The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-06
TENANT QUITS,
DOCTOR WINNING
BACK0WN HOME
Mrs. Barker and Flock of
Summer Roomers Left
Sanborn's Siege.
JUST CHANGED MIND.
Didn't Intend to Remain,
She Explains After See
ing Lawyer.
PRISONER, WE'LL FED
Friends Threw Him Food, Cop
Brought Candy, Wife a
Toothbrush.
PRISONER WE'LL FED

West Eighty fifth street yesterday. In
fact, the last reporter for THE HER
AID saw of him he was helping an ex-
pressman carry out a folding cot and
beseeching him to be careful of the
wallpaper.
Over set OF Stevenson on book
case In the living room. where he
spent Monday night in defiance Of
Mrs Jane c. Barker. the tenant who
wouldn't move out on September 30,
the day of the termination Of ner lease,
reposed package Of sandwiches and
bag of doughnuts. On a table near
by stood quart bottle Of coffee.
Ranged along the window sill were
boxes Of cigarettes. He had a couch
for catnaps to break his vigil.
AS he had learned down at Camp Up
ton, when no was In the service. to keep
cheerful for days without undressing or
having bath. he was bearing up well
under the strain. He was ready for a
siege. determined to prove in behalf of
himself, his wife and all other house,
holders that the new rent laws are not
intended to prevent family from go
ing away for the summer and resum-
Ing occupancy Of their homes when they
got back.
buI III = o CLOCK yesterday nOTnlHs,
as he lay on his couch in the living
room. of which he took possession Mon
day night after entering his home
through an unguarded back door and
rushing past Mrs. Barker's astonished
housekeeper in the kitchen. he heard
Mrs. Barker calling. He arose and had
with her in the hallway what the poll
ticians call conference. In other
words. they talked. For the first time
slnce he demanded possession of the
house. he said yesterday. he found her
in conciliatory mood The police had
come and gone and had refused to ar
rest anybody. A police station report
had said that II any crime was done or
intended 1t would be glad to function.
but that landlord and tenant cases were
intended for settlement by the civil
courts, not the Police Department.
A Qualified Armistice.
This early morning debate resulted in
the declaration OF a qualified armistice.
DIR. Sanborn returned to his living room
feeling the new day would restore to
him his homo. but did not neglect to
drink another cup Of coffee to keep him.
self awake.
In the morning friends Of the San
borns came to the sidewalk and tossed
more sandwiches up to the self-impris-
oned physician at the second floor win
dow. Mrs. Sanborn came from the Muir
ray Hill Hotel, where she had passed
the night bringing her husbands tooth
brush. Mrs. Barker's housekeeper ad-
mitted her. The Ice was cracking and
DR.. Sanborn did appreciate the tooth
brush. A friendly policeman added to
his store OF optimism by standing on the
sidewalk and hingins a bag Of candy up
to the window. Mrs. Sanborn caught II.
The guard over the telephone was now
relaxed.
LandIady Sees Lawyer.
Mrs Barker, he suspects, saw an at
torney yesterday morning or Monday
evening He Is certain he consulted his
own counsel, Joseph F. Fo!se OF 10 Wall
street, and that Mr.. Foise later held
converse with Mrs. Barker. Anyway
Mrs. Barker, taking one consideration
with another, decided upon graceful
abdication, It being futile to try to hold
the fort against so stubborn an inter-
loper as DIR. Sanborn. She agreed. says
Dr. sanborn, to have all her belongings
out of the house by tonight
Mrs. Barker is keeping her promise
She hired the expressman. who appeared
with a van yesterday afternoon. She
had taken the Sanborns' house fur
nished, but had had several folding cots
installed. Mrs. Sanborn showed the
HERALD reporter about. There we're two
IN the kitchen. In addition to the nor
NAL sleeping equipment belonging to the
5anborns.
The Sanborn household consists of the
doctor. his wife and a maid. Mrs. San.
born figured that fourteen persons had
boon living In the house this summer
including dodgers and Mrs. Bankers
housekeeper with her husband and baby
Two of the dodgers were moving away
while the reporter was there. They were
well dressed, well hammered young wom-
en-. who hadn't quite grasped the reason
for this sudden upheaval, but had come
10 the conclusion that nobody's home Is
his castle around October 1.
1.-THE owner OF the house." tt. San
born SAID 'iR w. K. d. Stokes. I have
il on lease. and sublet Il from June
TO october 1 to Mrs. Barker who said
she wanted the place for herself. her
niece and her brother. My wife has
been In Massachusetts nursing sister
who Is III, and have been living at the
Murray HILL A week ago I went to
my home to see about having IL reno
waited for my wife's return. Meanwhile
thought would occupy a room there
but Mrs. Barker said II was her home
and she wanted only her friends In the
house. On October returned. but
my key wouldn't open the door. The
lock had been changed. Two youns
women. who said they had rooms In the
house and were going to get their
trunks. came along and offered to LEI
mo use their key. But the housekeeper
told me she wouldn't let the girls have
their trunks II they did this. so gave
the key back to them.
ION Monday as on other days. Mrs
sanborn demanded admittance and wa,
refused. Then she want TO call or
friends In the apartment house next
door. From their window she noticed
that the back door of our house wa.
open. She telephoned me. I went &c
the apartment house. out into the real
court, over the fence and into my owr
house. And here I've been ever since
The neighbors have been kind supplying
me with food ana good advice. and the
friend who passed bottle of coffee
through the first floor window to ms
quito won my heart
zone OF my friends slipped into tn,
house last night In the wake OF IN,
policeman When he started to leav,
The housekoeper and another woman
stood against the door and wouldn'
nudge. He's a nice chap and an athlete
He simply went back to my living room
pnd dropped out OF the window. It,
about twenty feet should say but h
wssn't hurt"