The morning call., 1895-01-06
MERRITTS SISTER.
Mrs. GarceIon's Money
and Troubles.
VERACITY OF w. w. FOOTE.
Applicants for Police Stars
Numerous.
THE WATER FRONT ROADWAY.
TemescaI People Still Agitated Over
the Annexation Cues
ton.
HE. WATER FRONT ROADWAY.

estate, in bis deposition in The Harry T.
Merritt case, but it has never yet been
used in evidence nor by the papers until
the present time. Judge Stanly insisted
that Mrs. Garcelon should employ Judge
\ oble Hamilton, who had been her attor-
ney, but she refused. owing to his
quarrel with Stephen burlington. Finally
Judge Stanly asked her what she wanted
10 do.
Her answer was: II want you to give.
as l have told you, my real estate here Tor
the establishment and support or a nos
pita1, and l want to give my personal prop
erty 10 Bowdoin College, after deductlng
some few thousand dollars that L want to
give to nv relatives" The deposition of
Judge Stanly continues
L said That scheme won't work,
Mrs Garcelon: you have got to have that
real estate SOLD | then EXPLAINED to- her
the law of the State in regard to property,
and told her that she could give the pro-
ceeds to trustees. She then talked OF
having a corporation called the Samuel
Merritt Hospital
''Sbe then said L want you to go and
talk with DR.. Agard and DR.. Pinkerton
about this hospital business, and get their
advice as TO now it had best be DONE.
told her l would do it. l then said:
We'll. now, Mrs Garcelon, instead OF
dividing this property in this way, giving
the personal PROPERTY to one and the real
property to the other, you had better divide
it in some other way and give certain
part to enc and certain part to another;
and probab bly, to carry out the idea, you
had better give to the BowdOin College
the same proportion of the value OF your
estate that the personal property bears to
the whole
"'What will that be?' she asked.
id a -
idea. Send Mr.. burlington IN; he has the
appraisement and inventory Of the estate
and that will tell you exactly.
HE was called and | gave him the
question to figure out. He reported later
that it was six-tenths' real properly and
faur-tenths personal property. The dlVis-
ion of six-tenths to the spital and four
Tennis to Bowdoin College came from
that estimate.
The deposition then relates the duration
OF the interview and now he drank whisky
and ate cake while she drank port wine
and partook of the cake. The next ques-
lion was:
"'Well. Mrs. Garcelon, who are you
going to give this property to that you
want TO give to individuals? She
pulled from the breast of her dress
paper which had evidently been kept for
weeks, on which had been written the
names she wished to remember, and said,
Here they are This was her own hand
writing. | figured it uD and it came to
less than $4,000 that she had given to
every body.
Nov, are you sure.' said, that you
have included everybody you want to give
anything to?
q I am just as sure of it as [ can be- she
replied. without talking with some one.
Can l talk to Stephen about this
'''CeTlainly, you can talk or advise with
him about it, was my reply.
We'll, he really knows more about
these younger generations than l do. l
remem Der their fathers and their mothers,
but / do not remember the younger ones.
/ do not know who they are; be knows
more about it. Can Italk with him?
"'Certainly; and take this paper and
give it to him; and tell him 10 acd to IL The
names Of all your kinfolks, wherever
they may be, and then when you have
done that, add to il the amounts you want
to give; and give tito them
burlington was called in and listened
to the list He named dozen right off. :"
Then the deposition goes on to relate
how the list was swelled from day TO day.
1.-TWO thousand dollars was the largest
amount at first which was for Harry P.
Merritt and Frank Pennington. The small
: est amount was $500. She thought any
one with $1,000 very rich. She said that
she and her hus band lived for thirty years
. on SoUU a year 1neY IlFeu Respectfully
kept house and entertained company as
well as any of their neighbors.
&c H'Don,tvou think you had better divide
:this with the University of California? /
asked" Judge Stanly continues in bis de-
position.
: : No, nOt,after the way in which they
treated my brother there as one Of the re-
gents
''She thought that she was worth about
3 ST, 100000 She wanted Bowdoin College
TO: have $500. 600, the hospital 100000 and
relatives S250,000 The whole value of her
estate was 81 $50 900 and not $4,000.000 as
stated by. the newspapers. She had much
trouble. in disposing of that $3.50. 900,
After all of her relatives had been pro-
vided for the sum total only reached $751;
600. She went over the list and raised 1t
to $1,000 600. burlington made an appeal
for Harry p. and she raised his from $4,000
TO $1,000. Then she made it $4,000.
Finally. by dint of'hard work. she made it
come to-. $500, 900 or $225,000. On several
occasions l said:
8: Now, Mrs. Garcelon, are you sure you
have NOT forgotten somebody-that' you
have not overlooked somebody"
81 think it was the third night that l
did this that she turned on me and said:
well, you evidently think that [ have
forgotten somebody. You are referring to
Miss Mcclellan, are you not?'
J. 0ss lDd 10 SAoCl1S Nnns nhQ Al NY
mind.' was the reply:
's 1t is Intentional; [ have not omitted
it; she has enough from my brothers
estate; don't you think so?
81 told her j thought the doctor had
treated Miss Mcclellan with great in
Justice that she had come there to live in
his house as young woman; that she had
stayed there over twenty years, had been
compromised by doing so; had, in all prob
ability, lost he opportunity of marrying
a0d settling herself in life. and that the
doctor was then man of mature years
and sound discretion, and should have
known the effect it would have upon that
young woman's reputation in allowing her
TO come and remain lie that house, and the
least he could have done was to have pro-
Vlded tor her so as to have made her econ
omically independent"
Judge StanlS then relates his expert
.ences with Mrs. Gareelon in endeayoring
TO get her TO raise her bequest to Miss
Minnie Dyer. She finally raised it from
$4,000 to 5000 for her ana Mrs. Nellie Cor
don. She also wan ted Stanly for trustee,
but he refused positively. She then set
tied on Stephen Purrlngton and Frank
burlington. Just about that time he
went over one evening in obedience to her
summons.
!. The deposition continues: "She said
Judge, would you believe anything that