A lawsuit followed, in which the
sister swore that the name signed to the draft was not in her
handwriting. She won her case, but some officious person laid
the matter before the district attorney. The forger was
arrested and his sister was summoned before the grand jury.
Here was a pleasant predicament. If she testified for the
State her brother would undoubtedly go to prison for many
years, to say nothing of the notoriety for the entire family
which so sensational a case would occasion. She, therefore,
slipped out of the city and sailed for Europe the night before
she was to appear before the grand jury. Her brother was in
due course indicted and held for trial in large bail, but
there was and is no prospect of convicting him for his crime
so long as his sister remains in the voluntary exile to which
she has subjected herself. She can never return to New York
to live unless something happens either to the indictment or
her brother, neither of which events seems likely in the
immediate future.
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