New-York tribune., 1885-01-28
CLAIMING MRS. PACA's FORTUNE.
THE BEQUEsr TO CHICAGO ENDANGFRED-Is HE
MRS. PECR's GRANDCHILDf

| THE BEQUEsr TO CHICAGO ENDANGFRED-Is HE
| MRS. PICKS GRANDCHLDi
| CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Mrs. Clarssa G. Peck,
not long ago at her DEATH beqGeathed moiey Of for
tuo $sOOOOO ia trust FOR the foundation OF Home
for Iucuables I'm this city. II Is to-day learned mat
there is young man of twenty-one living here who
ayoNs himself the rigntul hor 10 the sum, and VIII
endeayor 10 obtain It, He has always been known as
George Peek and says Is the legitimate child Of
Mrs Pccks youngest George L. Peck, who died IN
l-GJ.
IL was I'm the spring OF 1901 when Nike " Peek, as
George r. always known. met In front oi ia" Dear
born School fresh aud rosy Irish lass named Maggie
Campon, with whom he appears to have fallen In love
on the spot She lived with her mother on West
Eleventh At time. It appears. George was only
tirtcon years OH Nevertheless. she lived from thht
day In worry intimate relations with him. and claims To
have been introduced by MIN ~ his WIFE, she ala Dot
rest ON tni, prccarous footing alone. however but
asserted that In 500 they duly married according
10 statute by Justice OF tho Peace. ehe WAS every
where known IA Maggie Peck. and was supG osed by
many persons to be Georges wife His mother Mrs
Carssa &. Peck. claimed. however. that her son hai
always lived home and that she knew OF no legal
marriage having taken place IL Is from ths union tha
the George Peck present claimant is said TO have
sprung.
Mr., CIarissa C. Peck made frequent efforts to redeem
her son from his vicious course OF lfe but IN vain
However he prevailed TO execute an instr'i-
mcn dated June -. 1863, which, purpors TO release TO
Mrs Carissa e. all the sons interest present or
future his fathers estate IN return for an allowance Of
500 "a month dunns his life. Maggie always ayerred
that her husband was induced by fraud TO sign the
document lie died at Whitewater Wisconsin, leaving
the provision full force By the statutes Of Illinois,
Maggie Peek had no surviving children she would take
tho whole husbands personal estate and half
his real estate; whereas she had child. she would be
cut OF with one-thir1 OF the personally and mere lite
interest In tulrd Of the realty IL was obviously 10
her personal advantage. therefore, % claim that II she
wished any time "a lay claim To the properly OF her
husband deny that she hyd any lVng chlldre IVen
the friends, Of the boy George admit that she often
declared her lifetime that he was not her own child
Ancr George, death she beiook herself To vicious
COURSES and after adventures she brought at
No. il6 Stae-st the prOprietroS- OF disrepusibe
ho1sc she began to make nDoi unae demands Tor her
husbands money Het advances were met WIN rigid
confirmed her In the bclief that she ad been wronged.
and more than three years alter the death Of George f.
Peck she filed bill In the Circuit Court. In wnicn,
among other things she nsuated Mrs. Clarissa c.
Peck had In the guse OF medicine poisoned George.
The casc trial Negotiations were carried
and Mrs Ciari,sa Peck and the Keep. brothers the
Other a compromise effected by which 'iargaret
received 5000 and thirtytwO acres o land. subsc
uurntly she married railroad engineer, ana later re-
moved kansas City, where she died two
Her husband Dave Phillips. still keeps liquor store
therel ,,,,,,, ,,
during his infancy and childhood but IL Is asserted by
many persons that he not her child He taken
from AN orphan asylum thoy say ana Drought up oy h"r
mother. His own friends profess to nave iouhd tho
woman who was present ut his birth and the priest VINO
baptised him. He says that when she lay upon her
death he'd she called him to side. and with falling
voice him the whole OF the wrong she hal done
him lie subsequently visited his grhndnothef DIT sue
refused to have anything Ia do with hln aud frequent
visits to Albert Keep equally rutess OF recosn
ton