Word: wendel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That in 1908 he and his "papa" visited the Wendel mansion on St. Patrick's Day, whereupon he was asked to leave the house...
That in 1909 John Gottlieb Wendel visited him in the West aboard the Wendel private car, Buffington...
That in 1901, at Dundee, John Wendel gave him a book. The Blockade of Phalsburg, on a flyleaf of which was a will making him, Morris, sole heir to John Wendel's estate...
From Scotland and the U. S. came "evidence" and many witnesses in Claimant Morris's behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment...
Then John Marshall Harlan, shrewd young attorney for the Wendel estate, went to work on the Morris claim. He tore it to shreds. Publishers of the Bible from which the "1876" marriage license blank was torn testified that it could not have been procured earlier than 1913. Handwriting experts showed the flyleaf will to be a bungling fraud. Contemporary evidence proved that Mr. Wendel was not in Dundee in 1901 or in Manhattan in 1906. On St. Patrick's Day, 1908, Claimant Morris was working in an Arizona copper mine. In 1909, said Pullman Co., the Buffington...