Wanted the Property

New York, 1895

Three months ago Mrs. Devitt, a sister of George Brown, a widower, living at Union Course, came to keep house for the latter. She brought three children with her. Wednesday Mrs. Devitt applied to Overseer of the Poor Wyckoff for assistance and protection against her brother, for whose arrest she had procured a warrant for assault.

Brown owns a house and a small plot of ground. The trouble began when Mrs. Devitt suggested that her brother make over his place to her. This he refused to do. Brown then drew up a will leaving all his possessions to his adopted son. Then trouble began.

As the woman is not a charge upon the town, Overseer Wyckoff could do nothing for her. Brown has, however, offered to pay his sister's fare back to Kansas where she came from.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.