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Show x ctriio'cs sxmtr. Salts I a Tlt I ? Ba,oo3, Worth or Property. New York, Dec 21. Suits wero started In the city court ot Brooklyn today which Involve the disposition or about 53,000,000 worth or property lea by Cornelius Dsuellson, a wealthy builder, who died at his home, No. 115 Pacific Street, on .stay 16, ISO-), leaving a wife and nine children, according to some members or tbe family, ami ten children according to a hypothetical tenth child. This child Is Mrs. Mary Flannery, wife or Patrick Flannery, a pns-tenus builder or Cornwall on the Hudson, and motheror William Jerome Flannery, the actor recently crmnrrted wllh the production of "The Fast Mall." , c Mrs. Flannery lefts a curious story of ber relations with ber raml-ly. raml-ly. She says she was recognized in tbe family as n daughter and introduced intro-duced to acquaintances as such, but treated as a servant. She was a veritable Cinderella. Sbe made the Ores, was compelled to arise early, beaten H she failed to do so anil otherwise abused. The other children child-ren also began to abuse ber, and delighted de-lighted In herpunlshment. A relative rela-tive of tbe family told a report1" that the suit did not trouble the family at all. He said Mrs. llan-nery llan-nery was not the daughter or Mr. Donnellson, was never recognized as such and that no such person ever lived at his house. Speaking of the sulU yesterday, Mr. Benedict said yesterday that Ins client bad been eager for some time to begin action, which he would not douutllhehad examined Into the case and was sure or his ground. She Is anxious for an early trial. |