The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-02
STEWARDS GREAT FORTUNE.
How the MilliOnaire'S Widow Has Dis
posed Of Her Husbands Vast Estate.
The Relatives Provided For and One Half the
Property Given to c. j. Clinch-Judge
Hilton Named as Trustee and Executor.

day by ex-Judge Horace Russell, Mr.. Henry
! Hilton's son-iL-law. Citations vera immedi-
ately issued to the heirs and next of kin, made
returnable on Nov. 13. In the instrument Mrs.
Stewart bequeaths $40, 900 per year during life
to her brother. Charles F. Cinch; to each OF her
sisters, Anna. Emma and julia she leaves an
annuity of $1,000 year; to her niece, Sarah n.
Smith, she leaves $3.50 000 to Cornelia s. Butler
she leaves 5000 000 and to each of her children,
Lawrence and Charles S. Butler, $50, 900; to
Kate A. Smith. 200, 900; to each of the remain
ing children of Sarah n. Smith, namely, Louisa,
Ella, Bessie and James, 800, 900; to each of the
children of her deceased sister Louise formerly
the wife of Charles E. ButlerJ namely, Resale,
Helen, Virginia, Lillian, Maxwell and Prescott,
$4,000. All the rest of the estate real ard
personal, she bequeaths to Charles j. Clinch,
now of Paris, and Henry Hilton, of this city.
None of the legacies are to be payable until
three years from the final probate of the will,
nor any of the annuities until six months after
such probate. The executors of the will are
| Charles j. Clinch and Henry Hilton, and the
| witnesses to the instrument Henry E. Davies,
James Henry Work and Edward B. Hilton.
The will is dated July 5, 1877. In codcil to
| the will she revokes the bequest to Henry Hilton
of one-half of her residuary estate and, instead,
bequeaths to him half of the residue of her
property and estate, in trust, to collect receive,
hold, manage, control and sell, and apply the
same to the following purposes
To complete the Stewart Memorial Church
now in course of erection by her at Garden City,
L. t. to supply it with all that is necessary to
make it a free church and cathedral for the
| Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese Of
Long Island n. Y; to endow it with such money
as will maintain it forever. with provisions for
the bishop of the diocese and his assistants;
to construct two buildings to be used
as schools and seminaries of learning
TO be attached to such cathedral, and to endow
| them with such money as will sustain them for
ever, and to erect such other buildings as the
cathedral, and semn aries, and schools may re-
req uire All these buildings are to be erected
on Mrs. Stewards lands there, known as Hemp
stead Plains, L. /. These buildin gs, when COM
| pleted to be conveyed to the use, forever, of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese
of Long Island, or to the corporation known as
the Cathedral of the Incarnation. in the diocese
of Long Island. All the one half Of her residuary
estate so devised is to be applied for the above
purposes
If any heir becomes party to any proceeding
to interfere with the will, the provision in the
will in his or her favor to be Cancelled. The
codicil of the will is dated May 81, 1878
| By another codicil Mrs. Stewart authorizes
| Mr. Henry Hilton in regard to the share and
portion of her property devised and bequeathed
| to him in trust, to lease and dispose Of 1t from
time to time as he shall deem expedient; all
such acts to be valid aud as effectual as if made
| by the testatrix, and all expenses to be allowed
him without further proof than that they were
| actually made. Judge Hilton is empowered to
divide any surplus among the legal heirs. He is
empowered to appoint or substitute trustee or
trustees TO act in his place for any desired
period, and at will to revoke such appointment
and by will to appoint his successor, provided,
however that the said trust shall not continue
longer than the lives of Kate A. and James @.
Smith, named in the will.
By another codicl dated May 81, 1883, Mrs.
| Stewart bequeaths TO Sarah n. Smith and her
heirs one equal part of the share in the estate
granted to her nephew, Chas. j. Clinch She
gives $25 900 to be distributed by the executors
among her househald servants living with her
at the time of her death. The last codicil is
dated Nov 80, 1885 After stating that the
| Cathedral and st. Paul's School at Garden City
has been completed and endowed, it revokes all
former clauses to the will and codicils thereto,
except that the trustee Is empowered, at his dis
erection, to build and endow seminary Of learn
ing for women as described in previous codics,
and to erect such other institutions and build
ings connected with the Cathedral as may be
necessary Absolute title to the property is
vested in the legatees to convey and transfer the
| property in accordance with the provisions OF
the will and codicis.
How the MiIlionaire's Bones Were Ran somed.
w. A. Croffut, in Washington Post.
At dinner given to thirteen gentlemen in
New York, two years ago, heard the gruesome
story. 1t was told quietly to three of US. at the
end of the table, by member of Judge Hilton's
family-tod with considerable circumstantiality
in broken bits and snatches, between stories, anc
laughter, and songs. cit was a couple of years
anterior to that, I think" he said, "that the
bones were finally ransomed. Judge Hilton per
sistently refused to consent to it--refused &c
have anything to do with it-and at last, when
Mrs. Stewart declared herself unable any longer
to carry the burden OF the CHASTITY thought that
the poor remains of her husband were being
carted around the country by gang of thieves,
she defed her lawyers scruples and concluded
the negotiations. She gave $4,000 instead OF
the $4,000 at first demanded. The bar
seemed to have no other briefs,
and who probably got a good fraction of the
'swag.' The ghouls insisted that the money
should be delivered to them on lonely hill in
Winchester county, at the dead of night, and
thither, in accordance with their directions q
relative of Mrs. Stewart juurneyed alone in q
wagon, which ne drove himself. AT spot in
the country road which had not been designated
| or described the driver was suddenly halted by
} horseman, masked. The mysterious messen
ger led him through by-lane to the hilltop
where, after certain ceremonies to insure their
safety, they received the $25, O0O examined it.
and dragged bag of bones from another buggy
near by and surrendered it to the keeping of the
solitary traveller Before they disappeared dowr
, one side of the hill they commanded him, or
peril of his life, to turn about and descend Ths
other SLOPE He did as he was hidden, and got
, to New York before morning. The next nigh
|, the bones were committed to the vault under the
great Cathedral at Garden City, which had al
ready been connected by secret wire with
chime of bells sure to ring and alarm the towI
it ii was disturbed.
Business Embarrassments.
PROVIDENCE r l., Nov. 1.-The Turkey Rec
Dyeng Company assigned to-day. Liabilities
$64, 900; assets, 500, 900.