Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-10-23
Willis Sister Talks.

party manlpulatorS 10 ueny Glle
charges made against her brother
which prove him a perjurer and mer-
CHESS Oppressor.
She did not interview worth a cent.
Instead, she said as follows:
THE Advocate makes the defence
for Mr.. Willis, that your brother was
entitled to 500 for the care OF his
father during his last illness, and on
that ground he drew the 500 from the
estate. Do you think he was entitled
to it?ns asked the reporter.
''He was not. 1t is not true that he
took care of my father while he was
sick. He was only sick about two
weeks, and up to the last two weeks
had always been able to take care of
himself. L gave my father more atten-
ton than John Willis did. He was
there only a few times and then he
neglected him. l went over as often
as 1 could spare the time from my
children, and did as much for him as
possible. What 1 said in my affidavit
say now"
Then Mrs. Lincicum related some
thing of the controversy over the es-
tate. eve were living on my brother
Johns place, and soon after fathers
death he began telling me that l must
get off. He kept Oh and on until we
were finally compelled to leave the
farm. 1 went to John personally, and
tried to get him to make a settlement
of the estate. He finally told me that
if 1 would not put in claim he would
pay us everything in reason. My hus-
band had been sick for weeks; we did
not have dollar left, and after L had
sold off a good deal of our furniture to
buy medicine and -four, my husband
told me to go to John and get what
money he was to pay me for my share
of the estate. told John | was desti-
tute and needed money. He figured
around good deal, and finally said:
Well, there's nothing coming to you
and I've got it fixed SO you can't get
anything Then | went home, and
afterwards we commenced the trial to
get what l Was entitled to. He kept
trying to put off the trial, but it was
finally heard. Judge CrOzier was very
severe upon him. 1 would not have
been obliged 10 take what he did from
the Judge for the forty acres of land.
They proved him on the witness stand
to be asperju1er. In the Doctors bill
which he claimed, it was proved that
he told falsehoods and the judge said
to the jury that if John would tell
falsehoods in one thing he would in an
other. When the second trial was be-
gun John came to me and wanted to
compromise, offering me $75 for my in
terest in the 40 acres of land, which
had been appraised at $500. l told my
lawyer, D. II. Morse, of OskaloOsa,
about it and he said that it was the
best thing 1 could do and 1 concluded
to accept it. 1t went along for several
weeks and John never offered to pay
me. l had five small children to sup
port and l had become so hard up that
had to have something to buy food
and went to John for my S75. He
then tried to get out of it, said there
had been some misunderstanding and
claimed that he had not agreed to pay
me $50. My lawyer had to go to see
him and at last he had to pay it for we
would not dismiss the case against him
until it was paid.
"He tried in every way" said Mrs.
Lincium, "to get the whole estate, and
he had it figured out in one way and
another so that the appraised value of
$500 was covered by the expenses of
the estate. He even took the apprais-
ers' fees. He got some of his neigh
bors to appraise tie land without cost
claiming that it would leave more
money for me, then he filed claim
for himself for the Sc fees.
s'John Willis won't come to me
and say these things are not true," said
Mrs. Lincium and we should think he
would not. Instead he ought to crawl
into some convenient hole and pull the
hole in after him.