The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-22
TROUBLOUS TIMES.
Further Developments in The Chicags
Times Troubles.
Petition for Appointment of COnserv'
ator Observation-Disclosures Litigation
Ceming OR-Trude Talks
Waiting to Scoop 1t.

CHICAGO, July 22.-The petition for the
appointment of conservator for Wilbur F.
Storey, proprietor of The Times, has beer
dismissed by Judge Knickerbocker, on mo
ton Of Edwin ?. Chaplin, the petitioner.
Mr., f. G. Assay, upon the announcement,
arose and said that he represented Mr.. VII
bur F. Storey. He said he objected to the
dismissal of the bill. An application, hi
said, had been made for the removal of the
case to the United States court The heirs
are not the only parties interested. The
charge had been made that his
client was a distracted person As his repre-
sentative he was unwilling that the bill
should be dismissed until his sanity,
which had been called in question, was estab
hshed.
The judge postponed the hearing of argu,
ment on the objection
A. S T1ude, the lawyer, and who is as
serted to have had large share in the man
agement of The Times since Mr.. Storey's re-
tlrement, was seen, and said:
'Mr. Assay appeared and assumed to repre-
sent Mr. Wilbur F. Storey. can't see upon
what ground he does that have been Mr..
Storey's lawyer for fourteen years and would
be now, if it were possible for Mr.. Storey
to have an attorney. But the fact is
that he is distracted person, and
in the eye of the law as
if he were dead" 81 have held aloof, y con
tinued Mr.: Trude "from the present trouble
1t is a squabble for the effects of a great man
before he is dead. My position has been a
confidential one, both as regards Mr., and
Mrs Storey, and it would be improper for
me to take active participation on either one
side or the other"
Mr. Trude also said "Mr Storey has not
been able to distinguish between cockroach
and an elephant for more than a year past.
He can not even speak or whisper, To gurgle
out yes is about all he can do in a
great while. He has no sensation whatever
in his hands. Five weeks ago | was be-
fore Mr.. Storey with notary public, and he
was not able to hold or move pen The pa
per, therefore, which the other side has pre-
sented for the transfer of our petition to the
United States circuit court, purporting to
bear Mr. Storey's signature, must be a
forgery.
There have been number of wills drawn
up, but all those were made after Mr.. Storey
had lost his intellect One there was in
which the wife got everything and his
blood relations We're cut off with $1,000
apiece But none of these wills Is
valid, and one Of them is a forgery
The last time, not long ago, there were
three Of us present, and Mrs Storey tried for
over an hour to put the pen into her nus
bands hand and make him move it, so that
he could put his signature to the will But
the Old man couldn't sign his name, nor hold
the pen, and finally told Mrs. Storey she'd
get us all into trouble if she persisted in that
kind of thing"
Il have heard, he added, that the repre-
sentatives of Mr.. Storey were claiming on
the street that, by removing the case To the
United States court, a cOnservator could be
appointed in the interest of the Republican
party; that the politics of the paper would be
changed and that flop would be made over
to Republicansm. Such a course would, in
my estimation, ruin the property. l have
personally the greatest confidence in the
judges on the bench in both divisions Of the
United States court, and regard all these
boasts as idle"
At noon there was filed in the chancery
branch of the circuit court a long bill by the
heirs of Wilbur F. Storey to have his estate
given into the charge Of ''person" for ad.
ministration. The bill is joined in by John
r. Walsh of the Western News com
pany and president of the Chicago ma
tional bank, by a paper company,
and by other creditors. 1t recites that
the proprietor of The Times is distracted,
just as the petition filed with Judge Kincker-
booker did. The heirs have simply made a
change of base They do not want the case
to get into the United States courts.
1t is said that if the case goes into the
federal courts an effort will be made by Mrs.
Storey to have A. H. Burley appointed CON
servator.
In the afternoon another petition m regard
to the Storey estate was filed in the probate
court. The petitioner was Henry C. Kelly,
and the representations of his petition were
that Wilbur F. Storey is distracted person,
possessed of real and personal prop
erty; that his heirs-at-law are Edward
P Chaplin and Mary E. Anderson
of South Bend, Ind, and Mary E. Farrand
and Arson L. Storey; that Wilbur F. Storey
is indebted to this petitioner:in the sum OF
$500, end he therefore prays that he be sum
moned to appear before the court, and that a
jury be impaneled to try whether he is de
mented OF not