Word: wendell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Surrogate Court last week were held the last five hearings on the claim of Thomas Patrick Morris, 52, infirm Scottish housepainter of Brooklyn, to the $30,000,000 fortune of the late, eccentric Ella von Echtzel Wendel. Miss Wendel, last of her line, kept a succession of poodles named Tobey in a fabulously valuable side yard adjoining her lower Fifth Avenue home. She died last year leaving all her money to charity. Claimant Morris, one of some 1,800 less enterprising aspirants to the fortune, maintained that...
...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...
...hopes of nearly 1,800 claimants to share in the $30,000,000 estate of the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, eccentric Manhattan spinster (TIME, April 6, 1931 et ante) went glimmering when Surrogate James A. Foley took steps to strike from the list all but 27 who claim fifth-degree (or closer) relationship. Of these 27 the fifth-degree relationship of nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken...
...proof he submitted a book (The Blockade of Phalsburg) which he said "Papa" Wendel had given him in 1901 in Dundee. On the flyleaf was written a record of the marriage and birth, signed by John G. Wendel. On the back flyleaf was a will bequeathing all John Wendel's property to his son, Thomas Patrick Mor ris Wendel. Also Morris submitted a pair of huge shoes with inch-thick gum soles which he said "Papa" Wendel once wore...
Astute Manhattan Attorneys Samuel Untermyer and Arthur Garfield Hays and astute Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained...