Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-12
srOREY.s MANY Wills,

THE INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS ATTENDANT
UPON THE UNEARrIHNG or TlE LAST
WILL AND rEsTAMENrs' or THE GREAT
"TIMKs" EDITOR,
Special telegram to THE BEE.
CHICAGO, November u.-In the probate
court room this morning, the heirs of the
Storey estate and their lawyers and the Judge
and auditors, were all treated to surprise.
In answer to an order from the court, and al
ter n struggle by both sides, the lawyer for
the widow, Mrs. w. f. Storey, put on file a
will dated August 16, 1879, almost identical
with the will of 1881, except that
one or two points IN it is
more favorable to the widow. The witnesses
to it are Clinton Snowden, now ON the Wash
ington Republican, at that time the city editor
of the Chicago Times; j. A. Chamberlin. now
of the Boston aveller, at that time manag-
ing editor of the Times, and John Stridiron,
then, as now, cashier of the Times. 1t Is
from top to bottom storey own handwriting,
and written upon paper not calendered and
not ruled, such as is used in newspapers
editorial rooms for copy PAPER In this Will
no clause IL inserted debaripg the widow from
marriage, or afiiXng q penalty III case she
does marry. The case was set for ii o'clock,
but the parties to it did not appear until l:3O
"A. IN. At that hour there were on hand
N. IL.
Storey, the deceased's brother and the law
yers, Mr.. w. g. Goudy, Mr.. A. 5. Trude,
Judge Lyman TTumbull, Leonard Sweet and
Mr.. Robbins. There were, besides, good
many auditors. The court, with good deal
of asperity asked of Judge TrumbuIl If Mrs.
Storey was in court. The Judge answered
that she was not. Let the attachment H.
sue said Judge Knickert o'ker, with even
more asperity. Judge Trumbull rather taken
off his feet by the suddenness and severity OF
the order, protested, and while claiming thlt
he could see no reason for Mrs. Storeys pres
ence, said that he held physlclan.H g
certificate which showed the lady :
ndispoFition. Gall your physician'
ordered the court. There liz no petition t
the probating of this will" continued the
court, ''anh in order to properly set this court
in motion it is necessary tor Mrs. storey to
appear hero and swear to tbs petition de-
claring this will, in her opinion, the last testa-
ment of the deceased. ! wish also To ask her
whether iJ il the only paper OF the KIND IN
her possession After long argument, Judge
Trumbull said hs had another will III bis
POSSESSION; that he was willing to present 1t
to the court but was unwilling tor it to 60 on
file. He said, in answer to the court, that he
had the document in his oihca. lhe
court directed judge Trumbull to produce 1t,
which he did, whIreupon 1t was placed on hle.
SO soon ~ the document was handed To the
clerk, Mr. Truce hurried be hind the door and
began reading it. Judge Tiumbull asked
that nobody be allowed TO read the will until
it had been marked, filed and certified copy
taken of it This the coust ordered. Upon
tho filing of this will the court ordered the
case over until Friday morning at IL q. N.
There was tho utmost anxiety
on the part of the heirs, their lawyers
aud MIR. Patterson, the conseryator,
to see the will filed by Judge Trumbull.
Trud was the fist to hurry around and read
Then Mr.. Gouny and AnsOn L. Storey went
over 1T together; then Mr.. Patterson called
for it, and without reading it turned
hastily to Zee VINO the witnesses were.