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Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted housepainter who, as the self-styled son of the last male Wendel, laid siege to the whole estate, was sentenced to jail for conspiracy. One by one Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled...
That in 1909 John Gottlieb Wendel visited him in the West aboard the Wendel private car, Buffington...
Miss Wendel's dead brother John Gottlieb Wendel married one Mary Ellen Devine in New York City in 1876, that he was the offspring of the union, brought up by some Morrises in Dundee, Scotland...
...margin of Mrs. Culbertson's defeat was 190 points. Next day, David Burnstine & partners beat the team most people thought would win the cup, Ely Culbertson, Oswald Jacoby, Theodore A. Lightner and Michael Gottlieb. Margin of Ely Culbertson's defeat: 1.500 points...
...more if the will is broken. Several others, not of the chosen 27. surrendered soon after a gaunt, dour Scot named Thomas Patrick Morris, 52. unemployed Brooklyn housepainter, told the court an astonishing story : That he is the son of Ella Wendel's brother, the late John Gottlieb Wendel. Speaking laboriously (he suffers from angina pectoris) Claim ant Morris said he was the issue of a secret marriage of "Papa" Wendel (always supposed to be a bachelor) and one Mary Ellen Devine of Edinburgh, in New York City; that he had been born in Dundee whither his mother fled after...