SAYS,
STOLE INVENTIONS
Head of Movies Trust, Miss
Welch Charges, Defrauded
Her Brother.

The $4,000 damage suit brought by
Miss katherine A. WEIGH against
Frank l.. Dyer and Dyer Smith, which
gave promise of startling testimony
may never come to trial. Conover
English. of MeCarter & English, coun-
sci for the defendants, has moved III
the Supreme Court to have the case
ruled out of court on the ground that
Miss WEIGHS charges have no legal
ity The motion is returnable before
Chief Justice Gummere Saturday.
Miss WEIGH, who lives at AZ South
Walnut street. East Orange, brings
the action to recover an income due
from patents obtained by her brother,
the late Abram WEIGH. She says Mr..
DYER, who was then president of the
National Photograph Company, one
of the Edison companies, and MS
nephew, Mr.. Smith, who is patent
lawyer, conspired to secure possess
sion of the letters patent on a fish
driving process for fertilizer, and that
her brother came to his oath by rea-
son of their efforts to secure possess
sion of the letters patent.
1.-THE suit itself and the allegations
of the complainant are so ridiculous
that they ought not to be dignihed by
even being noticed were it not Tor the
fact that they are contained in COM
plaint which has. been filed in court
of law" says Mr.. English in state
ment to the court He then sets forth
his side of the case, which, in brief
is this:
In 1909 Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
wife of the inventor, asked Mr.. Dyer
To interest himself in WEIGH, who was
represented as a poor patentee, whose
patents were being infringed upon by
comptitors. He found WEIGH living
in a tent with his sisters on the top
of st. Cloud, apparently very poor
and a helless paralytic. Out OF char-
ity, Mr.. Dyer paid him $25 a week and
moved him to Orange, later he paid
the invalid's expenses at the sea-
shore, and paid DR.. William Hicks,
specialist, $3.50 to examine WEIGH
On DR. Hicks's advice he was taken
to sanitarium at Paterson, ana
after he was removed from there be-
cause of quarrels, he was taken TO
similar institution in Brooklyn, where
the same thing happened and he was
removed TO Kings County Hospital.
He was brought from there in Mr..
Overs automobile to Orange, where
he died in his sisters home.
Mr.. Dyer placed the infringement
suits in the hands of an attorney,
but Miss WEIGH advanced no money
for their prosecution, and upon the
patentee's death, Mr.. Dyer turned
over what papers he had to the wife
and son of Mr. WEIGH, who had been
appointed administrators of the es-
tate. Mr.. Smith attended Mr. Dyer
in caring for Mr.. WEIGH.
..There is absolutely no foundation
IN fact for the allegations made in
the complaint" the statement con-
rludes. 1.-THE late Mr.. Welch and
his sister, the plaintiff, were the sub
1ects of Mr.. Dyer's bounty and char
ity for over a year. There Is no as
tignable reason for the starting OF
this suit. The most charitable con-
,truction that can be placed upon 1t
Is that the plaintiff. laboring under
some hallucination or other disorder
of mind, has come to believe the
ftatementS Whlcn Sne MAKES III hei
complaint"
Miss WEIGH denies this and says
that Mr. Dyer and Mr.. Smith made
efforts to have the patents assigned
to them, and that that was their
object in paying attention to the well
fare of the patient.
"Recognizing my brothers ability"
Miss WEIGH says, "Mr. Dyer gave him
position with the Edison concern,