New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-23
Former Mrs. Whelp Then
Sent to Hospital by Di-
vorCed Husband.
SAID TO HAVE BEEN
PROMINENT SOCIALLY
Woman Believed Daughter OF
I ate q. b. Ward and Descend
ant of Revolutionary Hero.

Giving her name as Mrs. Jennie
Monahan and her age as forty-six, but
refusing all other information. the
woman who was Mrs. Charles Whclp
was removed yesterday afternoon from
the home Of her former husband, 2o3
West 135th Street, and taken TO the
Harlem Hospital
Fifteen years ago Wheip married ner.
They were divorced shortly aiterward.
Whelp says she was Jennie de Grasse
Ward, a daughter Of the late George
BARCLAY Ward. OF Huntington, Long
Island; A sister OF Louis de Lanoey
Ward and Clarence Barclay Ward, of
the real estate firm Of Ward & Ward,
SO Beaver Street; a great grand-daugh-
ter Of Admiral de Grasso, Of Revolu-
tionary fame: a second cousin Of Will
lam Barclay Parsons, engineer OF the
first subway, and niece by marriage
Of Luther Kountze. the banker, Of IA
Broadway.
Tuesday night at o'clock the WON
an came 70 the home Of her divorced
husband, who lives alone with his
mother. She was told that she could
not spend the night there. but at II
o'clock she returned. Her clothes were
torn. her hair dishevelled and one OF
her eyes blackened. She told Whelp
and his mother. who put her 20 bed and
tried to get their family physician, Dr..
W. j. stiles, of 21S West l3oth street,
that she had been set on by two men
at 125th Street and Eighth Avenue Ut
perhaps il was Amsterdam Avenue
the woman Is quoted as saying.
Woman in Critical Condition.
Yesterday DR.. Stiles, who had not
beer able to attend the case the even
ING before, came 20 the Whelp home.
He summoned DR.. McGreen, Of the Har-
lem Hospital. and, as II was found that
the woman was suffering from posi-
bly fractured skull and was IN acrlti-
cal condition, she was rushed TO the
hospital.
About two years after the divorce. IN
1894 the then Mrs. Whelp, 10 ls sand
married a man named Michael Mona
han. They had one child. wired O!II
Nonaban. who Is now twelve. AMI Is
said 70 be st 81. Joseph's Home: IN
Peckskil. After the birth Of the cnlld
Nonahan is said 90 have disappeared
He has not been heard Of since. FROM
time TO time Whelp has been helping
the woman, giving her, u was ca
planned, food. money and shelter.
Iu 1906 Mrs. Mouahan Inherited from
bcr grandfather, Montague Ward. &C
cordine to the story, fortune o. ST.
600. On application Of her former hus-
hand the woman was three years ago
sdiudged incompetent and committee
10 an Institution ~ Am.tyville, Long
Island. William Chilyers. lawyer, OF
30 Nassau Street, was appointed ao-
ministrator Of the estate. The woman
has been several times freed and re-
committed 10 the institution. she was
released three months ago.
Ward Denies She Is Sister. o
& Barclay Ward. OF Huntington,
Long Island, denied last night thaJ
Jennie Monahan was his sister, but ne
would not deny that she was related to
him. lie said he had heard Of her be-
fore. but would not tell 90 what con
nection. Mrs. Mouahan is said 70 have
contested the viii Of the late George
Barclay Ward.
"She is not person that VIC have
ever had anything to do WITH said
Mr. Ward.
Whelp 81 said 20 be the Croat-Erand-
son Of John Nowhousc. former supreme
Court Justice. His former wife was
said 70 have been one Of the most
beautiful and most prominent women
in Long Island society when he married
her
The woman is said 20 have been
twice committed 20 Blackwclrs Island
within the last three months on the
charce OF lnfnNLcat-nn