The morning call., 1893-07-27

come down until he was telephoned for
after Chester's death. Soon after noon on
the day on which Chester died Turner
went to Chester's office. to ok the will out.
showed it to his clerk. Lizzie O'D0nnell
and nut it back again.
why did you 60 to that desk?" asked
A0Walsky In crnss-eXaminati0n.
Il had good and sufficient reason for so
doing"
What reason? Did you not know that
Bolton had not arrived and that it was too
late for any alteration?"
II wanted to make sure the will was
there"
''Is it not fact that Chester held your
notes fer S24. 600 and those notes have never
been found?"
No. sir; that is not trne. owed Ches-
ter $l4, 400 when he died.
Have those notes been presented?"
No. ! have paid off O,CO0 to the First
National Bank"
Asked to explain this transaction the
witness said that Chester told him one day
that he had nota for $4,000 and asked
Turner to fix it for him. Turner had gone
70 the bsnk and arranged matters. He
mac nor paid OFT the balance OF the debt.
Were there not q number OF notes
signed by you aggregating $4,000"
mo. there were not"
FURTHER cross examined on this point
witness said that one of the notes for
$1,000 and another for $500 were pinned
on the back Of the $4,000 note of Chester
before referred to.
what has become of those I, otesH"
'Ihe $4,000 note have got. The $500
note have given TO Mr.. Ball at his re-
quest"
The witness said that no one had re-
quested him TO 60 to Chester's Office and
look at the will. Mrs. Chester had only
once spoken of will, and then she had
rico had hnon In,
her. me witness had given the informa-
ton. There was no one present at this
conversation. Mrs. Chester was dissalis-
he'd with the provision made for her. as
she would have preferred the money being
left TO her In lump, aud not III INSTALL
mentS.
Are You the Turner mentioned in the
Clarke insolvency business? asked
Kowalsky.
There was an objection to this question.
but the witness was willing to be identi-
fed in this position.
Did you meet me and Mr.. Ball at the
office the day after Chester's death ?"
asked Kowalsky.
Il saw Mr.. Ball, not you'll heard you
were there"
"Did you then deny the existence of
will %
No. sir. No question was asked of
me-"
did you not. two months afterward,
tell Ball that il you had come across the
VIII no one would have ever found it?'
II did not"
Did Mr.. Ball say to you that if you had
seen the will after Chesier's death you
must have 1t and had better give it up?"
Tho witness denied this, but admitted
that Ball had taxed him with having the
will. The witness did not reply at that
time. Afterward he told Ball that he
would make no statement In the matter.
Turner then answered certain questions
relative to Chester's health shortly before
his dsath and TO the precise position in
which the Will was placed In the desk.
did you read any part Of that will?
Ard II so. was there any codicil?'
Il didn't read the will. but my clerk took
it from me and read it aloud. There was
was IN tile precise terms sworn to before.
In 1t Mr. Chester stated that all his prop
erty was separate properly, and that his
daughter Grace was to take nothing, as she
was already provided for under settle
ment with the tesrator's former wife. l
don't remember exactly how the will was
signed. believe it was signed Edwin S.
Chester. 1t might have been Edwin Smith
Chester. am positive that Mrs. Chester's
allowance was to BE- 500 month, not, as
Mr.. Bolton says, S125. l thought it very
poor return for the care she had taken OF
him. and said so"
Turner added tina! he knew there were
two KEYS to the desk. He believed that
Kowalsky and Bal. had removed all of
Chestsf's papers the day after bis death.
He had not furnished them the key, and
had not told them he possessed one. He
took this course because he had been pub
licly accused of taking papers from the
desk. and so he thought he would hold his
tongue.
insoltnce of your accusers you did not
make known the fact that there was
will ?'
mo, sir. You addressing Kowalsky]
know why kept silence"
Asked to explain himself in this, the
witness beat about the bush for some
time and finally sheltered himself behind
plain why the notes for the $40, 600 which
he owed Chester had never been found.
but said he was surprised that they had
never been presented.
He again maintained that Kowalsky
knew all about the matter, but subsidized
when Kowalsky appealed to the court for
protection, merely muttrrinR something
about ''bring there to tell the truth and
going to tell it,"
Asked how he came by Chester's key,
Turner said that he had taken it from the
bureau In Chester's room at the time at
Chester'S request.
Hiss Lizzie O'Donnell. Turner's clerk.
said she had never heard of Chester's will
until She saw It on the day of Chester's
death. The witness described the con-
tents of the will, She remembered speak
ing to Kowalsky after Chester's death, and
denying al knowledge Of Chesrer's papers
No will, however, was ever mentioned on
that occasion.
At this point the further hearing of the
proceedings was continued until to-day.