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Show NOT TOO OLD TO CAUSE A STIR Aged Woman With a History Causes Trouble in New York City. Special to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK. April 9. There entered Jefferson Market court one daj this week a little old woman dressed .in black, who concealed under a shabby exterior and flabby, expressionless face an identity that a quarter of a century ago interested the whole newspaper-reading newspaper-reading public of the United States. The old woman, who told a rambling story about her daughter having been "spirited away," has had many names In her stirring life, but It was as Mrs. Mary E.. Oliver, suing United States Senator Oliver Cameron of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania for $50,000 damages, alleging breach of promise, that the limelight of publicity was turned fullest upon her In 1S89. In 1S81 and for ten years subsequently subsequent-ly sho was a thorn In the side of I lift niinrltv -i .... .... She was "Sister Beatrice May," a solicitor so-licitor of contribution for "St. Stephen's guild," which was supposed to be an unsectarian charity, but which never revealed any of its good works except once, when it sent several women servants to Texas. Imaginary Estate. It was as "Mrs. Butler" Oliver that the little old woman appeared before Magistrate Barlow In Jefferson Market, Mar-ket, and asked for the arrest of a physician physi-cian and a young man, who rooms In lower Fifth avenue. She said her daughter, Mrs. Alice Ilya, who has an apartment at the Fifth avenue address, and rents several of her rooms, had taken ta-ken out a policy of life Insurance in favor of the young man. Almost Immediately, Im-mediately, said the old woman, Mrs. Ilya was taken away to a hospital. She intimated that Mrs. Ilya would probably be found dying of slow poison. Mra Butler Oliver told your correspondent corre-spondent that she was heir to "the Butler But-ler estate" on Long Island, worth $3,500,000. Her lawyer, she said, was James A. Allen, with ofllces In Wall street, Mr. Allen said later he had seen the woman only once, and had discovered that the "estate" was a cottage and a small piece of ground, to which she had no claim. Your correspondent investigated Mrs. Oliver's story and found there was nothing In it. She lives in a rear room on the second floor of an ordinary brick house in West Twenty-third street. On the door are two signs. One reads, "Unsectarian Mission." The other says, "Out. Back at 6." Supposed Daughter's Stoiy. The woman's daughter Is In St. Elizabeth's hospital, in West Thirty-first Thirty-first street, suffering from appendicitis. "I have never had my life Insured," said Mrs. Ilya, when visited In her room at the hospital. "1 am not a victim vic-tim of poison. I came hero for rest and to be treated for some stomach trouble. That woman has made me trouble all my life, and yet I suppose sho has some lovo-for me." 'To the direct question if Mrs. Oliver was her mother, Mrs. Ilya would not reply. She said: "She was a trouble to my father, and she hounded my husband before he died. She Is very near to me, I must admit." |