The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-18
GHOST OF AN ACTION
AGAINST N. F. PLANT
COmmodore's Wife Also Was
Named as One Of the
Defendants.
BROUGHT BY.YOUNG WOMAN
Her Lawyer Says Filing of Pa
per Was a Mistake-Others
Give Nothing Out.
BROUGHT BY. YOUNG WOMAN

A suit around which much mystery was
thrown by the attorneys and parties to
the action and in which Commodore
Morton r. Plant OF New London. his pres
ent wife. and her former husband selden
B. Manwaring are defendants. came to
light in the Supreme Court yesterday
the action was filed
The paper filed was sent to the County
Clerks office from the ONCE OF John r
Fenlon of IS Liberty street II showed
that the action was brought by Miss
Evelyn Frederick through Hugh Gordon
Miller OF 22O broadway, as attorney. The
defendants named are Mr.. Plant Leonard
T. Saunders, an investment broker at
35 Wall street who lives at New London.
Edward Fenlon, Selden Manwaring and
Mrs. Sarah MAJ Caldwell Manwaring
The last named was married to Com
modore Plant on June II at Groton, Conn.
and. although the action Of Miss Fred
ericks was started only two weeks ago
Mrs. Plant was named In the action "a
Mrs Manwarng. The paper filed was
directed TO Lawyer Miller and asked
merely that the papers in the case be
served on John T. Fenlon as attorney
for Edward Fenlon.
Says Filing was n Mistake.
When Lawyer Fenlon was asked about
the case. he expressed surprise that Il
had become public. saying that his client
had signed a discontinuance Of the action
on Thursday at the request Of Miss Fred
erick's attorney and that the matter had
been settled without the payment Of one
cent OF damages. Mr.. Fenlon said that
through mistake his Office associate had
az hn ~ h..
County Clerks Office TO be filed
Hugh Gordon Miller also said IL was
mistake that tine case had become public
because no action is pending now" He
refused TO discuss his client or the claim
on which her suit was based. and when
asked N the action had been occasioned
by Mr.. Plants marriage to Mrs Man
waring he said
Il am not privileged TO discuss the
matter In any way at all"
telephone call to Mr. Manwaring at
Waterford Conn, where he conducts the
Oswegatchie Hotel and is n member Of
the Democratic State committee. brought
the reply
81 never heazd of the woman who
brought this suit or Of the suit itself
] know the persons named as defendants
and that is all. | have no idea what II is
about"
call 10 Mr.. Saunders brought the
reply that he had never heard of Miss
Frederick and didn't know what the suit
was about.
Commodore Plant and his wife AT Fish
ers Island said they did not know thing
about the case
Not Unknown In the Courts.
The name OF Miss Evelyn Frederick got
into the newspapers in 1901. when she
brought two suits in the city Court
against Louis Steinfeld. ex-president OF
the American Tanners Glue Company.
one suit was for $500, as the value OF
two gowns. which Miss Frederick said
Steinfeld promised TO buy for her and the
other was "A SANDER action for $4,000 on
the ground that when she went to NJ.
Stelnfeld's office ut 81 Fulton street to
get money to pay her board he called her
a blackmailcr in the presence of his wife.
Stenfeld testified In the case that Miss
Frederick came to his office under the
protection Of brother OF Police Com
missioner Jacob Hess. demanded 10000
and defied Steinfeld to have her arrested.
Stenfeld admitted that he had paid out
$1,000 for the young woman. who was
then about 20 years old.