The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-19
George Law Kent.s wild Career.

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! New YORK, Oct. 1S.-George Law Kent
was q gay young fellow with great fondress
for the good things of this life. He enjoyed
the inestimable advantage of being the lille
Ultimate son of very wealthy New Yorker.
He was giveI an excellent education
abroad. and when he left school he was
allowed to roam around gay capitals with
his pockets full of money. 1t was very nice
while it lasted, but it did not last long. He
did not reach the age of 30, and he died, it
| is alleged, without leaving a penny. For all
that woman who asserts that for some
time she was the particular object of his de-
votiOn, is very anxious to have the probate
of a will he signed revoked and another will
admitted in It's place, by the terms of which
bequcst of over million and quarter
| francs were left to her.
A motion to revoke the probate of the
will was argued on Wednesday before
Surrogate Ransom. The name of the rich
man who admitted the paternity of Kent
was not given in court and the lawyers
| interested in the case positively refused to
reveal it. They said, however, tkat the
father looked with lenient eye upon the
follies of his son. The boys wild oats were
sown with a recklessness that caused a
sensation even in Paris, where he was 4
| leading factor in sporting circles and
fashionable clubs. AS gambler his losses
were proverbial, but his father always
came promptly to his assistance and paid
the heavy drafts that were constantly
made upon him with unwonted parental
promptness. There was no end to his
credit
Young Kent was pursuing the uneven
tenor of his career when one DAY he re-
ccived news of his fathers death, leaving
him $500, 900, but tying up the bequest in
such way that he could only get the in
come for the time being. The old gentle
man evidently hoped that by the time his
son reached the age of thirty ne would
have sown the residue of his wild oats.
and it was stipulated that he should then
be paid the principal. The fast young
mans income was seriously reduced. He
was heavily in debt, and creditors were
clamorous and his drafts were no longer
paid beyond his income. At this stage he
| left the gay French capital. which for a
long time had been his principal place of
soiourn.
1t is said that he had to fly from his credi-
| tors. He went away, but not alone. He
started on d tour around the world and
with him went as his companion
Mile Aimee His unintermitted dissipa-
lions told on him. They were stopping at
Singapore when he died in May, 1856. He
! then lacked nine months of the time when
he would have been entitled to receive the
half million dollars left him by his father.
On April IA, 1869, young Kent, while on a
visit to this city, had his will drawn and
executed. BY this instrument he left two
thirds of his interest in his fathers estate
to his mother and the the remaining third
to his guardian, James w. Smith. Mr..
Smith, who is secretary of the United Gas
company, was executor of his fathers will.
AS Kent did not live to the age OF thirty,
the $500, goo left in trust for him was to re-
vert under directions in his fathers will
to collateral heirs, and it was considered
that he had no estate to leave and that his
will was not worth more than it weight in
paper His mother and Mr.. Smith refused
to apply for letters of administration and
the matter passed into the hands of the
public administrator, upon whose petition
the will was, on March rs, 1887, admitted to
probate.
Mile Lyente after the death of Kent lost
no time in putting in her claim for share
of he large inheritance TO which she sup
posed she had fallen heir, but for the same
reason that his mother could not inherit
under the first will, Aimee could not do Sc
under the revocation. Thus ended golden
dream.