The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-20
GIVES UP HER RIGHT.
Mrs. Baker Renounces Miss Hol-
gates Legacy to Her.
HER FATHERS ANXIOUS SEARCH.


Nellie Holgate and has also declined to act
as execufYix of the estate. Two papers Ia
this effect were filed yesterday. one being
an assignment OF the legacy to the missing
woman's parents and the other > formal
refusal to act a. executrix and . request 20
the court to pay over TO Robert and Mary
Holgate the sum bequeathed to her. T. D.
McCufcheon. Mrs. Bakers attorney. said
yesterday in explanation Of these docu.
ments:
The first that Mrs. Baker knew OF the contents
OF Miss Hoigase's will or that she was . beue.
Gciary OF named - executsix was last Tuesday
morning. when the PosT-ISTELLIGExCER pub
l;shed the will She came At once 70 see me
after reading the morning paper to have me ar
range 20 that she might reiinqush oil her rights
under the viii. was ss Olympia on that day
and she csme again ~ soon - sac heard OF my
return. whereupon she executed this paper.
which IL on fsis with tho policies Of insurance
At the Office OF Strat:on. Lewis & Gilman.
He here showed the assignment dated
May Is. in which Mrs. Baker says: II,
Frances Baker. do hereby donate and re-
iinquish to Robert HoIgate and Mary Hol-
gate. father and mother of Helen Holgate.
deceased, all my right. title and interest
in and to the proceeds Of the two 31year
distribution policies for 81, 500 each in the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. of New
York. both dated July 5. 1892: and l do
hereby authorize the said Robert Holgate
and Mary Holgate to collect the same in
their names and at their sole cost and ex-
pense."
Mr.. McCutcheon then continued:
Al the same time she made this paper, which
was placed on file in court today with the win.
Re- u>I ~
sole executrixship of the will and declines
to qualify, and authorizes the court to dis
tribute the sum named in the will as pay
able to her. to Robert and Mary Hoigate.
II am satisfied that my daughters body
is in the lake" were the words spoken by
Mr.. Holgate yesterday afternoon after
having gone over the ground where the
tragedy is supposed to have taken place.
Mr.. Holgate yesterday morning went to
see J. B. MacDougali, of the MocDougail
& Southwick Company, where Nellie Hol-
gate was employed, and after long talk,
in which he expressed his thanks to all
her friends for their assistance and SYM
pathy in his bereavment. called on Mrs.
Frances Baker at the Vendome. He
was received kindly by her, and the con-
versation that followed touched
on the different points of the
mystery surrounding his daughters dis
appearance. Mrs. Baker reiterated her
former statement that there was no mys-
terry, nothing more than clear case of
drowning. and spoke OF the times she had
warned Miss Holgate about treacherous
Lake Washington. OF her own accord
she spoke OF the will. saying that its pro-
visions were a surprise to her and that she
had relinquished all claim as q beneficiary
under it. rs we'll as declining to serve as
executrix.
After dinner Mr.. Hoigate. accompanied
by friend. wen. to Lake Washington and
rowed to the Howard Lewis cottage. in
front OF which the hat was found. The
landing at the old skid road, where the
boat had drifted, and the bushes on which
tho buttonless sack was found, were
closely examined and. the sky being clear
part OF the time, an opportunity was
offered Of looking at the bottom of the
lake close in along shore. Special atten-
ton was paid to old logs and snags.. be-
cause the action of the water, even if it
should move the body toward tho shore,
might lodge it by the side OF a log and
thus settle the question of its rising.
The search, even with the assistance of
al anxious father. proved fruitless and
the boat put back to Madison street. where
Mr.. Hoigate had a consultation with Capt.
A. Il. Leake. They were both under the
imdression that the body was in deeper
water than Diver benjamin explored, and
probably originally lay at point about
even with the snag that runs out from the
southern extremity Of the cottage. They
agreed in the belief that the young woman
was pitched from the boat and drowned
after struggle in the angry waters.
The lake was very rough that night,
Notwithstanding opinions to the con-
srary, and the wind was blowing strong a
tribe to the west Of south. The hat, being
small, offered little resistance 10 the wind
and floated ashore without drifting north
to any extent; the oar. being long and
light, Heated farther. and the boat, fur
nishing good-sized surface to the wind.
would necessarily be driven still farther
north. Capt. Leake will probably put in
some time next week in dragging deep
water
Mr.. Ho!ga.e, in talking to Posr-ISrEl-
IicEsoEE reporter yesterday after he re-
turned from the lake, said:
am satisfied. now more than ever, that Mel.
lie, body lies III the lake I believe. however,
That IL Is in deep water. I so to Renton this
afternoon to see my daughter. and while there
shall consider the project of offsrn; q reward
Tor the body, IL found in Lake Washington.
The mysterious bundle that was placed
under the rear seat in the boa. was dis.
cus=ed Tor some time and Mr. HoIrate
would waive rights of prosecution If any
person who took IL from the boat would
make the fact known.