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...Died. Tobey, 8, "richest dog in the world." last of the succession of poodles, all named Tobey, owned by the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel; at the hands of a veterinary; in the ancestral Wendel home at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. One reason why Ella, last of the eccentric Wendel spinsters, never sold the valuable lot on which the old house reared its red-brick ugliness, was the counsel of her grandfather: Buy, never sell. A more important reason, to her, was that the Tobeys might have a yard to play in. She died two years...
...which observers once thought would have to pay the world's highest animal income tax, pays none. Tobey, last of a succession of 18 similarly-named French poodles, was not even mentioned in the will disposing of the late, eccentric Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel's $40,000,000 estate. Grown fat and phlegmatic in his ninth year, Tobey still lives in the ugly old house on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street, with two servants whose only duties are to care...
...Pillsbury, H. H. Poor, R. J. Portner, T. H. Quinn, A. H. Rice, G. F. Robertson, C. F. Samson, D. W. Schoonmaker, Clement Scott, Jr., J. R. Short, Theodore Smith, G. S. Squibb, E. C. Streeter, R. L. Strong, J. L. Stuart, A. G. Sullivan, W. J. Tobey, George Upton, Jr., R. E. Voland, M. B. Weiss, LcMoyne White, F. J. Whitfield, Charles Wiggins. III, S. S. Williston, B. T. Woodie...
...Surrogate Court last week were held the last five hearings on the claim of Thomas Patrick Morris, 52, infirm Scottish housepainter of Brooklyn, to the $30,000,000 fortune of the late, eccentric Ella von Echtzel Wendel. Miss Wendel, last of her line, kept a succession of poodles named Tobey in a fabulously valuable side yard adjoining her lower Fifth Avenue home. She died last year leaving all her money to charity. Claimant Morris, one of some 1,800 less enterprising aspirants to the fortune, maintained that...
Blue (2.30) Cox, Tobey; Stroke, Cummin; 7, Schloss; 6, Lee; 5, Mallinckrodt; 4, Angel; 3, Hoyt; 2, Thayer; Bow, Plumb...