The accounts for the supplies of the household were billed sometimes to “Geo. West” and sometimes to Jos.  C. Peck, thus you will see that Priest Sander acknowledged by these bills that he was “Geo. West.”

This story got to be noised about, and the Protestant element of Brooklyn as well as Priest Sander’s flock became very much interested in the tale, and sent a reporter out to interview Jos.  C. Peck, and the first question this reporter asked him was, “Is that the picture of your sister?” pointing to a portrait of the woman hanging on the wall.  “No,” he replied.  “That is Mrs. West.”  The reporter asked if it was not the picture of Mrs. Mamie Kipp.  Peck hesitated, his lips trembling, and he began to look very nervous, then he gave way completely and said:  “Yes, it is Mrs. Mamie Kipp.”  “How does she come here under the name of ‘Mrs. West,’ and who is ‘Mr. West?’” was then asked, which Peck refused to answer.

With these facts in hand, the reporter returned to Brooklyn and sought Priest Sander in his parlor, in his parish residence, and the first question he asked him was this:  “You own a trotting horse out at Far Hills, N.J., don’t you?” The answer was, “Yes.”  “Don’t you own a string of trotting horses?” The answer was, “Certainly not!  Who told you that?” The reporter replied, “Oh, no; you don’t own a string of horses as Priest Sander, but as ‘Geo. West,’ don’t you?” Priest Sander tried to look surprised, and he folded a slip of paper he held in his hand and got very nervous and replied, “Now, that is a pretty story, isn’t it; who told you all this?”

The reporter laid before him all the facts he had gathered at Far Hills, and demanded that he affirm or deny the story.  Then this priest said, “I may as well confess; it will be the ruin of me; it will take the bread out of my mouth, but you have got it absolutely straight.”  The reporter asked Priest Sander if he positively didn’t know that this woman who sailed under the name of “Mrs. Geo. West” wasn’t Mrs. Mamie Kipp.

This priest, not being content with the dastardly part that he had played in his immoral conduct with Mrs. Kipp, absolutely denied that it was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and further declared that he knew nothing about her, except that she was the “housekeeper” at Peck’s farm, and why she was called “Mrs. West” he did not know; thus you will see that while he was guilty of immorality with Mrs. Mamie Kipp, he also was a notorious liar; but bear in mind that this same Priest Sander was still at this time presiding over a Catholic church in Brooklyn.

The reporter was determined to lead him out as far as possible so he repeated again, “Are you absolutely positive that ‘Mrs. West’ at Peck’s farm is not Mrs. Mamie Kipp?”

This priest replied that he was “positive,” and stated that this woman at Peck’s farm was Peck’s housekeeper, and further stated that he did not know anything about her at all, when he knew as well as he knew that he was living that he had been the cause of her forsaking her husband in Brooklyn, and also had been instrumental in her going to Far Hills, N.J., where he could live his life of shame without molestation.