Show A QUEEK CASE New York 20 Yesterd Judge Otterburg of Jefferson Market police court on tho application ot Mrs Delia Little a lady 70 years of age residing on East Tenth issued a warrant fr the arrest of James E Williams and Fanny Will amu his wife whom Mrs Little charges with perjury in swearing to false affidavits on which in October 1878 she was sent to the workbouE by the late Police Justice Kasmn Williams Wil-liams was arrested today and brought to court but his wife was ill and confined to bed Mrs Littp in tailing her story said she married William Little a prominent promi-nent lawyer of San Francisco in which city she lived until June ISiS During the Buchanan campain Little went to Washington in a governmental capacity where he died of pneumonia She took ill and it was supposed fho was dying when word was sent to bar nephew and niece in this city The former went on there and as sho was possessed of considerable I con-siderable property ho persuaded her to sign a paper which sho thought was a limited power of attorney but which was in reality a conveyanco < f her property to him Sho recovered and nccompaniet her nephew to this city arriving here in June 1S78 After the money the hat wth her was spent Williams and hi wife began to ill treat her till finally she announced her intention returning to can Francisco her relatives agreed and on October Silt a carriage was ordered to take her to the depot A strange man then appeared < and took charge of Mrs Little and sho was driven to the Toombs where Polico Justice Kasmiu coma out and looked at her and after reading some affidavitSj which Mrs Little says were false ho signed a I paper committing her to the workhouse for six months as a habitual drunkard After her release she went to her nephews neph-ews to demand her property The door was shut in her f > ice Sho brought the charge of grand larceny against her nephew and neice after she came out of tho workhouse and they were hod for trial at tho general sessions court but owing to some unknown circumstances bail was discharged and the case never reached a trial Mrs Littlo produced witnesses today who swore that she was not a habitual drunkard Williams waived an examination and his bail was fixed at 82000 the worst feature in the case is that the statements said to be sworn to by Mrs Little before Judge Kusmin and said to be signed by her with an X as her mark she states positively posi-tively that she never saw In corroboration corrobora-tion of this Mrs Little is a lady of education and at one time was a correspondent cor-respondent of the San Francisco Call |