The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-25
HETTY GREENS ODD WILL.
Az ANNEx or 4FFIDAV ITs COW
CERSING MURDER.

Tss Richest wonsp tn Arer,e. SAYS. bat
Csn't Prove, that Her Father srs Aurt
Were Murdered, sus that Attempts
Have Besn Made o. Her Own L,re-why
She Cooks uer Own Foos-shs T.cks
Tn. whole story on to Her Testament.
Mrs. Hetty Green. iaboring for years under the
belief that her father and her aunt were muir
dered. but unable to make a legal case against
any suspected assassins. has had attached to her
will papers and afidavits embodyinR the evil
dence upon which her belief IL founded. and
which has led her for many years TO fear q stint
lar untimely death. The richest woman In
America, who has appeared callous to Ribes at
her parsimonious habits, has all the time chsfed
under imputations which she deemed unjust.
But she had despaired OF ever being able to dis
pei them In her life, and so sought TO protect
her memory after death by this strange addition
70 her will.
She says that her father on his deathbed told
her he believed he had been poisoned, and babe
her look out, as the same motives which led
any one 20 take his life would influence the same
person or persons to get rid Of her. She had
been called from the home Of her aunt. Miss
Silvia Ann Rowland. with whom she had been
staying in New Bedford, and before she re-
turned there after her fathers burial her aunt
had died. When her aunts will giving half
her estate TO the town was offered for probate
che found. ne she says. that II was not the will
III herself had seen. which made her the bene-
fciary, and contested II on the 81 ound Of forgery.
She was defeated. A few years afterward she
discovered what she considers evidence TO
show that her aunt. too. had been poisoned.
From that day she has lived in fear Of a SINH
lar death, and she AYERS that attempts on her
life and her sons have been made from time TO
time. She says she once found ground glass in
her food. and that her son was thrown over q
fence and his knee broken. Just as he was get
ting well he was attack cd again, according to his
mother, aud the injured knee 80 strained that
the leg had to be amputated.
SO. in mortal fear for herself and her son. she
has cooked her own meals. and lived for long
periods ~frugally on crakers and eggs. And she
has frequently changed her place of abode.
Mrs. Green. It appears, felt that she could not
explain herself TO the community without max
ing accusations which she could not sustain
In a court of law, and she feared the newspapers
would not publish her lIbellous story. So she
talked to her friends. and sent out agents to
collect and collatc the evidence on which her
grewsome belief was founded, to append II to
her will, thinking that after her death the story
would be bound to become public in o legal and
legitimate way in connection with the probate
OF her testament. BY that time. she rec koned.
most OF the persons implicated would be dead.
and so the minimum damage would be inflicted.
And the publication she felt would benefit her
children by mitigating the worlds scorn Of their
penurious and eccentric mother.
Such is, in epitome. the life secret Of Hetty
Green as she tells II to her friends. II becomes
counting Of her fathers executor. Henry A.
Rnrling, whose removal she seeks. with that of
trustee. But the revelations" or dreams, or
whatever they are. are In no way connected
with the accounting, and no suit ON them Is
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about the accounting. referring reporters TO his
counsel, who issu ed the following statement:
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EvSRTs. CHoArR q BE,aAS.
Mrs. Green's story OF the assaults on her son
and the loss OF his leg are at variance with the
fact, AS she told them To DR.. Lewis A. Sayre
apparel OF a begRar, with a small boy, entered
DR.. Sayre's office, and the woman asked to have
her sons knee treated. lie had bruised It slid
had made various applications to II TO heal il.
The last one was hot sand, and the sand had
caused the flesh TO slough off. As At, act Of hu-
pltal as a charity patient. The sorry condition
a lscturs on Il 10 Tie medical aiaIi stndsStsSes T ghiiss vas
with the consent OF the boys mother. who came
the second time with his father. DIR. Sayre took
dollars. more or less, would have bought the
4 lew days later ID. ssyrs learned that hi.
and her husband. He refused TO have any
more TO do with the case unless Mrs. Green paid
In advance, the requirement OF advanced pay
ment being TO insure proper care for the hoy. |
II the woman who had allowed her boys knee
20 drag along in that way for several years were
she would call only when she thought the knee
paid first, she would be sure to bring the boy as
often as she was told Ia do SO.
Mrs. Green left the ONCE without paying and
the boy did not return TO Bellevue; DIR. sayre
knee needed at that time was proper care and il
would have come ont all right. He was surprised
10 learn yesterday that the leg had been am
IL was amputated in 1887. it Is said. two or
three years after the call on DIR; sayre. The
smDutation WAS done BY the well-known Or.
Green's counsel, said last night that Mrs. Green
said the boy was under the care of Dr. McBur-
be was In the immediats ahhSIse OF DSTi Hoonsrl
the family physician. then OF this city and now
OF New Bedford; but under the advice and direc-