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Show NEGRESS AND AGED MAN , BATTLE IN COURT FOR POSSESSION OF FORTUNE that he believes the Insane negro intended in-tended to kill him and mistook Mr Greene for him. Mrs. Ellas maintains that the rast sum named In Piatt's suit was given to her voluntarily by Piatt that ha literally lit-erally threw money, at her. 8he haa told of one Instance when, after pressing press-ing her to take a large sum which she refused, he threw a great handful of bank notes on the floor and ahe had a servant gather them up on a dust pan. On the other hand Piatt asserts that the defendant resorted to every trick and device her ingenuity could command to extort money from him during the twenty years of their acquaintance. x Mr. Piatt is now 87 years old and very feeble. ... NEW TORK, Jan.' JJL The. final stage - In the struggle for the possession of ; ' nearly three-quarters of a million dol-' dol-' lara between John R. Piatt, an aged millionaire, and Hannah Ellas, a ne-greas, ne-greas, who, he charges, wrongfully ob- tained the moneyvfrom him, was sched- tiled to begin before Justice Blschoff in the Supreme court today. In this suit It was expected that the whole amazing story of the affair which attracted the - attention of the entire country when the secret of Piatt's relations with the woman were ' revealed by the filing of . his suit last summer would be brought out. ' Interest In the case waa intensified I from the first by the strange and tragic death of Andrew H. Greene, one of the city's most prominent men, who was shot to death almost at the door of the . EUas woman's home on Central Park ' West a few months before the Piatt suit waa filed. Greene's murderer, a negro, who was captured and later sent to an Insane asylum, said ha had shot Mr. Greene because-he was Jealous of the I attar's attentions to Mrs. Ellas. With the filing of the Piatt suit tho contentions conten-tions of Mr. Greene's friends that ha was a victim of mistaken identity when , the fatal attack waa made, was practically practi-cally proved. There was a remarkable similarity in personal appearance between be-tween Andrew H. Greene and John R. Piatt, and Mr. Piatt himself has -said |