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Show DIES BEFORE RIGHT TO SUE IS ALLOWED New York, Jan. 5. Florence Schenck, after seven vears of bitter estrangement, is dead at her father's home in Norfolk, Va , according to advices received toda Refore the news was known to Supreme Court Justice Gavegan, he handed down a decision which will permit the relatives rela-tives of the dead woman to carr on her suit for $50,000 damages against Charles H. Wilson, manager of the show horses belonging to Alfred G. Yanderbilt who eloped with her after, aft-er, as she alleged, falsely representing represent-ing himself as a single man. Following the filing of Miss Schenck s suit, Wilson put In a demurrer de-murrer purporting that there were not sufficient grounds for the action Justice Gavegan's decision holds that the grounds are amnle and ordered the suit to be tried. Mi6s Schenck alleged that Wilson told her in 1906 that he had never been married and he Induced her to elope to London with him. Two years later she returned to this country and announced that the marriage ceremony had been performed In Paddington, England, but no record of the ceremony could be found Word came from Norfolk today that Miss Schenck died after having obtained ob-tained the full forgiveness of her father, who disowned her after her elopement. When Miss Schenck telegraphed tele-graphed her father Co come to her before be-fore she died. He at first hesitated, but finally hurried to ew York and took his daughter home with him. |