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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 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...
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...