Service of family court documents

The story below was taken from an article titled “Husband In State of Siege”, published December 14, 1911, in the New York Times.

Supreme Court Justice Giegerich gave counsel for Mrs. Rosie B. Segall another chance yesterday to serve papers on Louis Segall, her husband. Segall is behind in his $15 a week alimony, his wife said, and she wants him put in Ludlow Street Jail. Three weeks ago she got an order compelling him to appear and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court for non-payment of the alimony.

Segall got wind of the order and barricaded his rooms at 118 Eldridge Street. The process servers could not get into the rooms. They tried the doors, but could not burst them in. They climbed the fire escape and found he had boarded up the windows. They came down the dumb-waiter shaft and found that he had a bolt across the dumb-waiter door, which he opened only on getting a code signal, which they did not know. How Segall has managed to exist in the apartment for so long puzzles Mrs. Segall’s attorney….”

Mr. Segall eventually emerged, and appeared in court, after weeks of treatment for malnutrition and lung problems resulting from poor ventilation.

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